Peter Schoomaker famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

  • Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from loving the past to regretting that it has ever changed. Conservatism is our greatest trade-risk; and we run psychoanalysts close in the belief that the only "normal" people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anybody else.

  • Tut, Tut, looks like rain

  • Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.

  • Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by plucking out his eyes and sticking them in a drawer.

  • Look for the enemies of Medicare, of higher minimum wages, of Social Security, of federal aid to education and there you will find the enemy of the Negro, the coalition of Dixiecrats and reactionary Republicans that seek to dominate the Congress.

  • There have been predictions that the world will come to an end on 21.12.12. But I look around me and I see so much scope for hope.

  • While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.

  • Convince yourself that worrying about many situations will make them worse rather than improve them.

  • In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations so that the truth will come out.

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