Robert Newton Peck famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Never miss a chance to keep your mouth shut.
-- Robert Newton Peck

#Humorous #Missing #Mouths
My backside and my privates. Iâ€™m stuck so full of prickers, it makes me smart just to think on it.
-- Robert Newton Peck

#Smart #Thinking #Stuck
Iâ€™d heard about the Baptists from Jacob Henryâ€™s mother. According to her, Baptists were a strange lot. They put you in water to see how holy you were. Then they ducked you under the water three times. Didnâ€™t matter a whit if you could swim or no. If you didnâ€™t come up, you got dead and your mortal soul went to Hell. But if you did come up, it was even worse. You had to be a Baptist.
-- Robert Newton Peck

#Mother #Water #Swim
A plot is two dogs and one bone.
-- Robert Newton Peck

#Dog #Two #Plot
A good writer writes with a camera, not a pen.
-- Robert Newton Peck

#Writing #Cameras #Good Writers
Writers, good ones, don't tell stories. Characters show stories.
-- Robert Newton Peck

#Character #Stories #Shows
I’d heard about the Baptists from Jacob Henry’s mother. According to her, Baptists were a strange lot. They put you in water to see how holy you were. Then they ducked you under the water three times. Didn’t matter a whit if you could swim or no. If you didn’t come up, you got dead and your mortal soul went to Hell. But if you did come up, it was even worse. You had to be a Baptist.
-- Robert Newton Peck

#Mother #Water #Swim

In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
It was one thing to hide away from the world. It was quite another to discover the world didn't miss you when you were gone.
Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
Well, sometimes if I go out to dinner with my family, people will come up to me and put their hand across my plate for me to shake, sometimes when I have a bite of food in my mouth. I find this a bit disturbing
If you really like someone, it doesn't matter what their mouth feels or tastes like. The kiss is still awesome.
A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
By consequence I hold that no one ever did, or can do, anything for "society."... Comte invented the term altruism as an antonym for egoism , and it found its way at once into everyone's mouth, although it is utterly devoid of meaning, since it points to nothing that ever existed in mankind; This hybrid or rather this degenerate form of hedonism served powerfully to invest collectivism 's principles with a specious moral sanction, and collectivists naturally made the most of it.
Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him?
Is this how you repay my goodness--with badness?â€ cried the boy. â€œOf course,â€ said the crocodile out of the corner of his mouth. â€œThat is the way of the world.

Robert Newton Peck famous quotes

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