Peter Quotes - Page 13

• And as far as actors go, Peter Sellers is my all-time favorite.

  Demetri Martin

  Actors, All Time, Sellers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Everyone calls me Bruno; they don't ever call me Peter - that was just my government name.

  Bruno Mars

  Government, Names, Call Me

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• Peter: Oh, the cleverness of me. Wendy: Of course, I did nothing... Peter: You did a little. Wendy: Oh, the cleverness of you.

  James M. Barrie

  Littles, Cleverness, Wendy

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• My name's Peter. Can I play too?

  Brom

  Play, Names

  Brom (2009). “The Child Thief: A Novel”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• If Peter was nine, and a new boy came to St. Norbert’s Home for Wayward Boys who said he was ten, why, then, Peter would declare himself eleven. Also, he could spit the farthest. That made him the undisputed leader.

  Dave Barry

  Home, Boys, Leader

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• That is the Wasp, yes. But it was captured by Black Stache, and he’s coming for this ship now.” “And how do you know that?” asked Slank. “Did a seagull tell you?” This brought chuckles from the crew. Something like that, thought Peter.

  Dave Barry

  Black, Ships, Crew

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• You and Teacher,” said Molly. “Yes,” said Peter. “She’s very clever. You’ll like her.” “I’m sure,” said Molly.

  Dave Barry

  Teacher, Clever, Like Her

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• it was all your genes that made us geniuses, mom. said peter. we sure didn't get any from dad. i heard that. father said, not looking up from the news that was being displayed on the table while he ate it would've been wasted if you hadn't

  Orson Scott Card

  Mom, Dad, Father

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set II: Ender's Game, Ender in Exile, Speak for the Dead”, p.27, Macmillan

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• But where do you live mostly now?" With the lost boys." Who are they?" They are the children who fall out of their perambulators when the nurse is looking the other way. If they are not claimed in seven days they are sent far away to the Neverland to defray expanses. I'm captain." What fun it must be!" Yes," said cunning Peter, "but we are rather lonely. You see we have no female companionship." Are none of the others girls?" Oh no; girls, you know, are much too clever to fall out of their prams.

  James M. Barrie

  Girl, Lonely, Children

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• Feeling that Peter was on his way back, the Neverland had again woke into life. We ought to use the pluperfect and say wakened, but woke is better and was always used by Peter.

  James M. Barrie

  Feelings, Use, Way

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.53, Jazzybee Verlag

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• If you made a better rat than a human, it’s not much to boast about, Peter.

  J. K. Rowling

  Rats, Made, Boast

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• What was there to be gained by fighting the most evil wizard who has ever existed?" said Black, with a terrible fury in his face. "Only innocent lives, Peter!" "You don't understand!" whined Pettigrew. "He would have killed me, Sirius!" "THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED!" roared Black. "DIED RATHER THAN BETRAY YOUR FRIENDS, AS WE WOULD HAVE DONE FOR YOU!

  J. K. Rowling

  Fighting, Should Have, Evil

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• I was on a walking tour of Oxford colleges once with a group of bored and unimpressable tourists. They yawned at Balliol's quad, T.E. Lawrence's and Churchill's portraits, and the blackboard Einstein wrote his E=mc2 on. Then the tour guide said, 'And this is the Bridge of Sighs, where Lord Peter proposed (in Latin) to Harriet,' and everyone suddenly came to life and began snapping pictures. Such is the power of books.

  Connie Willis

  Latin, Book, College

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• One thing that influenced me in the States when I was doing this recording was American people feeding me things like Arnold Dreyblatt, even things I should've heard back in New Zealand like Peter Jefferies and Jono Lonie 'At Swim 2 Birds.

  Roy Montgomery

  People, Bird, Swim

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• When she expressed a doubtful hope that Tinker Bell would be glad to see her, he said, ‘Who is Tinker Bell?’ ‘O Peter,’ she said, shocked; but even when she explained he could not remember. ‘There are such a lot of them,’ he said. ‘I expect she is no more.’ I expect he was right, for fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them.

  James M. Barrie

  Long, Bells, Littles

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.130, 谷月社

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• Don't drop him," said Peter's mother to his father. "Don't you dare drop him." She was laughing. "I will not," said his father. "I could not." For he is Peter Augustus Duchene, and he will always return to me. Again and again, Peter's father threw him up in the air. Again and again, Peter felt himself suspended in nothingness for a moment, just a moment, and then he was pulled back, returned to the sweetness of the earth and the warmth of his father's waiting arms. "See?" said his father to his mother. "Do you see how he always comes back to me?

  Kate DiCamillo

  Mother, Father, Air

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• Enough talk," Peter said, and his eyes flashed. "It's time to turn you three into killers.

  Brom

  Eye, Three, Killers

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• But Peter had seen too much, knew too well that men-kind didn't need an excuse to be cruel and murder one another.

  Brom

  Men, Needs, Too Much

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• Peter finds the lost, the left-behind, the abused. Is that not why you are here? Did Peter not save you?

  Brom

  Lost, Left Behind, Behinds

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• The boy planted his hands on his hips and a broad smile lit his face. "My name's Peter. Can I play too?

  Brom

  Boys, Hands, Play

  Brom (2009). “The Child Thief: A Novel”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• Peter's face clouded. "Everything comes at a price. Or have you not learned that yet?

  Brom

  Faces, Clouded

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• And Peter laughed, and when he did, all the Devils grinned, because Peter's laugh was a most contagious thing.

  Brom

  Laughing, Devil, Contagious

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• Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.

  Orson Scott Card

  Children, Years, People

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.109, Macmillan

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• There's nothing militant about Jesus. I don't read anything like that in any of the gospels. Peter drew his sword and cut off the servant's ear, and Jesus said, "Put back thy sword, Peter." But Peter has had his sword out and at work ever since.

  Joseph Campbell

  Jesus, Cutting, Ears

  Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

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• At home, besides being Peter or Jane, we also bear a general character; husband or wife, brother or sister, chief, colleague or subordinate. Not among Friends. It is an affair of disentangled, or stripped, minds. Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

  C. S. Lewis

  Brother, Husband, Home

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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