Top 100 Peck Quotes
#1. People who shop at Barnes and Noble voted Ulysses the best novel of the last century, and who's to tell them different? There was a point when I would have liked to, but apparently that's just because I'm a bitch.
Dale Peck
#2. I did a play I think my first six months on the show, called Bullpen. Then I got involved with Theater Forty and did this play called Plastic which is about two male models coming to a casting call.
Austin Peck
#3. There is no act of love that is not an act of work or courage. No exceptions.
M. Scott Peck
#4. The smallest worm will turn being trodden on,
And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood.
William Shakespeare
#5. 24 - Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers? If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
Riley Weber
#6. A Seth Thomas steeple clock stood on a high shelf. When it struck ten, Grandma jerked awake. She looked around the room astonished. It was her belief that she never slept, not even in bed.
Richard Peck
#7. The feeling of being valuable - 'I am a valuable person'- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline.
M. Scott Peck
#8. I always had a weight issue since I was a young kid.
Josh Peck
#9. Somehow, the Good Lord don't want to see no man start a cold morning with just black coffee.
Robert Newton Peck
#10. It is so hard to stay afloat in a world
that just wants to drown you.
Schuyler Peck
#11. I have defined love as the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth. Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional. The person who truly loves does so because of a decision to love.
M. Scott Peck
#12. Sleep on your stone pillow, and let the gulls peck out your eyes while the crabs feast on your flesh. You've feasted on enough of them, you owe them.
George R R Martin
#13. My time was my responsibility. It was up to me and me alone to decide how I wanted to use and order my time.
M. Scott Peck
#14. I hold no brief for Communists, but I believe in and will defend their right to act independently within the law. I question whether members of the committee are interested in defending our form of government or whether they are attempting to suppress political opinion at odds with their own.
Gregory Peck
#16. Most contemporary fiction sucks. It's intellectually dishonest, often morally dishonest. It's cheap and easy. It pretends to be deep but is really quite shallow.
Dale Peck
#17. This was something Grandma Tilly couldn't understand
how war promises a boy it can make a man out of him.
Richard Peck
#18. This was no peck on the lips. This was a real first kiss, a movie-star-knock-her-socks-off-fireworks-light-up-the-sky kind of kiss.
A girl could live to be a hundred and never forget that kiss.
Carol Fragale Brill
#19. In life, I'd much rather have people laughing at me than booing me.
Josh Peck
#20. If you wish to discern either the presence or absence of integrity, you need to ask only one question. What is missing? Has anything been left out?
M. Scott Peck
#22. Humor is anger that was sent to finishing school.
Richard Peck
#23. Because freedom, it turned out, wasn't like a new shoe: you didn't need to break it in. It felt comfortable the first time you tried it on. It wasn't the present that pinched, it was the past.
Dale Peck
#24. My favorite scene in all of movies is Gregory Peck in 'To Kill A Mockingbird': You see him where he's on the porch, and his face is almost completely obscured. I don't want to see his face.
Mary-Louise Parker
#25. What people get admired and appreciated for in community are their soft skills: their sense of humor and timing, their ability to listen, their courage and honesty, their capacity for empathy.
M. Scott Peck
#26. The sky's a good place to look," he said. "And I got a notion it's a good place to go.
Robert Newton Peck
#27. To her, it's just an innocent peck on the cheek. To me, it's enough to make my dick try to manually unzip my slacks, in hopes that it'll get a kiss too.
Anonymous
#28. The major threats to our survival no longer stem from nature without but from our own human nature within. It is our carelessness, our hostilities, our selfishness and pride and willful ignorance that endanger the world.
M. Scott Peck
#29. Now he'll outstare the lighting. To be furious
Is to be frightened out of fear, and in that mood
The dove will peck the estridge; and I see still
A diminution in our captain's brain
Restores his heart. When valor preys on reason,
It eats the sword it fights with.
William Shakespeare
#30. Writing fiction is fundamentally an irrational act.
Dale Peck
#31. Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable.
M. Scott Peck
#32. Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is within the church. What better way to conceal one's evil from oneself as well as from others than to be a deacon or some other highly visible form of Christian within our culture
M. Scott Peck
#33. Die on a hilltop ... eyeing the crows ... waiting for your lids to close ... but you want to watch as they peck your flesh ... Ironic that they go for the eyes first ...
Eddie Vedder
#34. It is not selfishness or unselfishness that distinguishes love from non-love; it is the aim of the action.
M. Scott Peck
#35. It is not easy for us to change. But it is possible and it is our glory as human beings
M. Scott Peck
#36. Peter Piper
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
why couldn't he use his kick-ass alliterative skillz
to write Spoken Word poetry?
Beryl Dov
#37. But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress in therapy.
M. Scott Peck
#38. Doing that, then doing a lot of theater, which I love. Doing guest stars, did two independent films that are going around to all these festivals. Both of them are going to be at the Lake Tahoe Film Festival.
Austin Peck
#39. I don't lecture and I don't grind any axes. I just want to entertain.
Gregory Peck
#40. There is a challenge of doing something new. Sometimes you have to suspend whether you believe in yourself doing it and just give yourself over to the idea that they believe in you.
Josh Peck
#41. It wasn't a little kiss, Not like your first peck or like the time you made out with your junior high boyfriend behind the movie theater. It was throw-your-arms-around-his-neck, bury-your-fingers-in-his-hair, why-haven't-we-done-this-before kissing
Jenna Evans Welch
#42. I'm not a do-gooder. It embarrassed me to be classified as a humanitarian. I simply take part in activities that I believe in.
Gregory Peck
#43. Need is a weak word. has nothing to do with what people get. Ain't what you need that matters. It's what you do.
Robert Newton Peck
#44. But the fact of the matter is that everyone has an explicit or implicit set of ideas and beliefs as to the essential nature of the world.
M. Scott Peck
#46. What did I do in high school? I grew from 5 feet 4 inches to 6 feet 2 inches.
Gregory Peck
#47. When your body is your instrument, it needs maintenance and it needs to be held in a certain way. That's a universal thread, whether you're an athlete, a dancer, an actor or a singer. It's all about maintaining your body because that allows you to do what you do.
Josh Peck
#48. We thought he was weird. He thought we were weird. It was great. It was what multiculturalism ought to be" -Archer
Richard Peck
#49. I am happiest when I am working though, when I am being creative. I realized at a very young age what I loved doing. I think it is so important for people to pursue the things that they love and not give up on their dreams.
Josh Peck
#50. I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess.
Gregory Peck
#51. The giving up of personality traits, well-established patterns of behavior, ideologies, and even whole life styles ... these are major forms of giving up that are required if one is to travel very far on the journey of life.
M. Scott Peck
#53. If you ask my dad for help ... he'll help. Like a vulture helps an over-run armadillo on a Texas highway. One peck at the time.
Christopher Titus
#54. From the age of three on, as far back as I remember, I just knew there was a God behind everything.
M. Scott Peck
#55. Just to be part of a process where you hit no professional speed bumps and you're just sort of going on and on. I'm surrounded by these people that are all so collaborative and all bring things of their own to the process. For them to be alive in the scenes so you don't have to worry.
Josh Peck
#56. We are often most in the dark when we are the most certain, and the most enlightened when we are the most confused.
M. Scott Peck
#57. You can bring truth to anything, whether it's a dance movie or an incredibly poignant indie drama or a really broad comedy. As long as you show up to play, I don't think you can go wrong.
Josh Peck
#58. Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs
M. Scott Peck
#59. And since life poses an endless series of problems, life is always difficult and is full of pain as well as joy.
M. Scott Peck
#60. Tarnelius leaned forward to give her a chaste peck on the lips.
"That's all I get?"
"Yes, that's all you get until you make the bond with me," Tarnelius said, smiling.
"That's blackmail."
"Hmm, so it is. I can live with that.
D.S. Schmeckpeper
#61. In the tide pool I was riveted by fat pink sea stars sitting like satisfied gangsters and seemingly unconcerned by their exposure; gulls would peck at them but the sea stars simply grew replacement limbs.
Mary Ellen Hannibal
#62. Never worry about a book corrupting a child. Worry if your children are not getting ideas from books.
Richard Peck
#63. Stay away from people who don't know who they are but want you to be just like them. People who'll want to label you. People who'll try to write their fears on your face.
Richard Peck
#64. I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing.
Richard Peck
#65. You're not tasked with desalinating an ocean or training a komodo dragon to cure ebola. I'm saying, sludge yourself into the ass receptacle and peck keyboard keys like a hungry chicken until it makes words.
Chuck Wendig
#66. We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.
M. Scott Peck
#67. Life is a series of problems. Do we want to moan about them or solve them?
M. Scott Peck
#68. I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.
M. Scott Peck
#69. I'm so far gone that I'm telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language.
Richard Peck
#70. Benjamin Franklin said, "Those things that hurt, instruct.
M. Scott Peck
#71. Love is everywhere. It is the tie that binds us each other, to the world we live in and to something above and beyond the world.
Morgan Scott Peck
#72. Not an agent kiss, not anything remotely resembling a peck-on-the-cheek kiss, but a let's-get-started kiss. One that even in hardened, love-tired Los Angeles had a better-than-even shot of producing a happy finish
Diana Dempsey
#73. But it was a rich, picture-perfect, it-can't-happen-here kind of suburb where people had gone, not to deal with life's problems, but to avoid them.
Richard Peck
#74. The only true end of love is spiritual growth or human evolution.
M. Scott Peck
#75. Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
M. Scott Peck
#77. The best notes are action-based and less, I don't know, heady, theoretical, because, as actors, we're too much in our heads anyway.
Josh Peck
#78. I mean, the great thing about being an actor is you can investigate parts of your brain that might have otherwise gone dormant.
Josh Peck
#79. It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.
M. Scott Peck
#81. I had to battle it out with all the usual suspects and whatnot and go to the callback. I was lucky that (writer-director) John (Levine) and I were sort of these two white-boy hip-hop-heads from New York. I think that alone got me in the door.
Josh Peck
#82. Because someone stole Gregory Peck's star on Hollywood Blvd., I have hired a Brink's guard to protect my star!
Rip Taylor
#83. Examination of the world without is never as personally painful as examination of the world within.
M. Scott Peck
#84. Commitment is inherent in any genuinely loving relationship.
M. Scott Peck
#85. Sometimes when we think we're protecting ourselves, we're really hurting ourselves. And sometimes the people around us too.
Dale Peck
#86. My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.
Loretta Lynn
#87. We cannot solve a problem by saying, "It's not my problem." We cannot solve a problem by hoping that someone else will solve it for us. I can solve a problem only when I say, "This is my problem and it's up to me to solve it."
M. Scott Peck
#88. And I'll tell you something else for free. If you set a foot over that doorsill, I'll wring your red neck.
Richard Peck
#89. Hayseeds we might be, but we meant to be informed hayseeds.
Richard Peck
#90. Sickness begets chaos, which, through hard work and a touch of grace, leads to growth and resurrection.
M. Scott Peck
#91. The feeling of being valuable is a cornerstone of self-discipline because when you consider yourself valuable you will take care of yourself- including things like using your time well. In this way, self-discipline is self-caring.
M. Scott Peck
#92. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.
M. Scott Peck
#93. Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with. It is the only decent way to live.
M. Scott Peck
#94. "Whatever," she said, rolling her eyes. "What do you need?"
"You."
I loved how her face glowed. She stood up on her tiptoes and gave me a quick peck on the lips.
Katie McGarry
#95. A life of total dedication to the truth also means a life of willingness to be personally challenged.
M. Scott Peck
#96. I think comedy is more my instinct and more what I'm geared towards.
Austin Peck
#97. Aye, aye, that's the way wi' thee: thee allays makes a peck o' thy own words out o' a pint o' the Bible's
George Eliot
#98. If someone is determined not to risk pain, then such a person must do without many things: [ ... ] - all that makes life alive, meaningful and significant.
M. Scott Peck
#99. Community is and must be inclusive. The great enemy of community is exclusivity. Groups that exclude others because they are poor or doubters or divorced or sinners or of some different race or nationality are not communities; they are cliques
actually defensive bastions against community.
M. Scott Peck
#100. Remember you are never really alone. Although it may feel like it for very long stretches of time.
Steven L. Peck
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