Top 100 Peretti Quotes
#1. Contrary to common belief, Christian fiction did not begin with Catherine Marshall, Janette Oke, or Frank Peretti.
Randy Alcorn
#2. Andy Samberg and Chelsea Peretti went to kindergarten together. For real.
Daniel J. Goor
#3. Jonah Peretti is one of the smartest web publishers out there. And Buzzfeed is an aggressive and dynamic company.
Nick Denton
#4. I am jewelry and objects together. This is the Elsa Peretti name to me. It is a very good balance for me to try and create with the person in mind or with the space in mind - to imagine a bowl of fruit or something for water. It is a little bit yin and yang.
Elsa Peretti
#5. Did you know that the Stegosaurus lived further away from the Tyrannosaurus Rex than we are from the Tyrannosaurus Rex in time?
Jonah Peretti
#6. A lot of web companies will take a short-term approach and sell to an incumbent and don't end up living up to their full potential.
Jonah Peretti
#7. I would say that I have a love-hate relationship with almost everything in my life, including stand-up.
Chelsea Peretti
#8. A little love and attention can go a long way ... too bad more people don't realize that.
Frank E. Peretti
#9. I think that with podcasts, a lot of things are about fostering and having a direct connection with the community.
Chelsea Peretti
#11. The math helps you have better understanding and helps you have more creative ideas, but you can't replace the creative ideas
Jonah Peretti
#12. It's pretty satisfying to use an image when you don't have a great articulate response. And to be able to customize emoji? Imagine if you were a car enthusiast and you were able to create a car from scratch. That's what this is like for me. I'm an emoji enthusiast.
Chelsea Peretti
#14. Take away truth and people will lie. Scoff at virtue, and betrayal becomes a matter of course.
Frank E. Peretti
#15. Facebook will figure out ways to allow people to have good businesses.
Jonah Peretti
#16. We went to a very small high school. It was, like, in a wooded house; it was a weird school. I hung out with a lot of guys in high school, and I did theater with a few of my close girlfriends.
Chelsea Peretti
#17. BuzzFeed started as a lab with a small team where we would play with ideas.
Jonah Peretti
#18. So many people: Lucille Ball is the earliest incarnation of a woman I thought was funny, Joan Rivers, Roseanne, Carol Burnett, Gilda Radnor, down to current times, where you have Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, and Kristen Wiig.
Chelsea Peretti
#20. People say the Internet's made of cats. The reason isn't because of cats; it's because people like to have an emotion where they say 'aww' all at the same time.
Jonah Peretti
#21. Most of the time, I'm in the country, and the jewelry I wear I can wear in the country.
Elsa Peretti
#22. My parents divorced when I was one year old so I don't really remember any of the details, but luckily my mom does so she's been really helpful.
Chelsea Peretti
#23. But the transition from the New York Times to the Ashton Clarion was like jumping off a speeding train into a wall of half-set Jell-O.
Frank E. Peretti
#24. People surround themselves in their houses with things they don't really need, that they have to dust all the time.
Elsa Peretti
#25. A lot of designers still have nostalgia for the past. As for the furniture in the future, I hope they use less of real wood. Conservation in wood is necessary.
Elsa Peretti
#26. I love nature, but I try to change it a little bit, not copy it,
Elsa Peretti
#27. Do you guys think its worse to wear a fedora or kill 15 people?
Chelsea Peretti
#28. It's so much easier to write for a person in your life than to write for some imagined readership, so you write something that's more intimate and true.
Jonah Peretti
#29. I am a bull. I am Taurus. My will is awful. If I like something, there is nothing else. I was a pain in the neck. I still am a pain in the neck.
Elsa Peretti
#30. If you've ever been there, you've never forgotten. The feeling is as haunting and familiar as the smell of a junior high school locker room.
Frank E. Peretti
#31. But why not? He deserved it. It took years to take control of this school - to oust the resisters, to implant the sympathizers, to blind the parents to what was happening to their children. It was no small task.
Frank E. Peretti
#32. If you text 'I love you' and the person writes back an emoji - no matter what that emoji is, they don't love you back.
Chelsea Peretti
#33. I will go to the saints first. Already there is plenty in Bacon's Corner for them to be upset about, plenty to divide them. I will keep them busy censuring and smiting each other, and then their hearts will be far from praying." He
Frank E. Peretti
#34. I can hold a cup of sake on a full moon in Japan, and the reflection of the moon in that little cup can make me feel so enthusiastic about beauty. That one good, magical moment can give me enough to create other things like the teardrop earring or necklace.
Elsa Peretti
#35. I think the best content on BuzzFeed is something you share with someone else in your life, and it connects you to them. And that's a big part of what e-mail's about as well.
Jonah Peretti
#36. I don't have the feeling that I need to add a lot to my collection, because I have an incredibly wide range of things. This is a part of the secret of my things, that they are still valid. When I feel a need, I do something more.
Elsa Peretti
#38. People on Twitter can follow tech if they're interested in tech, or business if they're interested in business, or they can follow celebrities that they're fans of.
Jonah Peretti
#39. Good design for the home should be universal. A house should be like old shoes, comfortable, like a good friend ... The Japanese aesthetic is important to me. Very organic. They have a sense of the weight of the thing: very balanced.
Elsa Peretti
#41. It's really irritating. Even people who like my work sometimes come up to me and say, 'I usually don't like female comedians, but your material is great!' It makes the job prospect more daunting. Funny is funny, you know?
Chelsea Peretti
#42. But kids like us grow up and need our own relationship with God, forged in the heart through time and experience, not draped around us by the church we attend. We need to know God for ourselves, not secondhand.
Frank E. Peretti
#43. I barely watch TV. Somehow, I make it work with just the Internet. On TV, there's always so much crap, and you have to flip around.
Chelsea Peretti
#44. It's important that all my friends have verified Twitter accounts. The blue checkmark makes me feel comfortable and like I'm friends with a legit, high-quality person. I also prefer friends with ridiculously long usernames.
Jonah Peretti
#45. On tour, it's either call ex-boyfriends or tweet a lot. You're just looking for any proof that you're not completely alone.
Chelsea Peretti
#46. In the '80s, everything became too serious.
Elsa Peretti
#47. I am free. I am ransomed. I've never felt this way before, like a slave set free who was born a slave and never knew what freedom was like.
Frank E. Peretti
#48. I was a baby when I began, but I knew exactly what I wanted to wear myself. I became a jewelry designer because I knew how to do something with a pencil and sketch my ideas.
Elsa Peretti
#49. It's hard to bury your head in Los Angeles. People come up to you and say, 'Hey, I saw your picture on a bus.' It's tricky: You're excited by the possibilities, but you don't want to get too crazy.
Chelsea Peretti
#50. I hate that impeccable, perfectly perfect look, all matched and prearranged.
Elsa Peretti
#51. The production must be faithful to the line. If the production fails, my work fails.
Elsa Peretti
#52. The world needs sustainable, profitable, vibrant content companies staffed by dedicated professionals; especially content for people that grew up on the web, whose entertainment and news interests are largely neglected by television and newspapers.
Jonah Peretti
#53. Anyone who was a rebel at one time in life cannot return to being conventional.
Elsa Peretti
#54. The problem is, if you really want the Truth, then you have to have God along with it.
Frank E. Peretti
#55. I would like to get married, but it must be a man who is part of my work, or me part of his.
Elsa Peretti
#56. People don't do good work when they feel like losers and are second-class citizens within their own company.
Jonah Peretti
#57. You know when you get a crush on a person you don't know that much about them, you're sort of obsessed with them, you want to spend more time with them.
Jonah Peretti
#58. Sin is the Monster we love to deny. It is crouching at the door and it wants you, but you must overcome it.
Frank E. Peretti
#59. The claws of Truth were painful. The lies tore away like scabs, and John bled there for hours, stifling his cries of pain in the sleeve of his overcoat - the overcoat he'd received from his father.
Frank E. Peretti
#60. If you look at the heritage of the best advertising, you can make stuff that is great for both readers and advertisers. I don't think Don Draper would have loved banner ads.
Jonah Peretti
#61. I'm Jewish and Italian, and I lucked out and got the nose of both cultures.
Chelsea Peretti
#62. Because I believe in God, I believe the Good, what's right, is worth fighting for. - John Barrett Jr.
Frank E. Peretti
#63. What I want is not to become a status symbol, but to give beauty at a price.
Elsa Peretti
#64. I only do private room karaoke where it's just me and one of my closest girlfriends. My mom always said I could really belt songs out, and the Dixie Chicks feed that encouragement.
Chelsea Peretti
#65. People go to the front page of BuzzFeed partly because they've seen a bunch of things in their stream, and they're like, 'Oh, I like this site. Why don't I go to the source?' I think that happens. But also people are going to look for something to share.
Jonah Peretti
#66. Let's be honest: ignoring is acting, and nothing more - acting as though the words, or actions of your oppresors don't hurt. you hear the words, you feel the insults, and you bear the blows. you can act deaf and impervious to pain, but the stabs and the arrows pierce you anyway.
Frank E. Peretti
#67. Comfort can be a dangerous thing. You stick around home all the time where it's safe and nothing ever changes, and before you know it, you get set in your ways and you quit learning, you quit changing, you don't grow anymore.
Frank E. Peretti
#68. Killing one person makes you a murderer. Killing a million people makes you a king. Killing them all makes you God.
Frank E. Peretti
#69. You don't want everyone to see a piece of content. You want the people who are really excited about the content to see it.
Jonah Peretti
#70. A big diamond necklace is nouveau riche, really. People who have wealth a long time don't wear such things.
Elsa Peretti
#71. Preach Christ . . . and if you must, use words." Comforting others puts our pain into perspective.
Frank E. Peretti
#72. For me, to put together my museum and all my remembrances was a big effort mentally, physically and monetarily.
Elsa Peretti
#73. The trick isn't so much creating the right thing; the trick is finding the right networks.
Jonah Peretti
#74. I like to push myself to achieve a certain quality, eliminate the excess detail. I always want a high degree of purity.
Elsa Peretti
#75. You can drastically increase your chances for success if you try lots of things and bring the best forward.
Jonah Peretti
#76. What can I say about my jewelry? It speaks for itself. To me, style is to be simple.
Elsa Peretti
#77. A truth our socetiy must not lose sight of and that is the sanctity of every human life and the dignity of every indvidual
Frank E. Peretti
#79. I think people often miss the fact that things often start in a swashbuckling like low cost just get it done kind of way, even when they grow into these iconic brands.
Jonah Peretti
#80. You want proof there's a God? Look outside, watch a sunset.
Frank E. Peretti
#81. God does not waste an ounce of our pain or a drop of our tears; suffering doesn't come our way for no reason, and He seems efficient at using what we endure to mold character. If we are malleable, He takes our bumps and bruises and shapes them into something beautiful.
Frank E. Peretti
#82. The depth of a person's character is not measured by his or her physical strength, but by the depth of his or her nobility.
Frank E. Peretti
#83. I keep my hair gray, so I like silver and platinum. For women who dye their hair, they can wear whatever they want.
Elsa Peretti
#84. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. - EPHESIANS 6:12
Frank E. Peretti
#85. I did parallel entrepreneurship, which was very hard to do. It was hard to keep your head straight and know which ideas were with which company.
Jonah Peretti
#86. So why should he even bother himself with this? The answer came to his mind: Because what happened to Annie Brewer was evil and evil prevails when good men do nothing.
Frank E. Peretti
#87. You think about the beauty and what you want to transmit. If I think about designing, I can't design.
Elsa Peretti
#88. I hated modeling. I was so scared. But as soon as I started doing jewelry, I did better as a model.
Elsa Peretti
#89. One of the things that is counterintuitive about BuzzFeed is that there's not a natural corollary to what we're doing because it isn't possible to distribute content through word-of-mouth in print.
Jonah Peretti
#90. The goal is always the same. I want to change people's lives and bring them closer to the Lord in a new way. I want to confront them with an issue.
Frank E. Peretti
#91. Portofino in the '60s was magic. Women in bright silk, each with a gardenia in their hand. The bottle started then, in my mind.
Elsa Peretti
#92. When you live in a world that likes bad guys, the bad guys don't go away.
Frank E. Peretti
#93. I'm obsessed with nature and living in the wild, which I just think is crazy. Imagine if a bear attacked you! That's an actual possible way you could die.
Chelsea Peretti
#94. Working on 'Parks' was like heaven because everyone there was just intimidatingly intelligent and funny, and we would have these hilarious debates about really tangential things. It was inspiring because I felt really challenged to be my best.
Chelsea Peretti
#95. 'Chels-emojis' are in the works. I use emojis heavily in life, and I think a lot of people do. There are a number that are frustratingly absent - you know how there's kind of a generic white man and a generic white woman? I just want to put a generic black man and a generic black woman.
Chelsea Peretti
#96. Mormons know that it's not enough to practise your religion - you also have to spread your religion.
Jonah Peretti
#100. When I was little, people would ask what my favorite color was, and I never knew. I find it's really hard to make decisive 'best' answers on what the 'best' of something is.
Chelsea Peretti
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