Peripatetic Quotes

#1. I do have a peripatetic and active intellectual curiosity.

Guy Kawasaki

#2. I think you're peripatetic when you work in this industry. My husband and I are assuming the role of co-artistic directors at the Sydney Theatre Company in 2008. But as long as the film industry will have me, I will have it.

Cate Blanchett

#3. Reality and fantasy, we need both of those to survive. If we don't have fantasy, dreams and all of those things, what's the point of carrying on? And you need to watch out for reality because buses come.

Terry Gilliam

#4. I've always given people the benefit of the doubt until they prove me otherwise.

Boris Kodjoe

#5. Horseness is the whatness of allhorse. Streams of tendency and eons they worship. God: noise in the street: very peripatetic.

James Joyce

#6. The train that circles Internment couldn't carry him far enough. My brother, the peripatetic, the sage, was too restless to stay in one place, but one place is all we're given. The only one who could quell this restlessness was Alice, always Alice, who swears she was born already in love with him.

Lauren DeStefano

#7. When I'm in New York I look at the Empire State Building and feel as though it belongs to me ... or is it vice versa?

Fay Wray

#8. PERIPATETIC, adj. Walking about. Relating to the philosophy of Aristotle, who, while expounding it, moved from place to place in order to avoid his pupil's objections. A needless precaution - they knew no more of the matter than he.

Ambrose Bierce

#9. In English the word 'peripatetic' means 'one who walks habitually and extensively.

Rebecca Solnit

#10. Some of our national heroines were defined by the fact that they never nested - they were peripatetic crusaders like Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Sojourner Truth, Dorothy Dix.

Gail Collins

#11. If there was a single lesson I took away from Salomon Brothers, it is that rarely do all parties win. The nature of the game is zero sum. A dollar out of my customer's pocket was a dollar in ours, and vice versa.

Michael Lewis

#12. I don't look in the mirror and see a president of the United States. I don't have that ambition.

Sherrod Brown

#13. The dumpling-eaters are a race sprung partly from the old Epicurean and partly from the Peripatetic Sect; they were first brought into Britain by Julius Caesar; and finding it a Land of Plenty, they wisely resolved never to go home again.

John Arbuthnot

#14. Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

Edgar Degas

#15. Doubt is the offspring of knowledge: the savage never doubts at all.

William Winwood Reade

#16. Vice is a peripatetic, always in progression.

Owen Feltham

#17. When you travel like I did, vague about destination and with an open-ended itinerary, a holy-seeming openness takes over your character. It's the reason the first philosophers were peripatetic.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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Ilaria Goffredo

#19. Repudiating the sensible world, which he neither sees himself nor believes from those who have, the Peripatetic joins combat by childish quibbling in a world on paper, and denies the Sun shines because he himself is blind.

Johannes Kepler

#20. From ragbag, stumblebum, peripatetic lout
To bonfire of catnip that burns itself out
Bristled sack of hiss & claws
Cinched at the maw

B.J. Ward

#21. My dear: in this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

George Bernard Shaw

#22. My father's peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.

Hannah Storm

#23. The neglected legacy of the Sixties is just this: unabashed moral certitude, and the purity
the incredibly outgoing energy
of righteous rage.

June Jordan

#24. What do we do know?(Peeta)
I guess we try to forget ... (Katniss)
I don't want to forget.(Peeta)

Suzanne Collins

#25. Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.

Leon Edel