Top 15 Peter Fitzsimons Quotes
#1. Rugby backs can be identified because they generally have clean jerseys and identifiable partings in their hair ... come the revolution the backs will be the first to be lined up against the wall and shot for living parasitically off the work of others.
Peter FitzSimons
#2. Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world to read them. It's a way of being alive for the writer.
Rachel Kushner
#3. We had a teacher called Fanny Menlove, and I remember once when she was out of the room Nancy went up to the blackboard and wrote it backward - Menlove Fanny - and we all fell around laughing. She got into big trouble, but she didn't seem to mind. She had no fear.
Peter FitzSimons
#4. Forwards are the gnarled and scarred creatures who have a propensity for running into and bleeding all over each other.
Peter FitzSimons
#5. By now I was utterly deprogrammed. I walked along naked usually, clothes being not only putrid but unnecessary. My skin had been baked a deep terra-cotta brown and was the constituency of harness leather. The sun no longer penetrated it. I retained my hat.
Robyn Davidson
#6. Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
Ira Sachs
#7. A rugby tour is like sex. When its good it's great, and when it's bad - hey! It's still pretty good!
Peter FitzSimons
#9. As you know I am not of Barsoom; your ways are not my ways, and I can only act in the future as I have in the past, in accordance with the dictates of my conscience and guided by the standards of mine own people.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#10. Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob.
Herman Melville
#11. Before every game he played Willie Ofahengaue would pray. But it to us it was never clear whether he prayed for himself or for the safety of the opposition!
Peter FitzSimons
#12. Is that from the fight or the window?"
"The window," he answered, frowning at my bloodied nails.
"You saved my life, you know."
His eyebrows pulled together. "I wasn't leaving without you."
"I knew you'd come," I smiled, squeezing his fingers between mine.
Jamie McGuire
#14. How great is the mystery of the first cells which were one day animated by the breath of our souls! How impossible to decipher the welding of successive influences in which we are forever incorporated! In each one of us, through matter, the whole history of the world is in part reflected.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#15. SAYING AND CONCEALING For I would prefer to have these attacks and please you, rather than displease you and not have them. - Marcel Proust in a letter to his mother
Alice Miller
