Pete's Quotes

#1. Is your perception of 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' so shallow that it's violated by dancing raisins?

Pete Townshend

#2. But the truth is, at some point, our films - almost every single one of them - are really bad. And it's largely hats off to John Lasseter and Ed Catmull who have set up a system whereby they're expecting it.

Pete Docter

#3. If Pete's (Sampras) child is a girl, my son will like her; if he's a boy, my son will defeat him.

Andre Agassi

#4. I've never sung anywhere without giving the people listening to me a chance to join in - as a kid, as a lefty, as a man touring the U.S.A. and the world, as an oldster. I guess it's kind of a religion with me. Participation. That's what's going to save the human race.

Pete Seeger

#5. Be persistent and just keep going to open mics no matter what, even if just to watch and not perform. You'll find that even at your worst keep your head up because you'll still be better than other people's best.

Pete Holmes

#6. I used to try and make up visually for what I couldn't play as a musician. I used to get into very incredible visual things where, in order just to make one chord more lethal, I'd make it a really lethal looking thing, whereas really it's just going to be picked normally.

Pete Townshend

#7. If you want to be great, do it. There's nothing holding you back. It's all in your control.

Pete Carroll

#8. Let's just make it through tonight, worry about the rest later.

Pete Wentz

#9. Phillipians 4:13 for Pete's sake!

Jan Karon

#10. I'm attracted to creative people and train wrecks, and there's no shortage of that in Los Angeles.

Pete Wentz

#11. It's the most psychedelic experience I ever had, going to see Hendrix play. When he started to play, something changed: colors changed, everything changed.

Pete Townshend

#12. There's nothing more human than selling food to strangers, you know?

Pete Hamill

#13. Considering what Americans have been confronted with in the last ten years, domestically and internationally, it's clear that we need emotional outlets; we have to have some peace from our problems.

Pete Rozelle

#14. It's a trick. Get an axe." - Ash, Army of Darkness

Pete Kahle

#15. I like reading in a pub rather than a library or study, as it's generally much easier to get a drink.

Pete McCarthy

#16. He's a guy. He has built in testosterone issues.

Pete Hautman

#17. If it doesn't come through the Internet, it's not really compelling to me.

Pete Cashmore

#18. And, finally, I know, too. That throwing away this mess doesn't mean I'm giving something up. Or losing something I can't get back. It's just that there are too many pieces and too much dust. I'm just ready for something whole.
- Pete Cassidy

Cynthia Rylant

#19. I believe rock can do anything, it's the ultimate vehicle for everything

Pete Townshend

#20. Respect yourself. Try to remember that not everything in life can be perfect. You will make mistakes. That's inevitable. But you are not ugly. You will only be ugly when you behave in an ugly way.

Pete Townshend

#21. He was a newspaperman,' he said, 'but there's some people who should never leave Savannah.

Pete Dexter

#22. I think I ended up on 'People's '50 Most Beautiful People' list just because of eyeliner, which is kind of a bummer. But if you do find the right color, it will make your eyes pop.

Pete Wentz

#23. If anyone saw Fall Out Boy's first 400 shows, we were the worst band of all time.

Pete Wentz

#24. As long as Pete and Joe are there, it's gonna be jumping.

Jay McShann

#25. I can't promise I won't soil my trousers in here," he said. "You and me both." Pete extended his hand. Mr. Stovall gripped it tight and they shook on the matter of potential pants-sh*tting, then rejoined the other vampires at the door.

Scott S. Phillips

#26. But I know now that you can't expect anything from anybody. If somebody loves you, it's because he wants to. And it's never because it's what he's supposed to do.
- Pete Cassidy

Cynthia Rylant

#27. You know, I think that President Obama is a person who has a great relationship with a number of people. Colin Powell does, too. I think Colin Powell is a fine American, a great leader and sees things in President Obama that he agrees with. He's entitled to have his opinion.

Pete Sessions

#28. The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game, and he must now live with the consequences of those acts. There is absolutely no deal for reinstatement.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

#29. I might be dead, but that hasn't stopped me so far and it's not about to start now.

Sharon Stevenson

#30. Pete's a good guy."
"He just slept with my mother!"
"I didn't say he was perfect.

Debbie Macomber

#31. Maybe that's why the good Lord gave us these vivid memory capabilities. When stress hits, we can just close our eyes, lean back and relax, and enjoy a game of Tidly-Winks, the sound of a Pete Rose baseball card in the spokes of our bike, or maybe a nice slice of watermelon - with a sprinkle of salt.

Michael Buffalo Smith

#32. A Third's okay for a fuck, but not for a family. This isn't goddamned Big Love, Florida Fag Edition.

Tymber Dalton

#33. Well, I think certain roles are chosen for us. The moment I read Pete Campbell I thought: I can do this, this is mine. And in Money, too. The truth is I turn down a lot of projects. If a character doesn't have some kind of internal struggle, it's no good for me.

Vincent Kartheiser

#34. Andre Agassi was my rival in the '90s, and I think as we got older we sort of transcended the game. He was probably the best player I ever played over my career. There's a list of players that were tough, but Andre, certainly, he was the most unique.

Pete Sampras

#35. And the justice in this world is that you don't have to break legs because somebody's broken yours.

Pete Dexter

#36. I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they actually try to do something that's a little bit more they regard it as pretentious.

Pete Townshend

#37. Beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real.

Pete Townshend

#38. When I was a kid, I had THE biggest crush on Helen Reddy. I mean like for REAL crush - like 'spend some time in the bathroom thinking about her' crush. I blme Pete's Dragon. There she was - flushed, singing, clas in a tight wet plaid shirt. Judas Priest she was fabulous.

Corey Taylor

#39. But a lot of things probably will never change - like our friendships and our working relationships. As far as me and Patrick [Stump, the singer] and all of Fall Out Boy, it's in a vacuum.

Pete Wentz

#40. And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music as well.

Pete Seeger

#41. I've been trying to get Mr. Finchem to lengthen 5 and 7 and 14 and 18 - and he's being a mule,

Pete Dye

#42. It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

Pete Rose

#43. Pete wondered if the endings of things gathered in the corners of a room, hanging down like a spider's web, waiting.

Alice Hoffman

#44. What I love about Sonny's playing is that he is so inventive within the mainstream Jazz vernacular. Because he knows so many ways to deal with musical material, he is never repetitive and hasn't had to invent a new language. Also, he never asked me to do anything but swing!

Pete La Roca

#45. Rock music is important to people , because it allows them to escape this crazy world. It allows them not to run away from the problems that are there, but to face up to them , but at the same time sort of DANCE ALL OVER THEM. That's what rock and roll is about.

Pete Townshend

#46. Broken glass. It's just like glitter, isn't it?

Pete Doherty

#47. There are a lot of very good New York novels, but there's no single all-encompassing novel, the way you could look at any number of Dickens books and say we know London as a result of that.

Pete Hamill

#48. The first step to success it's to imagine it

Pete Hautman

#49. One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the Democrats, let's all be friends in Washington philosophy.

Pete Du Pont

#50. Arsenal's never-improving injury list increasingly attracts curiosity rather than sympathy.

Pete Gill

#51. A coach's job is to put his team where it can function effectively and win,

Pete Carril

#52. The way real memories work, from what we understand, is really complex. And it's an interconnection of different things and redundancy in the brain. So the idea of a memory existing as a little snow globe - the way we represent it in the film - is actually not scientifically accurate at all.

Pete Docter

#53. I think it's important to look at the world as a bigger place than just the bubble that we live in. It's so easy to get caught up in things of a trivial nature.

Pete Wentz

#54. Well, it'll always be disco/electro-pop. That's what I first wanted to do when I started out as a musician in 1977. It's only ever been dance-pop that I've wanted to do.

Pete Burns

#55. [Answering whether there was life in other worlds, he said there probably was.] After all, there's plenty of unearthly looking things moving around in my refrigerator, so there's always a chance of life springing up almost anywhere.

Pete Conrad

#56. It's semi-frustrating when your name actually becomes a synonym for douchebag.

Pete Wentz

#57. Tom Brady says he wants to give the truck he was given as the Super Bowl MVP to the guy who won the Super Bowl for the Patriots. So Brady's giving his truck toSeahawks coach Pete Carroll.

Conan O'Brien

#58. Pete squeezed Jack's hand, hard as she could. "You're not alone," she told him. "If you've made up your mind to die, then I'll be with you here, until the end. I'd follow you into death if that's what you asked, Jack. Heaven, Hell. Anywhere at all.

Caitlin Kittredge

#59. That's the interesting thing about the philosophy - to accomplish the grand, you have to focus on the small. To exist in the eternal perspective, you have to live in the moment.

Pete Carroll

#60. There's something really emotional about not having any sound. That allows, I think, the audience to participate more actively and kind of imagine what are they talking about there?

Pete Docter

#61. Reality TV finds talented people. There are no scripts. The editing is what it's all about. Great editing makes those shows.

Pete Waterman

#62. I think Kurt Cobain and Nirvana represent this giant wave that came crashing in and turned music on its head again, and there's definitely something to be said for that.

Pete Wentz

#63. My whole approach to wardrobe is, throw it in a suitcase and make sure they don't press it, for Pete's sake, so I can try to display some rumpled charm. Actually, I'm just a pig. I've got coffee stains on my pants. I think they're coffee stains, anyway.

Mel Gibson

#64. Pete took her hand and together they went out through the gate to the other side of the cemetery's iron railings; the side where the living belong.

Rosemary J. Kind

#65. A team will take on its manager's personality. If it's a laid back manager, you'll have a laid back personality. The players will see that if it's OK for the Manager to be laid back, then you'll have a laid back team.

Pete Rose

#66. I was raised on Josh White, the Weavers and Pete Seeger. The music was everywhere. You'd go to a party at somebody's apartment and there would be fifty people there, singing well into the night.

Mary Travers

#67. It's all the same to me - a fucking red flag
emblazoned with the words DO NOT BECOME EMOTIONALLY INVOLVED WITH ME, and this bed is barely big enough for my own baggage.

Pete Wentz

#68. I was close to John simply because I liked him as a person. He liked me as a person. We spent a lot of times at one another's houses back in Liverpool. We spent a lot of time together in Germany.

Pete Best

#69. Any great movie you watch has some element of darkness or loss or some suffering in it. That's what makes the fun parts fun.

Pete Docter

#70. I've never looked forward to a birthday like I'm looking forward to my new daughter's birthday, because two days after that is when I can apply for reinstatement.

Pete Rose

#71. But once you cross the Shannon - even though geographically you have only come a short distance - different rules of time apply, and most people still understand the crucial secret of human happiness: that it's better to do a few things slowly, than a lot of things fast.

Pete McCarthy

#72. It's about us getting ready to play. It's not about the other team. We'll beat ourselves before they beat us. That's always our approach.

Pete Carroll

#73. The talent that has to be learned is finding out what someone's passion is and setting them up to realize that. You don't get the best work from people if you're guiding them versus them guiding themselves.

Pete Cashmore

#74. Winning takes character and intelligence. It is the most important thing you can do because it's a reaffirmation of your character.

Pete Carril

#75. If you're rude for television's sake, it ain't reality TV.

Pete Waterman

#76. If it's a beautiful day, I love taking walks. The walks are always aimless.

Pete Hamill

#77. I think just about everybody ought to get a second chance and I'd like to see it worked out, because he (Pete Rose) brought a lot of joy to the game, and he gave a lot of joy to people, and he's paid a price - God knows, he's paid a price.

William J. Clinton

#78. I wonder if killing yourself is the only thing you can control in your entire life, and that's why it's a sin. Because you're beating God at his own game.

Pete Wentz

#79. I'm not saying that the press is wrong to report any internal differences we have, but at the same time, I think it's our job to keep them from becoming public issues, for anything that detracts from the purely athletic aspects of the sport is bad for us.

Pete Rozelle

#80. Human beings want to know too much abut each other, and that's why there are so many lies.

Pete Hamill

#81. It is clear that a temporary increase in the cap is needed to ensure high-tech companies can hire the specialized personnel they need to continue to help fuel California's economic growth.

Pete Wilson

#82. Hitting. That's what I enjoy most. Realistically, it's probably the hardest thing to do in all of sport. Think about it. You've got a round ball, a round bat, and the object is to hit it square.

Pete Rose

#83. I remember my first kisses with a lot of people, and they're rad experiences. And you don't have to really take it to that next level because that's what keeps it exciting.

Pete Wentz

#84. There's a story behind every old ballad or work song or nonsense song that I ever knew. Sometimes it's a fascinating story. A story of people struggling for freedom, struggling to get along in this old world.

Pete Seeger

#85. Pete Davidson - he's in the movie 'Trainwreck.' He has a small part in it. I told Lorne Michaels about him, said he was really funny.

Bill Hader

#86. It is one of those weird social things. Even as parents we say, oh, don't be sad. You know, come here, we'll distract you with some ice cream or something. And I don't know if that's always the best thing. But it's certainly - you understand why people do it.

Pete Docter

#87. Where I fall down is my short game. I don't practice enough, and when I have to take a half swing from 50 yards out, that's trouble.

Pete Sampras

#88. Whenever I get a good script, I don't care whether it's telly or theatre or big screen - I'm not bothered.

Pete Postlethwaite

#89. I believe that we need to set conditions to close the detention facility at Guantanamo. This includes retaining the option to transfer detainees from this facility elsewhere ... It is in the U.S.'s national security interest to do so.

Pete Visclosky

#90. I felt that The Who had ended because we'd lost touch with our original Shepherd's Bush audience.

Pete Townshend

#91. My master is the same as god
when he thumps with his hand
people bring us hamburg steaks
at any eating stand pete s holiday

Don Marquis

#92. When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball.

Pete Rose

#93. There's no way that any tabloid can survive if it doesn't get women to read it.

Pete Hamill

#94. I loved 'Dumbo.' I watched Bugs Bunny time and again. The Muppets were big, too. All of those, they have this real, not darkness but poignancy, that's what makes it stick with you.

Pete Docter

#95. Every time you build a golf course, it's not a golf course when you get there. You have to improvise.

Pete Dye

#96. There's no one New York. There's multiple New Yorks.

Pete Hamill

#97. Dave Martel: There's definitely something to be said about Pete & Pete creating hipsters.

Mathew Klickstein

#98. That's something that I just can't underestimate the importance of, the staff continuity. I really think that the players feed off the coaches.

Pete Lembo

#99. A hitter's impatience is the pitcher's biggest advantage.

Pete Rose

#100. When you're facing an opponent over a broad front, you don't aim for the opponent's strong points, important though they may be. Pick a little outpost that you can capture and win. And then you find another place that you can capture and win it, and then you move slowly toward the big places.

Pete Seeger