Peykan Quotes

#1. It was an utterly phenomenal achievement.

David McCullough

#2. No one is as simple as they may seem to be.

Lik Hock Yap

#3. In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell ... we can't dance synonyms.

George Balanchine

#4. The question is not,
how much does the youth know? when he has finished his education
but how much does he care? and about how many orders of things does he care? In fact, how large is the room in which he finds his feet set? and, therefore, how full is the life he has before him?

Charlotte M. Mason

#5. There was only now [ ... ] There was no tomorrow because tomorrow was the excuse. There was now or there was nowhere.

John Le Carre

#6. As soon as you say 'Bunnymen,' I see a trench coat.

Brandon Flowers

#7. I think when people talk about ambition and talking to him, it might have seemed that he wasn't ambitious.

Alan Hansen

#8. I tried to say beware the room is laid with traps and hung with hooks.

Janet Frame

#9. The Spirit's work of revival does not come about when God's people practice inventive or radical exercises; it comes through the normal means of grace God has given his people.

Joe Thorn

#10. If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.

Will Harvey

#11. Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

Abraham Cahan

#12. Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.

Neil Simon

#13. I'm not religious, but I'm spiritual.

Daniel Tosh

#14. Everyone enjoys stories of double lives and secret identities. Children have Superman; intellectuals have Wallace Stevens.

Dana Gioia