My biggest mentor has been the Benchmark partnership. We have six partners and a flat structure, and...
PETER FENTON In open source, you really have to be near the watershed to have an impact on the source code. Custo...
PETER FENTON A cabaret song has got to be written - for the middle voice, ideally - because you've got to hea...
JAMES FENTON The term 'epitaph' itself means 'something to be spoken at a burial or engraved upon a t...
JAMES FENTON The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a sai...
JAMES FENTON The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you ...
JAMES FENTON One does not become a guru by accident.
JAMES FENTON Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic ...
JAMES FENTON It has to be displayed, this face, on a more or less horizontal plane. Imagine a man wearing a mask,...
JAMES FENTON The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of ...
JAMES FENTON The Mistake


With the mistake your life goes in reverse.
Now you can see exactl...
JAMES FENTON An aria in an opera - Handel's 'Ombra mai fu,' for example - gets along with an incredib...
JAMES FENTON At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of Engl...
JAMES FENTON Some people think that English poetry begins with the Anglo-Saxons. I don't, because I can't...
JAMES FENTON 'Love' is so short of perfect rhymes that convention allows half-rhymes like 'move.'...
JAMES FENTON This is what rhyme does. In a couplet, the first rhyme is like a question to which the second rhyme ...
JAMES FENTON Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a front line, are ...
JAMES FENTON Considering the wealth of poetic drama that has come down to us from the Elizabethan and Jacobean pe...
JAMES FENTON Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdaine...
JAMES FENTON Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a front line, are ...
JAMES FENTON When Mr Ackroyd says that in the 18th century, stranglers bit off the noses of their victims, I feel...
JAMES FENTON A poem with grandly conceived and executed stanzas, such as one of Keats's odes, should be like ...
JAMES FENTON Metrics are not a device for restraining the mad, any more than 'open form' or free verse is...
JAMES FENTON Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty importe...
JAMES FENTON My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simple...
JAMES FENTON Writing for the page is only one form of writing for the eye. Wherever solemn inscriptions are put u...
JAMES FENTON For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French...
JAMES FENTON 'What is this', and 'How is this done?' are the first two questions to ask of any wo...
JAMES FENTON Working alone on a poem, a poet is of all artists the most free. The poem can be written with a modi...
JAMES FENTON Even 'Jake,' who was missing an eye, was adopted.
ANGIE FENTON Some people dumped two puppies in a bag of dog food on our porch this morning, but now they're in fo...
ANGIE FENTON I used to pick him up at school in the Poop Moose van. He was always so proud. He's crazy about the ...
DARRYL FENTON They played hard. They always play hard. They don't quit and they're a pleasure to coach.
CHRIS FENTON Yeah, you are, you're a bit of a poser.
ROB FENTON In the writing of poetry we never know anything for sure. We will never know if we have 'trained...
JAMES FENTON My kids played steady basketball and Summerville's a tough place to win. They did what they had to d...
CHRIS FENTON Saigon was an addicted city, and we were the drug: the corruption of children, the mutilation of you...
JAMES FENTON Hearing that the same men who brought us 'South Park' were mounting a musical to be called &...
JAMES FENTON You make all your mistakes with your own children so by the time your grandchildren arrive, you know...
LIZ FENTON It keeps the gang members off the street.
DANA FENTON When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Gene...
JAMES FENTON A true best friend loves you even when it seems like you've gone off the deep end.
LIZ FENTON There is no objection to the proposal: in order to learn to be a poet, I shall try to write a sonnet...
JAMES FENTON No poet is required to write in stanzas, or indeed in regular forms at all. Coleridge's 'Dej...
JAMES FENTON The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good blan...
JAMES FENTON It's always a good story when you can increase customer satisfaction ratings while you are also incr...
DAN FENTON Having an easy to use wireless network is going to make Silicon Valley more competitive when it come...
DAN FENTON He still gets up every day trying to figure out how to keep the things moving that he wants moving.
DAN FENTON It's still very preliminary, except we really like the idea of honoring people, as well as from a to...
DAN FENTON We held them (the Bullfrogs) to just 10 points in the first half. It was one of the best games we've...
CHRIS FENTON The needs in this county, in this region, are so high, the Senate plan is close to addressing the ne...
DANA FENTON Our congressional delegation has really come through for us with PRTC. Over the years we've gotten $...
DANA FENTON They need this additional money…to go ahead and have the railcars manufactured at a low price.
DANA FENTON It will help out access into the base. Right now you have a traffic light there and it backs up into...
DANA FENTON Our congressional delegation wants the state to complete these projects.
DANA FENTON Every year you wait, it costs more.
DANA FENTON I figured it's better to stop now than after I cut my hand off.
DARRYL FENTON I couldn't have made enough.
DARRYL FENTON At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable.
JAMES FENTON In my opinion, it is easier to avoid iambic rhythms, when writing in syllabics, if you create a line...
JAMES FENTON The basic rhymes in English are masculine, which is to say that the last syllable of the line is str...
JAMES FENTON This issue is extremely complicated and cannot be resolved unless all parties -- the medical communi...
LAURIE FENTON This is more of a political problem than a science problem right now. Without the ability to develop...
LAURIE FENTON Lung cancer continues to be portrayed as a self-induced cancer that does not deserve public research...
LAURIE FENTON Sadly, it takes her death, coming just seven months after diagnosis, and the fact that she had never...
LAURIE FENTON There has been a very disturbing increase in the number of non-smoking younger women being diagnosed...
LAURIE FENTON I don't know right now. I've been afraid to ask. Because if I ask, then that means it's bad and if I...
LARRY FENTON It's so low that boat traffic for restaurants and places like us, becomes ... it's not there.
LARRY FENTON Shouting at people keeps you alive, healthy, young, fresh.
PETER CAPALDI Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
PETER MARSHALL Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
PETER DRUCKER The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearin...
PETER DAVISON If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a rive...
PETER BENCHLEY There are wars being fought! Who cares what I'm doing on a Saturday night? I'm not even a ce...
PETER DINKLAGE The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot o...
PETER BENENSON My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their compa...
PETER ZUMTHOR The celebration... you cannot practice it or anything. It's a moment when the excitement of your...
PETER BONDRA When I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State after Grinnell, I join...
PETER COYOTE To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.
IRENE PETER Always be sincere, even when you don't mean it.
IRENE PETER Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
IRENE PETER Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.
IRENE PETER Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.
IRENE PETER Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.
IRENE PETER There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The w...
PETER CAPALDI The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.
PETER MARSHALL Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges.
PETER BENCHLEY The photographer, even in fashion and portraiture, has to have a standpoint. It's important to k...
PETER LINDBERGH New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.
PETER JACKSON The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.
PETER SINGER Almost any shark, three or four feet long, could kill a human being if it chose to do it. It could m...
PETER BENCHLEY Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming indi...
PETER DRUCKER My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
PETER DRUCKER Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.
PETER DRUCKER I spent two years at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, and then some New York types saw me there a...
PETER MACNICOL Between November 23, 2002, and January 11, 2003, al-Qahtani was interrogated for 48 days at Guantana...
PETER BERGEN I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's go...
PETER DIAMANDIS Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't...
PETER DRUCKER Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
PETER DRUCKER Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.
PETER DRUCKER Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
PETER DRUCKER I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.
PETER TOSH There are no training courses to make people bishops. You have to learn on the job.
PETER HOLLINGWORTH Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's t...
PETER SHAFFER A man can submit today in order to resist tomorrow. My submission had been such. And because I had n...
PETER ABRAHAMS I've always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo.
PETER STEELE Well, I think what we need to remember is that budget deficits can impede economic activity.
PETER ORSZAG I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organizati...
PETER SHAFFER Each year, billions of animals are subjected to cruelty on factory farms, feed lots, and slaughterho...
PETER DINKLAGE You've got to remember, Vermont is a lot of beautiful mountains with valleys and small brooks th...
PETER SHUMLIN I love criticism. Equitable Life went down because management wouldn't brook criticism, but if y...
PETER HARGREAVES Even though Mr. Trump is a billionaire, he is still able to relate to average working men and women....
PETER NAVARRO By the 1980s, practically no one under 60 in the real civilian world wore hats for anything except w...
PETER YORK It’s not just tougher out there. It’s become a situation where the contest is how much you can d...
PETER HART Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand forbecause unless we stand...
PETER MARSHALL In recent years, breweries and brew pubs have flourished across the Nation. And, as the Representati...
PETER DEFAZIO My inbox and doormat are full with emails and letters from people who want me to endorse their Higgs...
PETER HIGGS The cameo I did in 'Fellowship of the Ring' was I was in the street of Bree, and I was eatin...
PETER JACKSON I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts ...
PETER ACKROYD I was once part of a Christmas cabaret. I sang 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.' I tap-danc...
PETER DINKLAGE The formation of the News America Publishing Group will lead to greater editorial excitement, new bu...
PETER CHERNIN Actually when we stopped New Order I was busier than ever. The only gaps have been while we've b...
PETER HOOK When I was younger I saw a movie called 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' with Paul Newma...
PETER FACINELLI Pirates are the very essence of profit maximising entrepreneurs described in neoclassical economics....
PETER MIDDLEBROOK Buster Keaton's 'The General,' from 1927, I think is still one of the great films of all...
PETER JACKSON When I founded the first Hard Rock, no one was serving American food in London; McDonald's wasn&...
PETER MORTON Let me say right off the bat that I'm not what you would call a 'tree hugger' or a '...
PETER NAVARRO Today, we don't blink an eye when the world's wealthiest individuals donate enormous sums of...
PETER DIAMANDIS It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep...
PETER SHAFFER A girl once came to my beery flat in Kensal Green, opened the blinds and cooked me breakfast. I marr...
PETER CAPALDI I didn't feel the tusk go through me. But I did feel this sort of freight elevator coming down, ...
PETER BEARD We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughin...
PETER MCWILLIAMS Robots already perform many functions, from making cars to defusing bombs - or, more menacingly, fir...
PETER SINGER As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could ...
PETER WRIGHT There's a part of bohemia I love. The lack of prejudice, the lack of aggression, I love the lack...
PETER MULLAN Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts....
PETER DINKLAGE It's a younger generation running the show, and I miss the generation we had in the '70s. Th...
PETER CRISS Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through t...
PETER GUBER A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of...
PETER COOPER Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own ...
PETER ABRAHAMS Always have a sense of humor about life - you'll need it - but always be courteous to boot.
PETER JENNINGS The best way to lift people out of poverty and boost wages is to grow our GDP faster. While Trump is...
PETER NAVARRO To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone...
PETER GAY Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other membe...
PETER SINGER Men mistake friendship, but not sex, for love; women mistake sex, but not friendship, for love.
PETER WASTHOLM Even in an organization that's doing something big and bold, there's the mundane, day-to-day...
PETER DIAMANDIS I was seeing a lot of entrepreneurs who were effectively working on the next photo-sharing app. I wa...
PETER DIAMANDIS When I talk about taking bold actions in the world, few things are bolder than creating the 'Huf...
PETER DIAMANDIS Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a grow...
PETER USTINOV Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
PETER USTINOV A diplomat these days is nothing but a head-waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.
PETER USTINOV You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can...
PETER KUMP I'm certainly not a person who spends their every waking moment soaking themselves in signs and ...
PETER YORK For too long, decisions have been taken behind closed doors - tablets of stone have simply been past...
PETER MANDELSON The best advice is to get on with it. I'm very prone to falling into depressions - not clinical,...
PETER CAPALDI Our situation here, without any exaggeration, is beyond description almost; it is such as eye has no...
PETER OLIVER About a year after 'Bosom Buddies,' I was suddenly a regular on 'Newhart,' and I was...
PETER SCOLARI Total borrowing has imploded. Private borrowing has collapsed. And, in effect, the Treasury Departme...
PETER ORSZAG I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boule...
PETER O'TOOLE Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems o...
PETER USTINOV I played football the whole time I was growing up, and through two years of college. I think it'...
PETER LANDESMAN What keeps earth air breathable? Not oxygen alone. The earth is a freer place to breathe in, every t...
PETER VIERECK In most countries, it is possible to visit zoos and see bored animals pacing back and forth in cages...
PETER SINGER Church members in too many cases are like deep sea divers, encased in the suits designed for many fa...
PETER MARSHALL Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a produ...
PETER DRUCKER I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustaine...
PETER THIEL If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people...
PETER DIAMANDIS True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough...
PETER DIAMANDIS There's an element of tongue-in-cheek in every one of our songs. Walking off into the sunset, ho...
PETER NOONE The break-up of a relationship is always difficult, especially a 30-year one.
PETER HOOK Two halves have little choice but to join;
And yes, they do make a whole
but two wholes when t...
PETER MCWILLIAMS In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way...
PETER USTINOV Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.
PETER LEVI Salvador Dali, lying on his deathbed in a stupor, is said to have been fed thousands of sheets of bl...
PETER LANDESMAN Thomas More's birth was noted by his father upon a blank page at the back of a copy of Geoffrey ...
PETER ACKROYD Celebrity poverty, that's the hidden scandal in Blair's Britain. You can't help but worr...
PETER YORK I'm not a fashion architect. I don't dress in Ralph Lauren and Gucci. When I buy a suit, I b...
PETER EISENMAN Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize...
PETER RENA When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
PETER MCWILLIAMS If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.
PETER HANDKE Only in this world of topsy-turvy attitudes could outright stupidity, such as I had displayed, be so...
PETER DAVID Be egalitarian regarding persons. Be elitist regarding ideas.
PETER KREEFT Twisting lemons into lemonade.
PETER DUCHAN We must realistically accept that revolution is a social war, not because we like war, but because w...
PETER GELDERLOOS By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice th...
PETER KREEFT There is a pain you can’t think your way out of. You can’t talk it away. If there was someone to...
PETER HELLER I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.
PETER USTINOV We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an i...
PETER KREEFT We rehearse for the big death through the little death of orgasm, through erotic living. Death as tr...
PETER REDGROVE If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but y...
PETER TOWNSEND The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.
PETER SHAFFER That was when it was all made painfully clear to me. When you are a child, there is joy. There is la...
PETER DAVID Elke webpagina van de site heeft een uithangbord waaraan de bezoeker herkent waar hij terecht is gek...
PETER KASSENAAR The world has enough women who know how to be smart. It needs women who are willing to be simple. Th...
PETER MARSHALL Is it possible to love so desperately that life is unbearable? I don't mean unrequited, I mean being...
PETER HELLER Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The ...
PETER RUSSELL Anyone who lives in this time is concerned with grottiness.
PETER READING The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.
PETER MCWILLIAMS To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
PETER MCWILLIAMS The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.
PETER DRUCKER