Peter De Vries was a famous Novelist from USA, who lived between February 27, 1910 and September 28, 1993. He/she became 83 years old.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac pisces, who is known for Fluctuation, Depth, Imagination, Reactive, Indecisive.
Our collection contains 30 quotes who is written / told by Peter, under the main topics: Art - Food.
30 Famous quotes by Peter De Vries
"Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums"
"Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy"
"My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too"
"Life is a zoo in a jungle"
"We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through"
"The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults"
"I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any"
"A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after"
"The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music"
"Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart"
"I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning"
"We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other"
"The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes"
"The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character"
"The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly"
"I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork"
"Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter"
"Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults"
"When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones"
"The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums"
"Nostalgia isn't what it used to be"
"Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring"
"It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us"
"I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school"
"Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked"
"There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you"
"The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe"
"The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance"
"Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse"
"Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us"
