“Most of his peers, everybody that saw him during the period, say that he just did everything with ease. Whether it was hitting home runs, catching a ball, running, it just seemed that it was almost magic.”
David Hunt
“Hermits have no peer pressure.”
Steven Wright
“My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.”
William G. Golding
“Pride the first peer and president of hell.”
Daniel Defoe
“Emperor? You old fake! / You're no Emperor. You're just an onion. / Now then, little Peer, I'm going to peel you.”
Henrik Ibsen
“A lot of my peer group think I'm an eccentric bisexual, like I may even have an ammonia-filled tentacle somewhere on my body. That's okay.”
Robert Downey Jr.
“How happy the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve. No cashier writes a letter to the press complaining about the incomprehensibility of Modern Mathematics and comparing it unfavorably with the good old days when mathematicians were content to paper irregularly shaped rooms and fill bathtubs without closing the waste pipe.”
W. H. Auden