(140 quotes found)
“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
“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
“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.
“Poring over fragments of other people's lives, peering into their bedrooms when they don't know we're there, we thrill to the glamour and the power of secret knowledge, partly detoxified but also heightened by being shared.”
Patricia Meyer Spacks
“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
“If all your peers understand what you've done, it's not creative.”
H. Heimlich
“Moscow Gatecrash: A Peer Behind the Curtain.”
Marilyn Monroe
“The House of Peers, throughout the war, / Did nothing in particular, / And did it very well.”
William S. Gilbert
