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In life, I'd much rather have people laughing at me than booing me. — Josh Peck

With the poetry of plain speaking, Shannon Hitchcock recreates the daily drama of a vanished world. — Richard Peck

[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived. — Richard Peck

Sometimes when we think we're protecting ourselves, we're really hurting ourselves. And sometimes the people around us too. — Dale Peck

We are almost always less or more competent than we believe ourselves to be. The unconscious,however, knows who we really are. — M. Scott Peck

I'm so far gone that I'm telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language. — Richard Peck

Fiction isn't what 'was'. It's 'what if'? — Richard Peck

Acting's not therapy, but it can be therapeutic. — Josh Peck

One extends one's limits only by exceeding them. — M. Scott Peck

I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara. — Pat Conroy

Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love. — M. Scott Peck

Sleep on your stone pillow, and let the gulls peck out your eyes while the crabs feast on your flesh. You've feasted on enough of them, you owe them. — George R R Martin

I guess if you want to know one single thing I'm about, it's that I'm against easy answers. — M. Scott Peck

The feeling of being valuable - 'I am a valuable person'- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline. — M. Scott Peck

I stayed there until the fire died. So it would not have to die alone. — Robert Newton Peck

With a camera like that you don't believe you're in the masterpiece business. It's enough to be able to peck at the world. — Lee Friedlander

It just seems silly to me that something so right and simple has to be fought for at all. — Gregory Peck

Aye, aye, that's the way wi' thee: thee allays makes a peck o' thy own words out o' a pint o' the Bible's — George Eliot

Yes, I think you'll find that all the best teachers are old bats. — Richard Peck

Fame is a funny thing, like a secret, both are hard to keep. — Richard Peck

A good writer writes with a camera, not a pen. — Robert Newton Peck

There would be no work on this day. A day no pigs would die. — Robert Newton Peck

As an actor, that's the best thing you can do, really take people along on a story and tell them something. — Austin Peck

Oh, Papa. My heart's broke. — Robert Newton Peck

The sky's a good place to look," he said. "And I got a notion it's a good place to go. — Robert Newton Peck

Ah, to be a bird. To fly the skies, sing my song, and best of all occasionally peck someone's eyes out. — George Carlin

I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way. — James Polshek

I think any actor would agree that you can't replace theater. It's immediate. You have the energy of the crowd and every single night it's different. — Austin Peck

A life of total dedication to the truth also means a life of willingness to be personally challenged. — M. Scott Peck

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience. — M. Scott Peck

I read because one life isn't enough. — Richard Peck

Sickness begets chaos, which, through hard work and a touch of grace, leads to growth and resurrection. — M. Scott Peck

Scientists have grave difficulty dealing with the reality of God. — M. Scott Peck

You show me a teenager who doesn't like to be flattered and I'll show you a teenager who's got a steady source of sex. — Dale Peck

When I read a good book, it's like traveling the world without ever leaving my chair. — Richard Peck

He pulls the tape off Allegra's mouth. Grabs her BY THE HAIR and gives her a peck on the lips. — Richard Kadrey

Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself. — Richard Peck

I love the phrase, 'Somebody's going to have a good day today, so it might as well be me.' I feel like you bring everything to the character, I hope. — Josh Peck

Falling in love is not an extension of one's limits or boundaries; it is a partial and temporary collapse of them. — M. Scott Peck

America's greatest sin is the refusal to delay gratification. — M. Scott Peck

I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth. — M. Scott Peck

Laziness is love's opposite. — M. Scott Peck

To me, there's nothing greater than making people laugh. — Josh Peck

The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth. — M. Scott Peck

This is how you hold onto your family. You hold them with open hands so they are free to find futures of their own. It's just that simple. — Richard Peck

Some people won, some people lost [the Grammys] but Taylor Swift gets to wake up as Taylor Swift so she's winning. — Josh Peck

Aunt Agnes said, "It's hard to make a good Christian out of a cat. — Richard Peck

Art is only great if it's uncodifiable. If art isn't scaring you, if it's not making you upset, then I don't think it's actually doing anything. — Dale Peck

My favorite actor is Sir Ben Kingsley - nobody is as good as him, in my opinion. I think he's so good as an artist. — Josh Peck

I know about hip-hop culture, whether it's graffiti writing or DJ-ing or being an MC. — Josh Peck

Advertising has always been the Peck's Bad Boy of American business urging us to buy things we probably don't need and often can't afford. — Andrew Hacker

The only real security in life lies in relishing life's insecurity. — M. Scott Peck

Martin Wilson's What They Always Tell Us hears the voices of the young as they struggle toward adulthood ... — Richard Peck

I don't think grandma's a very good influence on us. — Richard Peck

But it was a rich, picture-perfect, it-can't-happen-here kind of suburb where people had gone, not to deal with life's problems, but to avoid them. — Richard Peck

Need is a weak word. has nothing to do with what people get. Ain't what you need that matters. It's what you do. — Robert Newton Peck

Inherently, making a movie is tough because there's so much anticipation when it happens - even if everything goes well. — Josh Peck

no problem can be solved until an individual assumes the responsibility for solving it. — M. Scott Peck

Teach us to number our days aright. — M. Scott Peck

Balancing is a discipline precisely because the act of giving something up is painful. — M. Scott Peck

I'm a novelist. I think fiction is important or I wouldn't be doing it, but most of it's bad. — Dale Peck

The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. — M. Scott Peck

If we deny our anger, our pain, our ambition, or our goodness, we will suffer. — M. Scott Peck

I lie in my darkened room. Scavenger birds peck at the oozing matter that leaks from my crushed skull. — E. Lockhart

And I know that I and anyone else who is not mentally defective can solve any problem if we are willing to take the time. — M. Scott Peck

In and through community lies the salvation of the world. — M. Scott Peck

There is no act of love that is not an act of work or courage. No exceptions. — M. Scott Peck

I always hoped that I would settle down with someone. Marriage, I could really give two shits about, as an institution, but it makes things easier. — Dale Peck

If I truly love another, I will obviously order my behavior in such a way as to contribute the utmost to his or her spiritual growth. — M. Scott Peck

Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs — M. Scott Peck

There is no virtue inherent in un-constructive suffering. — M. Scott Peck

We thought he was weird. He thought we were weird. It was great. It was what multiculturalism ought to be" -Archer — Richard Peck

For daws to peck at: I am not what I am. — William Shakespeare

When everything is said and done, the only thing that really matters is the quality of the soul you build during the life you're given. — Kayt C. Peck

Grandma, how old is she?"
"Oh I don't know." Grandma said. "You'd have to cut off her head and count the rings in her neck. — Richard Peck

Those things that hurt, instruct. — M. Scott Peck

I'm not a do-gooder. It embarrassed me to be classified as a humanitarian. I simply take part in activities that I believe in. — Gregory Peck

I'm forever in debt to Nickelodeon. It made me who I am today. — Josh Peck

He is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. — M. Scott Peck

When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us. — M. Scott Peck

But for the first time, I had a religious identity. I had come home. And so I called myself a Zen Buddhist at the age of 18. — M. Scott Peck

I don't think I could stay interested for a couple of months in a character of mean motivation. — Gregory Peck

I came out after safe sex was invented and I always practiced safe sex. Except for when I lost my virginity. — Dale Peck

Self examination is the key to insight, which is the key to wisdom — M. Scott Peck

The denial of suffering is, in fact a better definition of illness than its acceptance. — M. Scott Peck

Because someone stole Gregory Peck's star on Hollywood Blvd., I have hired a Brink's guard to protect my star! — Rip Taylor

Examination of the world without is never as personally painful as examination of the world within. — M. Scott Peck

We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them. — M. Scott Peck

I'm just a geeky, goofy person. — Austin Peck

The neurotic assumes too much responsibility; the person with a character disorder not enough. — M. Scott Peck

Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art. — Josh Peck

But put two librarians' heads together, and mountains move. — Richard Peck

I started reading the Bible. All of a sudden the words jumped off the page and became real. — Austin Peck

You must have something in order to give it up. — M. Scott Peck

Move out or grow in any dimension and pain as well as joy will be your reward. A full life will be full of pain. — M. Scott Peck

One could have eaten a meal off the ground without overbrimming the proverbial peck of dirt. Mrs. — L.M. Montgomery

My time was my responsibility. It was up to me and me alone to decide how I wanted to use and order my time. — M. Scott Peck

Never miss a chance...to keep your mouth shut. — Robert Newton Peck

If you wish to discern either the presence or absence of integrity, you need to ask only one question. What is missing? Has anything been left out? — M. Scott Peck

Besdies, to turn me ladylike might have rendered me useless and possibly ornamental. — Richard Peck