quotes about Peg

last updated: November 28, 2023

Hang your idea on a peg that all can read.
-- Arthur Brisbane

Source : c.1907 Quoted in Oliver Carlson Brisbane: a Candid Biography (1937), ch.7.

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All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

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I loved Peg Bundy. I am so happy that I got to do that. It was really fun.
-- Katey Sagal

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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negro had but few pegs to fall.
-- Langston Hughes

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You don't know you're wearing a leash if you sit by the peg all day
-- Michael Parenti

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Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.
-- P. T. Barnum

Source : Tampa Bay Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January/February 1990.

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Nominal damages are in effect, only a peg to hang costs on.
-- William Henry Maule

Source : Beaumont v. Greathead, 3 D. & L. 636, 1846.

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“Have the self-confidence to say no when it is necessary and the strength to stand alone. Give yourself the approval to love and respect everything that you are and will become.”
“Never Again the Burning.”

Source : "The Aquarian Manifesto with Historical Notes" by Isaac Bonewits, Version 1.5, www.neopagan.net. 1973.
“What happens in a strike happens not to one person alone.... It is a crisis with meaning and potency for all and prophetic of a future. The elements in crisis are the same, there is a fermentation that is identical. The elements are these: a body of men, women and children, hungry; an organization of feudal employers out to break the back of unionization; and the government Labor Board sent to "negotiate" between this hunger and this greed.”

Source : Meridel Le Sueur (1990). “Harvest song: collected essays and stories”, West End Pr
“Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you're often wrong. I think math helped me become a good critic of myself, come at writing a little less personally.”
“Man, by his very nature, tends to give himself an explanation of the world into which he is born. And this is what distinguishes him from the other species. Every individual, even the least intelligent, the lowest of outcasts, from childhood on gives himself some explanation of the world. And with it he manages to live. And without it, he would sink into madness.”

Source : Elsa Morante (1977). “History: A Novel”, Knopf
“I'm good with a grill. I like to make cheeseburgers - I once read in a David Goodis crime novel that you're only supposed to flip a burger once.”
“I love, love, love just being hands on at all times in the studio.”
“I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.”
“Practicing an attitude of gratitude spills over to acts of generosity.”

Source : Debbie Macomber (2009). “One Simple Act: Discovering the Power of Generosity”, p.22, Simon and Schuster
“Cary Benjamin sleeps dreamily on my stomach as we're both bonding and recuperating. He's phenomenal.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.