Children ran up to me shouting, 'Columbo!' At first, it gave me great pleasure, but later, I...
PETER FALK I'm not an ace at small talk.
PETER FALK My idea of Heaven is to wake up, have a good breakfast, and spend the rest of the day drawing.
PETER FALK What's the name of that famous museum in Paris? The Louvre? I went through that place in 20 minu...
PETER FALK I'm old fashioned. I really think you should know how to draw before you start painting. I use c...
PETER FALK They wouldn't take me in the navy because of my glass eye. So I joined the merchant navy, who al...
PETER FALK I think people identify with Columbo because he is an average man.
PETER FALK Initially, they wanted Columbo to wear a driving coat. I said: 'Are you kidding? He's not an...
PETER FALK To be totally sincere, I'd surely be a better actor today if I hadn't played Columbo all the...
PETER FALK You think you're in another civilization, another time, and then you see antennas coming out of ...
PETER FALK I'm makin' a lotta dough, everyone knows who you are, and who the hell cares whether you'...
PETER FALK It helps an actor an awful lot when he looks like the part. There's nothing more disconcerting, ...
PETER FALK I've been there a thousand years, and I never felt comfortable. Beverly Hills - when I first saw...
PETER FALK When I was a kid, the idea of gettin' paid to paint your face... listen, I grew up in Ossining, ...
PETER FALK The entertainment industry is loaded with extraordinarily talented people. But the true, genuine ori...
PETER FALK Good actors are always looking for props. They're looking for behavior. It makes it a lot easier...
PETER FALK Certainly, you envy the guys that have done all kinds of things, a variety of good scripts and good ...
PETER FALK When I was growing up in Ossining, N.Y., playing pool with the guys, the thought that any one of us ...
PETER FALK I don't like getting up in the morning, getting in a car, driving on a freeway, and stopping at ...
PETER FALK It wasn't that we improvised it. We were going to shoot it, but I had the props in my hand, and I wa...
PETER FALK For my money, Patrick McGoohan is the quintessential Columbo adversary.
PETER FALK He sent the script over and I read it that first night, and about page 45 or 50, I called him up and...
PETER FALK Sometimes I see my father in me,
PETER FALK They know there's a gap, and if they're interested in finding out more about why they aren't more co...
PETER FALK In order to be totally spontaneous, you can't be too obsessed with accuracy, but if you're i...
PETER FALK I'm just looking to get through the day.
PETER FALK The first time I ever spoke to John Cassavetes was at a Lakers game. I got up to go for a hot dog, a...
PETER FALK I remember being amazed that actors had a union. I thought only coal miners had unions, or guys that...
PETER FALK If it wasn't for the Mark Twain Masquers, I don't know where my life would have gone.
PETER FALK Along came a police lieutenant named Columbo, and my life would never be the same.
PETER FALK I lose things. I am preoccupied. I am misty. Eyeglasses? I go through eyeglasses like tissue.
PETER FALK It depends how lenient you are with your definition of artist. If you're going to include those ...
PETER FALK In 1958, I was shooting a movie in Florida, and I decided to go to Havana, Cuba, to see what it was ...
PETER FALK I've worked with some terrific actors. The list of guys that came on the 'Columbo' show,...
PETER FALK I like stories that grow, that have unpredictable layers. As opposed to Hollywood movies that start ...
PETER FALK I love Chicago. It's one of the great cities. I'm crazy about the town. It reminds me of New...
PETER FALK It was automatic. We were always on the same wavelength even before we started shooting.
PETER FALK In the theater, you didn't have any marks. Your instincts in rehearsal told you what the blockin...
PETER FALK I think Morris has a fantastic zest for life. He's hit upon something, and that is this central ques...
PETER FALK If I'm a guy reading a newspaper, and I hear this actor who I know gets great seats at basketbal...
PETER FALK If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds...
PETER FALK Sometimes I was in school plays, but only when the kid they'd originally picked got sick and the...
PETER FALK Since the invention of the kiss there have been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the...
PETER FALK To be honest with you, I've been dying to do a nice indie feature - just something about a regul...
FALK HENTSCHEL I think Hollywood wants to be safe. The things you do first become your calling card, and I think pe...
FALK HENTSCHEL Every show finds its groove, I would say. The first season is the season to figure out the dynamics,...
FALK HENTSCHEL My mom was a huge fan of 'Dirty Dancing.' I couldn't quite get a break, and she was like...
FALK HENTSCHEL I was born in East Germany, before the wall came down. We sort of escaped, I guess. I grew up all ov...
FALK HENTSCHEL The New Jersey Challenge is a terrific educational opportunity for both participants and viewers who...
ADAM FALK The last thing we would want to do is to take Gilman and gut it and turn it into a sterile space. Ho...
ADAM FALK It's not an option to not renovate this building.
ADAM FALK Gilman has passed the point where its problems are still lovable quirks. We need to make it function...
ADAM FALK One hundred years of students have formative memories of Gilman Hall. What we're trying to make sure...
ADAM FALK I was a dancer for about 14 years. I was a martial artist for the same amount of time. I quit that w...
FALK HENTSCHEL There are so many beautiful girls who aren't photogenic. In real life, half the models you see l...
LISANNE FALK Bird flu isn't over in Switzerland. We are not finding cases any more but on the other hand we can b...
MARCEL FALK When filmmakers make a movie, they make a movie for the large screen.
TERRELL FALK Our goal was that poultry would not get infected by bird flu and we were successful in this.
MARCEL FALK From our view of this program, it was purely to teach teachers to teach religion.
KEN FALK Basically these kids have played together a third year and the four seniors four years. This is thir...
CONRAD FALK The more defiant Iran becomes, the more the spotlight is on the U.N. to try to find a diplomatic sol...
PAMELA FALK At the moment Switzerland's goal is protecting its poultry from bird flu.
MARCEL FALK I've had lot of them. A lot of people stopped in today (to congratulate me) and said they couldn't b...
BOB FALK He's been on a roll.
BOB FALK I thought we wrestled just super. That was as good as we've wrestled all year. That was a good meet ...
BOB FALK The epiphany for me was that I knew chimp mommies don't make these noises, so I knew something happe...
DEAN FALK Microsoft's pitch seems to say that big antitrust cases have to take forever or they can't be brough...
DONALD FALK The focus here is taking out ones that wouldn't make it anyway .
DONALD FALK I'm pretty sure this one was still standing the last time we were here.
DONALD FALK None of the judges in the D.C. Circuit has seen the record in this case yet, which leaves everything...
DONALD FALK This is exactly the kind of case that the Expediting Act is designed for, ... It is not an option th...
DONALD FALK This is not just any case. It's in a narrow category where Congress has provided the option for dire...
DONALD FALK Microsoft is still not coming to grips with what its own people were saying -- about their ability t...
DONALD FALK My heart goes out to him. We just want to be helpful in whatever comes next.
DON FALK It's really, really stressful and difficult work.
DON FALK He spent years helping and feeding the poor. I think he just burned out.
DON FALK Operating costs will go into humanities in variety of ways, [They will go to] replacing the program ...
DEAN FALK Total budget that includes programming, staff and facilities is something over half a million dollar...
DEAN FALK We vocalize continually in a way that helps babies begin to learn language by the end of the first y...
DEAN FALK The behavior of chimp mommies and babies and human mothers and infants are delightfully identical in...
DEAN FALK This is a very intelligent group academically. Most of them are superior honor students as well as b...
CONRAD FALK He's got a little bit extra motivation.
CONRAD FALK Absolutely. The coaches dream is to have a guy who can run the offense and set up other players.
CONRAD FALK The early baskets for him just gave him a lot of confidence. Anyone that gets those early baskets, i...
CONRAD FALK This is what one of the founding fathers of sociology, Emile Durkheim, meant when he wrote in 1895 t...
GERHARD FALK There still is a lot of negotiating that will have to be completed in November, including the specif...
PAMELA FALK Communication is the biggest area where Siemens need to act, and we don't know exactly what the comp...
FALK REIMANN A restructuring needs a year to work, and I'm not sure the markets have accepted that.
FALK REIMANN The majority of Siemens divisions tend to function very well. We're talking mostly about individual ...
FALK REIMANN Not so fast, my pussy-visaged friend!
LEE FALK Corporate sustainability reporting has grown nearly tenfold in the last decade to almost two thousan...
JAY FALK This new dynamic Web publishing function is extremely easy-to-use and will help corporate social res...
JAY FALK With such major players embracing and validating social investing strategies, it is clear that mains...
JAY FALK In the current situation Switzerland will not vaccinate poultry.
MARCEL FALK We are already prepared in case bird flu does reach Switzerland. Coordination with the European Unio...
MARCEL FALK This was a tragedy that divided a family.
ROGER FALK Shouting at people keeps you alive, healthy, young, fresh.
PETER CAPALDI Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
PETER MARSHALL Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
PETER DRUCKER The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearin...
PETER DAVISON If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a rive...
PETER BENCHLEY There are wars being fought! Who cares what I'm doing on a Saturday night? I'm not even a ce...
PETER DINKLAGE The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot o...
PETER BENENSON My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their compa...
PETER ZUMTHOR The celebration... you cannot practice it or anything. It's a moment when the excitement of your...
PETER BONDRA When I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State after Grinnell, I join...
PETER COYOTE To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.
IRENE PETER Always be sincere, even when you don't mean it.
IRENE PETER Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
IRENE PETER Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.
IRENE PETER Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.
IRENE PETER Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.
IRENE PETER There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The w...
PETER CAPALDI The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.
PETER MARSHALL Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges.
PETER BENCHLEY The photographer, even in fashion and portraiture, has to have a standpoint. It's important to k...
PETER LINDBERGH New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.
PETER JACKSON The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.
PETER SINGER Almost any shark, three or four feet long, could kill a human being if it chose to do it. It could m...
PETER BENCHLEY Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming indi...
PETER DRUCKER My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
PETER DRUCKER Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.
PETER DRUCKER I spent two years at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, and then some New York types saw me there a...
PETER MACNICOL Between November 23, 2002, and January 11, 2003, al-Qahtani was interrogated for 48 days at Guantana...
PETER BERGEN I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's go...
PETER DIAMANDIS Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't...
PETER DRUCKER Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
PETER DRUCKER Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.
PETER DRUCKER Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
PETER DRUCKER I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.
PETER TOSH There are no training courses to make people bishops. You have to learn on the job.
PETER HOLLINGWORTH Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's t...
PETER SHAFFER A man can submit today in order to resist tomorrow. My submission had been such. And because I had n...
PETER ABRAHAMS I've always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo.
PETER STEELE Well, I think what we need to remember is that budget deficits can impede economic activity.
PETER ORSZAG I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organizati...
PETER SHAFFER Each year, billions of animals are subjected to cruelty on factory farms, feed lots, and slaughterho...
PETER DINKLAGE You've got to remember, Vermont is a lot of beautiful mountains with valleys and small brooks th...
PETER SHUMLIN I love criticism. Equitable Life went down because management wouldn't brook criticism, but if y...
PETER HARGREAVES Even though Mr. Trump is a billionaire, he is still able to relate to average working men and women....
PETER NAVARRO By the 1980s, practically no one under 60 in the real civilian world wore hats for anything except w...
PETER YORK It’s not just tougher out there. It’s become a situation where the contest is how much you can d...
PETER HART Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand forbecause unless we stand...
PETER MARSHALL In recent years, breweries and brew pubs have flourished across the Nation. And, as the Representati...
PETER DEFAZIO My inbox and doormat are full with emails and letters from people who want me to endorse their Higgs...
PETER HIGGS The cameo I did in 'Fellowship of the Ring' was I was in the street of Bree, and I was eatin...
PETER JACKSON I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts ...
PETER ACKROYD I was once part of a Christmas cabaret. I sang 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.' I tap-danc...
PETER DINKLAGE The formation of the News America Publishing Group will lead to greater editorial excitement, new bu...
PETER CHERNIN Actually when we stopped New Order I was busier than ever. The only gaps have been while we've b...
PETER HOOK When I was younger I saw a movie called 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' with Paul Newma...
PETER FACINELLI Pirates are the very essence of profit maximising entrepreneurs described in neoclassical economics....
PETER MIDDLEBROOK Buster Keaton's 'The General,' from 1927, I think is still one of the great films of all...
PETER JACKSON When I founded the first Hard Rock, no one was serving American food in London; McDonald's wasn&...
PETER MORTON Let me say right off the bat that I'm not what you would call a 'tree hugger' or a '...
PETER NAVARRO Today, we don't blink an eye when the world's wealthiest individuals donate enormous sums of...
PETER DIAMANDIS It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep...
PETER SHAFFER A girl once came to my beery flat in Kensal Green, opened the blinds and cooked me breakfast. I marr...
PETER CAPALDI I didn't feel the tusk go through me. But I did feel this sort of freight elevator coming down, ...
PETER BEARD We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughin...
PETER MCWILLIAMS Robots already perform many functions, from making cars to defusing bombs - or, more menacingly, fir...
PETER SINGER As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could ...
PETER WRIGHT There's a part of bohemia I love. The lack of prejudice, the lack of aggression, I love the lack...
PETER MULLAN Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts....
PETER DINKLAGE It's a younger generation running the show, and I miss the generation we had in the '70s. Th...
PETER CRISS Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through t...
PETER GUBER A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of...
PETER COOPER Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own ...
PETER ABRAHAMS Always have a sense of humor about life - you'll need it - but always be courteous to boot.
PETER JENNINGS The best way to lift people out of poverty and boost wages is to grow our GDP faster. While Trump is...
PETER NAVARRO To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone...
PETER GAY Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other membe...
PETER SINGER Men mistake friendship, but not sex, for love; women mistake sex, but not friendship, for love.
PETER WASTHOLM Even in an organization that's doing something big and bold, there's the mundane, day-to-day...
PETER DIAMANDIS I was seeing a lot of entrepreneurs who were effectively working on the next photo-sharing app. I wa...
PETER DIAMANDIS When I talk about taking bold actions in the world, few things are bolder than creating the 'Huf...
PETER DIAMANDIS Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a grow...
PETER USTINOV Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
PETER USTINOV A diplomat these days is nothing but a head-waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.
PETER USTINOV You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can...
PETER KUMP I'm certainly not a person who spends their every waking moment soaking themselves in signs and ...
PETER YORK For too long, decisions have been taken behind closed doors - tablets of stone have simply been past...
PETER MANDELSON The best advice is to get on with it. I'm very prone to falling into depressions - not clinical,...
PETER CAPALDI Our situation here, without any exaggeration, is beyond description almost; it is such as eye has no...
PETER OLIVER About a year after 'Bosom Buddies,' I was suddenly a regular on 'Newhart,' and I was...
PETER SCOLARI Total borrowing has imploded. Private borrowing has collapsed. And, in effect, the Treasury Departme...
PETER ORSZAG I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boule...
PETER O'TOOLE Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems o...
PETER USTINOV I played football the whole time I was growing up, and through two years of college. I think it'...
PETER LANDESMAN What keeps earth air breathable? Not oxygen alone. The earth is a freer place to breathe in, every t...
PETER VIERECK In most countries, it is possible to visit zoos and see bored animals pacing back and forth in cages...
PETER SINGER Church members in too many cases are like deep sea divers, encased in the suits designed for many fa...
PETER MARSHALL Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a produ...
PETER DRUCKER I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustaine...
PETER THIEL If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people...
PETER DIAMANDIS True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough...
PETER DIAMANDIS There's an element of tongue-in-cheek in every one of our songs. Walking off into the sunset, ho...
PETER NOONE The break-up of a relationship is always difficult, especially a 30-year one.
PETER HOOK Two halves have little choice but to join;
And yes, they do make a whole
but two wholes when t...
PETER MCWILLIAMS In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way...
PETER USTINOV