C.J. Peterson Quotes

love isn't about living in fear. It's not about controlling the hearts of those around you. It is patient and kind. It endures and believes the very best. It never gives up.

The supreme art of living is to strive to live each day well.

Don't point your finger to the heights your children should go. Start climbing and they will follow.

Love is down to earth and it reaches to the highest star; it is the valey of humility and the mopuntaintop of ecstasy.

Happiness does not depend upon a full pocketbook, but upon a mind full of rich thoughts and a heart full of rich emotions.

Sooner or later, a man if he is wise, discovers that life is a mixture of good days and bad, victory and defeat, give and take.

Cynics and critics wake us up. Kindness often covers up the truth and allows us to sleep on in our ignorance.

The art of achievement is the art of making life - your life - a masterpiece.

Maybe everyone is just waiting for someone else to save them.

I want to Live! Not Die, Not Hide, LIVE!

Stay positive, all other choices are pointless punishments to your psyche.

The only way to follow your path is to take the lead.

I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales.

I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people you hate. But you must still dare to love. The rewards are worth far more than the risks.

Our tomorrows must be met at the time of their arrival... with the HOPE they are as BEAUTIFUL as today!

There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over.

Jen, we did it. Everyone's free now.

That porch is a happy-looking place, and my father - burdened, stoop-shouldered, cadaverously thin - doesn't seem to belong on it.

I've tried to maintain my independence in Congress. Sometimes that has meant opposing my own party leaders.

It's not like I had to throw the football and deal with that as well. It was more disheartening, to be honest with you, just to kind of see how the National Football League really is.

I can catch the ball. You've got to throw it to me.

You can really get into it - especially in the movies, where you really have the time to get into your character and play her well.

Hey, angel, your horns are sticking up.

Blood was shed that you three might breathe the good air of life, and if that means you have to miss out on a Zibzy game, then so be it. Part of being a man is putting others' needs before your own.

Winter is where hope lies happy.

I'm the football coach around here and don't you remember it.

At Nature's Kitchen we take pride in saying that we wouldn't serve anything to your children that we wouldn't feed to our own children.

I always say there are no coincidences.

[Vincent Price] taught me how to cook fish in my dishwasher.

One of the things that's kind of persistent is that I am the model on the cover of Tom Waits' album, Small Change.

A lot of people bring it to me at conventions. At first I was going, "I can't sign that. That's not me." And now I just say, "Eh, whatever."

I hate to sound cliché, but it would probably be the day my daughter was born. That was a pretty amazing experience.

I got to do the Rose Bowl Parade - which is the largest parade in America - with a float. That was a fun opportunity.

I believed that lemmings really jump off of cliffs.

I was your typical struggling actress. I went to every audition, took a million acting, dancing and singing lessons and spent years wondering where my next meal was coming from.

People always say, 'Who is your audience?' and I could never put a finger on it - and I wouldn't want to put a finger on it.

I vaguely remember doing [all my] photo sessions, but definitely there were some surprises there for me.

I have a lot of good days I'd like to relive, but that [ the day my daughter was born] was one that's still with me.

I can't stand VPL, visible panty line. So I'm wondering how many other people out there are wearing thongs.

When Elvira, Mistress Of The Dark came out, I got to go to Japan and Australia and France, Italy, Germany, everywhere with the movie. That was great, because I love traveling.

I just chased bands all over the country. The biggest one I saw was Jimi Hendrix.

I do not remember the '70s, for who-knows-what-all reasons.

I was a complete mod and had to wear mod clothes and have a Beatle haircut, and I tried to talk in a Liverpool accent.

It certainly changes your life. So that may be a cliché, but I think any woman would say that [day when her baby born] would have been the most special day of their life.

I have a lot of good days I'd like to relive.

Ive made a career off of Halloween.

I am very, very anti-slasher.

[Vincent Price] did Oscar Wilde on Broadway, and I think he probably did it because he was almost like an Oscar Wilde. He had that brilliant humor.

I chased every band around the world. Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention, you name it. I could just go on and on. It was my hobby, my pastime, and my obsession for several years.

Maybe one of the strangest opportunities was I got to ring the closing bell on the New York Stock Exchange.