A French critic referred to me as a gay pessimist, with gay used in its older sense, and talked of Cocteau in the same breath. (Peter Greenaway)

A French critic referred to me as a gay pessimist, with gay used in its older sense, and talked of Cocteau in the same breath.

Peter Greenaway

Related topics

breath french sense

Related quotes

I used to love the Beatles and the Stones and I'd always want to hang out with them, even though they were about seven years older. View quote
Peter Noone
I used to refer to myself as Typhoid Mary. It wasn't that I was jinxed, I just seemed to bring ill fortune to anybody I was close to. View quote
Nigella Lawson
Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late 'seventies: All I know is that I am not a Marxist. View quote
Friedrich Engels
The English mind is intelligent rather than intellectual. The French are intellectual in the sense that the intellect is emancipated and left free to run its own course. View quote
Ralph Barton Perry
I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance. View quote
Bel Kaufman