--- title: "4 John Durham Peters Quotes - Famous Professor" description: "American academic... | John Durham Peters is the María Rosa Menocal Professor of English and of Film & Media Studies at Yale University. A media histori..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b017/author-john-durham-peters-66802.jpg" --- ![Portrait of John Durham Peters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b017/author-john-durham-peters-66802.jpg) # John Durham Peters (1958) Professor **4** quotes in **17** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet John Durham Peters is a professor. ## Quick Facts About John Durham Peters Born January 1, 1958 Profession Professor ## About John Durham Peters American academic... \| John Durham Peters is the María Rosa Menocal Professor of English and of Film & Media Studies at Yale University. A media historian and social theorist, he has authored a number of noted scholarly works. His first book, Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication, traces out broad ## Quotes by John Durham Peters > [“Schopenhauer remarked that buying books would be better if you could also buy the time to read them. Books are different from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-durham-peters/schopenhauer-remarked-that-buying-books-would-be-better-if-you-could/) John Durham Peters [Big city](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/big-city/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5fb/john-durham-peters-66802_big-city_schopenhauer-remarked-that-buying-books_1263230.jpg) > [“Books you have read share a deep ontological similarity with books you haven't: both can be profoundly fuzzy. At times books you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-durham-peters/books-you-have-read-share-a-deep-ontological-similarity-with-books/) john durham peters [Book](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/book/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/618/john-durham-peters-66802_book_books-you-have-read-share-a-deep-ontolog_1518064.jpg) > [“Open scatter is more fundamental than coupled sharing; it is the stuff from which, on splendid occasions, dialogue may arise.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-durham-peters/open-scatter-is-more-fundamental-than-coupled-sharing-it-is-the-stuff/) John Durham Peters [Communication](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/communication/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24f/john-durham-peters-66802_communication_open-scatter-is-more-fundamental-than-co_2079977.jpg) > [“If only we were angels, with transparent bodies and transparent thoughts...”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-durham-peters/if-only-we-were-angels-with-transparent-bodies-and-transparent/) John Durham Peters [Angels](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/angels/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/844/john-durham-peters-66802_angels_if-only-we-were-angels-with-transparent_3216330.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-durham-peters/#itemlist", "name": "John Durham Peters Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Schopenhauer remarked that buying books would be better if you could also buy the time to read them. 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