Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philip Glenister

My father was a television director, and I always knew I wanted to be in the industry, but I had thought my role was behind the camera as opposed to in front.

Peter Straub

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.

Peter Thiel

In our time, the great task for libertarians is to find an escape from politics in all its forms—from the totalitarian and fundamentalist catastrophes to the unthinking demos that guides so-called ‘social democracy.’ . . . We are in a deadly race between politics and technology. . . . The fate of our world may depend on the effort of a single person who builds or propagates the machinery of freedom that makes the world safe for capitalism.

Peter L. Berger

Capitalism has been one of the most dynamic forces in human history, transforming one society after another, and today it has become established as an international system determining the economic fate of most of mankind.

Peter Kreeft

It is the Godfather, not God the Father, who makes you an offer you can’t refuse.

Peter Fonda

I dig my father. I wish he could open his eyes and dig me.

Peter Berg

I'm a huge fan of the Navy. My father was a Naval historian, and I've been studying Naval battles forever.

Paz Vega

My father was a bullfighter.

Phil Collins

I am stopping so I can be a full-time father to my two young sons on a daily basis.

Phil Collins

I've been a long-distance father.

Peter Porter

Redeemers always reach the world too late. God dies, we live; God lives, we die. Our fate.

Peter Noone

Elvis Presley is the main founding father of rock music. He was an unheralded genius behind a new music that changed western civilization for all time.

Peter O'Toole

When my father would come home from the track after a good day, the whole room would light up; it was fairyland. But when he lost, it was black. In our house, it was always either a wake ... or a wedding.

Peter Jacobson

My first film role was a reporter. It's funny, because my father was a news reporter. I always thought there was something strange about that.

Peter Jennings

The one thing that I have done really well in my life is be a father.

Peter Jackson

I didn't want my kids having to pass through an airport named after their father.

Pete Rose

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.

Pearl Bailey

Fate carries its own clock.

Phyllis Diller

My father used to call me the laughing hyena.

Phyllis McGinley

Scratch any father, you find / Someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, / Believing change is a threat ...

Philip Pullman

We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not, or die of despair...death will sweep through all the worlds; it will be the triumph of despair, forever. The universes will all become nothing more than interlocking machines, blind and empty of thought, feeling, life...

Philip Pullman

You speak of destiny as if it was fixed.

Philip Pullman

We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.

Q'orianka Kilcher

My father's Peruvian! I actually have a lot of family in Cuzco. I'm also Swiss, Alaskan, French, Spanish and Italian.

Queen Latifah

I've loved car racing all my life. I watch NASCAR regularly, and drag racing because we have Raceway Park in New Jersey. I think I got it from my father.

Placido Domingo

I was married at 16, a father at 17 and divorced at 18.

Maggie Stiefvater

Blue was awfully fond of her father, considering she'd never met him.

Maggie Stiefvater

How do you know I wouldn't have just been happy with the truth? I don’t care if my father was a deadbeat named Butternut. It doesn't change anything right now.” “His name wasn't really Butternut, was it?” Gansey asked Adam in a low voice.

Maggie Stiefvater

We sat like that for a long while, and when we stood up, all my sad things were in boxes, and Beck was my father.

Maggie Stiefvater

What a grin he had, what ferocious eyes, what a creature he was. He had dreamt himself an entire life and death. Ronan said, "I want to go back." "Then take it," said his father. "You know how now." And Ronan did. Because Niall Lynch was a forest fire, a rising sea, a car crash, a closing curtain, a blistering symphony, a catalyst with planets inside him. And he had given all of that to his middle son.

Maggie Stiefvater

It occurred to me then that I was the opposite of my father. Because I was very, very good at destroying things.

Haruki Murakami

Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts.

Haruki Murakami

And so they parted, she to the east, and he to the west. The test they had agreed upon, however, was utterly unnecessary. They should never have undertaken it, because they really and truly were each other's 100% perfect lovers, and it was a miracle that they had ever met. But it was impossible for them to know this, young as they were. The cold, indifferent waves of fate proceeded to toss them unmercifully.