Famous Quotes & Sayings

Quentin Crisp

It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.

Quentin Crisp

What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.

Quentin Crisp

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

Quentin Tarantino

When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

Quentin Tarantino

My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.

Prince Charles

I think we're going to find, with climate change and everything else, things like global warming and goodness knows what else and the cost of fuel for a start, that things are going to become very complicated.

Prince Charles

Climate change should be seen as the greatest challenge to face man and treated as a much bigger priority in the United Kingdom.

Prince Philip

When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.

We can see that the baby is as much an instrument of nourishment to us, as we are for him.

Most of us would do more for our babies than we have ever been willing to do for anyone, even ourselves.

Plotinus

The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.

Plutarch

The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.

Plutarch

Nature and wisdom never are at strife.

Plutarch

The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.

Plutarch

Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.

Plutarch

For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.

Plutarch

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

Plutarch

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Pier Paolo Pasolini

The cinema is an explosion of my love for reality.

Pico Iyer

And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.

Phillips Brooks

Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life.

Phillips Brooks

If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.

Phillips Brooks

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

Phillips Brooks

I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.

Phillips Brooks

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

Philip Yancey

I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse.

Pope John XXIII

The family is the first essential cell of human society.

Pope John XXIII

I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.

Pope John XXIII

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

Nathaniel Branden

Sometimes the subconscious mind manifests a wisdom several steps or even years ahead of the conscious mind, and has its own way of leading us toward our destiny.

Nathaniel Branden

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.

Nathaniel Branden

Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.

Nathaniel Branden

One of the most significant characteristics of healthy self esteem is that it is the state of one who is not at war either with himself or with others.