Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Schulz

I find it surprising, however, that many German politicians generally oppose referendums, but then when it's an EU matter, they immediately scream for a plebiscite.

Ledisi

Any success matters to me.

Lee Ann Womack

I'm the most low-maintenance person on the road.

Lech Walesa

In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary.

Lee Child

I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly.

Philip Sidney

Anger, the Stoics said, was a short madness.

Philip Sidney

The many-headed multitude, whom inconstancy only doth by accident guide to well-doing! Who can set confidence there, where company takes away shame, and each may lay the fault upon his fellow?

Philip Sidney

Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.

Philip Roth

I am marked like a road map from head to toe with my repressions. You can travel the length and breadth of my body over superhighways of shame and inhibition and fear.

Philip Roth

Nothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material.

Philip Guston

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

Petter Stordalen

It doesn't matter how rich you are - you know when you're being ripped off.

Peter De Vries

... it is a fact universally acknowledged that a husband is the most ridiculous thing on earth, except for a bachelor.

Peter De Vries

I suppose I shall marry eventually One does that, one drifts into stability

Peter De Vries

Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.

Peter Drucker

Organizationally what is required - and evolving - is systems management.

Peter Drucker

A success that has outlived its usefulness may, in the end, be more damaging than failure.

Peter Drucker

Without institution there is no management. But without management there is no institution.

Peter Drucker

You can't manage what you don't measure.

Peter Drucker

What's measured improves

Peter Drucker

Objectives can be compared to a compass bearing by which a ship navigates. A compass bearing is firm, but in actual navigation, a ship may veer off its course for many miles. Without a compass bearing, a ship would neither find its port nor be able to estimate the time required to get there.

Peter Drucker

Management is not being brilliant. Management is being conscientious.

Peter Drucker

The aim of marketing is to make selling superfluous.

Peter Baynham

It feels quite cool, in a mad way, to be someone who skulks about in the shadows.

Penn Jillette

Magic is the Special Olympics of entertainment.

Penn Jillette

One thing you learn doing magic tricks for a living is how close every performance of every magic trick is to disaster. There are no robust magic tricks. They're all hanging from a thread - sometimes literally.

Penn Jillette

Modern American magic, late 20th century magic, is tremendously disrespectful of the audience.

Pee Wee Reese

Maybe tomorrow we'll all wear 42, so nobody can tell us apart.

Pee Wee Reese

I used to tell Jackie (Robinson) sometimes when they were throwing at him, 'Jackie, they aren't throwing at you because you are black. They are throwing at you because they don't like you.

Peggy Noonan

Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.

Paulo Coelho

Even if it is only for a matter of moments, because those moments bring with them a Love so intense that it justifies the rest of our days.

Paulo Coelho

All things are manifestations of one thing only.