Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter O'Toole

I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.

Peter O'Toole

I will not be an ordinary man, because I have a right to be extraordinary.

Peter Jennings

Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel?

Peter Chernin

Never, never tell jokes about a man with easy access to weapons of mass destruction.

Peter Cameron

One man’s nonsense is another man’s sense.

Pete Sampras

It's one-on-one out there, man. There ain't no hiding. I can't pass the ball.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

For man's greatest crime is to have been born.

Pearl Cleage

Any time your life is at stake and you can't find even one woman to come forward and say, 'This is a good man,' your problem isn't what kind of woman THEY are. Your problem is what kind of men YOU are.

Pearl Bailey

How can you give a man a room in a house and not let him come through the front door?

Pierre Trudeau

The attainment of of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men.

Pierre Trudeau

I never actually got around to taping conversations with my guests, but there are a lot of things you can learn from a man like Nixon.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Mankind is still embryonic ... [man is] the bud from which something more complicated and more centered than man himself should emerge.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

All the communions of a life-time are one communion.All the communions of all men now living are one communion.All the communions of all men, present, past and future, are one communion.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Psychogenesis has led to man. Now it effaces itself, relieved or absorbed by another and a higher function-the engendering and subsequent development of the mind, in one word noogenesis. When for the first time in a living creature instinct perceived itself in its own mirror, the whole world took a pace forward.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Man only progresses by slowly elaborating from age to age the essence and the totality of a universe deposited within him.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We see not only thought as participating in evolution as an anomaly or as an epiphenomenon; but evolution as so reducible to and identifiable with a progress towards thought that the movement of our souls expresses and measures the very stages of progress of evolution itself. Man discovers that he is nothing else than evolution become conscious of itself.

Phyllis Diller

Have the man at the station put the air in the tires. I did it once myself. Have you ever seen a car with a limp?

Phyllis Bottome

... can life be made undignified by any act of man?

Phyllis McGinley

Who could deny that privacy is a jewel? It has always been the mark of privilege, the distinguishing feature of a truly urbane culture. Out of the cave, the tribal teepee, the pueblo, the community fortress, man emerged to build himself a house of his own with a shelter in it for himself and his diversions. Every age has seen it so. The poor might have to huddle together in cities for need's sake, and the frontiersman cling to his neighbors for the sake of protection. But in each civilization, as it advanced, those who could afford it chose the luxury of a withdrawing-place.

Phyllis McGinley

I am he / Who champions total liberty - / Intolerance being, ma'am, a state / No tolerant man can tolerate.

Phyllis Diller

I'm looking for a perfume to overpower men - I'm sick of karate.

Phyllis Diller

This man I was going with asked me for my finger measurements. I thought he was going to buy me a ring for Christmas, but he gave me a bowling ball.

Phyllis Diller

A passport picture is a photo of a man that he can laugh at without realizing that it looks exactly the way his friends see him.

Phyllis Diller

I love to go to the doctor. Where else would a man look at me and say, 'Take off your clothes'?

Philip Pullman

Lee saw the fireball and head through the roar in his ears Hester saying, "That's the last of 'em Lee." He said, or thought, "Those poor men didn't have to come to this, nor did we." She said, "We held 'em off. We held out. We're a-helping Lyra." Then she was pressing her little proud broken self against his face, as close as she could get, and then they died.

Philip Pullman

Men and women are moved by tides much fiercer than you can imagine, and they sweep us all up into the current.

Philip Pullman

He dared to do what men and women don't even dare to think. And look what he's done already: he's torn open the sky, he's opened the way to another world. Who else has ever done that? Who else could think of it?

Rachel Carson

The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials. This pollution is for the most part irrecoverable; the chain of evil it initiates not only in the world that must support life but in living tissues is for the most part irreversible. In this now universal contamination of the environment, chemicals are the sinister and little-recognized partners of radiation in changing the very nature of the world-the very nature of its life.

Rachel Gibson

The only problem with one-man woman was that he was not a one-woman man.

Rachel Hunter

I love men. They are intelligent and sensitive, but there's also that hard-edged arrogant side, which is just so attractive.

Rachel Cusk

A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose.

Rachel Carson

We have been troubled about the world, and had almost lost faith in man; it helps to think about the long history of the earth, and of how life came to be. And when we think in terms of millions of years, we are not so impatient that our own problems be solved tomorrow.

Rachel Carson

Any concept of biology is not only sterile and profitless, it is distorted and untrue, if it puts its primary focus on unnatural conditions rather than on those vast forces not of man's making that shape and channel the nature and direction of life.