Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philip Larkin

I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It's very strange how often strong feelings don't seem to carry any message of action

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I like to come to the set with very strong ideas and strong opinions about how to do things. And I like also dealing with somebody who's like that.

Paula Malcomson

I just want to play strong characters, whatever that is in.

Paula Creamer

I want to be a role model and I want to show kids that you can be strong and overcome adversity.

Paula Abdul

My choreography suits men very well, and the women who can do it are damn hard, strong dancers.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

I love playing characters that are strong, when there's physicality involved.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

You don't have to play masculine to be a strong woman.

Martin Rees

It used to be controversial whether smoking caused lung cancer, it used to be controversial whether HIV caused AIDS. Now, there are a few mavericks who deny those things. In the case of climate change, I think the debate is going the same way in that there is a strong consensus that it is a serious matter.

Laurie Lee

Effie M. was a monster. Six foot high and as strong as a farm horse.No sooner had she decided that she wanted UncleTom than she knocked him off his bicycle and told him.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I feel like the need to want to create and make something is stronger than the difficulties are going through.

Philip Sidney

Honor, thou strong idol of man's mind.

Philip Sidney

There is nothing sooner overthrows a weak head than opinion by authority, like too strong a liquor for a frail glass.

Peter Davenport

Strong evidence suggests that we are dealing with a phenomenon that is being caused by palpable, solid objects whose characteristics are not of human design, and whose behavior is suggestive of intelligent control.

Peter Dinklage

I was opposed to doing TV for a long time because I thought the quality of writing wasn't very strong, as opposed to film, but there's been a shift in term of the quality of scripts. HBO has attracted a tremendous amount of great writing talent.

Peter Drucker

The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths so strong that it makes the system's weaknesses irrelevant.

Peter Drucker

No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective.

Penny Lancaster

When men come home, it is more about being part of the family, being with the children, spending more time with the children, being a strong role model. But I think going as far as cooking and putting the apron on, that takes away the masculinity, and I would miss that.

Peggy Fleming

This is another kind of competition, but I'm being coached by an excellent team, and I've got a real strong competitive spirit.

Peggy Noonan

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Peggy Noonan

What I got was not so much gifts and whishes come trues but a feeling of peace. I got peace itself, actually. And when you have peace, you can be strong; and when you are strong, you can get through what you have to get through, and not with exhaustion and frown marks and slumped shoulders but with relative happiness, and humor, and sometimes even gaiety.

Paulo Coelho

I am always amazed that so many people are concerned with wanting to be what they are not;What is the point of making yourself look ridiculous? You don't always have to pretend to be strong,there is no need to prove all the time that everything is going well,you shouldn't be concerned about what other people are thinking. Cry if you need to,it's good to cry out all your tears,because only then you will be able to smile again...

Paulo Coelho

The important thing is to keep the fire in your heart and be strong to overcome hard moments.

Paulo Coelho

Don't be like those people who believe in 'positive thinking' and tell themselves that they're loved and strong and capable. You don't need to do that, because you know it already.

Paulo Coelho

I think the big danger of madness is not madness itself, but the habit of madness. What I discovered during the time I spent in the asylum is that I could choose madness and spend my whole life without working, doing nothing, pretending to be mad. It was a very strong temptation..

Martin Scorsese

You have to remain strong. That's the kind of filmmaker I want to encourage. Orson Welles was the one who said, you know, you can learn anything you need to know about filmmaking- that's camera, sound, celluloid, video at this point- in four hours. It has nothing to do with anything. It has nothing to do with it... It has to do with what you want to say. If you feel you have something to say, you'll find that way to get it said, on film, and not let anyone or anything chip away at that or tarnish it, because it's something special and precious.

Marlon Wayans

f you could cross a lion and a monkey, that's what I'd be, because monkeys are funny and lions are strong.

Marlene Dietrich

The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Lives are only one with living. How dare we, in our egos, claim catastrophe in the rise and fall of the individual entity? There is only Life, and we are beads strung on its strong and endless thread.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Life is strong stuff, some of us can bear more of it than others.

Mariska Hargitay

I'm just grateful that my body is healthy. I want to be on this planet for a long time, so I try to eat things that make me feel good and make me strong. But I also love food and I love life: Some days having that extra bowl of pasta and a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup means more to me than being thin.

Mariska Hargitay

When my body is strong, I feel stronger inside. I feel more capable of handling emotional situations. Usually I'm more of a inside-out person, but this was a great case of me from the outside in.

Marianne Moore

The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.

Mariah Carey

I didn't have a strong male figure in my life on a day-to-day basis. So I think that whole [marriage] situation, a lot of it stems from a place where I was out there alone as a really and I always felt like the rug could be pulled out from under me.