Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jerry Lewis

Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!

Martin Parr

Places change all the time, and the type of people who live there change.

Katharine Hepburn

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

Greg Lynn

Plastics, as a material, are very nasty, but as an alternative to, let's say, a brick, which seems really natural, they start to look pretty good. They're very low energy to produce, very lightweight to transport and construct. That's why they're so popular.

Les Claypool

Play as much as you can as often as you can with as many people as you can. That's how you learn and grow.

Robert Fulghum

Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.

Dennis Bergkamp

Playing football was like being trapped in a rhythm, and my whole career was like that. You have very little time to switch off.

Lionel Hampton

Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.

Sylvester Stallone

Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.

Tika Sumpter

Plow through the weeds. Go to the auditions and go to the meetings and be on time. Stop looking to the left or the right. Keep your head down and keep moving.

Bill Bruford

Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack.

Isaac Rosenberg

Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.

Stan Brakhage

Poetry is a totally different art than film.

Gaston Bachelard

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

Tom Holt

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of

Eugenio Montale

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.

Seamus Heaney

Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.

Comte de Lautreamont

Poetry must be made by all and not by one.

John Keats

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

Henry Giroux

Policy is no longer being written by politicians accountable to the American public. Instead, policies concerning the defense budget, deregulation, health care, public transportation, job training programs, and a host of other crucial areas are now largely written by lobbyists who represent mega corporations.

Ann Coulter

Political debate with liberals is basically impossible in America today because liberals are calling names while conservatives are trying to make arguments.

Paul Samuelson

Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.

Lynn Margulis

Politicians need a better understanding of global ecology. We need to be freed from our species-specific arrogance. No evidence exists that we are chosen, the unique species for which all the others were made. Nor are we the most important one because we are so numerous, powerful and dangerous.

John Avlon

Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.

Alexei Navalny

Politics is traditionally a male domain in Russia. Until now, women have only been accessories. Now, female protest groups are emerging - not because men came up with the idea, but through their own efforts. That's something new for Russia.

Jimmy Breslin

Politics: where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.

Kenneth Noland

Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist.

Ricky Gervais

Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was whether they wore glasses. If they're that clever, take them off when they see him coming!

Willow Shields

'Poltergeist' terrifies me! When the little girl Carol Anne is talking to the TV, I get shivers every time.

Jose Mujica

Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more.

Aisha Tyler

Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.

Rick Perry

Our citizens are tired of big government raising their taxes and cooking up new ways to micromanage their lives, our citizens are tired of big government killing jobs with their do-gooder policies. In short the people are Fed Up!

Earl Campbell

Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. [However disappointment can always be removed if we remember it could have turned out worse.]

Darell Hammond

'Our Dream Playground' is a new online project planner designed to help you build the playground of your dreams. It's a free resource, brought to you 'KaBOOM!,' offering step-by-step instructions to help you bring play to the kids in your community.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Our educational system should make the Filipino fit not just for whatever jobs happen to be on offer today, but also for whatever economic challenge life will throw in their way.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

Our enemy is not Islam. Islam is not the enemy of America; Americans are not the enemy of Islam. Our real enemy is extremism and radicalism.

Jean Anouilh

Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Ramsey Clark

Our first concern is the security of the lawyers because without security you can't possibly have a fair trial, if trial at all, and that's not been adequately attended to.

Bill Shuster

Our first responsibility is to protect the American people and we cannot put on blinders to expect that everyone who seeks asylum does so in good faith.

Paul Ryan

Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.

Chet Faker

Our generation's grown up with the Internet, so it's an extension of our social lives; it's an extension of us. It makes perfect sense for me to use that medium.

Stanley B. Prusiner

Our goal is to figure out a therapy for prion diseases.

Guo Guangchang

Our goal is to upgrade the life of China's middle class. We all want to live better.

Stokely Carmichael

Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.

Steve Buyer

Our greatest privilege and responsibility as leaders of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs is to provide our veterans with a system that cares for their wounds and ensures that they have an opportunity to succeed.

Orrin Hatch

Our heroes are fighting to bring stability to the Middle East, and they have put pressure on all of the tyrannies of the Middle East. They have taken a stand against tyranny, against terrorists, and for the prospect of decent societies throughout that region.

Bre Pettis

Our intention is that people use MakerBots to have a positive impact on the world.

E. Stanley Jones

Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.

Bernard Ebbers

Our investments in data, Internet and international have been particularly timely and have positioned the company to post industry-leading incremental revenue gains.