Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Johnson

Opting for gold shoes could have been considered downright cocky, but I was confident and never doubted my ability to deliver gold medals to match my shimmering footwear.

David Josiah Brewer

Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who hear him, convinces their reason, controls their judgment, compels their action. For the time being, he is master.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity.

Kerry Thornley

Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why?

Anne Burrell

Organizing ahead of time makes the work more enjoyable. Chefs cut up the onions and have the ingredients lined up ahead of time and have them ready to go. When everything is organized you can clean as you go and it makes everything so much easier and fun.

Okky Madasari

'Orientalism' has successfully built my critical awareness to question and see the big picture of knowledge, perspective or idea from a Western point of view and always see things from different perspective.

Georges Seurat

Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.

Laurence J. Peter

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Arthur Hiller

Originally the film opened with Ryan in the doctor's office, being told his wife is dying. Then we see him walking the streets, and the story is told in flashback.

Lyle Kessler

'Orphans' reflects unconscious elements in myself that were, at the time, indigestible and butting up against each other in my psyche; issues I wasn't really in touch with but was trying to put into a dramatic framework.

Dennis Bergkamp

Other clubs never came into my thoughts once I knew Arsenal wanted to sign me.

Ian Hunter

Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music.

Leslie Charteris

Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth.

Christopher Marlowe

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Martin McGuinness

Our ability to make a decision about the declaration is hampered by the British government being reluctant to give us the clarification which we require.

Theodor Svedberg

Our age is before all things a practical one. It demands of us all clear and tangible results of our work.

Chuck Hagel

Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations.

Henry James Sumner Maine

Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny.

Sonny Perdue

Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself.

Payne Stewart

People who have never had an addiction don't understand how hard it can be.

Nelson Bunker Hunt

People who know how much they're worth aren't usually worth that much.

Catherine Deneuve

People who know me know I'm strong, but I'm vulnerable.

Waris Ahluwalia

People who know me know that there's a light-hearted side, humour... But you could easily say I am cheeky.

Pamela Sargent

People who know very little about ancient Egypt are most likely, if they know anything at all, to have at least a vague idea about the Pharaoh Akhenaten and be able to recognize the face of his beautiful wife, Nefertiti.

Sparky Anderson

People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.

Minnie Maddern Fiske

People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.

Philip Yancey

People who think they are free eventually end up slaves to their own desires, and those who give their freedom away to the only One you can trust with that freedom eventually get it back.

Roy Blunt

People with mental health problems are almost never dangerous. In fact, they are more likely to be the victims than the perpetrators. At the same time, mental illness has been the common denominator in one act of mass violence after another.

Nancy Kerrigan

People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing - but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation.

Thein Sein

People would like to see peace and stability, and that is why we have had engagement with the ethnic armed groups. That's why our reform process is based on the wishes and the will of the people.

Suzanne Weyn

Perfect happiness would be knowing that all my family and friends were happy and safe. Then I'd go to a tropical island with my husband where it was gorgeous and fun all day long and interesting and fun all evening. Good food and dancing would be nice, too, and weekly visits from those safe and happy family and friends. Plus world peace.

Owen Feltham

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Leslie Mann

Perfect people are the scariest people to me.

George Shearing

Perfect retention. I don't think I could do that-I've never disciplined myself to do it.I suppose a lot of it is a question of discipline. Which improvisation is not.

Neil Diamond

Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest.

Peter Lewis Allen

Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.

Lawrence Durrell

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.

Howard Florey

Perhaps the most useful lesson which has come out of the work on penicillin has been the demonstration that success in this field depends on the development and coordinated use of technical methods.

Wallace Stevens

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

George Crumb

Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today.

Tom Shales

Perhaps Western civilization is in a post-decline phase, or maybe the decline is just taking a really long time, like the Roman Empire's did. The Romans had gladiators and Christian-hungry lions and that sort of thing. We have MTV.

Thomas Carlyle

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Walter Elliot

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.

Newt Gingrich

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

Gever Tulley

Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems.

Paul Harris

Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.

Laurette Taylor

Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.

Bobbi Brown

Personalized beauty is about each woman being able to create her own makeup routine that complements her coloring and style.

Nico Mirallegro

Personally, I don't know what I'd do without films.

Ichiro Suzuki

Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.