Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stendhal

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.

Susie Bright

People who love science fiction really do love sex.

Patricia Richardson

People who meet me think of Jill and transfer her strong qualities to me.

Jonathan Carroll

People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.

Ian Watson

People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.

Mary McCarthy

People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.

Dick Gregory

People with high blood pressure, diabetes - those are conditions brought about by life style. If you change the life style, those conditions will leave.

Emily Carr

Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.

Pamela Stephenson

Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.

Hayley Williams

Performing is the craziest workout for me, because I feel like, on the first day of tour, I'm going nuts. Halfway through, I'm just so tired but obviously you keep pushing yourself because you have fans watching you.

Andre Breton

Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in 'real' African culture, before it was tainted by the West, gender roles were rigid and women were contentedly oppressed.

Peter Abrahams

Perhaps life had a meaning that transcended race and colour. If it had, I could not find it in South Africa.

Iris Murdoch

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

Bruce Jackson

Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.

Thomas S. Monson

Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.

Gene Cernan

Perhaps the two greatest moments of my life were standing on the moon and being outside of the room when my granddaughter was born! We tend not to remember the worst.

Thomas Wolfe

Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.

Sarah Bernhardt

Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.

Arnold Bennett

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Pat Gillick

Philadelphia loves its team, and being able to win a World Series for the city, fans, players and our Phillies organization meant so much to me.

David Rockefeller

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.

Robert Musil

Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system.

Wilhelm Wundt

Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or are not accompanied by processes of consciousness.

Hugh Hefner

Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.

Octavio Paz

Picasso is what is going to happen and what is happening; he is posterity and archaic time, the distant ancestor and our next-door neighbor. Speed permits him to be two places at once, to belong to all the centuries without letting go of the here and now.

Brian Molko

Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.

Robert Collier

Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.

Steve Lacy

Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same.

Lynn Swann

Players today are concerned about the money, but the large dollars only go to those players who are the best.

Gary Ross

'Pleasantville' seems tonally ambitious, but it can handle a wide breadth of tone because it's so fanciful.

Tom Hodgkinson

Poetry, being supremely useless, by its very existence represents a protest against the so-called 'real world' of busy-ness and moneymaking, so we must embrace, salute and support our poets.

Gioconda Belli

Poetry for me is very easy. It's like a lightning bolt. I feel this calling, and the first line of the poem comes into my head, and I just have to go to the page, to the typewriter, to the computer or whatever and write it.

David Whyte

Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends.

Adrienne Rich

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.

Penn Jillette

Poker has the feeling of a sport, but you don't have to do push-ups.

Walter Isaacson

Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.

P. T. Barnum

Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly. The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him.

John Desmond Bernal

Political and social events must also be effective, but not in a very obvious fashion. But political confusion and prolonged peace undoubtedly affect creative thought but whether they respectively hinder or help it is not at all certain.

Brad Holland

Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't.

Tony Abbott

Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.

Mo Rocca

Politicians who wear little tennis socks with the balls at the back should not be taken seriously.

Ben Nicholson

Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in the back it's about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness.

Jim Hightower

Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.

Susan Estrich

Politics isn't just about doing the right thing. It's also about winning.

Wolfgang Schauble

Politics means competition, especially in senior positions. If you don't know that, you're not especially suited to politics.

Peter Garrett

Our career path has tended to be the most perverse and contrary approach to the entertainment industry imaginable, while at the same time doing the kinds of things that you have to do, the videos, the photos and all that sort of stuff.

Rainbow Rowell

Our cellphones can do everything, but they're bad at letting us talk to each other.