Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christopher Stanley

Personally, I think humility is a prerequisite to being a truly empathic person.

Oprah Winfrey

Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.

Lindsay Fox

Personal relationships are always the key to good business. You can buy networking; you can't buy friendships.

Terry Southern

Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain values.

James Cromwell

Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.

Frits Zernike

Phase contrast was not discovered while working with a microscope, but in a different part of optics.

Cassidy Gifford

Philippians 4:13 has never rung so true... You were an unparalleled Giant in all sense of the word, Dad. So keep doin' you up there, because no one does it better, and no one ever will.

Hallie Ephron

Phoebe Wolkind Ephron cracked wise like Dorothy Parker and looked like Katharine Hepburn.

Alfred Stieglitz

Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.

Duane Michals

Photographers usually want to photograph facts and things. But I'm interested in the nature of the thing itself. A photograph of someone sleeping tells me nothing about their dream state; a photograph of a corpse tells me nothing about the nature of death. My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.

Arnold Newman

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

Berenice Abbott

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.

Garry Winogrand

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

Aaron Siskind

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

Denis Lavant

Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street performer.

Lene Hau

Physics is about questioning, studying, probing nature. You probe, and, if you're lucky, you get strange clues.

Arthur D. Levinson

Physics is a hobby of mine, as much as a person of limited intelligence can understand physics.

Eugene Wigner

Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.

Emanuel Ax

Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have such a hard time just getting things right; arguing is for string players.

Kenneth Koch

Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.

Korky Paul

Pictures are very important. I remember at home we had illustrated editions of Rudyard Kipling's 'Just So Stories' and 'The Jungle Book,' which were read to me. Living in Zimbabwe made it very real, especially the 'Just So Stories' with the 'great grey-green greasy Limpopo.'

Ingrid Newkirk

Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them loose in our cities - not something that they chose.

Beth Littleford

Pilot season after pilot season, I read the same part: the wife who rolls her eyes at her somewhat immature husband that she still loves. Literally.

Mickey Rivers

Pitching is 80% of the game and the other half is hitting and fielding.

Alan Lakein

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

Stewart Udall

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

Norman Borlaug

Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.

Margot Robbie

Playing a bad guy is always more fun than playing the good guy.

Henry Longhurst

Playing golf is like learning a foreign language.

Linn Ullmann

Playing with different genres and perspectives and ways of telling stories is one of the perks of being a novelist, but at the same time, I want precision. And in order to be precise about stuff, you have to get personal. Symbolism is very boring.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.

Anna Magnani

Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.

Phyllis McGinley

Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!

Thomas Lynch

Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.

Lucille Clifton

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

Edmund Clarence Stedman

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

Orson F. Whitney

Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.

Anthony Hecht

Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.

George Fetherling

Poets are accepted in Canada as practically nowhere else in the West because of their place in an officially supported and popularly endorsed Canadian culture. Yet, they are still bitter and argumentative, as poets elsewhere are, because they have no audience as such, only a sanctioned role in the cultural scheme of things.

Heather Langenkamp

Point a light at me, and I'll start tap dancing.

Mark Foley

Pointing fingers, trying to catch each other in scandal does not bring honor to this House.

Piers Corbyn

Polar bears did very well in the warmer times. They didn't die out at all; they didn't die out in the last 10,000 years, nor during the previous interglacial, nor the one before that. So, they're just used as a deceitful heartthrob; you know, to pluck your heartstrings because the polar bears might die out.

Mary Wilson Little

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.

John Grierson

Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being.

Jacques Barzun

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.

George MacDonald Fraser

Political correctness is about denial, usually in the weasel circumlocutory jargon which distorts and evades and seldom stands up to honest analysis.

John Sununu

Political pandering comes in all shapes and sizes, but every four years the presidential primary bring us in contact with its purest form - praising ethanol subsidies amid the corn fields of Iowa.

Ama Ata Aidoo

Politicians are easy to attack, but frankly, we are all guilty of not meeting the needs of Africa's young people properly.

Thierry Henry

Politicians are there to try to deal with stuff, but sometimes it's both fortunate and unfortunate that people like us have more... not involvement, but more power in the stuff that we say.

Brooks Adams

Politics, as a practice, whatever its profession, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.