Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joel Salatin

Our biggest fear is that 'Food, Inc.' will move heavy-handed food-safety regulations forward.

Mario Balotelli

People who know me, love me. People who don't know me love me too... or they hate me.

Irwin Shaw

People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.

Henry Louis Gates

People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not.

Jeanne Phillips

People who write to 'Dear Abby' don't always have the most earthshaking problems in the world.

Johnny Carson

People will pay more to be entertained than educated.

Michael Zaslow

People will sooner aid a sick dog lying on the sidewalk than to try to find shelter for a sick person. It's too much to deal with.

Ivan Turgenev

People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.

Indra Nooyi

PepsiCo did not have a woman in the senior ranks, nor a foreign-born person who was willing to think differently

Barry Marshall

Peptic ulcers became more common in the 20th century at the same time that these theories of Freud and other psychoanalysts became popular. And somehow those meshed, and this tradition emerged that ulcers were caused by stress or turmoil in one's life.

Evelyn Glennie

Percussion is physical, as most instruments are. The body must function well in order to play the instruments well. Last year I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro.

Isadora Duncan

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

Michael Morpurgo

Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in order to pass on that passion for stories to our children. It's not about testing and reading schemes, but about loving stories and passing on that passion to our children.

Ingrid Newkirk

Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.

Tobias Wolff

Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one another all the time and cause one another to change and have the opportunity to observe the changes over time.

Emilia Clarke

Personally, I'd like as many children as I can pop out, I reckon.

Steve Breen

Personally, I try to be provocative but not needlessly provocative in my work.

Bill Frist

Personal savings accounts to me are one of the most powerful things, not necessarily in saving, solvency, or bankruptcy of the program, but in guaranteeing, the words I used a few minutes ago, a safe and secure retirement for our seniors.

LZ Granderson

Personal style isn't simply an exercise in parroting but rather an exhibition for our own stories - from the gait of our walk to the rhythm of our speech to the manner in which the necktie falls from the knot.

George Will

Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.

Karl Jaspers

Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.

Sebastiao Salgado

Photography has become a small world with so many jealous people. You do a story and then a lot of people try to do the same thing.

Mitch Kapor

Physicians today, as human beings, are not exempt from the perverse economic pressures created by fee-for-service regimes to see more patients for shorter appointments and order more tests and procedures. If the incentives were changed to pay to foster better health outcomes, I am convinced physician behavior would change over time.

Lance Reddick

'Pigeonholed' isn't the right word, because I feel like I've had a very wide range of characters that I've been allowed to play.

Tom Seaver

Pitching is what you have best on the day you work, and if you can't get your fastball over the plate, then maybe you can win with your curve.

Elizabeth Bowen

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Ritchie Blackmore

Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune.

Ezra Koenig

Playing Tetris for 15 minutes is like meditation.

Quincy Jones

Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.

Max von Sydow

Playing the role of Christ was like being in a prison. It was the hardest part I've ever had to play in my life. I couldn't smoke or drink in public. I couldn't.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

Joseph Addison

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

Graham Joyce

Plutocracy.' It has a perfect nuance: chilly, inaccessible, icy-rich.

William Shenstone

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.

Story Musgrave

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment.

Joseph Brodsky

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.

David Hare

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

Philip James Bailey

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

Pete Hegseth

Political correctness is a poison to our security and defenses. It imposes a willful blindness, both at the macro level when unwilling to engage with radical Islamism or whatever you want to call it - if you're not willing to call it what it is - and at the micro level, at the street level.

Mark Udall

Political differences will always generate a healthy debate, but over time the dialogue has become more hateful and at times violent.

Thaksin Shinawatra

Politicians always criticize each other in different ways.

Tom Baker

Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know!

Paul Keating

Politicians come in three varieties: straight men, fixers, and maddies.

Tom Golisano

Politicians like to talk about incentives - for businesses to relocate, for example, or to get folks to buy local.

Steve Spurrier

Our coaches want to be a part of South Carolina football when they win it for the first time. When they win the division, when they win the SEC, win a major bowl game, etc. The opportunities to do it all for the first time here make it extra special.

Jay Weatherill

Our commitment to defence goes beyond this. It's a long-term commitment to make SA the home for Australian defence. It's a commitment to providing the right infrastructure and the right people.

Anne Sweeney

Our company has been very forward-thinking about digital technology and the opportunity that it gives us. As we move into a world where we have more and more devices at our disposal, that really means more and more opportunities for the Walt Disney Co. to reach you: through our entertainment, through all of our divisions.

Judy Biggert

Our congressional district is the fastest growing in the state. Nowhere is there a greater need for new and improved roads and transit systems that will spare us the hours we spend each day in traffic.

Federica Montseny

Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which, in Spain, was a hundred years behind the times.