Famous Quotes & Sayings

Q-Tip

On the radio there's only a certain amount of artists: Jay-Z, Beyonce, Kanye, T-Pain, Lil Wayne, T.I., Mary J Blige, Alicia Keys. Other artists are achieving things that are really special, they have a hard time getting people's attention. Music has been just a little bit lacklustre.

Rupert Friend

'On the Road' completely changed the way I looked at what you could do with your life.

Luciano Pavarotti

Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone.

Lord Acton

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

Giles Foden

Ordinary Kenyans rightly want to be able to shop safely, and there is a long history of them doing just that, irrespective of their religion or that of the shop owner.

Lisa Randall

Organized religion and musicals present tenets to live by that don't entirely make sense but, on the whole, make people who believe them secure, thus giving an appearance of inclusiveness.

Andy Serkis

Originally, I thought, 'Gollum's such a fantastic character, why are you doing him CG? Surely you need to be able to humanise him as much as possible - he's so full of pathos and real emotion.'

Paolo Bacigalupi

Originally, 'The Windup Girl' started as a short story - a very gnarly, complicated short story set in Bangkok that didn't work very well.

Elaine Pagels

Orthodox theologians insisted that the rest of humankind were only transitory creatures, lost in sin - a view that would support what would become their dominant teaching about salvation, offered only through Christ, and, in particular, through the church they claimed to represent.

Stephen Sondheim

Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn't see my own father.

Brian Ferneyhough

Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with the result that the Law of Diminishing Returns has begun to apply.

Kage Baker

People who like to fume about the manner in which Disney changed beloved classics are often ignorant of history, not to mention the realities of show business.

Robin Tunney

People work really hard to get to a certain point. But they have to work just as hard to stay there

George Papandreou

People would say you look weak if you're not cursing the opposition and driving around in a big black car while always wearing a tie. Above all, to be 'strong' you're always supposed to be giving orders.

Irving Kirsch

Perhaps anti-depressants should be best reserved for the very extreme cases and, more importantly, for those who do not respond to alternative forms of interventions.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.

W. H. Auden

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Perhaps we've never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon Earth and decided there's no sign of intelligent life.

Iris Murdoch

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

Sylvia Plath

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

Shahid Kapoor

Personally, having an eight-pack is a high, but professionally, I cannot be obsessed with it. I'm an actor, not a body builder.

Paz Vega

Personally I have always liked boys, but if it's a girl, marvelous, because I was raised among women.

Alison Moyet

Personally I think women look better with a bit of chub on them.

Derek Bailey

Personally, I've found one of the more stimulating ways of playing in recent times has been to kind of move outside the free improvised area and work with people who are probably improvisers but they have a particular way of working.

Bill Bryson

Personally, I've never been attracted to danger. It's not my sort of thing. I am more attracted to pubs and cafes. The known, safe and comfortable world.

Sharon Horgan

Personally, my twenties were a complete waste of time. Professionally, I hope some good came of them.

Barry Humphries

Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were friends and the last people I expected would predecease me. They were, in a sense, casualties of fame.

James Anthony Froude

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.

Errol Morris

Photographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.

Brian Skerry

Photography can be a powerful instrument for change, and photojournalists can tell stories that make a difference.

Ingrid Newkirk

Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.

Kelly Osbourne

Pilates is amazing, my posture is so much better and I'm even starting to get muscles on my tummy - it's incredible.

Pink

Pink is what I do. Alecia is who I am. The world has taken Pink and turned it into this thing, a brand - a snarl.

Taylor Lautner

Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time!

R. Lee Ermey

Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends.

Lucretius

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

John Shelby Spong

Plenty of people out there think of me as the Antichrist or the devil incarnate because I do not affirm the literal patterns of the Bible. But the fact is I can no more abandon the literal patterns than I could fly to the moon. I just go beyond them.

Seamus Heaney

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

Mary Karr

Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others.

A. R. Ammons

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

Earl Wilson

Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously.

Victor Ponta

Poland is much more advanced than Romania in structural reforms.

Donald Tusk

Poland is not a very large country, but it's also not a small country.

Frank Carlucci

Policymakers have to make judgments based on the best intelligence they get.

B. R. Ambedkar

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

Edward Brooke

Politics is not a tea party. When it is time to act, you have to move fast and decisively.

Paul Wellstone

Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives.

Ben Okri

Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.

Brian Kilmeade

Pope Francis might turn out to be one of the most popular figures in the world today.