Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Zandi

Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say.

Sebastian Horsley

People who have a reputation for being evil are usually good.

Giancarlo Esposito

People who have not done their research on me do not know that I am European, born in Copenhagen, Denmark to an Italian father from Napoli and a mother from Alabama who was singing opera and went to Europe, met my dad, fell in love, and then moved back to Rome, where I was raised, between Rome and Hamburg.

Peter Ustinov

People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom

John Sculley

People who take risks are the people you'll lose against.

Patti LaBelle

People with no humor, they're outta my life.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

Monica Raymund

Performing is my passion. Being onstage is at once exhilarating, beguiling, and fulfilling. But it's hard.

Cynthia Kenyon

Perhaps genes did regulate the aging process. Perhaps different organisms had different life spans because a universal regulatory 'clock' was set to run at different speeds in different species.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Perhaps I'm just fickle by nature and get tired of countries the way other women do of husbands or lovers.

J. B. Priestley

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

Joseph Conrad

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Henri Nouwen

Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering God in gratitude. Such a perspective puts God in view in all of life, not just in the moments we set aside for worship or spiritual disciplines. Not just in the moments when life seems easy.

Simon Mainwaring

Perhaps the most powerful lesson other brands can learn from Nike is the need to act in accordance with the reality of the world we live in. In a mutually dependant, intimately connected global community facing several major crises, brands need to operate with an expanded definition of self-interest that includes the greater good.

Brendan Myers

Perhaps this is one of the last remaining strands of my Catholic upbringing, but to me the word 'worship' means absolute unquestioning affirmation of the authority of the deity. I'll not have that in my life. If you are wise, neither will you.

Sara Sheridan

Personally I estimate about a third of my time is spent on author events, social media and traditional publicity.

Iris Murdoch

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

Ivan Pavlov

Physiology has, at last, gained control over the nerves which stimulate the gastric glands and the pancreas.

Jimmy Breslin

Pick up any newspaper in the morning. Count the words in the lead sentences. There will be at least 25 in all of them: Guaranteed. The writers just want to tell you how many degrees they have from this college or that university.

Roxane Gay

Pink is my favourite colour. I used to say my favourite colour was black to be cool, but it is pink - all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink.

Donald Rumsfeld

Plan backwards as well as forward. Set objectives and trace back to see how to achieve them. You may find that no path can get you there. Plan forward to see where your steps will take you, which may not be clear or intuitive.

Erik Estrada

Playing a positive role on a network television show, it was great. I took it as a responsibility. Poncherello was supposed to be Poncherelli, and then when I got this part I said, 'You know what, this guy isn't going to be Italian-American, he's gonna be Hispanic American.' And they went with it.

Hattie McDaniel

Playing the Mammy of Miss Leigh was just about the biggest thrill I've ever had

Twyla Tharp

Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing.

Patrick Kavanagh

Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and the late F. R. Higgins pursue Irishness as a poetic end, they are merely exploiting incidental local colour.

William Hazlitt

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

John Keats

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

Donald Tusk

Poles must understand history but we must also overcome it if it is obstructing our contemporary goals.

Ron Fournier

Political consultants are pugilists, masters in the dark art of negativity. Which is why it's surprising to hear Democrats such as Steve McMahon and Republicans like Rich Galen urging their presidential candidates to be more, well, positive.

Arthur C. Clarke

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

Otto von Bismarck

Politics is the art of the next best.

Gloria Steinem

Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other.

Reed Hastings

Our brand at Netflix is really focused on movies and TV shows.

Pranab Mukherjee

Our federal Constitution embodies the idea of modern India: it defines not only India but also modernity.

Dan Hill

Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.

Cliff Richard

Our industry is full of all sorts of eccentricities and one of them is owning property.

Donald Norman

Our information lives will be better served when we are free to get to our information from wherever we are, with any device available.

Sean Booth

Our live set's become increasingly complex recently; we've been doing stuff that's been vastly too much information for most people to deal with and I think it's quite interesting watching how people behave in those situations, under those circumstances.

Jonathan Haidt

Our moral sense really evolved to bind groups together into teams that can cooperate in order to compete with other teams.

Carter G. Woodson

Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.

Joel Salatin

Our motto is we respect and honour the pigness of the pig and the chickenness of the chicken. That means not confining them in a house with hundreds of others.

David Stern

Our officials want nothing more than to be at the top of their professional game and make the correct call. That's what they do; that's their living, that's their pride, that's their joy. They don't achieve that because they happen to be human.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

Our Palestinian brethren continue to be slaughtered at the hands of Israelis while the world turns the other cheek.

David Suzuki

Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our lifestyles.

Alison Sweeney

Our pets rely on us entirely for their nutrition. So if you're making your own judgments, that could lead to a mistake. At the same time, we have more control over our pet's diet than we do with our children or with ourselves, so your vet can tell you what is appropriate for your dog and you can assign them that.

Moshe Sharett

Our role in Israel is a pioneering one, and we need people with certain strength of fiber.

John Hoeven

Our single greatest challenge is the ability to move power to markets outside North Dakota.

Sendhil Mullainathan

Our soft hearts are what tell us that, whatever the circumstances of birth, everyone must be given opportunities to do well.

Paul Cellucci

Our ties are deep and long-standing. We are dependent on each other. And no matter what the issue of the day, whether it be softwood lumber, whether it be a war in Iraq, we need to continue to work together.