Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Frazier

On two or three book tours, I have visited bookstores in the Mall of America and signed copies of my books and introduced myself to store employees who I hope will sell them.

Ryan Stiles

On 'Whose Line,' we had six, seven, eight scenes per show, so everything was pretty quick. And there's a lot of games that we just got tired of, like 'Hats' and 'World's Worst' and 'Hoedown' and stuff.

Imogen Heap

On YouTube you can tell what countries are watching and I've definitely noted a strong Australian following. You can plan your tours around where the love is on Twitter and YouTube - before, you couldn't tell.

Mike Quigley

Opening up the Capitol dome and giving the public a look at the inner workings of Congress - however messy they may be - certainly won't be pretty. But trust isn't earned by showing off only your Sunday best. The dirty laundry has to be aired, too.

Cass McCombs

Opinions only carry weight in the second or third person.

Heraclitus

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

Peter Tork

Original Monkees' songs were produced very thinly, on purpose.

Amber Tamblyn

People who have seen me read usually come up afterwards and invite me to be a part of something.

Geraldine Ferraro

People who live through transplants or disasters like Sept. 11 are survivors.

Cesar Romero

People would read all kinds of reaction into it, but Tracy told me himself that half the time he was just standing very still, trying to look sober and composed. That takes nothing away from him. The fact he got away with it was a tribute to his talent.

Carlos Fuentes

Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.

James Taylor

Performing is a profound experience, at least for me. It's not as if I sit down and play 'Fire and Rain' by myself, just to hear it again. But to offer it up... the energy that it somehow summons live takes me right back, and I do get a reconnection to the emotions.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

Michael Leunig

Perhaps life is actually more confusing and unknowable to an adult than a child, but grown-ups have learned to deceive themselves and act as if they understand what's going on; and some are elected to high office on the basis of their ability to create this impression.

Brad Pitt

Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me.

Samuel Beckett

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.

Carl Sagan

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

David Rakoff

Pessimists are born, true, but they also can be made.

Robert Anton Wilson

Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.

Rick Smolan

Photographers have always been each other's biggest fans.

Erin Heatherton

Photoshop makes things look beautiful just as you have special effects in movies. It's just a part of life.

Earl Nightingale

Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.

Shawn Ashmore

Playing a character who's dealing not only with a superpower but having a normal relationship is easy to associate with, because I feel that everyone has been through it.

Bob Geldof

Playing live if the thing I love doing best

Robert Collier

Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

Cam Newton

Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.

Elizabeth Strout

'Pnin' by Vladimir Nabokov, which is a literally small book, fit right in my common law book. I would sit in class and read it.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

Alex Pareene

Political battles are won when the rich favor them.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result.

P. T. Barnum

Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.

George Jean Nathan

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

Robert Rauschenberg

Pollock also... wanted one to be wrapped in the painting.

Irrfan Khan

Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.

Victoria Moran

Our culture has long mistrusted the body. It's been seen as a confusing blend of God's handiwork and the devil's playground. It is, rather, a vortex of intelligence.

Tariq Ramadan

Our democratic societies are in danger. In allowing ourselves to be infiltrated by fear, to be blinded by the passion of identity, we are entertaining the most serious illusions about our freedom.

Charles E. Wilson

Our expanding Canadian operations are concrete evidence of General Motors confidence in Canada.

Jonathan Davis

Our fans make the band. What they give we give right back. They're an integral part of us. They ARE us.

Pablo Picasso

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Susie Orbach

Our idea of a healthy body is so destabilised that insecure people have come to bolster their own bodies by deeming others - those with fat bodies - less worthy, less capable and less employable.

Fabiola Gianotti

Our laboratory is a place that celebrates diversity and is totally open to all differences, not just sex but also age, ethnicity, religion and other traditions.

John Boehner

Our manifesto, whatever it will be called, will come from the people who are really in charge of this country, and that's the American people.

Dana Rohrabacher

Our marine terminals are invaluable commerce infrastructure, not only to our country but also for the many foreign manufacturers who sell primarily in the U.S. market.

Alfred North Whitehead

Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.

David Wilkerson

Our ministry is debt free and we have not had to beg or plead for finances.

Martin Gore

Our music over the years has been very cinematic. It's surprising we never really got into film soundtracks.

William S. Burroughs

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.

George Savile

Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.

Paul Tsongas

Our only weapons in this war of your lifetime are the weapons of the mind.