Famous Quotes & Sayings

Omari Hardwick

Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career.

Charles Simic

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

Edward Hirsch

Poetry is meant to inspire readers and listeners, to connect them more deeply to themselves even as it links them more fully to others. But many people feel put off by the terms of poetry, its odd vocabulary, its notorious difficulty.

Dennis Gabor

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

Ellen Bass

Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from me to you.

Peter Davison

Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.

Jean Cocteau

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.

Patti Smith

Polaroid by its nature makes you frugal. You walk around with maybe two packs of film in your pocket. You have 20 shots, so each shot is a world.

Ron Wyden

Police departments no longer have to pay overtime or divert resources from other projects to find out where an individual goes - all they have to do is place a tracking device on someone's car or ask a cell phone company for that individual's location history and the technology does the work for them.

George Orwell

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Linda Lingle

Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation.

Peter Schuyler

Politicians in this country have always been for sale. That is nothing new.

Oscar Fernandes

Politicisation of terrorism for narrow gains is not good for society in general and the country in particular.

Vera Brittain

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Oliver St. John

Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.

Richard Armour

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

Nacho Figueras

Polo is the most inviting sport I've ever seen.

Jack Paar

Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

Peter Slipper

Pope Benedict is an amazingly visionary person. What he has done is establish an evolutionary process that will help undo the Reformation. The Anglican Church has been hijacked by modernism, with synods trying to amend the faith and this process will allow traditional Anglicans to be themselves.

Michael Dell

Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships.

Brian P. Cleary

Our cat is kind dove shellfish, and thinks the world is hers, She finds a comfy spot and then we pet turtle sheep purrs.

Earl Blumenauer

Our community is like many around the country that have, as the gentleman from New York referenced, sophisticated planning and zoning regulations. These are elements that are developed as a result of local community pressure to balance interests.

Gerrit Smith

Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.

Bill McKibben

Our criteria is that it's okay to invest in companies so long as they stop lobbying in Washington, stop exploring for new hydrocarbons, and sit down with every one else to plan to keep 80 percent of the reserves in the ground.

Ronan Farrow

Our culture has kind of let the concept of the Renaissance Man die out. We don't really tell the kids that it's okay to bounce around the world, work odd jobs, and do six different things.

Lara St. John

Our dad was a great guy and we will never forget him.

Fritz Perls

Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.

Jack Johnson

Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.

Ernest Istook

Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away.

Hermann Oberth

Our educational system is like an automobile which has strong rear lights, brightly illuminating the past. But looking forward things are barely discernible.

George A. Smith

Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.

Christina Romer

Our estimates suggest that a tax increase of 1 percent of GDP reduces output over the next three years by nearly 3 percent. The effect is highly significant.

Joseph Roux

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

Michael McCaul

Our farmers and ranchers have never faced as many problems as they do today with drought, range fires, high gas prices and an ever tightening budget on agriculture subsidies.

Mike Rounds

Our fish, our recreation, our irrigation and all our uses of the Missouri River are threatened if the drought continues and the Corps of Engineers decisions aren't changed.

Joe Barton

Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation's founders and heroes. As the ultimate icon of America's storied history, the Stars and Stripes represents the very best of this nation.

Louise Fresco

Our food is safer and our diets are more diverse than ever before; production methods are becoming increasingly sustainable, clean and efficient; and we are constantly becoming better at protecting biodiversity.

Michael Novak

Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.

Steve King

Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.

Kevin McCarthy

Our government has failed us. From the billion-dollar bailouts to the 'stimulus' package that failed to stimulate to the government takeover of health care, you cried 'Stop!'... but the Democratic Majority in Washington has refused to listen.

Rod Serling

Our greatest responsibility is not to be pencils of the past.

Walter Gropius

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.

Chandra Wilson

Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life.

Kathy Giusti

Our healthcare environment is incredibly complex and is changing rapidly.

Pete Earley

Our health care system squanders money because it is designed to react to emergencies. Homeless shelters, hospital emergency rooms, jails, prisons - these are expensive and ineffective ways to intervene and there are people who clearly profit from this cycle of continued suffering.

Frederick Pollock

Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows.

Thomas Nashe

Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.

Dave Freudenthal

Our lifestyle, our wildlife, our land and our water remain critical to our definition of Wyoming and to our economic future.

Mark Udall

Our livelihood is intimately tied to the food we eat, water we drink and places where we recreate. That's why we have to promote responsibility and conservation when it comes to our natural resources.

Harry Chapin

Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.