Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

Part of life is to live it, and enjoy it, and seize the moments that you find particularly pleasing.

Nicole Sullivan

Part of me wanted something bloody and really fun.

William P. Young

Part of my journey is to say that the soul of the human being must be a massively intricate, wonderful creation that God has a respect for in ways that we do not and that leaves a huge amount of space to go explore.

Luke Rhinehart

Part of the philosophy of 'The Dice Man' is that you have got to be laughing at yourself at every moment and be free of yourself at every moment.

David Lloyd

Part of the plot was a knock that V wanted to bring down the government and bring chaos. I don't know why I thought of Guy Fawkes, because it was during the summer. I thought that would be great if he looked like Guy Fawkes, kind of theatrical.

David Cone

Part of what makes you great as a young player can hurt you at the end of your career, in terms of you need a certain amount of ego, a certain amount of arrogance to be able to play well and to push yourself and trick yourself into thinking you're better than you really are.

Arthur Golden

Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.

John Quincy Adams

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

Eknath Easwaran

Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.

Sharon Salzberg

Patience doesn't mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that's unfolding, rather than ripping open a budding flower or demanding a caterpillar hurry up and get that chrysalis stage over with.

Joyce Meyer

Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.

Philip Massinger

Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.

Celia Imrie

Pat Phoenix kept that amazing sassy look. I always wonder, was that because she was thrilled with that look, and thought it looked marvellous, or was it because she was too scared to change it? It's a double thing. Security and insecurity.

Henry Bolingbroke

Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.

Frank Knox

Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.

Bill Mauldin

Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude.

Peter Asher

Paul and I don't see that much of each other these days, but I certainly still regard him as a friend.

David Soul

Paul and I were both struggling actors. One night he would serve me in a restaurant, and the next night I would serve him. It was what out of work actors did.

Sara Chase

Paul Daigneault of The SpeakEasy Stage Company in Boston gave me my Equity card playing Marta in 'Company' right before I graduated Boston University. He knew my next stop was New York. I cannot say enough good things about the SpeakEasy Stage Company.

Lew Wasserman

Paul Newman's an old friend of ours out of Cleveland, Ohio. He used to sit around our house. He's the only man I've ever known to drink a case of beer all by himself. That's talent in a way.

Anthony Carmona

Peace and security of our planet must be based on the collective action of all nations, not a few, however powerful they may be.

Mandy Patinkin

Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side.

Oscar Arias

Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions by many people in many countries. It is an attitude, a way of life, a way of solving problems and resolving conflicts. It cannot be forced on the smallest nation or enforced by the largest. It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.

Joseph Heller

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

George Grosz

Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind.

Shimon Peres

Peace with the Palestinians will open ports of peace all around the Mediterranean. The duty of leaders is to pursue freedom ceaselessly, even in the face of hostility, in the face of doubt and disappointment. Just imagine what could be.

Natalie Gulbis

Pebble Beach. It is tough and the lay out is amazing.

Bobby Moore

Pele was the most complete player I've ever seen.

Norton Juster

People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of

Wendy Liebman

People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me!

Lee Westwood

People always say golfers don't smile. But there is so much psychology in golf so we have to be a bit robotic.

Erica Jong

People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.

Daniel Yergin

People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200 meters, today it is 4,000 meters.

Gloria Gaynor

People always want to ask me about my drug problem - I never had a drug problem; I had a self-esteem problem!

Leonard Alfred George Strong

People and places are the source of my work, both in prose and verse-and this remark is not the truism it seems, for I do not distinguish as sharply between a place and a person as most people seem to do.

Johnny Vegas

People are always asking, 'Where does Michael Pennington end and Johnny Vegas begin,' and you're going, 'It's not like that: it's blurred right across.'

Shel Silverstein

People are always giving you credit for really wanting to say more than you said.

Jonathan Edwards

Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.

Frank Crane

Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.

Edward Bach

Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution, and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves.

Sandra Fluke

Restricting access to such a basic health care service, which 99% of sexually experienced American women have used and 62% of American women are using right now, is out of touch with public sentiment.

Sara Paretsky

Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.

Lincoln Steffens

Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government.

Lana Wachowski

Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.

Valentino Rossi

Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.

Ray Romano

Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.

Oscar Niemeyer

Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man.

Bokeem Woodbine

Right around 2004 when 'Ray' came out, I made a conscious decision to be more discerning because I thought to myself, 'After something like this, I really have to try to be strong enough to turn stuff down.'

Jackson Browne

Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.