Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diane Kruger

Orlando's a really cool guy. They hired him for 'Lord of the Rings' out of drama school. He's very new at this still and doesn't have a lot of experience. So we were in this together and we've tried to help each other out. We felt very equal which was good.

April Winchell

Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven.

Scott Howell

Orrin Hatch is old enough to be my father, and I don't want my father running the United States Senate Finance Committee.

Isabella Bird

Other lands may have their charms, and the sunny skies of other climes may be regretted, but it is with pride and gladness that the wanderer sets foot again on British soil, thanking God for the religion and the liberty which have made this weather-beaten island in a northern sea to be the light and glory of the world.

Mary Todd Lincoln

Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.'

Whitney M. Young

Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.

Marshall McLuhan

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.

Emmett Shear

Our app for Xbox 360 brings Twitch video to the television and into the living room of millions of Xbox Live members for the first time. The app will let every Xbox Live gamer find and watch streams of their favorite games from their couch.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

August Strindberg

People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.

Claiborne Pell

People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Bjarne Stroustrup

People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language.

Chris Hemsworth

People who put themselves on the line and sacrifice their own safety for the greater good and for others, and anyone in any profession whose concern is the welfare for other people instead of the individual, are inspiring and important.

Cal Thomas

People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.

Jeanne Phillips

People who take more than their share usually feel an inflated sense of entitlement.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

People who volunteer at the recycling center or soup kitchen through a church or neighborhood group can come to feel part of something 'larger.' Such a sense of belonging calls on a different part of a self than the market calls on. The market calls on our sense of self-interest. It focuses us on what we 'get.

Olivier Megaton

People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.

Andy Rooney

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

Ashley Benson

People will make mean comments. People are going to say that you're fat, that you're this, that you're that. You just have to be comfortable in your own skin.

Antonio Tabucchi

People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots.

Kavita Ramdas

People with lower incomes tend to give a greater percentage of their incomes to help others and show greater empathy and compassion - perhaps because they know they might face the same circumstances.

Joy Fielding

Perfect happiness is knowing that everyone I love is healthy, safe, and content.

Rachel Joyce

'Perfect' is about a set-up that looks perfect from the outside - beautiful country house, beautiful wife and mother, everything where it should be - and the deep fissures that, in fact, lie beneath that. 'Perfect' was partly a response to the shock of my first book, 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry,' being a success.

Moliere

Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.

Adrian Edmondson

Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.

Isabelle Huppert

Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers.

Ingrid Newkirk

Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.

Tina Brown

Perhaps Obama is often slow to nail controversies because he needs time to live inside them for a while in his head. It's unnerving for the rest of us, but even the haters, one feels, are made to think more deeply than they'd like before they return to the bickering and the games.

William Rehnquist

Perhaps you should say there should be mandatory retirement even of members of the court, members of the federal judiciary. I'm sure there can be questions about whether one does as good work when you get into your - you know, I'm 67.

Grenville Kleiser

Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.

Howard Mumford Jones

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.

Moshe Katsav

Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them.

Chris Squire

Persistence is a pretty important part of making it in this business, which, in retrospect, is the easy part. Maintaining a profile is the difficult part of the job. Somehow or another, I muddled through that system and somehow am around to still enjoy playing for people.

Leonard Orr

Personal law is simply the thought that controls your mind and your life more than any other thought. Finding that thought is the most valuable knowledge that you can have about yourself. It is like the leverage on personal change. It enables you to change very efficiently.

Ahmed Zewail

Personally, I have been enriched by my experiences in Egypt and America, and feel fortunate to have been endowed with a true passion for knowledge.

George Ayittey

Personally, I regard myself as an intellectual 'rebel,' kicking against the 'old colonialism-imperialism paradigm' which has landed Africa in a conundrum.

Cliff Burton

Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used.

Eric Allman

Personally, one of the down sides of founding a company is that there is always too much work to do, and sadly I find I don't have much time to code any more.

Francis I

Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them.

John Sununu

Perspective gives us the ability to accurately contrast the large with the small, and the important with the less important. Without it we are lost in a world where all ideas, news, and information look the same. We cannot differentiate, we cannot prioritize, and we cannot make good choices.

Lauren Graham

Perspective is the most important thing to have in life.

Golda Meir

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

Bernard Voto

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom

Rebecca Lobo

Petty things don't bother me as much as they used to.

Richard Montanari

Philly is a city made up of many neighborhoods - more than a hundred, in fact - and the citizens can be very territorial.

Jimmy Swaggart

Philosophies change by the day while God never changes, simply because, being perfect, He does not have to change!

Edward Weston

Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.

George Combe

Phrenology taught us that the mind thinks by means of the brain, is liable to become fatigued by too long attention, as the locomotive muscles are by too much walking; and I therefore proposed to them to take a brief rest.

Bill Berry

Physically my brain is in great shape. My motor functions are fine, but I think going through the whole ordeal... coming pretty close to death, may have affected my priorities.

Alice James

Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.