Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hilbert

Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists.

Johann Georg Hamann

Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots.

Wilhelm Wundt

Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with the facts of human life.

Kim Smith

Pickup lines are a major turn-off, they don't work on me and I tune them out. It's better to just be honest.

Shelley Duvall

Pigs are not that dirty. And they're smart, strange little creatures. They just need love.

Rick Wright

Pink Floyd is like a marriage that's on a permanent trial separation.

Denis Diderot

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

Karl G. Maeser

Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground. There is a possibility that in some way or another I may be able to escape. But stand me on that floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No. Never.

Graham Nelson

Players very widely disagree with me about what's hard and what's easy. and in a way, 'I won, but it was a fight' is the best compliment a game can receive.

Thomas Howes

Playing Sgt, Trotter in 'The Mousetrap' is the same as playing Scripps in 'The History Boys,' in the sense that they're dream roles that I've always wanted to do. The fact they're letting me do this professionally and I'm getting paid for it, I find astonishing.

Lou Boudreau

Playing shortstop is 75 to 80 percent anticipation, knowing the hitter and the pitch being thrown.

Debra Lawrance

Playing someone who has a mental illness, the responsibility to not stuff it up is really strong. You have to get it right. Not just for the people who are sufferers, but for the people who care about them - their loved ones.

Fred Rogers

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

Bob Keeshan

Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff.

Gene Saks

Playwrights are naturally wary and protective - God, who's more protective than a playwright? You read a play, the playwright wants to hear from you immediately.

Hans Bender

PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction.

Elyn Saks

Please hear this: There are not ‘schizophrenics,’ there are people with schizophrenia.

Julian Fellowes

Plenty of friendships are sustainable through dinners and lunches, but will not stand a week away. So be careful with whom you go on holiday.

Horace Walpole

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.

Franz Wright

Poetry endures when it possesses passionate and primally sincere clarity in the service of articulating universal human concerns.

Yusef Komunyakaa

Poetry helps me understand who I am. It helps me understand the world around me. But above all, what poetry has taught me is the fact that I need to embrace mystery in order to be completely human.

David Whyte

Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never see good poetry in advertising.

W. S. Merwin

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

Audre Lorde

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

Vikram Seth

Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.

Walter Mosley

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

Allen Ginsberg

Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.

Helen Dunmore

Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.

Brian Harris

Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence.

Madame de Stael

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

Marcus Brigstocke

Political correctness is as exploitable as any other progressive ideal, but its aim is to stifle the incessant noise of those who flap their careless lips without a thought about those they might offend and why that might be important.

David Harsanyi

Political correctness is one of the engines of nannyism. Allowing and even encouraging offensive ideas is vital for the intellectually health of a free society.

Carole Bouquet

Political debate is of no interest to me. What I want are practical solutions.

Ehud Olmert

Political leaders can help change the psychological climate which affects the quality of relationships among people.

Toni Servillo

Politicians in Italy seem to spend so much time giving interviews, they don't have time to make the laws.

Victor Pinchuk

Politicians love power. I love freedom. That is why I am not a politician.

Heather Brooke

Politicians often claim secrecy is necessary for good governance or national security.

Tatyana Tolstaya

Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.

Adam Michnik

Politics is the art of realizing what there is to realize.

Dick Armey

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

David Lauren

Polo really is a European sport. It's not really that popular in America. I'm not an expert on the sport, but it's fun to watch.

Ben Lindsey

Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship

Ian Smith

Poor air quality, which can be influenced by a variety of fumes, chemicals and allergens, is arguably the leading cause of triggers for most asthmatics in urban areas.

Sydney Madwed

Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.

Georg Brandes

Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types.

Trevor Dunn

Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.

Natasha Leggero

Pop culture, it's crazy. There's all this violence in video games. In 'Call of Duty,' people are literally just blowing other people up. Hey, let's protect your country from your couch while eating your sandwich.

Regina Brett

Pope Francis is not only changing the face of the Catholic Church, he's challenging us to be the face of God in the world by seeing the face of God in the person we least expect to see it, including the person in the mirror.

Bill Williams

Pope John Paul, a man of peace and compassion, was one of the most revered leaders of our time.

A. Whitney Brown

Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.