Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lizz Winstead

Opportunities present themselves to me. That's how my whole life has been pretty much. I've been lucky.

Bonnie Hunt

Oprah was not somebody who was telling us what to do, she wasn't really teaching us like so many people we see today. With Oprah, she was learning and we were learning with her. And I think that's really was the seed that was planted for all of us to just hang in there with her.

Todd Solondz

Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances.

Eberhard Weber

Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself.

Ernst Mach

Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations.

Frances O'Grady

Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.

Douglas Wood

Originality is, for me, the most important quality in a script.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes....

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public.

Jose Marti

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

Nicholas Hoult

Other people's success spurs me on to do well and gives me motivation.

Daddy Yankee

Our aim is to establish El Cartel as not just another tequila but part of the club and party lifestyle. There are several songs where I mention the brand name, and a lot of these party songs go hand in hand with the concept of Cartel Tequila.

Moshe Dayan

Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.

Daphne Koller

Our approach to education has remained largely unchanged since the Renaissance: From middle school through college, most teaching is done by an instructor lecturing to a room full of students, only some of them paying attention.

Fanny Burney

People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance

Dale Turner

People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

Jimmy Buffett

People who think too much before they act don't act too much.

Barry Ritholtz

People who work in specialized fields seem to have their own language. Practitioners develop a shorthand to communicate among themselves. The jargon can almost sound like a foreign language.

Michael Zaslow

People with fertility problems are not alone. It is a very very common problem for couples today. I've seen statistics that are just staggering.

Bregje Heinen

People would tell me sometimes that I should model, but I was like, I dont know!

Miyamoto Musashi

Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye.

Seung Sahn

Perceiving your own voice means perceiving your true self or nature. When you and the sound become one, you don't hear the sound; you are the sound.

Cassandra Clare

Perfect heroines, like perfect heroes, aren't relatable, and if you can't put yourself in the protagonist's shoes, not only will they not inspire you, but the book will be pretty boring.

Alan Cumming

Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.

Tom Riley

Performing on stage is my first love - it's why I wanted to be an actor in the first place - and 'Arcadia' is the highlight of my career so far. I love the intimacy of a live theatre audience - you can really squeeze every last drop out of each scene.

Rose Tremain

Perhaps, more importantly, I think that most human beings realise only a fraction of the true potential of their minds, so the spiritual or mystical, the things which remain mysterious or unexplained have always drawn me to include them in any scheme for a novel.

Ken Auletta

Perhaps the biggest problem in journalism is the cult divide between journalists and corporate owners.

Kathryn Bigelow

Perhaps the only thing in my favor is that I am very tenacious. I don't take 'no' very well.

Joan D. Vinge

Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far.

George Gissing

Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.

Gordon W. Allport

Personality is less a finished product than a transitive process. While it has some stable features, it is at the same time continually undergoing change.

Davey Havok

Personally I have never found the practice of recreational drug use appealing. In fact, I have always found the lifestyle and the people who surround it to be abhorrent.

Freddy Rodriguez

Personally, I need to learn every word on the page before I go in and audition. I have not mastered the skill of holding pages in my hand and acting with pages in my hand. I find that every time I have to look at the page it takes me completely out of the scene.

Freddie Prinze, Jr.

Personally, when things upset me, I get quiet and closed off. I have nothing to say, and a chill sets in while I think about what's going on.

Paloma Picasso

Personal style is not something that is just in the air. It is something you have and that you apply to yourself.

Katharine Anthony

Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.

Francis Parker Yockey

Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.

Edward Kitsis

'Peter Pan' is my favorite. I love the idea that all the Lost Boys were orphans, and that they wanted Wendy to be their mom.

Terence Stamp

Peter Ustinov was the first really positive influence in my career. He was real and he bore witness to it. The things he said to you, he lived them.

Connie Stevens

Pet me, touch me, love me, that's what I get when I perform. That's when I'm really getting what I want.

Frances Wright

Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.

Charles Bronfman

Philanthropy and social change work are at their best when they are driven by your values and connected to what you care about most.

Tino Sehgal

Photographs are two-dimensional. I work in four dimensions.

Platon

Photography can be a volatile situation. It can be very potent.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

Elliott Erwitt

Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.

Arjun Rampal

Physical attributes can make you appealing, but to keep the appeal going, one has to draw from within. You have to be a real person. Your fans and the people you associate with have to be able to see beyond your looks. You have to be a good friend, dutiful son and a good family man.

John F. Kennedy

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

Katherine Anne Porter

Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.

Dean Rusk

Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something.