Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alicia Witt

Pianos tend to get better as they age, the more you play them. They grow into their sound.

Jonathan Kozol

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.

Steven Rattner

Picking winners among the many young companies seeking money is a tough business, even for the most sophisticated investors. Indeed, most professionally run venture funds lose money. For individuals, it's pure folly. Buy a lottery ticket instead. Your chance of winning is likely to be higher.

Jeff Cooper

Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.

Anthony Browne

Picture books are being marginalised. I get the feeling children are being pushed away from picture books earlier and earlier and being told to look at proper books, which means books without pictures.

Stephanie Zimbalist

Pierce Brosnan is a very sweet man. Oh, we had our issues, but a lot of it was hormones.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.

Sarah Parish

Plastic surgery can't make you younger or more beautiful, because beauty is in your eyes, isn't it? It's in your soul; you can't strap it on.

Kristanna Loken

Playing a robot is possibly the most difficult role you can have as an actor, because you have to take all your innate emotional responses and completely suppress them. Even the way you walk is affected.

Brittany Curran

Playing Chelsea on 'The Suite Life of Zack and Cody' really helped with my over-the-top comedy.

Howard Hughes

Play off everyone against each other so that you have more avenues of action open to you.

Steve Burns

Please don't make me sound like a crazy hermit, but I don't like crowds or noise.

Sean Paul

Please remember we all come from the same one and we will all return to that one, so there is no reason for fighting.

Pierre Charron

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.

Anita Loos

Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.

Peter R. Grant

Plumage features constitute a major component of courtship signals.

Scott Aukerman

Podcasts feature comedians being as funny as they can be in a non-censored situation. It's really akin to standup in a way. When you go see a comedian in standup, that is the most pure, unadulterated form of their art.

Aime Cesaire

Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.

James Branch Cabell

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

Edwin Morgan

Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal but which the reader recognizes as his own.

Ben Parr

Point-to-point transit via low orbit could dramatically speed up international flights, connecting the world even further. And safe, consistent space travel opens up the possibility of commercial space stations, trips to the moon and exploration beyond.

Paracelsus

Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.

Peter Latham

Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents.

Amity Shlaes

Politicians generally act as if there is no cost to reconnecting with voters by building new New Deals. But the whole exercise of writing law out of New Deal nostalgia is a form of national narcissism. Call it New Deal narcissism.

Tammy Baldwin

Politicians in Washington and Madison aren't hearing, aren't listening to their constituents and prioritizing getting people back to work and growing our economy.

David Trimble

Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend.

Charles Kennedy

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

Max Weber

Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.

Stand Watie

Poor Andy Nave was killed. He refused to surrender and was shot by Dick Fields. I felt sorry as he used to be quite friendly towards me before the war, but it could not be helped.

Leonard Baskin

Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

Branford Marsalis

Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity.

Ronan Farrow

Pope Francis has stressed humility and austerity - a far cry, according to many, from the predecessor's bling and Ferragamo shoes - those were pretty entertaining. And he's translating all of that into a policy agenda.

William Kunstler

Our bodies must always be wherever that struggle and the moment we forget that, the moment we become lazy, the moment we sit back, then then the evil ones do their ordained tasks to us.

Horace Smith

Our charity begins at home, And mostly ends where it begins

Merlin Olsen

Our coach was absolutely out of his head. He must have read Bear Bryant's book. We had 78 players out. The first day 35 quit. Twenty quit the second day. We ended with 17 players. It was depressing.

John Adams

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Samuel Adams

Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.

Eliot Spitzer

Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty.

Julie Bishop

Our cultural diversity has most certainly shaped our national character.

Francis Chan

Our culture is all about shallow relationships. But that doesn't mean we should stop looking each other in the eye and having deep conversations.

Tiffany Thornton

Our days are numbered, and God is just waiting for you to come back to him.

Swami Vivekananda

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

Gary Bettman

Our economics are not baseball's economics. Our game is not baseball's game. Our owners are not baseball's owners, with one or two exceptions. Our union is not baseball's union. What we do has to be crafted and suited to address hockey, to address the NHL, to address our 30 teams and our 700-plus players.

Bruce Feirstein

Our enemies are real. But so are the moral questions and long-term political implications of drone strikes.

Timothy Murphy

Our enemy is motivated by hatred and will not stop planning more plots against until they are ultimately defeated. Today was an important and necessary victory in the war, but there is a long road ahead. We must remain committed if we are to succeed and protect our liberty.

Bob Harper

Our external environment no longer seems to have any firm boundaries, any limits, or any positive cues about when to stop consuming anything. I mean, there is a reason that people get fat - it's easy and cheap to get high-calorie, tasty food.

Gilbert Hernandez

Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids.

Peter Farrelly

Our feeling is that the most important thing on a set is that actors have enough confidence to try different things. If there's stress or tension, they won't go out on a limb because they won't want to embarrass themselves if they don't feel completely comfortable.

George Noory

Our fiat currency is under increasing stress with our large and growing trade deficits. We have a federal deficit that is calculated in the trillions when we take into account the net present value of the future Social Security and Medicaid obligations we are creating today.