Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kenny Rogers

People will clap to be nice. They will not laugh to be nice.

Tim Kaine

People will pay a price for putting political obstruction over progress in a time that is so critical and urgent.

April Bloomfield

People with chile peppers on their chef pants shouldn't be allowed in the kitchen.

Bryan Cranston

People would love to be rich, but they're looking for the easy way. Who wouldn't want to win the lottery? Just to score.

David Eagleman

People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.

Wayne Rooney

Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.

Laurie Anderson

Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words.

Peri Gilpin

Performing has been part of my life since I was eight years old, so that's what I think I do. I don't think about the fact that it happens to be in a bigger venue where people get to know you, or they think they do.

Bill Forsyth

Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.

Gene Fowler

Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.

Lady Bird Johnson

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

Nadine Gordimer

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

Perhaps the single most effective antagonist of American business is Ralph Nader, who - thanks largely to the media - has become a legend in his own time and an idol of millions of Americans.

Walter Alston

Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.

Bob Riley

Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated.

Allen Iverson

Personally I just want to win a championship.

Aaron Ashmore

Personally, I really enjoy sci-fi. I watch it, I read comic books, and I play video games. I love this kind of world, so too be able to work in it is a dream. I enjoy it.

Sarah Kay

Perusing colorful storylines on the backs of book jackets, I realized that none of them could possibly be as dramatic as my life to date. Then sadly, I also realized I could never find the ending of my story from the safety of an armchair.

Antonio Gramsci

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.

Kurtwood Smith

Peter Boyle on Everybody Loves Raymond is more of an insane Dad.

Tom Brokaw

Peter is an old friend. I'm heartbroken, but he's also a tough guy. I'm counting on him getting through this very difficult passage.

Charles Bronfman

Philanthropy is in the DNA of my family.

Manoj Bhargava

Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would.

Imre Lakatos

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

Sharon Jones

Phish is such a good band; they just make stuff up as a jam band.

Duane Michals

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

Mia Wasikowska

Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions.

Hedi Slimane

Photography has always been about documentary, the depiction of the instant, a moment, sometimes a place. Each project is somehow an experimentation of a specific context or a character.

Matthew Modine

Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative.

Georgina Chapman

Photography obviously lends itself so well towards fashion. It's capturing that moment and that inspiration, and as a designer you are constantly walking through the world assimilating those visual references you have and so being able to solidify that into a photograph and keep it on your mood board is essential to creating a collection.

Jessica Lange

Photography was a blessing because it filled my time.

Alfred Hershey

Physical studies of DNA had, of course, been under way for some years before analysis of virus particles began.

Fred Kavli

Physics is the most basic part of science and, of course, math. It gives you insight into everything - a foundation, I should say, to understand nature and the universe.

Ingrid Newkirk

Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.

Lyndsy Fonseca

Pilates is my favorite meditative way to get in shape. I don't like the gym and I don't like running, so I just lay on my Pilates reformer. It's great.

Philip Baker Hall

Pinchas Perry, the director of 'The Chicago 8,' offered me the role of the judge, and he did not know that, 35 years earlier, I'd played a judge in the theater production. So life has its own little twists and turns.

George Herman

Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world.

Vicki Baum

Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.

Tabitha King

Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character.

Will Wright

Players like to know that they've discovered things that even the designers didn't know were in the game.

Brian Clough

Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.

Lionel Hampton

Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid.

Tony Parker

Playing in the playoffs is the best basketball in the world, and if you can learn under that pressure, succeed under that pressure, it gives you more confidence the next year.

Bruno Bettelheim

Play reaches the habits most needed for intellectual growth.

Lucretius

Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.

Alex Pareene

Please don't begin to believe that the American political establishment is anything but a corrupt puppet of oligarchy.

Stanley Elkin

Plot is to literature what individual holes are to miniature golf.

Lisel Mueller

Poetry, for me, is the answer to, 'How does one stay sane when private lives are being ransacked by public events?' It's something that hangs over your head all the time.

Johann Georg Hamann

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

Robert Frost

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.