Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tadashi Yanai

Opening new stores outside of Japan is important, but training our employees is even more important.

Bob Marley

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

Shane Koyczan

Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there's a theatre element, a dramatic element. It's right up my alley.

Lisa See

Opera tells stories through the pure emotion of music. An exhibition has to tell a story purely visually. I've tried to incorporate both of those things - pure emotion and being more visual - into my writing.

Voltaire

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

Tina Majorino

Ordinarily during the stage of your life when you're going through your adolescence and you're completely awkward and uncomfortable, the rest of the world isn't watching you with bated breath. It's different when you're an actor and you choose to work your way through that period because it only makes it worse.

Jeanette Winterson

Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.

Louis Aragon

O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.

Kevin Kelly

Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.

Warren Beatty

Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.

Walter Kohn

Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.

Tatiana Maslany

'Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different characters - to trust characters and hate other characters - but it doesn't tell you who is good or bad or right or wrong. That's the most exciting storytelling, in my book.

Laurel Clark

Other than motherhood, the eight years that I spent at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, I have incredibly fond memories of. It's a beautiful place, with four seasons up in Wisconsin. And really wonderful people.

Leonard Nimoy

Other times, you're doing some piece of work and suddenly you get feedback that tells you that you have touched something that is very alive in the cosmos.

Leopoldo Lopez

Our arguments - and those of hundreds more Venezuelans suffering the same injustice - are clear and forceful: political disqualification violates laws in Venezuela and throughout the continent.

Jack Kerouac

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

Ruth Rendell

People who have had a stroke and are recovering from it love being read to... especially by someone who is a good reader - it does help them to get better.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.

Philip Guedalla

People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.

James Earl Jones

People who lusted after Marilyn Monroe had no idea she stuttered. It is the secret of her sexiness, actually.

Bill Laswell

People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do.

Bruce Campbell

People who sleep around to get roles are frail and scared and most likely without talent. It's their own little horror show that only they can deal with.

Ted Stevens

People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget.

Bob Buckhorn

People who want to express themselves need to be given an opportunity. For me, it's a very fundamental premise: you break the law, you're going to jail. Absent that, you're entitled to say whatever you want to say within reason.

Shiv Khera

People who wish to go into the future should have two skills to succeed - the ability to deal with people and the ability to sell.

Barry Schwartz

People who work in financial services don't have one shred of concern about the well-being of the people they serve. They're only interested in themselves.

Preity Zinta

People will always have an opinion, but you have to live life the way you want to. It's very easy to tell others what to do, but difficult to implement it on yourself.

Susanna Moore

People will be able to survive, of course, without honeycreepers and monk seals. But if the wolf spider is in trouble, we are in trouble, too.

Brene Brown

Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it's a shield.

Felix Adler

Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.

Michael Pollan

Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand.

George Crumb

Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.

Lance Loud

Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen.

Larry Wall

Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.

William Watson

Personally, I do not believe that we shall have greater armaments in the future than we have had in the past. On the contrary, I believe there will be a gradual diminution in this respect.

Joni Eareckson Tada

Perspective is everything when you are experiencing the challenges of life.

Will McDonough

Pete Rozelle used television to get the game to the American public by creating the Super Bowl and making it the biggest sporting event in the world.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Philately is normally a boys' hobby but for some reason it was in vogue at my junior school. Between the ages of eight and ten I collected avidly. I'd pore over my Stanley Gibbons book, obsessively checking my collection's value. I always hoped I'd stumble across a really valuable one, a Penny Black or an Inverted Jenny, but it wasn't to be.

Meek Mill

Philly gave me my ambition and drive to get more. It's a reminder to stay on top of my game. That's not a place I want to go back to.

Isaiah Berlin

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

Michel Onfray

Philosophy is best practised by people in general and not by philosophers alone. Philosophy is too often a luxury now, but in ancient Greece, carpenters, masons and beggars were the main practitioners. What I am trying to develop is a philosophical system where all the subjects can be taught.

Terry Farrell

Photographers and people do try to take advantage of you. You just have to stand your ground and prove you're not an easy target.

Duane Michals

Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions the nature of reality - it simply reproduces reality. And what good is that when the things of real value in life are invisible?

Bill Brandt

Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare.

Robert Scoble

Photography let me show other people how I saw the world. Math required me to do work that made my head hurt.

Nigel Dennis

Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.

Janice Dickinson

Photo shoots for underage girls are like letting an ant walk around with honey.

Wilhelm Wundt

Physiological psychology is, therefore, first of all psychology.

Paul Dirac

Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.

James Cameron

Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.