Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philip Greenspun

Pilots enjoy the fun and challenge of handling the fancy machine.

Frank Robinson

Pitchers did me a favor when they knocked me down. It made me more determined. I wouldn't let that pitcher get me out. They say you can't hit if you're on your back, but I didn't hit on my back. I got up.

Ryan Holmes

Pizza made me who I am. In the summer of 1998, I dropped out of college and started a pizza restaurant called Growlies in my hometown in rural Canada. My seed money: a credit card with a $20,000 limit.

Hayao Miyazaki

Plants exist in the weather and light rays that surround them - waving in the wind, shimmering in the sunlight. I am always puzzling over how to draw such things.

Sparky Anderson

Players have two things to do. Play and keep their mouths shut.

Lori Loughlin

Playing a fashion designer could be the bane of my existence because I am married to a fashion designer.

Vusi Mahlasela

Playing at home in Mamelodi is always so special to me, and I cherish those moments dearly.

Georgia Groome

Playing Joanne in 'London to Brighton' was my first taste of film, and I loved every second of it.

David Johansen

Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable.

Tunde Adebimpe

Playing shows is really fun. And writing music is really fun. But going on tour for a year is one of the more soul-crushing experiences you can have as a creative person.

Bob Black

Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it's forced.

Jose Mourinho

Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one.

Reggie Jackson

Please God, let me hit one. I'll tell everybody you did it.

Emily Watson

Please, please, please - I would love to do some comedy. Once you have a reputation for one thing - in my case, crying and dying - you are typecast.

Norman Geisler

Pluralism is denied logically; inclusivism is denied scripturally, and that leaves us with exclusivism... you have to know that Jesus died and believe in it in order to be saved.

Laura Riding

Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.

F. L. Lucas

Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.

June Jordan

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

Allen Ginsberg

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

T. S. Eliot

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

David Whyte

Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to articulate your life, your present world or your possibilities for the future.

Matthew Arnold

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

Carol Ann Duffy

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

Rose McGowan

Poe was such a tragic and brilliant figure; he's somebody whom I've been somewhat obsessed with my whole life. I first read 'The Tell-Tale Heart' at age four.

George H. W. Bush

Poland should be strong and prosperous and independent and play its proper role as a great nation in the heart of Europe.

Bobby Jindal

Police officials routinely execute search warrants on private homes and offices, and Congressional offices should not be treated any differently. There cannot be one set of rules for elected officials and another set of rules for everyone else.

Glenn Beck

Political Correctness doesn't change us, it shuts us up.

Belle Boyd

Politically I did not like Mr. Lincoln for in him I saw the destroyer.

Barry Eichengreen

Political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European parliament, which would then decide how to structure Europe's fiscal, banking, and monetary union.

Nikita Khrushchev

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.

Brad Wenstrup

Politicians - in both political parties - spend too much money. And they forget to focus on what matters most: fixing the economic mess they created and putting people back to work.

Bob Ehrlich

Politics is a contest among people of diverse backgrounds and philosophies, advocating different solutions to common problems. The system only works when principled, energetic people participate.

Kris Gopalakrishnan

Politics is not my cup of tea. I would like to focus on research and education, and will also work to help start-up ecosystem.

Ricardo Montalban

Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.

Mao Zedong

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

Lynda Resnick

Pomegranate juice has staying power. It's not a fad. Once people have tasted POM Wonderful, they say they are addicted - and it's a good addiction to have.

Richard Codey

Poor eating habits developed at an early age lead to a lifetime of real health consequences.

Alan Huffman

Poor laborers from all parts of Asia as well as Africa, the Americas and even Europe are transported by plane each day to wealthier nations where low-tier jobs are plentiful; sometimes the travelers board without even knowing their final destination.

Henry George

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

Roy Lichtenstein

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

Germaine Greer

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves-to breakour own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today."Stewart B. Johnson"Men rule because women let them. Male misogyny is real enough, and it has dreadful consequences, but female misogyny is what keeps women out of power.

John Dulles

Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression.

Norm Coleman

Our cattlemen have given us the safest, most abundant, most affordable beef supply in the world and I trust their judgment. And if you look at consumer confidence in this country, so does the American public.

Dave Freudenthal

Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity to translate those dreams into action. And I believe they will judge us very harshly should we fail to act.

Cokie Roberts

Our civic society is really all we have by way of nationhood.

Basmah bint Saud

Our constitution should be inspired by the philosophy of the Koran with principles that are set in stone and not open to the whims of individual judges, as is the case now. In particular, the constitution should protect every citizen's basic human rights regardless of their sex, status or sect. Everyone should be equal before the law.

James Monroe

Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!

Ben Vereen

Our creator says, 'Here's your birth and here's your death' - and the rest are the things you learn on your journey. This was my experience - and the choice is, I can lay in the misery, or choose to learn from it and move on.

Aleksandar Hemon

Our daughter was born in Chicago, and she's already showing it. The temperature has to be approaching zero for her to wear a hat.

Erik Paulsen

Our democracy is predicated on the belief that our government should be accessible by the people. We cannot allow ourselves to give in to fear or shy away from interacting with the public.