Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barry Ritholtz

Owning a variety of asset classes means that some part of your portfolio will be doing well when the cyclical turmoil arises. A broadly diversified portfolio includes large capitalization stocks, small cap, emerging markets, fixed income, real estate and commodities.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Travie McCoy

Pain is definitely a genius in his own right. 'Thr33 Ringz' is definitely one of my top 10 albums. It's one of those albums you listen to front-to-back.

Curtis Mayfield

Painless preaching is as good a term as any for what we do.

Candice Olson

Paint goes a long way in making old look like new.

Balthus

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

Bridget Riley

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

Jackson Pollock

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

Margaret Chan

Pandemic influenza is by nature an international issue; it requires an international solution.

Walter Smith

Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.

Rich Lowry

Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of their mentally ill children.

Lee Haney

Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our children's first and most important role models.

Claire Cameron

Parents spend a lot of time talking over kids. My son went through a vocabulary burst as I was writing The Bear. I thought, What if I just stopped and listened?

Sam Ewing

Parents who wonder where the younger generation is going should remember where it came from.

James Wolcott

Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian would have left little more than lipstick stains in their passing had it not been for the sex videos that lofted them into reality-TV notoriety. Once notoriety has warmed into familiarity, celebrity itself becomes one big 'Brady Bunch' reunion, or a therapy session with Dr. Drew.

Robert Redford

Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided or denied. It's a fact of life, like contradictions are.

Dante Hall

Part of my success was having a place to play as a kid.

Henry Bonilla

Part of the American dream is to own your own property - something no one can take from you.

DeObia Oparei

Part of the creative journey for me was not to come up the conventional route. I didn't go through drama school. I chose not to. I came from a very working-class area, a child of Nigerian immigrants.

Nick Mason

Part of the gestation of 'The Wall' was this business of alienation from the audience, and so the interesting thing was, what 'The Wall' eventually became was something that absolutely engaged the audience.

Edward Carey

Part of the joy of writing for kids is that you have to have a real adventure story. You can get really involved in the fantastic in a way that perhaps you can't so much in adult fiction.

Jarvis Cocker

Part of why I started a band was due to feelings of shyness and social ineptitude. I saw it as some way of being able to interact with people from a safe distance.

Chang-Rae Lee

Part of writing a novel is being willing to leap into the blackness. You have very little idea, really, of what's going to happen. You have a broad sense, maybe, but it's this rash leap. It's like spelunking. You kind of create the right path for yourself. But, boy, are there so many points at which you think, absolutely, I'm going down the wrong hole here. And I can't get back to the right hole. I'm not going to be able to get this section back to the right hole - so I'm just going to have to cut it.

James McAvoy

Passing my motorcycle theory test gave me a disproportionate feeling of greatness.

C. J. Mahaney

Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.

Helen Mirren

Patience can be a good thing - but not necessarily. Sometimes it's not so bad to be impatient. I'm a little bit too polite.

Elon Musk

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

Kenny Dalglish

Paul Lambert has assembled a great bunch of lads and training has been going very well. I am just desperate to get into the team and do my best for the club.

Victoria Strauss

'Pay it forward' has become a hackneyed concept, but I truly believe in it, and it gives me huge satisfaction to be able to help writers in a measurable way.

Dorothy Thompson

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

Stuart Scott

People always talk about the nausea that comes with chemotherapy. For me, it's more like a queasiness. And it can be intense. It's an uncomfortable, gross kind of 'blech' feeling.

Brad Henry

Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger.

Jack Nicklaus

Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.

Hans Jonas

Responsibility has become the fundamental imperative in modern civilization, and it should be an unavoidable criterion to assess and evaluate human actions, including, in a special way, development activities.

Marsha Sinetar

Responsible choice involves consequences, not the least of which are relinquishments all along our way

Hod Lipson

Restrictions are difficult to enforce in a world where anybody can make anything.

Ian Botham

Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.

Will Harvey

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.

Gilbert Hernandez

Reviewers and critics can be overly cynical. If something the least bit sentimental comes up, they'll often start flying off the handle. But I'm like, 'Wait a minute, you've had those times in your life. Everybody has.'

Virgil Thomson

Reviewing music or reviewing anything is a writing job. It's nice if you are experienced in the field you are writing about, but writing is what you are doing.

Kelley Armstrong

Reviews are great. I can read negative reviews and say, You know that point they made... they were dead on.

H. Rap Brown

Revolution comes when human beings set out to correct decadent institutions.

Rebecca Solnit

Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.

Sheldon Whitehouse

Rhode Island works hard to reduce air pollution in our communities. We passed laws to prohibit cars and buses from idling their engines and to retrofit school buses with diesel pollution controls. But there is only so much a single state can do, particularly against out-of-state pollution.

David Wilkerson

Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things, at the expense of neglecting Christ.

John Grisham

Right from the start, I loved the works of Mark Twain. Every time I read about Tom Sawyer, I'd go out and do something low-level naughty, just like him.

Richard Perle

Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies.

Eric Lindros

Right now I'm happy to be on the ice anywhere, anytime.

Tippi Hedren

Right now I'm looking at a liger out my bedroom window. He's half lion and half tiger. And he's absolutely beautiful. His name is Patrick.

Robert Wagner

Right now I'm trying to do a fragrance called Natalie. She's very, very much alive for us.