Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rosamund Pike

Perhaps misguidedly, I always admire the people who are so polished.

Dick Cavett

Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.

Brian Eno

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.

Ali Khamenei

Perhaps, when we examine the causes of many social changes and political upheavals, we will find the marks of its presence and its principal ideals.

Graham Joyce

Perhaps writers should never be allowed to get together in a workplace context. It's not like studying computer science, after all. The emotions are at large, and are shared and are questioned. There is a vulnerability.

Nicolas Cage

Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island.

Nadia Ali

Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me to write a song is to visualise the story in my head, and I start humming a melody, and before you know it, a song is born.

Kurtis Blow

Pete Dj Jones was the first person that I saw with 2 turntables. This was 1972.

Veerappa Moily

Petrol price is a deregulated commodity, price of which is decided by our oil marketing companies based on input cost and other parameters.

Theodor Herzl

Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.

Marvin Olasky

Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed.

George Henry Lewes

Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.

Trey Anastasio

Phish has run its course and that we should end it now while it's still on a high note.

Bill Atkinson

'PhotoCard' has 20 times as much code as the sum of 'QuickDraw,' 'MacPaint,' and 'HyperCard.' It is more elaborate and complicated, with all the client and server stuff. It took a lot more of me to do this than other projects, requiring an almost Mother Teresa dedication to do it.

Berenice Abbott

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

Edward Steichen

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

Martin Parr

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

George Kotsiopoulos

Photos convey a point in time, so for casual snapshots I say wear the trends so you have fun images to look back at.

Ezekiel Emanuel

Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia have been profound ethical issues confronting doctors since the birth of Western medicine, more than 2,000 years ago.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.

Wilhelm Wundt

Physiology is concerned with all those phenomena of life that present them selves to us in sense perception as bodily processes, and accordingly form part of that total environment which we name the external world.

William Wordsworth

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Dennis Eckersley

Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears

Terry Wogan

Places like India can give you a real culture shock because of the poverty you see, and it brings you up sharply.

W. G. Sebald

Places seem to me to have some kind of memory, in that they activate memory in those who look at them.

Mariella Frostrup

Placing 'amicable' and 'separation' together creates an oxymoron - we don't usually decide to end a partnership until the very sight of our soon-to-be ex fills us with disgust, misery, agony or a combination of all three.

Margaret Thatcher

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

Al Kaline

Players shy away from talking to announcers today.

Heather Locklear

Playing bad is always more fun than playing good.

Carice van Houten

Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.

Kevin Garnett

Playing video games is something I enjoy in my spare time. I'm a gamer, always have been.

Matteo Manassero

Playing with Tom Watson, I grew up a little bit. Even if he didn't say something to you, even if he didn't give you advice, you have grown up just watching him. It was great.

Garry Hynes

Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays.

Hugh Hardy

Please, don't use a cornice as a doorstop. At least put it somewhere where people will have to look up at it. Architectural details really ought to be displayed in the same relation to the viewer as they were originally intended.

Emma Bunton

Please ignore rumors! I've had them for years and you have to just let them go over your head. Don't take them personally.

Aristotle

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Thomas Steinbeck

Plot makes the character just as history makes the man.

Donatella Versace

Plus-sized women shouldn't think of themselves as a size. They should think of themselves as women with rich goals in life. Size doesn't mean, really, anything. You can carry your size with pride and dress in a way that you like.

Dwight Gooden

Plus, when you get in tough situations, like the bases loaded and nobody out, you never give in.

Philip Sidney

Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partly the cause that made the ancient learned affirm it was a divine, and no human skill, since all other knowledges lie ready for any that have strength of wit; a poet no industry can make, if his own genius be not carried into it.

Gertrude Stein

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Christopher Fry

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

Mark Strand

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

Billy Collins

Poetry is my cheap means of transportation, by the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield.

Marianne Moore

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Allen Ginsberg

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

Thomas Gray

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

Chris Moneymaker

Poker has such an element of competitivness that other games don't have.

Wesley Morris

Polisse' is the sort of cop thriller where people do things like angrily bang on a desktop or sweep everything off it. If it happens once, it must happen six times. But every time it did, I wanted to stand up and cheer, which I've never wanted to do for any such thriller.

Mary Wilson Little

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.