Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Chamberlain

Over a long period of time, living as if you were someone else is no fun.

Charles Vest

Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life.

Kim Jee-woon

Overseas directors who want to work in Hollywood, the language barrier is not a problem. With the right talent, any director can be successful.

C. J. Mahaney

Over the years, I have studied church history as well as the contemporary church, and I noticed how rare it is for a God-glorifying transition of leadership to take place in a local church.

Michael Keaton

Over the years, I think, people - actors, writers, whatever - lose their frame of reference. Their frame of reference is based on somebody else who did this or did that. Performances. So it just becomes a reflection of what already works. Like a warm-up. And that's an invitation to be inauthentic.

Steve Prefontaine

Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

Misty May-Treanor

Over the years, I've made many sacrifices to win two Olympic gold medals and put together winning streaks that will never be broken,

Nestor Carbonell

Over the years, TV has gotten so much better, especially with the advent of cable. The bar has been raised. I think HBO really set the standard with The Sopranos, and then on mainstream TV, shows like Lost broke amazing ground.

Ada Lovelace

Owing to some peculiarity in my nervous system, I have perception of some things, which no one else has; or at least very few, if any... I can throw rays from every quarter of the universe into one vast focus.

Adam Michnik

Pacifism as a mass movement aims to avoid suffering; pacifists often say that no cause is worth suffering or dying for. The ethos of Solidarity is based on an opposite premise - that there are causes worth suffering and dying for.

Freya Stark

Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.

Criss Angel

Pain is a beautiful thing. When you feel pain, you know you're alive.

Naomi Watts

Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.

Gustave Courbet

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things. It is a completely physical language, the words of which consist of all visible objects. An object which is abstract, not visible, non-existent, is not within the realm of painting.

Margrethe II of Denmark

Painting is not what my life is about, but it is very important to me, and I am very lucky to be able to give some time to it,

Chuck Close

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

Kelsey Chow

'Pair of Kings' is so much fun, literally. It is a very physical show with loads of stunts and green screen work, and you never know what great adventure is ahead of you! It's also a nice change in terms of being of similar ages to Doc Shaw and Mitchel Musso.

Tracy Austin

Pam has always been my glamorous big sister - 13 years older than I. She played on the women's circuit for nine years and came home to tell me stories of France, Japan.

Nathan Wolfe

Pandemics do not occur randomly. From malaria and influenza to AIDS and SARS, the lethal microbes have come, in the first instance, from animals, especially wild animals. And we increasingly know which parts of the world pose the greatest risk for future incursions.

Ruth Gordon

Pan me, don't give me the part, publish everybody's book but this one and I will still make it!

Om Puri

Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.

Dale Archer

Parenting classes should be mandatory, whether you are adopting or not, and would include an evaluation of your current physical, mental and financial state as well as how ready you are to take on the rigors of parenthood. Our children are our most precious natural resource, and there is absolutely no other way to parent but to put them first.

Gordon Neufeld

Parents are the designated caregivers and are best suited for being able to raise children.

Pat Buchanan

Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.

Robert Gottlieb

Paris, as always, is swarming with Americans, and these days, it's also swarming with hamburgers. Oddly, though, it's not typically the Americans who are pursuing the perfect burger on the perfect bun with the obligatory side of perfect coleslaw; the Americans are pursuing the perfect blanquette de veau.

Clemence Poesy

Paris is where my family are, but it's not really home now because I have dear friends in London and dear friends in New York.

Chevy Chase

Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish

Greg Behrendt

Part of being a comedian is that it's your job to look at life and regurgitate it in a funny way, to point out its absurdities.

Martin Scorsese

Part of making any endeavour is that each one has its own special problems. It's the nature of the process.

George Grey

Part of my plan was not only to introduce all useful animals that I possibly could into this part of Australia, but also the most valuable plants of every description.

Steven Adler

Part of recovery is relapse. I dust myself off and move forward again.

Ginger Rogers

Part of the joy of dancing is conversation. Trouble is, some men can't talk and dance at the same time.

Derrick Jensen

Part of the problem is that we have become so dependent upon this system that is killing and exploiting us, it has become almost impossible for us to imagine living outside of it, and it's very difficult physically for us to live outside of it.

Mark Twain

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Gavin Hood

Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.

George C. Marshall

Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.

Patrick Ewing

Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.

Greil Marcus

Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them.

Michael Ignatieff

Patriotism is the secret resource of a successful society.

John Cena

Paul Bearer was very influential in the early stages of my career. He constantly hounded me and I just think he realized the potential that was there. He convinced me that I was in the right place and doing the right thing.

Tracy Kidder

Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health, which serves the destitute and the sick in many parts of the world from Haiti to Boston and from Russia to Peru.

Kim Yuna

Peace is what enables development and is critical in providing opportunities to young people. Efforts to preserve peace are absolutely vital in bringing prosperity and hope for the future.

Norman Reedus

Peanut Butter Wolf is my relaxing music, my lunch music, my chilling music.

John Stossel

People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.

Eve Plumb

People always brand me as this person who is anti-Brady, and I don't think that I ever have been, except that occasionally I would like to talk about something else that I'm doing.

Sinead O'Connor

People always complain, 'you never invited me to your wedding', but I prefer casual weddings.

Cormac McCarthy

People apparently only read mystery stories of any length. With mysteries, the longer the better, and people will read any damn thing. But the indulgent, 800-page books that were written a hundred years ago are just not going to be written anymore, and people need to get used to that.

Sugata Mitra

People are adamant learning is not just looking at a Google page. But it is. Learning is looking at Google pages. What is wrong with that?

Sargent Shriver

Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being.

Barton Seaver

Restaurants stress the protein. People read menu items left to right, with the protein first. I read descriptions right to left.