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Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.
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Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.
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Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
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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.
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Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.
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Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
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Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music.
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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
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Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.
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Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars.
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Posing on the red carpet feels like you're selling something that has nothing to do with you. If you do it with someone else, it's like we're saying, 'Oh! We come as a pair! Would you like to buy both of us? We're available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs!
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Posing on the red carpet feels like you're selling something that has nothing to do with you. If you do it with someone else, it's like we're saying, 'Oh! We come as a pair! Would you like to buy both of us? We're available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs!'
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Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.
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Power is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.
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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
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Preserving the 30-year prepayable fixed-rate mortgage - it's like the bedrock of the housing system - is critical.
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