Quotes 921 till 940 of 1784.
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People that are brilliant and successful, we think they've just always been that way. That's not the case. Most of them have had some tough adversity in their life. It's prepared them. I've never felt like you could develop character without adversity.
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People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.
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People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.
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Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.
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Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game?
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Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it.
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Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down - toppling the pretension that humans constitute some sort of biological aristocracy among the beings on Earth.
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Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon.
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Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
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Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
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Pick up any newspaper or magazine, open the TV, and you'll be bombarded with suggestions of how to have a successful life. Some of these suggestions are deeply unhelpful to our own projects and priorities - and we should take care.
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Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
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Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend that, whereby we ourselves receive some benefit.
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Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts.
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Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.
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Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.
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Practically everything from hairstyles to lifestyles is endorsed as some sort of drug to be taken Now for Instant Relief.
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Practice, which some regard as a chore, should be approached as just about the most pleasant recreation ever devised.
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President Obama came to visit me in the hospital. He said, 'I wish you were still in the Senate; I need your help.' I'm not certain I can help on everything. Maybe some things.
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Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.
Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues (1996 edition), Univ of Michigan Pr
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