P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.”
“Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament and I get excited talking about making record artwork or working with T-shirt designs. The least exciting part for us is talking about the finances; it's like going to the dentist for us. But we at least try to do it in a creative way and put our stamp on it. I can only think that we create something that's worth the value of that dollar.”
“Pearl Jam is a band I have a lot of respect for. Nirvana and Sonic Youth I feel the same way about. Mumford & Sons, My Morning Jacket, Wilco, Givers, and Foo Fighters are just some of my favorites. I respect bands that give me something of themselves that I can feel. ("Posing" bands turn me off generally speaking.) It all has to do with a feeling I have about them. That is what music is to me, a feeling. It's similar with people too.”
Source: Waging Heavy Peace Deluxe
“Pearl rolled a tiny pink speck in her fingers, possibly part of Rose's new leg that I'd tried so hard to make a good match. Pearl laughed and flicked it away as if it was snot out of her nose. I suddenly couldn't stand it. I rushed at her.She saw I wasn't playing around. She ran for it but I caught up with her along the landing. I punched her hard in the chest and she staggered back wards - back and back, and then she wobbled and went right over, down the stairs.”
“Pearl saltbush
Meaning: My hidden worth
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Common in deserts and salty environments, this low shrub creates a fascinating ecosystem of almost hidden treasures: geckoes, fairy wrens, fungi and lichen colonies. Drought-tolerant, with silvery grey evergreen foliage that forms a dense groundcover that is fire-retardant.”
Source: The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
“Pearl spent the passing days buried so deep in the musty, dusty sorcery tomes that sometimes when she emerged, she spoke in archaic english. "Hast thou a light?" she'd asked him this afternoon when her study room had grown dark with gathering clouds.”
Source: Heart's Blood
“Pearls ... have a way of dying when separated from their owner.”
“Pearls are always appropriate.”
“Pearls are perfection provided by nature. They are the only gems that do not require enhancing by man.”
“Pearls' burst out the Snork Maiden excitedly. 'Could ankle rings be made out of pearls?'
'I should think they could,' said Moomintoll. 'Ankle-rings, and nose-rings and ear-rings and engagement rings...”
“Pearls of wisdom are better than necklaces of diamonds.”
“Pearls.
Take, like an oyster,
your irritations, your pain.
Use these to create your masterpiece.”
“Pearls were accidents, and the finding of one was luck, a little pat on the back by God or the gods or both.”
Source: The Pearl
“Pears are my favorite fruit! Reminds me of childhood.”
“Pears are pear-shaped, not because they went wrong. They're pear-shaped because they're beautifully delicious.”
“Pears cannot ripen alone. So we ripened together.”
Source: Ripening: Selected Work
“Peas baffled me. I could not understand why grown-ups would take things that tasted so good raw, and then put them in tins, and make them revolting.”
“Peas went with carrots as infallibly as ham went with eggs. For years I thought carrots and peas grew on the same vine.”
Source: A Window Over the Sink
“Peasant people ... don't have a chance to share in the riches that the planet can offer because some people are taking off so much of the pleasures of this world, and there's only so much to go around.”
“Peasant to princess to queen to empress.
To spring from the first to the second was an act of God. To leap all four in a single year--- it was impossible.
And yet here she was, living her impossible life, Briar Rose the peasant bard, Aurora the princess, some new furious woman the queen.
What version of her would rise up once she became empress?
How many different versions of one person could she hold within her body until she broke from the strain?”
Source: A Sword In Slumber
“Peasants are a rude lot, and hard: life has hardened their hearts, but they are thick and awkward only in appearance; you have to know them. No one is more sensitive to what gives man the right to call himself a man: good-heartedness, bravery and virile brotherhood.”
“Peasants are people without sense or forethought. Therefore, they must not give rice to their wives and children at harvest time, but must save food for the future. They should eat millet, vegetables, and other coarse food instead of rice. Even the fallen leaves of plants should be saved as food against famine.”
“Peasants brought up on a tradition of superstitious magic could hardly be expected to distinguish between such ostensibly Christian rituals and the mumbled incantations of the local wizard. And so, to the discomfort of the priests, many came to regard elements of Christian devotion as simple magical spells. The Latin Mass was, after all, incomprehensible to the common people, so it already had the aspect of an occult formula. It came to be seen, like magic, as an essentially mechanical rite through which absolution was achieved by observing the correct procedures. In that case, there was no real need for faith.”
Source: The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science
“Peasants have believed in dowsing, and scientists used to believe that dowsing was only a belief of peasants. Now there are so many scientists who believe in dowsing that the suspicion comes to me that it may only be a myth after all.”
Source: The Complete Books of Charles Fort
“Pebble Beach is Alcatraz with grass.”
“Pebble Beach. It is tough and the lay out is amazing.”
“Pebble is a piece of sacred ground. They say it's the greatest meeting of land and water in the world. This course was heaven designed - just the way it fits on the land.”
“Pebble's ripple fades
echoes of mindfulness lingers long
tranquil pond of the present”
“Pecaba yo, por cuanto buscaba la verdad, la deleitación y la sublimidad no en Él, sino en mí mismo y en las demás criaturas; y por esto me precipitaba en el dolor, la confusión y el error. Porque tú siempre estabas a mi lado, ensañándote misericordiosamente conmigo y amargabas mis ilegítimas alegrías para que así aprendiera a buscar goces que no te ofendan. ¿Y dónde podía yo conseguir esto sino en ti, Señor, que finges poner dolor en tus preceptos, nos hieres para sanarnos y nos matas para que no nos muramos lejos de ti?”
Source: Confessions
“pecado que se preze consome por completo o possuidor, de tão guloso que é”
Source: 7 Pecados
“Pecans are not cheap, my hons. In fact, in the South, the street value of shelled pecans just before holiday baking season is roughly that of crack cocaine. Do not confuse the two. It is almost impossible to make a decent crack cocaine tassie, I am told.”
Source: You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start in the Morning
“Pecas pequeñas
No son pecas permanentes, son recuerdos dispersos de temporadas más calurosas y días soleados.”
“Peccato che le opportunità arrivino sempre al momento sbagliato. O, se pare che tutto vada bene, arriva sempre qualcosa a cancellare tutto. E così è per tante cose che potrebbero essere utili. Come se il mondo resistesse…”
Source: Bridge of Ashes
“Pech ist heute nur noch die Würze des Glücks!”
Source: Damals bei uns daheim. Erlebtes, Erfahrenes und Erfundenes
“Peck prided herself on being well-mannered, often to the point of rudeness.”
Source: The Summer We Read Gatsby
“Pectoral implants? My God! The man's had a boob job!”
Source: Forever Scarred
“Peculiar as I was, and remain, I was trained to be practical. I'm still amazed at the radical temerity of my friends, you included, Julie, who choose poetry as their vocation. I envy your faith.”
“Peculiar or not, it is my idea of pleasure. Why, why else do you lead this life you don't enjoy it? Don't talk of duty to me; you men always have some high-sounding excuse for indulging yourselves. You go gallivanting over the earth, climbing mountains, looking for the sources of the Nile; and expect women to sit dully at home embroidering. I embroider very badly. I think I would excavate rather well.”
“Peculiar to Sydney, in those days, was a single word written in chalk in beautiful, looping copperplate on street corners. Sydney was known for it, the word chalked at the feet of the inhabitants and visitors, like a letter consisting of a lone word, but personally addressed to each member of a crowd. . . .
It says ‘Eternity,’ love. . . . A man has been writing that word in chalk for thirty years. It’s famous now.”
Source: The Secret of Lost Things
“Peculiars don't have past lives," said Millard. "We live them all at once.”
Source: Hollow City
“Pedagogical romances leave the mentor disgruntled, the pupil confused.”
“Pedagogically, we need definitions and borders. They help us get our heads around what we're talking about.”
“Pedagogues: More than any other class of blind leaders of the blind they are responsible for the degrading standardization which now afflicts the American people.”
“Pedagogy must be oriented not to the yesterday, but to the tomorrow of the child's development. Only then can it call to life in the process of education those processes of development which now lie in the zone of proximal development”
“Pedagogy of the Oppressed resonated with progressive educators, already committed to a 'child-centered' rather than a 'teacher-directed' approach to classroom instruction. Freire's rejection of teaching content knowledge seemed to buttress what was already the ed schools' most popular theory of learning, which argued that students should work collaboratively in constructing their own knowledge and that the teacher should be a 'guide on the side,' not a 'sage on the stage.'”
“Pedagogy, like language itself, can either liberate or imprison ideas, inspire of suffocate constructive thinking.”
“Pedal the cycle of character,
dismiss the people of sheep,
savor the zealot they weep”
Source: ALTER EGO: Poetry for the Hidden Self
“Pedaling through the dark currents, I find an accurate copy. A blue print of the pleasure in me.”
“Pedantry and bigotry are millstones, able to sink the best book which carries the least part of their dead weight. The temper of the pedagogue suits not with the age; and the world, however it may be taught, will not be tutored.”
“Pedantry and mastery are opposite attitudes toward rules. To apply a rule to the letter, rigidly, unquestioningly, in cases where it fits and in cases where it does not fit, is pedantry. [...] To apply a rule with natural ease, with judgment, noticing the cases where it fits, and without ever letting the words of the rule obscure the purpose of the action or the opportunities of the situation, is mastery.”
Source: How to solve it: a new aspect of mathematical method