P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“People like to think that actors are terribly worried about ghosts of other actors in the parts they play. But you just have to get on with it.”
“People like to think the creative process is romantic. The artist drifts to sleep at night, to be awakened by the subliminal echoes of his or her next brilliant idea. The truth, for me at least, is that creativity is primarily the result of hard work and study.”
“People like to think the worst. They like to have hushed gossip sessions and point their fingers at someone's problems that are more obvious than their own.”
“People like to think the younger generation's job is to steer the world to hell. But it's never true, is it? They're hopeful and good - and that's how it should be.”
Source: Olive Kitteridge: Fiction
“People like to trace their ancestry.”
“People like to warn you that by the time you reach the middle of your life, passion will begin to feel like a meal eaten long ago, which you remember with great tenderness.”
Source: The Uncoupling: A Novel
“People like Tywin Lannister are very much victims of that system, and of that environment: 'This is my place, don't threaten it'. I don't know how relevant that is to today. Politics is the most corrupt profession on earth, no matter where you are.”
“People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.”
“People like us are dead to society unless we’re pretentious, tell people what they want to hear, take off our clothes, or pretend to be like them.”
“People like us are unhappy in this world and in the next, I guess if we made it to heaven, we'd have to help make it thunder.”
“People like us don't go out at night cause people like them see us for what we are”
“People like us”—he gestures here to us
and the folks on the tent side of the train—“we come back because we need to.”
We come back because we need to.”
Source: Flyboy
“People like us we gotta stick together Keep your head up nothing lasts forever.”
“People like us, we think differently, don't we? We are different. We do all the things that others do. But when it comes down to it, we don't need anyone else. We're happy doing what we do and having obligation interferes with that. And sometimes I think we don't even need ourselves. What's most important is to find out whether we're right or not.”
Source: Equations of Life
“People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies.”
“People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
“People like what is not true and they don't like what is true.”
“People like what they like. They're gonna do what they're gonna do.”
“People like where their roots are,
especially when they are away from them.”
“People like you always want back the love they pushed aside. But people like me are gone forever when you say goodbye.”
“People like you and I would have long been crushed by this world. We are saved because we believed in something.”
Source: The Thugs & a Courtesan
“People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live.”
Source: Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives
“People like you are the reason People like me need medication.”
Source: Demons Not Included: A Night Tracker Novel
“People like you are the reason this album needed to be written in the first place. When you’ve got your salary, and your cosy little ivory tower, you’re dead happy to spout off about artistic integrity and us getting there together. But the minute you’re asked to back your promises up with some strength of character, you come apart. You say you love good music, but you can’t listen to it that carefully if you treat people like this.”
Source: How I Left the National Grid: A Post-Punk Novel
“People like you don’t go mad, Vi. They’re quiet on the outside and loud on the inside and sane as the day is long”
Source: Between the Spark and the Burn
“People like you should be stopped, Mr. Woodrow,' she mused aloud, with a puzzled shake of her wise head. 'You think you're solving the world's problems but actually you're the problem.”
Source: The Constant Gardener: A Novel
“People like you to be something, preferably what they are.”
Source: East of Eden
“People liked to believe that tragedies are interchangeable, that they bought you entrance into some kind of brotherhood of grief, where empathy among members was exalted, telepathic, but this is was probably because they needed to believe that tragedy taught you something, that is wasn't a total waste, that the prize you received in lieu of your loss was a new level of understanding. Max didn't view his bereavement as particularly educational, however. All he new now that he hadn't known before was what he should have known in the first place: no one was safe.”
Source: White Palace
“People liked to eat veal until they saw pictures of these darling little animals with brown eyes. Veal calves been raised the same way for centuries.”
“People link the 80s to that very liberal theme, growing up in a very liberal world, having ideals or not having ideals. The 80s were an confusing era.”
“People listen for cues - when they are searching for a decision, they look to people they know. Young people can be apathetic in certain ways unless they hear from someone they like and admire about why they should be engaged and involved. If someone you love is doing a rally or concert, you may be engaged to register.”
“People listen to music for different reasons. Some people, -its background music— but other people need it to survive. Other people need music to get things out and maybe that’s just where I’m coming from, you know, when things weren’t easy for me, growing up. You know, music, I felt, saved my life. Pete Townshend, wherever you are, Pete, you saved my life. You know, whether he knows it or not. I wouldn’t be here. And I had absolutely nothing else besides music. And so that’s still, you know, that’s in me, and so if we’re gonna play, if we’re gonna get up and play, or write a song, you know, write about something that means something. You know, why write about, you know, 'Oh, pretty day', or, 'Pretty girl' or 'Pretty people', there’s nothing… people have different reasons for listening and playing. I need to —for me-, it’s much more.. religious!”
“People listen to music the way they want to listen to music.”
“People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts.”
“People listen to someone online they've never met more than they do to their parents, teachers, doctors. It's tragic, really...”
Source: The Island
“People listen to the beat first. So if that doesn't draw people in especially with the audience I cater to, they're definitely about that production.”
“People listen to the music and sense what it is about. Sometimes they know exactly what the songs are about, sometimes they interpret their own meaning to the music, and thats great when this happens because it shows its striking a chord.”
“People listen to the wishes of the heart but never listen to its warnings.”
“People listening to songs are like people reading novels: for a few minutes, for a few hours, someone else gets to come in and hijack that part of your brain that's always thinking. A good book or song kidnaps your interior voice and does all the driving. With the artist in charge you're free for a little while to leave your body and be someone else.”
Source: Player One: What Is to Become of Us
“People little dream of how their affairs react on the body. There is a mental correspondence for every disease.”
Source: The Complete Game of Life and How to Play It: The Classic Text with Commentary, Study Questions, Action Items, and Much Mor
“People live a lot freer in their body and their voices and their moves than people act onscreen.”
“People live, and then they die, and as long as they do both things propertly, there's nothing much to regret.”
“People live and work in uninspiring environments, but look inside those rooms. Look at the painted walls and the decorations. People rebel even in the most controlled office environment in which they're not allowed to do anything. You see the little bulletin board in front of a person's desk with their photos, clippings, cartoons and whatever else.”
“People live by example. I can't tell you, "You can be anything," if I shot my own dreams down or was too afraid to go after them.”
“People live for the morrow, because the day-after-to-morrow is doubtful.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“People live for two reasons. There are those who live for the Soul; such people are very rare. All others live for money. All day is spent for money, money, money!”
“People live in different worlds. There's a rich world, there's a poor world, and there's an extremely poor. The one you dwell is determined by the outcome of your sacrifice.”
“People live in fear of bad being out to get them, when in reality, the bad side is there only to be in polar opposite proportion to the positive that you are destined to thrive in. Conquer the negative, and thrive in the positive.”
“People live in sleep, do everything in sleep, and do not know they are asleep.”
“People live life their way, not because they choose to be; but because they have to be.”