P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Personally I like going places where I don't speak the language, don't know anybody, don't know my way around and don't have any delusions that I'm in control. Disoriented, even frightened, I feel alive, awake in ways I never am at home.”
“Personally I like the slow burn; I don't think there is anything wrong with it. When I think about the movies that were most effective on me as a viewer I think of the original Haunting and the Exorcist, Rosemary's Baby, the Sixth Sense, the Others. These movies are not over the top at all, they are movies that rely on good story telling, good acting, good premise, good exposition and I want to stay true to that in future projects.”
“Personally I like to believe that all become honest, the millennium is round the corner!”
“Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth, no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidential elections.”
Source: Idoru
“Personally, I like to sleep. And I intend to appropriately confine myself more and more to my living quarters and pass my life away sleeping.”
“Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.”
“Personally, I'm happy I haven't run into a murderous killer since, well...since you chopped my ex's head off with a sword.”
Source: Until I Die
“Personally, I mistrust all handsome men. The superficial pleasures of this life come too easily to them, and they seem to walk the world as though they themselves were personally responsible for their own good looks. I don't mind a woman being pretty. That's different. But in a man, I'm sorry, but somehow or other I find it downright offensive.”
Source: Skin and Other Stories
“Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.”
“Personally I prefer Gospel music.”
“Personally, I prefer Stevie Wonder," confessed the Chink, "but what the hell. Those cowgirls are always bitching because the only radio station in the area plays nothing but polkas, but I say you can dance to anything if you really feel like dancing." To prove it, he got up and danced to the news.”
Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
“Personally i prefer the MX RR and a stylized name, but i was trying to solve the problem rather than create an industry.”
“Personally I prefer to work things out by feel, by instinct.”
“Personally I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world championship. Humanitiy needs a lesson in humility.”
“Personally I really like to see when a woman can put together a super fresh everyday look that is not over done or anything. It just makes me feel like she's really something and she knows she doesn't have to have on the super tight skirt.”
“Personally, I refuse to drive a car - I won't have anything to do with any kind of transportation in which I can't read.”
Source: Report on Planet Three
“Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise.”
Source: The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
“Personally I take more satisfaction in understanding people than in passing judgement on them.”
Source: Chess Story
“Personally, I think knowing the difference between a racist and a saint is kind of  important. But when Jesus again and again says things like the last shall be first, and the first shall be last, and the poor are blessed, and the rich are cursed, and that prostitutes make great dinner guests, it makes me wonder if our need for pure black-and-white categories is not true religion but maybe actually a sin. Knowing what category to place hemlock in might help us know whether it's safe to drink, but knowing what category to place ourselves and others in does not help us know God in the way that the church so often has tried to convince us it does.”
Source: Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People
“Personally I think people's labels are terribly unhelpful because they enable you to dismiss things.”
“Personally, I think she liked living there, between the pages with him. Always adding little bits of memory but never closing the door.”
Source: The Things We Leave Unfinished
“Personally, I think so-called "common language" is more interesting and apropos than "proper English"; it's passionate and powerful in ways that "wherefore art thou ass and thy elbow" just isn't.”
Source: The Black Dagger Brotherhood: An Insider's Guide
“Personally, I think, so what? Money's just a thing and things change. That's what I've found. One minute something's really there, right next to you, and you can cuddle up to it. The next it just melts away, like a Hershey's kiss.”
“Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.”
“Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain Beauty. When you speak, or read, or write, you can tell if you've spoken or read or written a fine sentence. You can recognise a well-tuned phrase or an elegant style. But when you are applying the rules of grammar skilfully, you ascend to another level of the beauty of language. When you use grammar you peel back the layers, to see how it is all put together, to see it quite naked, in a way.”
“Personally I think that private property has a right to be defended. Our civilisation is built up on property, and can only be defended by private property.”
Source: Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait
“Personally, I think the "Potter" books have too many adverbs and not enough sex.”
“Personally I think there is no doubt that sub-atomic energy is available all around us, and that one day man will release and control its almost infinite power. We cannot prevent him from doing so and can only hope that he will not use it exclusively in blowing up his next door neighbour. (1936)”
“Personally, I think we should remove the word "shooting" from the vernacular. It's an ugly, biased word that somehow creates the assumption that a gun was involved. Let's go with 'Interpersonal Ballistic Event' (IBE).”
“Personally I think we're over-specialized. Why it's getting so we have experts who concentrate only on the lower section of a specimen's left ear.”
“Personally, I thought it chancy to rely on only one god. It struck me as akin to placing all your drachars on one chariot at the races...It didn't seem logical that one god could ensure the proper working of the world.”
Source: Domna, Part One: The Sun God's Daughter
“Personally I was just sick of the mimicry of American culture that was going on because it wasn't natural for us. We had grown up listening to reggae music in our communities. People were enjoying what we were doing with out music - we didn't have to work to sell it to them.”
“Personally, I would be ashamed to be rich and have precious and expensive goods only to show to the other people that I have more worth than them when in some parts of the world there are people who suffer. No one has more worth than anyone. Everyone can be worthy if he has conditions in his life that enable him to reclaim his values. Worth lies in culture, not in appearance and possession. Besides, every person has his own mission in this world and everyone is valuable.”
“Personally I would like to have pupils, a studio, pass on my love to them, work with them, without teaching them anything.. ..A convent, a monastery, a phalanstery of painting where one could train together.. ..but no programme, no instruction in painting.. ..drawing is still alright, it doesn't count, but painting - the way to learn is to look at the masters, above all at nature, and to watch other people painting.”
“Personally I would like to see that the nuclear age, in terms of power, does come, because there's no long-term future for developing countries without nuclear power.”
“Personally I'm an advocate for healthy marriages and families and I do a lot of speaking around the country sharing my faith and talking to women's groups, even specifically about marriage.”
“Personally I'm not a feminist, as I can't stand puritans.”
“Personally I'm obsessive-compulsive about the placement and cleanliness of my things.”
“Personally I've never put much store by honesty- I mean how can you trust a word whose first letter you don't even pronounce”
Source: Anagrams
“Personally Im very happy to be behind the scenes. I like collaboration, I like working with directors.”
“Personally, it would have been a better privilege for me to waste a fully dressed pig.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“Personally,' Lia commented, 'I find normal overrated.”
Source: Twelve
“Personally making a film solely for the shock value serves no purpose to me.”
“personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for good behavior and be promoted to a revenue officer it is not much of a step up but i am humble”
Source: The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel
“Personally." My mother digs a smile into the side of her cheek. "I'm rooting for Logan."
Logan produces a grin that suggests he's the cat that ate the canary, and suddenly I'm feeling rather canary-ish.”
Source: Toxic Part One
“Personally of course I regret everything. Not a word, not a deed, not a thought, not a need, not a grief, not a joy, not a girl, not a boy, not a doubt, not a trust, not a scorn, not a lust, not a hope, not a fear, not a smile, not a tear, not a name, not a face, no time, no place...that I do not regret, exceedingly. An ordure, from beginning to end.”
Source: Watt
“Personally speaking there's only so long you can go from film to film to film. There's an inspiration an actor gets from the stage.”
“Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing.”
“Personally, all I ever want to be wearing are jeans.”
“Personally, as a print journalist, I always found the most interesting stories to be the ones hacks talked about in the bar after work.”