P Quotes
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“Personally, I never understood the power of having books written about your experience - whatever that experience may be - until I wrote one and started hearing from teens. I just got an email from a reader who said that "Thirteen Reasons Why" was the first time they had felt understood. A book shouldn't be anybody's first time feeling understood and that's where censorship bothers me. These books need to be out there.”
“Personally, I now aim for one month of overseas relocation or high-intensity learning (tango, fighting, whatever) for every two months of work projects.”
“Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong. There's a lot of restriction for contemporary films simply because of subject matter.”
“Personally, I prefer the dark side.”
“Personally, I prefer to play against the look: If a character appears particularly unhinged, with makeup running down her face, I like to play her as if she has it together. I think that juxtaposition makes it so much more interesting.”
“Personally, I prepare exactly the same for every game: I don't think, "I'm going to have to do extra here because of what they think of us." But if you're an England player you do tend to be told how much everyone hates you.”
“Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.”
“Personally, I rather think that if you're not creative you've got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you've got a double problem.”
“Personally, I react to Marlon Brando. He's a favorite of mine.”
“Personally, I read a lot of scripts.”
“Personally, I really enjoy sci-fi. I watch it, I read comic books, and I play video games. I love this kind of world, so too be able to work in it is a dream. I enjoy it.”
“Personally, I really hope I can treat everyone equally. I think I have done a pretty good job so far but I know I can do it better.”
“Personally, I regard myself as an intellectual 'rebel,' kicking against the 'old colonialism-imperialism paradigm' which has landed Africa in a conundrum.”
“Personally, I resent being tagged ‘glamour girl.’ It’s such an absurd, extravagant label. It implies so much that I’m not.”
“Personally, I say, "Out of the frying pan and into the deadly pit filled with sharks who are wielding chainsaws with killer kittens stapled to them." However, that one's having a rough time catching on.”
Source: The Scrivener's Bones: Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians
“Personally, I tend to worry about what I save, not what I spend.”
“Personally, I think any more than two or three kids is not a family, it's a litter.”
“Personally, I think four is the perfect number of children for our particular family. Four is enough to create the frenzied cacophony that my husband and I find so joyful.”
“Personally, I think government is a tool, like a hammer. You can use a hammer to build or you can use a hammer to destroy; there is nothing intrinsically good or evil about the hammer itself. It is the purposes to which it is put and the skill with which it is used that determine whether the hammer's work is good or bad.”
Source: You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You
“Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.”
“Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on that.”
“Personally, I think it's a good way to let a child start right in with the laws of Nature before he's old enough to be surprised at them.”
“Personally, I think Jesus would like better bands.”
“Personally, I think Jim Henson said it best when he said "Anybody got an aspirin? I think I've got a cold."”
“Personally, I think Julian Assange is a hero.”
Source: 63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want You to Read
“Personally, I think knees should be kept for the eighth or ninth date, or the wedding day. As a nice surprise you know? 'oh, my darling, you have knees! I never would have thought”
“Personally, I think life offers us the opportunity to take chances and make changes all the time.”
“Personally, I think Mitt Romney would be a great secretary of state.”
“Personally, I think neutral is just another way of saving your own ass at the expense of someone else's.”
Source: Out of this World
“Personally, I think SmackDown! has to be a little spicier than it is, a little more electrifying than it is. It's got great athletes and they've got great action, they've done some tremendous stuff, but I want it to knock you off the couch when it opens up. And I think we as a group have the ability to do that.”
“Personally, I think that children should be left alone, they should be given an opportunity to grow up, to become aware of themselves and decide themselves who they are: men or women, if they want to have a traditional or homosexual marriage.”
“Personally, I think that for example the chemical directive in its present form does too much damage to the chemical industry - especially the medium sized businesses - and will hurt our worldwide competitiveness.”
“Personally, I think that my father's ministry does have some effect on one. I perhaps thought I wasn't listening that well, but I could almost recite his sermons. He had the old-fashioned preaching style of chanting. He would explain a point and then there would be this pitch to excite the audience because people would eventually shout and respond to what he was saying.”
“Personally, I think the 'Christian family' should be called a Christian fantasy.”
“Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?'”
“Personally, I think they killed the bear because they were afraid of it. That s what people do, kill the things they re afraid of.”
“Personally, I think tying garbage bags around your head and hands is overkill.”
“Personally, I think wearing a baby chinchilla says, 'I'm ignorant.'”
“Personally, I think you can put any interpretation you want on anything, but when someone suggests that Can't Buy Me Love is about a prostitute, I draw the line. That's going too far.”
“Personally, I think young musicians need to learn to play more than one style. Jazz can only enhance the classical side, and classical can only enhance the jazz. I started out playing classical, because you have to have that as a foundation.”
“Personally, I was never the cool kid. I was always sort of a bookworm.”
“Personally, I wish D. would come after me, I need a good dance partner. My Daimons have lame legs. (Acheron)”
Source: Night Pleasures
“Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.”
Source: Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science
“Personally, I would not give a fig for any man's religion whose horse, cat and dog do not feel its benefits. Life in any form is our perpetual responsibility.”
“Personally, I would rather climb in the high mountains. I have always abhorred the tremendous heat, the dirt-filled cracks, the ant-covered foul-smelling trees and bushes which cover the cliffs, the filth and noise of Camp 4 (the climbers' campground), and worst of all, the multitudes of tourists which abound during the weekends and summer months.”
“Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used.”
“Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.”
Source: Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
“Personally, I wouldn't advise a gay leading man-type actor to come out.”
“Personally, I wouldn't wait around for someone to tell you you're good enough before you make your own comics. Just make them, always try to improve and care about what you're doing. Be relentless and never give up.”
“Personally, I'd be delighted to live in a country where happily married gay couples had closets full of assault weapons.”