Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Marshall

It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Peter Marshall

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

Peter Matthiessen

I can watch elephants (and elephants alone) for hours at a time, for sooner or later the elephant will do something very strange... There is mystery behind that masked gray visage, and ancient life force, delicate and mighty, awesome and enchanted, commanding the silence ordinarily reserved for mountain peaks, great fires, and the sea.

Rachel Carson

Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life.

Rachel Carson

I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.

Quintilian

That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.

Quincy Jones

When you're over the hill, that's when you pick up speed.

Quincy Jones

The people who make it to the top - whether they're musicians, or great chefs, or corporate honchos - are addicted to their calling ... [they] are the ones who'd be doing whatever it is they love, even if they weren't being paid.

Quentin Crisp

Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

Quentin Crisp

You should make no effort to try to join society, stay right where you are. Give your name and serial number and wait for society to come to you.

Quentin Crisp

It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.

Quentin Crisp

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

Quentin Tarantino

When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

Quentin Tarantino

My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.

Prince Charles

I think we're going to find, with climate change and everything else, things like global warming and goodness knows what else and the cost of fuel for a start, that things are going to become very complicated.

Prince Charles

Climate change should be seen as the greatest challenge to face man and treated as a much bigger priority in the United Kingdom.

Prince Philip

When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.

We can see that the baby is as much an instrument of nourishment to us, as we are for him.

Most of us would do more for our babies than we have ever been willing to do for anyone, even ourselves.

Plotinus

The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.

Plutarch

The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.

Plutarch

Nature and wisdom never are at strife.

Plutarch

The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.

Plutarch

Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.

Plutarch

For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.

Plutarch

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

Plutarch

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Pier Paolo Pasolini

The cinema is an explosion of my love for reality.

Pico Iyer

And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.

Phillips Brooks

Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life.

Phillips Brooks

If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.

Phillips Brooks

I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.

Philip Yancey

I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse.