Top 100 P T Quotes
#2. I worked for Sarah Palin. I have the political staffer version of P.T.S.D., so whenever I hear that she's breaking her silence, my heart stops.
Nicolle Wallace
#3. My support system, in my surgeon, my P.T., my pilates, my weightlifting, everything that I'm doing to make my body and my mind stronger is just, you know, has been on point. So I feel very prepared for the journey to qualify, and the journey to wear the gold medal.
Kerri Walsh
#4. P. T. Forsyth's book Positive Preaching and the Modern Mind. These are its opening words: 'It is, perhaps, an overbold beginning, but I will venture to say that with its preaching Christianity stands or falls.
John R.W. Stott
#5. I think Woody Allen calls it 'anxiety of influence.' When you're in your formative years and you watch a movie that makes you want to make movies ... For Wes Anderson, it's Truffaut. I'm sure for P.T. Anderson it was Scorsese and Jonathan Demme.
Max Winkler
#6. There's only been three giant promoters in our lifetime. There's Michael Todd, P.T. Barnum, and yours truly.
Don King
#7. Since 1978 the record pretty well shows that no start-up airline ... has really been successful, so the odds of JetBlue having long-term success are remote. I'm not going to say it can't happen because stranger things have happened, but I personally believe P.T. Barnum was, in that respect, correct.
Gordon Bethune
#8. I'm better than P. T. Barnum and Colonel Parker put together.
Evel Knievel
#9. The tattoo is just setting below his hp bone.
H e l l i s e m p t y
a n d a l l t h e d e v i l s a r e h e r e
I kiss my way across the words.
Kissing away the devils.
Kissing away the pain.
Tahereh Mafi
#10. I'm a bit of a P. T. Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Donald Trump
#11. P.T. Barnum said a sucker is born every minute, but his estimate was laughably low.
Jonathan Gruber
#12. Somebody came up to me after a talk I had given, and say, "You make mathematics seem like fun." I was inspired to reply, "If it isn't fun, why do it?"
Ralph P. Boas Jr.
#13. There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.
P.T. Barnum
#14. He wasn't anti-gun really - he just wasn't pro-being-shot-at.
Adam P. Knave
#15. I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose.
P.G. Wodehouse
#16. Robots are emotionless, so they don't get upset if their buddy is killed, they don't commit crimes of rage and revenge. But ... they see an 80-year-old grandmother in a wheelchair the same way they see a T80 tank; they're both just a series of zeros and ones.
P. W. Singer
#17. If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the right career for you.
P.C. Cast
#18. You know how it is with cats: They don't really have owners, they have staff.
P.C. Cast
#19. Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.
P.J. Harvey
#20. What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.
Franklin P. Jones
#21. Love, always love. Perhaps that's what we're all looking for. And if we don't get it early enough we panic in case we never shall.
P.D. James
#22. The killjoys initiated automobile crash standards so rigorous that we can't buy a car that hasn't been dropped from the top of a phone pole with our whole family strapped inside.
P. J. O'Rourke
#23. We rarely consider that we're also formed by the decisions we didn't make, by events that could have happened but didn't, or by our lack of choices, for that matter. (p. 22)
Rabih Alameddine
#24. No profession, trade, or calling, is overcrowded in the upper story.
P.T. Barnum
#25. Hell, it is well known, has no fury like a woman who wants her tea and can't get it.
P.G. Wodehouse
#26. There are moments in life where you don't get a do-over, where the true nature of your character is revealed. You either step up to the plate or lose your chance forever. These moments shape a life. These moments earn you the right to say to yourself 'at least I got the important stuff right.
P. Dangelico
#28. Just because it doesn't make sense 'to me' doesn't mean it doesn't make sense 'at all'.
Emily P. Freeman
#29. I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am absolved of responsibility. We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scurry.
P. J. O'Rourke
#30. If you want to make money and have action, you need to work from like, 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. Those are the hours. That just doesn't fit with a lot of people's schedules. And that's just the start of it. You've got to realize what you are getting into.
Chris Moneymaker
#31. Don't forget that in pushing policemen into duck ponds the follow through is everything.
P.G. Wodehouse
#32. Naturally one would rather be a broad artist with power to evoke beauty from every phase of experience
but when one unmistakably isn't such an artist, there's no sense in bluffing and faking and pretending that one is.
H.P. Lovecraft
#33. They weren't immigrating to some existing society; indeed, they often did whatever they could do to destroy whatever existed here in the way of Indian society.
Samuel P. Huntington
#34. I haven't been around here for long. Well ... actually, I haven't been around anywhere for long. I don't know who I am, or what I'm here for. I know that Lord Umber's important, though. I've seen all the good things he's done. I know for sure the world needs him. I can't say that about me.
P.W. Catanese
#35. I don't think he could ever be a serial killer. He's way too shy. That Ted Bundy guy, he was pretty outgoing , from what I heard. -Jess about Doug p. 107
Meg Cabot
#36. If my parents aren't ignoring me, they're insulting me. I like being ignored better.
P.C. Cast
#37. Don't you think baby corns are scary? There's just something wrong about their midget bodies.
P.C. Cast
#38. Without promotion, something terrible happens ... nothing!
P.T. Barnum
#39. The larger the German body, the smaller the German bathing suit and the louder the German voice issuing German demands and German orders to everybody who doesn't speak German. For this, and several other reasons, Germany is known as 'the land where Israelis learned their manners'.
P. J. O'Rourke
#40. Only an academic could state the obvious and pass it off as wisdom." -Moist Von Lipwig (T.P., Going Postal)
Terry Pratchett
#41. I don't think the Palestinians are in this position they're in, divided with Hamas and the P.A., unwilling to allow - or recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
David Brooks
#42. I don't believe that there is any fourth dimension, and I emphatically do not believe in Tao.
H.P. Lovecraft
#43. Any time I sit down at my laptop to write and I'm feeling lazy, or that I can't be bothered, or if I'm generally just lacking inspiration, I sit there and remember life with my ex-wife, and the words flow from my fingertips.
Shane K.P. O'Neill
#44. A girl who is really pretty - whether she wraps herself in an abayah, a nun's habit, or the front hall rug - never wraps herself so that the world can't tell.
P. J. O'Rourke
#45. What I feel we ought to do at this juncture is to dash off somewhere where it's quiet and there aren't so many housesdancing the 'Blue Danube' and shove some tea into ourselves. And over the pot and muffins I shall have something veryimportant to say to you.
P.G. Wodehouse
#46. Drag you back if you do not wish to go. Though ... the prince consort did mention the phrase, throw away the key, at one point.
I couldn't be sure, but I thought I saw Keirran gulp.
Julie Kagawa
#47. I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
P.J. Harvey
#48. We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scutter.
P. J. O'Rourke
#49. I want to be a Huntress when I grow up!" shouted a voice from the throng.
Kyna rolled her eyes and shook her head. "You can't be a Huntress, Liam. You're not a centaur and you're not a female.
P.C. Cast
#50. First-class travel, provided one hasn't to pay for it oneself, is the most insidiously addictive of life's luxuries.
P.D. James
#51. We will win an election when all the seats in the House and Senate and the chair behind the desk in the Oval Office and the whole bench of the Supreme Court are filled with people who wish they weren't there.
P. J. O'Rourke
#52. The number one reason we don't believe things that are true is because they don't always feel true.
Emily P. Freeman
#53. Talking to the parents of older kids was helpful for me, since the parents of kids the same age as yours won't admit how horrible their children are ... you can either practice being right or practice being kind. Screaming in the car helped. [p. 94]
Anne Lamott
#54. What if he does think you the world's premier louse? Don't we all?
P.G. Wodehouse
#55. Real-World Example = Don't schedule meetings that demand high creativity on Friday afternoon at 4:00 P.M. People are creatively empty then and their ideas will be too.
Jon Acuff
#56. I'm a feminist, of course, and I feel as if I'm very politically correct, although I do question what's P.C. and what's not - I don't just accept what I'm told.
Beth Ditto
#57. Take my advice, dear reader, don't talk epigrams even if you have the gift. I know, to those have, the temptation is almost irresistible. But resist it. Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to be somewhat chiselled, as it were, before it will quite fit into an epigram.
Joseph P. Farrell
#58. You think you can just rid me from your thoughts? You can't. You're mine, Emily. Fucking mine, he growled.
McHugh, Gail (2013-09-17). Collide: Book One in the Collide Series (p. 363). Atria Books. Kindle Edition.
Gail McHugh
#59. Hey this is Lenore! Yup, it sure is Lenore! Huh, maybe he can't hear me, maybe I should spell it. L-e-n-o-p
There's no p in Lenore , Lenore.
Oh yeah? Then what's this raggamuffin? Pssssssssssss
Aaaaagh! How are you even projecting it at that angle!?!
Roman Dirge
#60. I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had ... maybe I could even quit renting.
P. J. O'Rourke
#61. A Fat King and A False Queen Won't Be Able
To Buy A Brother's Death Back
by A Sailboat in Italy.
Not Even for a Bloody Country.
P. Hermans
August 17, 2016
Petra Hermans
#62. Somebody has to tell the E.P.A. that we don't need you monkeying around and fiddling around and getting in our business with every kind of regulation you can dream up. You're doing nothing more than killing jobs. It's a cemetery for jobs at the E.P.A.
Rick Perry
#63. Those who participate in a genocide as well as those who merely look away rarely volunteer much in the way of anecdote or observation. Same with the heroic and the righteous. Usually it's only the survivors who speak-and often they don't want to talk much about it either. p. 75
Chris Bohjalian
#64. Publishers don't nurse you; they buy and sell you.
P.D. James
#65. All these problems [deciding cases] are easier for people who believe in God. Those of us who don't or can't have to do the best we can. That's what the law is, the best we can do. Human justice is imperfect, but it's the only justice we have.
P.D. James
#66. I came to be emulated. That's what people didn't get. Followed, as in being an example, as in making your interior world resemble mine. p. 22
Roland Merullo
#67. Cool! I don't have to be told twice. I'm a monster not a Morin. He moved quickly back to the bed.
P.C. Cast
#68. I don't like honors ... I've already got the prize: the prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out, the kick in the discovery, the observation that other people use it. Those are the real things.
Richard P. Feynman
#69. The orthodox faith painted God as a revengeful being, and yet people talk about loving such a being.
P.T. Barnum
#71. I want to feel deeply, and whenever I am brokenhearted I emerge more compassionate. I think I allow myself to be brokenhearted more easily, knowing I won't be irrevocably shattered [p. 59]
Sylvia Boorstein
#72. In the restaurant business, as opposed to the theater, center orchestra is an 8 P. M. reservation. Orchestra on the side is 7 or 8:30. Mezzanine is 6 and 9. But people don't take it personally when they call the theater and can't get what they want.
Danny Meyer
#73. Waste is any human activity which absorbs resources but creates no value. - James P. Womak and Daniel T. Jones,
Ash Maurya
#74. Actually, I wouldn't mind a Malibu and coke."
"You're having a fucking pint."
"Is my choice of drink too gay for you?"
"Malibu and coke is a pussy drink. Last I heard you were strictly anti-pussy.
L.A. Gilbert
#75. Government subsidies can be critically analyzed according to a simple principle: You are smarter than the government, so when the government pays you to do something you wouldn't do on your own, it is almost always paying you to do something stupid.
P. J. O'Rourke
#76. I will be the Vampire Lestat for all to see. A symbol, a freak of nature - something loved, something despised all of those things. I tell you I can't give it up. I can't miss. And quite frankly I am not in the least afraid.
- Lestat, The Vampire Lestat, p. 532
Anne Rice
#77. You didn't take your wife p. 59for fast and for loose; but for better for worse.
Charles Dickens
#78. I couldn't tell what the hell Heath was talking about." Stark's stomach tightened. "You mean Aurox." "Yeah, Aurox." Zoey frowned. "That's what I said. So, what's going on?" Stark was too tired to argue with her, so he ignored her Freudian slip,
P.C. Cast
#79. The wonders of the ages assembled for your edification, education and enjoyment - for a price.
P.T. Barnum
#80. There's a love of rhetorical skill in the Muslim world. Osama bin Laden doesn't just go on tape cassettes and say, 'America sucks.' He recites poetry; he finds things that 'America sucks' rhymes with.
P. J. O'Rourke
#81. Clearly there are individuals who don't understand what the church teaches, or they think it's so limiting.
William P. Leahy
#82. One thing talk can't accomplish is communication. This is because everybody's talking too much to pay attention to what anyone is saying
P. J. O'Rourke
#84. If you can't challenge your own way of thinking, then you can't write various perspectives. The real world rarely agrees, which is also true in fiction.
G.P. Burdon
#85. He couldn't have moved quicker if he had been the dachshund Poppet, who at this juncture was running round in circles, trying, if I read his thoughts aright, to work off the rather heavy lunch he had had earlier in the afternoon.
P.G. Wodehouse
#86. Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.
P. J. O'Rourke
#89. People who are filled with hate don't know how to handle love.
P.C. Cast
#90. I feel about John ['s gospel] like I feel about my wife; I love her very much, but I wouldn't claim to understand her.
(Following Jesus, p. 27.)
N. T. Wright
#91. You won't get love from a child if you don't give love.
P.D. James
#92. Fortunately, I discovered journalism. Talent hasn't been a question since. But
P. J. O'Rourke
#93. Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.
J. P. Morgan
#94. Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.
W.P. Kinsella
#95. Farm policy, although it's complex, can be explained. What it can't be is believed. No cheating spouse, no teen with a wrecked family car, no mayor of Washington, D.C., videotaped in flagrante delicto has ever come up with anything as farfetched as U.S. farm policy.
P. J. O'Rourke
#96. So this is a fundamental problem, being out of a loop that I don't even believe in.
James P. Othmer
#97. And if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it ...
Constantine P. Cavafy
#98. It was one of those cases where you approve the broad, general principle of an idea but can't help being in a bit of a twitter at the prospect of putting it into practical effect. I explained this to Jeeves, and he said much the same thing had bothered Hamlet.
P.G. Wodehouse
#99. But I hope we don't burden Amy with the idea that living outside the city limits is an inherently pious act. That rural equals righteous.
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Michael Perry
#100. My family has been around campaigns for a long time. It's something you really have to be sure that you alone want to do. Because if not, if you don't want to do it, that will just blow through the surface at some point, and people can tell. And when people can tell, it's all over.
Joseph P. Kennedy III
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