List of Topics starting with [P]

In spite of what some people claim, we are not in a post-racial era. I think it's still an important issue to bring up.

Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly.

I come from the theater. Nothing is as difficult as working eight shows a week. Period. End of story.

I accept that in a free society you have to justify reductions in people's liberties. I accept that, bearing in mind my starting point is ...

For their menstrual cycle, women subconsciously want to punish men.

I'm just thinking of 2001, which I think is the most expensive independent film ever made - which is great, someday I hope I will ...

When we fail, we think that is the end of life. Actually, it is the beginning of a greater life when we persistently preserved.

We have altered the physical, chemical and biological properties of the planet on a geological scale. We have left no part of the globe untouched.

You moved too much like a hunter, padding silently next to the row of plastic plants as you made your line toward me.

Tears are words the mouth can't say nor can the heart bare.

Home is where you go to find solace from the ever changing chaos, to find love within the confines of a heartless world, and to ...

I always enjoy where I'm at throughout the world.

If you have too much to do, with God's help you will find time to do it all.

I scored one film by myself, which was the hardest thing I think I've ever done.

I wanted to make the lightest shoe possible, but still be able to perform at the same time.

Behind the visible movement there is another movement, one which cannot be seen, which is very strong, on which the outer movement depends. If this ...

Let your talents bloom before the world and you will enjoy their fruit.

I was very sensitive. I liked everything that touched fantasy and beauty. I dreamed of being a ballerina, but Mother said I was too big, ...

From the tiniest grain of sand to the brain of an Einstein, all existence, animate and inanimate, is the product of the same ninety-two elements ...

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

We are the wilderness withinScreaming out for true expression.Even when we're sleeping,There's no escape from this obsession.

Thank you to the world for being a wild and inspiring place, full of odd creatures, strange people, and mysterious cities. I hope by and ...

I was always interested in working with people with disabilities, and in high school I worked with people who had Down Syndrome. That was for ...

Oh, yeah. They killed him, all right. Some guy, who just happened to be linked to Troy, walked into a Territorial Caucus and toasted him ...

Tucker: You guys going to Milwaukee? Guy: Yes sir, heading home after a vacation. Tucker: Did you know there are midgets in Milwaukee? [The man ...

Moral philosophy is very largely a branch of fiction. Despite this, a philosopher has yet to write a great novel. The fact should not be ...

He's like the Energizer Bunny on crack with an amazing dick.

As we reflect back upon the tragic loss of Challenger and her brave crew of heroes who were aboard that fateful day, I am reminded ...

You don't know shit from apple butter.

And when my spirit wants no stimulus or nourishment save music, I know it is to be sought in cemeteries: the musicians hide in the ...

No one will understand you. It is not, ultimately, that important. What is important is that you understand you.

We'd rage a war, sun versus the stars of the earth and duke it out. Not for dominance, but the darkness of anonymity, the billions ...

When you get new rules that work, you're changing the physiology of your brain. And then your brain has to reconfigure itself in order to ...

Alas, is even Love too weak to unlock the heart and let it speak? Are even lovers powerless to reveal To one another what indeed ...

I don't like watchingpeople get shot so I would be a little skittish about that - squeamish, but I must say, I don't think the ...

Success and failure are unavoidably related in our minds with the state of things around us

If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are.

Especially once those poetry events began, because, yeah, the stuff was still on the page, but the page was starting to spill into real space, ...

His valet! In the rush of getting him off, his clumsy damned valet had put the wrong boots on him. Oh, when he got home ...

I learned from Francis Ford Coppola to treat the company like your family.

Yes, I think especially the Pentecostal churches, you know, that there's been such a growth in Pentecostalism. And it's a rejection of the much more ...

Danish is a different language, even though Danish people understand Swedes, and very few Swedes understand Danish.

I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, ...

Saying that government is not the way to solve problems is not saying that humanity cannot solve its problems. What I've finally learned is this: ...

I want to be an integrated woman.

It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in ...

Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness. (p.36)

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do ... but how much love we put in that action.

I was to be picked up and taken to my host's house in Thamesmead, South London. As

You want enough to fill you up. You want more cocaine and more vodka. You want more of all of them, of men, of the ...

The way I formed my studio and how I organize things actually came out of the model of the Japanese animation studio and the manga ...

In order to have a plot, you have to have a conflict, something bad has to happen.

Let us take our tongues and stick them out and waggle them in the wind. Let us walk, loving, let us walk and love, walking ...

It takes everything I have not to karate chop him for asking such a dumb question.

They learned no compassion from their own anguish. Thus their suffering was wasted.

If the idea of the universe is presented to the child in the right way, it will do more for him than just arouse his ...

The church of my choice is the free, open world.

Remember, death will surely come; yet life stands before you. Live it!

Past conversations were slowly realigning in Blue's head, taking on new shades of meaning as they did.

Suddenly Hal burst through the nearby trees and came to an abrupt halt when he saw her. "Cassie, are you hurt?"He asked it so casually, ...

A sense of thrift is essential to success in business. The businessman must discipline himself to practice economy whenever possible, in his personal life as ...

Don't stop to ask whether the animal or plant you meet deserves your sympathy, or how much it feels, or even whether it can feel ...

When you see your life through the eyes of a dinosaur, albeit parrot, that's when you truly see the magic of God here and now. ...

To be filled with God is a great thing, to be filled with the fullness of God is still greater; to be filled with all ...

Expression is a function of intention and intention emanates from your thought faculty.

That thing you had to force yourself to do-the actual act of writing-turns out to be the best part.

No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style.

I'm convinced that ideas and behaviors and new products move through a population very much like a disease does.

EXPRESSIONS Look without! Behold the beauty of the day, The shout of color to glad color, rocks and trees, and sun and seas, and wind ...

History is clarified experience.

Any communitys arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil ...

I believe there's an emerging American majority for progressive economic change.

It is no disgrace to start all over; it is usually an opportunity.

Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and to form the ...

Bureaucracy develops the more perfectly, the more it is 'dehumanized', the more completely it succeeds in eliminating from business love, hatred, and all purely personal, ...

This is a rather unusual situation in physics. We perform approximate calculations which are valid only in some regime and this gives us the exact ...

So what if it's risky? It's the right thing to do. What we're talking about is 160 people in deep pain. It only affects them.

We went to high school together; he was a year older than me. I remember him there ... he was very tall and skinny, wore ...

I find that when I'm ready for something to end, I transition quickly. But when something ends before its time, I find it hard to ...

Embrace your death ... Cherish your awareness of death as a gift from the universe.

Writing in journalism teaches you to be very comfortable taking criticism, being edited, and rewriting.

I'm not really that hard-working. We've hung out a lot, and you know that I don't work harder than you. Everyone else is just really ...

Unless you believe the gospel, everything you do will be driven by either pride or fear.

How sweet I roamed from field to field, And tasted all the summer's pride, Till I the prince of love beheld, Who in the sunny ...

Where you have friends you should not go to inns.

Living for Christ is a day-to-day going on with Him. It is a continuous dependence upon the Spirit of God. It is believing in His ...

Morgan's fury turned to fear. It was like antiseptic hitting pus: the seethe, the bubbling, the burn.

Now, do you mind telling me why you have all these guns lying around? Are you afraid the paperwork will rise up against you?''Oh, no. ...

Perchance to dream"What are you doing here, Ariel? I would have thought you'd be halfway to Timbuktu." - lisa mantchev perchance to dream

There is no place like home.

The night was screams, and the smell of gunpodwer, and my gun snapping shut with a fresh round in the chamber.

The man who keeps busy helping the man below him won't have time to envy the man above him.

Is your dad Mr. Kipling? Because you're a tart!

I love the smell of the universe in the morning.

We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.

Everything influences playwrights. A playwright who isn't influenced is never of any use.

The violence in the Old Testament and New Testament is descriptive. The violence in the Koran is for all time and it is prescriptive. And ...

There are two ways to change things: Either you are forced to change or you have the intuition to change.

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow

Fatima's hair, what was left of it, had pulled free of the coil into which she'd put it before striking the match. Her face was ...