List of Topics starting with [P]

Sometimes there are no gigs, but the main thing is the music. You can't take that away. The only person who can take that away ...

In snow thou comestThou shalt go with resuming groundThe sweet derision of thx crowAnd Glee's advancing sound

I'm pretty sure that if you looked up the word "nuts" in the dictionary, you'll find my picture. Just another fun feature of my mutant-birdkid-freak ...

I have a lot of bad days.

Perhaps they are not stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy.

You don't "succeed" because you have no weaknesses; you succeed because you find your unique strengths and focus on developing habits around them. To

One thing I love most about New York is the variety of amazing foods you can eat. My all-time favorite is the Chicken Parmigianino at ...

Press-ganged', 'taking the wind out of your sails', 'shot across the bows', 'loose cannon', 'shipshape', 'batten down the hatches' belong more obviously to the sea. ...

Keeping Christ in view at all times is, by far, the hardest - and the most essential - part of our calling as Christians.

When I think of my version of a role model, it's not about being the perfect Samaritan; it's just being out there and being honest ...

It means a lot to you, to be out there. The highs are pretty high, and the lows are pretty low. You know, it's easy ...

Beginning with the first bite, and for every bite after, that try to chew ten times.

If I go before I'm old, Oh brother of mine please don't forget me if I go. Bartender please, fill my glass for me? With ...

If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new movement is awakening it will certainly not disappear ...

Our democracy is predicated on the belief that our government should be accessible by the people. We cannot allow ourselves to give in to fear ...

There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot ...

I know real cops. When they're paired up together, they get so close, you know? There's no excuse for it, but these guys do have ...

Mushrooms provide a vast array of potential medicinal compounds. Many mushrooms - such as portobello, oyster, reishi and maitake - are well-known for these properties, ...

Andy [Warhol] was on the scene, but he wasn't an artist at first; he was more an illustrator. He was always surrounded by about ten ...

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

My legs turned to jelly as I collapsed against him, my breathing ragged as aftershocks of ecstasy spasm through me. I looked down, surprised to ...

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God

If I can bring Him nothing but my tears, He will put them with His own tears in His own bottle for He once wept; ...

Women, of their nature, crave for liberty; they will not be ordered around like servants.

When we develop reverence for food and the miracle of transformation inherent in it, just the simple act of eating creates a ritual of celebration.

You've got a million ways to make me laugh

I never liked stardom. It's weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.

Governments have ever been known to hold a high hand over the education of the people. They know, better than anyone else, that their power ...

Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying.

Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.

But most good writers are Don Quixote at heart, and unreasonableness is often a condition of art.

And of course a bit of whoever we want to change into." "Excuse me?" said Ron sharply. "What d'you mean, a bit of whoever we're ...

I'm sure my unique brain tastes the same as a normal brain. Actually, mine might be slightly tastier.

As a black person in America, I am twice as likely as a white person to live in an area where air pollution poses the ...

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

But Dad and I are the only father-and-daughter acts who have both had No. 1 songs in England.

I will tell just one more story ... and I will tell it with the humility and restraint of him who knows from the start ...

I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.

Celebrity is now so common that its inherent absurdity has rendered it inoffensive

The reality is our season prepared us so well that if we have to play Duke in the second game, we've done that three times ...

I think regular Iowans are cynical of this whole idea of corporate welfare, with the biggest awards going to the most profitable companies. It doesn't ...

I will fight for Braxton Kennedy. Even if it means fighting against him to have him. I'll make him mine.

Make time for productivity and creativity instead of useless socialmedia activity!

I teach 18- to 21-year-olds - the 'Harry Potter' generation. They grew up as voracious readers, reading books in this exploding genre. But at some ...

Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence.

Put light against light - you have nothing. Put dark against dark - you have nothing. It's the contrast of light and dark that each ...

But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating.

The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come out of baseball and come ...

I've been in over 50 cities around the world. If you think the majority isn't racist, you haven't traveled more than me.

Much later I realized that Russian people, because of the poverty and squalor of their lives, love to amuse themselves with sorrow--to play with it ...

Don't forget, Alexa. I longed for you before you were even born. There is no one deeper under your spell than me.

I made work specifically for them not to like. If you made paintings of flowers and someone says they hate it, it's like, "What do ...

Sir Alric is big on self-motivation, initiative, that kind of guff.

Poets are damned ... but see with the eyes of angels.

I haven't been in a job situation in which I was competing with other women. As a writer, you're more likely to be treated as ...

I still love to love my friends, but I punctuate those moments with solitude.

Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine; Love was born at Christmas; Star and angels gave the sign.

If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it. It really is public brainwashing and misinformation.

In the beginning of my photography I controlled everything: rearranging the room, lighting it, and telling people what to do and where to put their ...

The human being must always be central, not the products and objects of his skill and energy.

I believe in transhumanism: once there are enough people who can truly say that, the human species will be on the threshold of a new ...

I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.

I was a fool for ever thinking I could live with letting you be the one who got away.

Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it ...

The best place to find a new mine is next door to an old mine.

Crime is increasing, trigger happy policing. Panic is spreading, God knows where we're heading.

Some stories don't have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.

That for understanding the spread of behaviors in social networks, we need to take into account not just the power of influential nodes but also ...

Married and buried, wed and dead.

Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.

An active civil position will make you become the hero of your time.

A work is not art until enough noise has been made about it and someone rich comes along and buys it.

I like to hope that Rumi's poems, even in translation, carry the essence of the transforming friendship of Rumi and Shams, that the sun can ...

The history of using mice to stand in for humans in medical experiments is replete with failures.

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

She had been lonely, the kiss hadn't meant anything, and he was clearly regretting it. How many mistakes did that sentence encapsulate in the history ...

I have a pet lizard named Puff, five goldfish - named Pinky, Brain, Jowels, Pearl and Sandy, an oscar fish named Chef, two pacus, an ...

You left these in my office, sweetheart," Lucifer said, shocking her into silence as he reached around her and gently tucked the matching lavender panties ...

Everything is true in some sense, false in some sense, and meaningless in another sense.

Identification with the past is an intuitive, imaginative process which seeks as its fulfillment a perception not merely of the relevancy of the past, but ...

We are not only to use our armor to protect and defend ourselves from them - as important as that is - but also to ...

In the end, most women get the type of man they dress for.

Man is the measure of all things

Being a square keeps you from going around in circles.

The thing about my fridge is, it's a family fridge, so there's a little of something everybody likes in there.

He wasn't a man, but a tape recorder, repeating catch phrases and old slogans without any thought to the concepts behind them, a dog stuck ...

Works of Art are meant to connect the human heart to inspiration, for cosmic consciousness to grow in the Supreme Reality rooted in Life and ...

If joy and peace and rewards were instantaneously given the doer of good, there would be no evil-all would do good but not because of ...

Control language and you control thought; control thought and you control action; control action and you control the world.

I kind of miss the old sleazy Times Square, in a way. And yet I don't mind not being accosted by all sorts of strange ...

You put your hand on your heart and feel it beating and decide if what you wrote feels true.

I feel safe with him because he is so not my ideal and I feel like I can be myself because I'm not in love ...

My father was from Aberdeen, and a more generous man you couldn't wish to meet. I have a gold watch that belonged to him. He ...

If I didn't love the hourglass, I wouldn't love myself.

Place your concentration in the center of your palm. Concentrate on making that part of your palm warmer than the rest of your hand. After ...

The pulse of the People is still so high as to call for more bleeding, before quinine can be administered with any hope of benefit.

The emotions roused by that most unavoidable of things, food, are astonishing.

Used to believe that in this world there are two kinds of people: natural worriers and naturally joyful people. I couldn't really help it that ...

Everyone should be proud of who they are and where they come from because America is a big melting pot of diverse ethnicities. It's great ...

And so the little poet poetized away his never-ending poem and even the silliest woman could poetize with him. But they couldn't be together. And ...