All Quotes

A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
‐‐ Margaret Deland

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.
‐‐ George S. Patton

A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.
‐‐ Austin O'Malley

A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization.
‐‐ Charles Marion Russell

A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.
‐‐ Jean de la Bruyere

'A Pirate Looks at 40,' we had to do that song. I've been covering that forever.
‐‐ Zac Brown

A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.
‐‐ Barry McGuigan

A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.
‐‐ Early Wynn

A pitcher is not a ballplayer.
‐‐ Christy Mathewson

A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
‐‐ Early Wynn

A pitcher's got to be good and he's got to be lucky to get a no hit game.
‐‐ Cy Young

A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters.
‐‐ Early Wynn

A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs.
‐‐ Alexander Payne

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.
‐‐ Joan Didion

A place for everything, and everything in its place.
‐‐ Samuel Smiles

A place for everything, everything in its place.
‐‐ Benjamin Franklin

A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.
‐‐ Carl Andre

A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.
‐‐ Richard Eyre

A place of freedom is the best place to have the most creativity.
‐‐ Matt McGorry

A place that doesn't welcome tourists, that's really difficult and off the map, is a place I want to see.
‐‐ Paul Theroux

A placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomised trial of boys with autism found that two to three servings of cruciferous vegetables a day improves social interaction, abnormal behaviour and verbal communication - within a matter of weeks.
‐‐ Michael Greger

A placebo is a phony cure that works. This is very hard for the medical profession to get their teeth around because they hate placebos, but scientifically, placebos work in about 30% of cases that are psychogenic diseases.
‐‐ Charles Jencks

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.
‐‐ Igor Stravinsky

A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
‐‐ Zig Ziglar

A planar geometrical figure with more than three vertices can be decomposed into a set of triangles, and it can be reconstructed from a set of triangles.
‐‐ Vladimir Prelog

A plancha is just a hot flat surface. So if you think about it, anything is a plancha, like a saute pan or a griddle. A la plancha is the perfect way to cook for a crowd.
‐‐ Jose Andres

A plant-based diet has actually simplified my life in so many ways. For breakfast, I try to get my first serving of fruits and nuts for fuel. I'm completely addicted to coconut water for the electrolytes and hydration.
‐‐ Michelle Forbes

A plant-based diet is like a one-stop shop against chronic diseases.
‐‐ Michael Greger

A plate of food has to have balance. For example, a mild fish like skate mustn't be overwhelmed by the side dishes. They should have personality and color, but they also have to be subtle.
‐‐ Geoffrey Zakarian

A platform is the base from which something big happens. In our case, we're an entertainment platform in the sense that there are people signing up like MTV, Burberry, folks like Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber. And why? Because it's their channel to control their entertainment to their fans.
‐‐ Kevin Systrom

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.
‐‐ Stanley Baldwin

A play, after all, is a mystery. There's no narration. And as soon as there's no narration, it's open to interpretation. It must be interpreted. You don't have a choice... Each play can become many things.
‐‐ Mike Nichols

A play is a passion.
‐‐ Jerome Lawrence

A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty good play. We know this because we see plays in translation. Not many people speak Norwegian or Danish or whatever guys like Ibsen spoke, or Russian - yet we understand Chekhov and the others.
‐‐ David Mamet

A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
‐‐ Edward Albee

A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.
‐‐ Maggie Gyllenhaal

A play is not a play until it's performed, and unless it's a one-person play that is acted, directed and designed by the author, many other people will be deeply involved in the complicated process that leads to its performance.
‐‐ Terry Teachout

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
‐‐ T. S. Eliot

A play should have barely been rescued from the mess it might just as easily have been.
‐‐ Tony Kushner

A play visibly represents pure existing.
‐‐ Thornton Wilder

A player cannot become a world champion overnight. To become a champion, a player has to sacrifice a lot and to devote much of his time practising and training.
‐‐ Jahangir Khan

A player dreams of being a superstar, but he doesn't want people flocking all over him asking for an autograph.
‐‐ Dennis Rodman

A player is said to have the opposition when he can place his King directly in front of the adverse King, with only one square between them. This is often an important advantage in ending games.
‐‐ Howard Staunton

A player is someone - a guy - that messes with girls' emotions just to try and get what they want. I've been asked, 'Do you consider yourself a player?' And the answer is no. I don't think I'm anywhere near that.
‐‐ Ryan Lochte

A player should be disparaged if he gives less than his all, if he doesn't give 100%, no matter what shirt he's wearing. Whether it's your national team, your club, or little league. Yes, there are friendly matches, recreational ones, and so on, but sport in its essence is about giving your best.
‐‐ Rabih Alameddine

A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.
‐‐ Arthur Miller

A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute.
‐‐ Terence Rattigan

A playwright who limits himself - or is limited - to a handful of characters is forced to concentrate on the essentials of the situation that he has chosen to portray.
‐‐ Terry Teachout

A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it... its appeal is permanent.
‐‐ Loretta Young