All Quotes

I pecked my stories out two-fingered on the Remington portable typewriter my mother had bought me. I had begged for it when I was ten.
‐‐ Octavia E. Butler

I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.
‐‐ Shakira

I perceive and relate to the world through where I grew up; that's part of me. It's what I judge everything else against.
‐‐ Michael Sheen

I perceive myself as rather uninhibited, with a certain mathematical facility and more interest in the broad aspect of a problem than the delicate nuances. I am more interested in discovering what is over the next rise than in assiduously cultivating the beautiful garden close at hand.
‐‐ Henry Eyring

I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it.
‐‐ Edward Irving

I perfectly understand the obsession with shoes. I myself am pretty obsessed. I have a few hundred pairs of shoes in general, because I've been collecting shoes for a long time.
‐‐ Christian Louboutin

I perfectly understood President Obama's attitude throughout the French presidential campaign. He had no reason to distance himself from Nicolas Sarkozy. It's the basic solidarity that leaders who worked together owe to each other.
‐‐ Francois Hollande

I perform for soldiers because they are important.
‐‐ Coolio

I perform in opera houses in the centres of big cities. We live in 20 acres of forest. You need that space to recover and renew.
‐‐ Sondra Radvanovsky

I perform in the major leagues of what I do. It's incredible.
‐‐ Darrell Hammond

I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre.
‐‐ Steven Chu

I performed after 9/11 for relief workers down by Ground Zero. There were these men just coming back, and they were voraciously hungry. They were heroes, pulling rubble, and I was a new comic trying to go blue just so I could get some laughs.
‐‐ Chelsea Peretti

I performed and sang at school but as a child it was never anything I was interested in doing professionally.
‐‐ Chris Pine

I performed in a bowling alley before while people were still bowling. Cut the check, and I will perform anywhere.
‐‐ Kevin Hart

I performed in public for the first time at three years old. I remember it like it was yesterday. It was on a big stage. There were probably three or four hundred people in the audience. We were doing this dance, this Kermit the Frog routine, all of us in our little green leotards.
‐‐ Jaime Pressly

I performed in Sydney some years ago for the Sydney Festival and I am just so pleased to be returning to the wonderful Sydney Opera House and also performing in Melbourne for the first time.
‐‐ Lesley Garrett

I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
‐‐ Claude Monet

I, perhaps wrongly, assume that people actually read articles that interest them rather than just headlines.
‐‐ John McAfee

I periodically realize every few years that the only person whose taste I really trust is me.
‐‐ Brian Eno

I permed my hair 12 years ago, because I always wanted a perm, but my mother would never let me have one! I got a lot of stick, but I didn't care - I loved the curls. The growing out was the difficult part!
‐‐ Chloe Sevigny

I perpetuate rumors that I've dated people that I've never actually dated.
‐‐ Ginnifer Goodwin

I persist in performing.
‐‐ David Tudor

I personally always find something really scary about watching little girls learning to manipulate their dads by baby talking. Then they grow up and use the same technique on their boyfriends or husbands. That scares me because it's just so sick on so many levels.
‐‐ Megan Fox

I personally am a 'discovery writer,' as we're termed, someone who plans the book by writing it and then revising the entire thing. When it comes to saga, this means writing large chunks of prose before any of it coalesces into a book.
‐‐ Katharine Kerr

I personally am not a shorts-wearing guy. That goes for any form of shorts, beside sports shorts, that I have to wear.
‐‐ James Wolk

I personally am not conscious of my accent.
‐‐ Jared Diamond

I personally am not interested in people trying to pigeonhole me.
‐‐ Patti Smith

I personally am opposed to abortion, but I will not judge anybody else's right in that regard because I am not a woman and I could never face the actual reality of it.
‐‐ Martin Sheen

I, personally, am trying to get more and more involved with the gay and lesbian movement, very much so.
‐‐ A. J. McLean

I personally am very active with the women's prison association, and I designed a locket, and 100 percent of the proceeds go to the women's prison association.
‐‐ Alysia Reiner

I personally apologize to any person who felt anything less than respected and valued by myself.
‐‐ Kevin Shelley

I personally approve all the shoes that go into production, and I have a level of involvement with the factories that other people don't have.
‐‐ Edgardo Osorio

I personally, as a teenager, didn't like books I felt were trying to preach to me... I did not believe in happy endings. I wanted to read books which reflected life as I thought I knew it.
‐‐ Malorie Blackman

I personally battled with my own body image for years. I used to tell myself, You can't wear anything sleeveless or strapless. And all of a sudden I was like, What if I just didn't send such negative messages to my brain and said, wear it and enjoy it? And now I'm more comfortable in clothes than ever.
‐‐ Drew Barrymore

I personally believe, as church law sets out, that sanctions are an absolute last resort, particularly penal sanctions of depriving people of the sacraments.
‐‐ Roger Mahony

I personally believe every country has the same amount of spectrum. It is not that India has less... It needs to be vacated from other places; that is what other countries have also done.
‐‐ Sunil Mittal

I personally believe that a democratic society is morally entitled to set and enforce a limit on the number of new immigrants admitted each year.
‐‐ Jan C. Ting

I personally believe that any country that has a nuclear program should conform to international regulations and should have international regulatory bodies that check to make sure that any nuclear program moves in the right direction.
‐‐ Abdullah II of Jordan

I personally believe that I was... a previous life or something... a previous reincarnation, a bard of some sort, because most of the things I write about are descriptions of places I've never been to.
‐‐ Marc Bolan

I personally believe that the iPod is a frankly corrosive device because it encourages you to surround yourself with your favorites. The whole idea of a playlist is to surround yourself with your favorite things, and the interesting thing is that when you do that, they cease to be your favorites.
‐‐ Hugh Laurie

I personally believe that the office of the President of India is not to be sought. It is to be offered.
‐‐ Pranab Mukherjee

I personally believe that there's going to be a good case for the government preserving some type of guarantee to make sure that people have the ability to borrow to finance a house even in a very damaging recession. I think there's going to be a good case for that.
‐‐ Timothy Geithner

I personally believe that those who are leaders with political power over the world will be forced some day, sooner or later, to give way to common sense and the will of the people.
‐‐ Alva Myrdal

I personally believe the film turns out better when shot in one short schedule, plus it doesn't stress the actors.
‐‐ Shah Rukh Khan

I personally believe this Agency has always been very dedicated and has always worked as hard as it possibly can to do things as safely and as effectively as possible.
‐‐ Mark Kelly

I personally believe we were put here to build and not to destroy.
‐‐ Red Skelton

I personally call one of my fans every month. I answer all of my own fan mail.
‐‐ Keegan Allen

I personally cannot tell you how many times we rescuers put our names on animals to come to us as soon as they are eligible for release, only to find they have been senselessly killed by overzealous pound workers.
‐‐ Elayne Boosler

I personally claim no special insight into Satan's methods, but I have at times been able to identify his influence and his actions in my life and in the lives of others. When I was on my first mission, Satan sought to divert me from my future path and, if possible, to destroy my usefulness in the Lord's work.
‐‐ James E. Faust