All Quotes

In preschool, I would plan out my show-and-tell every week to be funny and exciting. Then in first grade I wrote a play, and my classmates and I performed it as a puppet show.
‐‐ Maxim Knight

In preseason camp, there are no friends. when newcomers arrive trying to take not only your job, but maybe your best friend's job, you work together to try to help each other. Everyone is an outsider until you're given a uniform.
‐‐ Sue Wicks

In presence of Nature's grand convulsions, man is powerless.
‐‐ Jules Verne

In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.
‐‐ T. C. Boyle

In primary school, every day and especially on Fridays, I was supposed to say, 'I am Turkish, and I am righteous and hardworking,' But all those things did not actually turn us into Turks. This system is somehow creating fake personalities.
‐‐ Osman Baydemir

In primary school, I was bored witless by Australian history.
‐‐ Catherine Jinks

In primary school I was terrible. I don't think I was particularly well behaved in high school, but I started to apply myself.
‐‐ Jonathan LaPaglia

In primary school in south-eastern Nigeria, I was taught that Hosni Mubarak was the president of Egypt. I learned the same thing in secondary school. In university, Mubarak was still president of Egypt. I came to assume, subconsciously, that he - and others like Paul Biya in Cameroon and Muammar Gaddafi in Libya - would never leave.
‐‐ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

In primary school when I was 6-7 years old, I always go to theater with my uncle, and I don't know why I like the atmosphere, dark only. The screen has some lighting, that kind of things, you can see the movie star and so that's why I like movies.
‐‐ Andrew Lau

In primary schools, I set two main objectives - to cut infant class sizes and improve literacy and numeracy.
‐‐ David Blunkett

In primitive society, man produced directly for the satisfaction of his own wants, but with the development of society came differentiation of function; exchange and barter arose, various trades sprang up, and with the necessity of commercial intercourse came the invention of money.
‐‐ Charles A. Beard

In principle, every social situation involves strategic interaction among the participants.
‐‐ John Harsanyi

In principle, I think the idea of rewarding a good effort is interesting, but movies are generally different from each other as are performances and the conditions on how the performances are given and how they're edited and so forth.
‐‐ Viggo Mortensen

In principle if I could not have a home I wouldn't. But not having a home would be too difficult procedurally, going from hotel to hotel, the gap of three hours where you're hungry and tired.
‐‐ Lee Child

In principle, if you understood the mechanisms of keeping things repaired, you could keep things going indefinitely.
‐‐ Cynthia Kenyon

In principle, junk bonds are basically useful, but they are used excessively and irrationally, notably in takeovers.
‐‐ Maurice Allais

In principle, skeptics are neither closed-minded nor cynical. We are curious but cautious.
‐‐ Michael Shermer

In principle the great religions of the world do not differ as much as they appear to.
‐‐ Ernest Holmes

In principle, there are only three main components of spending that much matter to monetary policy: consumer spending, business investment and exports and trade.
‐‐ Evan Davis

In principle. what is done is to take the nucleus out of a cell with a very fine micro-pipette or needle and introduce it into an egg. That had been done with amphibians a long time ago, and then there was a long pause of many years before people were clever enough to make that work in the sheep.
‐‐ John Gurdon

In print, people can do anything to you. Everything you do is picked apart. People love it; they're waiting for you to make a mistake.
‐‐ Brian May

In prison, inmates sometimes use Cheetos and grape juice as makeup. I wouldn't use that beauty regimen around Britney Spears - she might lick your face off!
‐‐ Joel McHale

In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
‐‐ Eldridge Cleaver

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
‐‐ Suge Knight

In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.
‐‐ Laura Harring

In private, I may wear a bikini, but at the public beach with my kids, I would change bathing suits because they do not want to be hanging out with some old broad in a bikini.
‐‐ Christie Brinkley

In private some critics have come up to me afterwards and told me they honestly enjoyed the movie. Then they'd tell me that they're still going to have to write it up negatively.
‐‐ Joe Pantoliano

In productions such as 'Anna Bolena' and 'Rigoletto,' the costumes are tailored, and they're tight. In 'Moby,' it's like you're wearing pajamas, and you have more freedom. It's very comfortable on stage.
‐‐ Stephen Costello

In professional work - certainly in the arts and graphics - 99% of people have zero courage. They blow with the wind.
‐‐ George Lois

In professional wrestling, I think that they want you to be bigger than life. It's almost like an over-acting type thing - whereas on the big screen, you're 35 feet and they've got a close-up of you to put it on the screen in the movie house. At 35 feet, it's more subtlety than the overboard drama that we do in pro wrestling.
‐‐ Kevin Nash

In promotional mode, every day is a series of decisions. You can easily fill up your day with checklist stuff.
‐‐ Adam Schlesinger

In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.
‐‐ George Gurdjieff

In 'Property,' none of the characters are based on any real people, but the house is very much the house that I moved into in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
‐‐ Elizabeth McCracken

In prose, I think you sometimes have to write in very plain language, where every line may not seem to be so important, though in all writing every line is important.
‐‐ Grace Paley

In prose, leaps of logic can be made while the protagonist thinks about things and arrives at conclusions. Even with voiceover, there's no real way of having an inner voice without it taking over the entire story.
‐‐ Denise Mina

In prose, you have a lot more room for digression, for very meaty kinds of dialogues. In graphic novels, you're writing haiku-length dialogue. Your job is to be efficient, to get out of the way of the art.
‐‐ G. Willow Wilson

In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.
‐‐ John Churton Collins

In prosperous times, the marginal workers get by. But in tough times, they get the shaft.
‐‐ Bill O'Reilly

In providing this $5,000 tax credit for those purchasing rural homes, we're offering an important incentive to encourage people to live in smaller communities - and perhaps even stay in a community they might be considering leaving.
‐‐ John M. McHugh

In Psalm 72, Solomon prays for power and fame but he says the purpose of influence is to speak up for others and one is the immigrant. He doesn't delineate between legal and illegal.
‐‐ Rick Warren

In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
‐‐ Theodor Adorno

In Psycho IV, the time is five years after III, and Norman is out of the hospital. He's a married man, and he's finally learned how to love somebody and have natural sex without killing his lover.
‐‐ Joseph Stefano

In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

In Psychology we deal with minds and their processes, and leave out of account as far as possible the objects that we get to know by means of them.
‐‐ Charles D. Broad

In public, an admission of technological inadequacy would be too embarrassing.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

In public relations, you live with the reality that not every disaster can be made to look like a misunderstood triumph.
‐‐ Christopher Buckley

In publishing 'JFK: Reckless Youth' almost twenty years ago, I had gotten into trouble myself with the Kennedys. Not because of my portrait of JFK - which was highly laudatory - but because I had described his parents, Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, in less-than-flattering terms.
‐‐ Nigel Hamilton

In Puerto Rico, I played in all kinds of bands that played salsa and merengue. That's how I saved the money to come to the U.S. We used to play El Gran Combo tunes. Half the band was my friends - we were around 15 - and the other half was my friend's father and his friends from the hospital where he worked. They were all, like, 50.
‐‐ Miguel Zenon

In Puerto Rico, we have a lot of traditions. We eat a very typical thing that's called 'pasteles' - it's almost like a tamale made of bananas, and we make it all together. Like, all the women of the family unite, and it's a very big deal, a very big thing.
‐‐ Joyce Giraud