All Quotes

Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte.
‐‐ Alan Cumming

Paolo Maldini and John Terry are two of the toughest men I have met on the field.
‐‐ Ronaldinho

Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours.
‐‐ Anna Freud

Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed.
‐‐ Anna Freud

Papa died when he was 77.
‐‐ Manolo Blahnik

Paparazzi need more flattering lenses.
‐‐ Sandra Bullock

Paparazzi will try to get the most controversial picture of you in a compromising position because that's how they're going to sell it.
‐‐ Goldie Hawn

Paper acts as an eraser on the mind, as soon as you look at what you've written.
‐‐ Dylan Moran

Paper currency has hitherto been regarded with suspicion, as insecure.
‐‐ John Buchanan Robinson

Paper is a uniquely beautiful format, more so than the web, I think: you need to invest in the aesthetics.
‐‐ Dave Eggers

Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my office machine, so I have all the files I need. It also has a note-taking piece of software called OneNote, so all my notes are in digital form.
‐‐ Bill Gates

Paper Moon didn't bring me love.
‐‐ Tatum O'Neal

'Paper Planes' by M.I.A. is very catchy. I like that, but I listen to everything from rap to Lenny Kravitz to Coldplay, depending on my mood. And my favorite song of all time is 'Always and Forever' by Heatwave.
‐‐ Keshia Knight Pulliam

Paper publishers are doing everything they can to slow the transition to eBooks because, in a digital world, paper publishers' high hardback margins essentially disappear.
‐‐ Barry Eisler

Paperwork will ruin any military force.
‐‐ Chesty Puller

'Paquita' has a patchy history, beginning in 1846, and a patchy plot.
‐‐ Robert Gottlieb

Paradigms are like glasses. When you have incomplete paradigms about yourself or life in general, it's like wearing glasses with the wrong prescription. That lens affects how you see everything else.
‐‐ Sean Covey

Parading our own brilliance and exulting in other people's errors is not very nice. For that matter, even wanting to parade our own brilliance and exult in other people's errors is not very nice, although it is certainly very human.
‐‐ Kathryn Schulz

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
‐‐ Laurie Anderson

Paradise is open to all kind hearts.
‐‐ Pierre Jean de Beranger

Paradise is too perfect for humanity.
‐‐ Dario Argento

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.
‐‐ Voltaire

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.
‐‐ Dorothy L. Sayers

Paradoxically Americans are becoming both more obese and more nutrient deficient at the same time. Obese children eating processed foods are nutrient depleted and increasingly get scurvy and rickets, diseases we thought were left behind in the 19th and 20th centuries.
‐‐ Mark Hyman

Paradoxically, no such embargo exists for the drugs and therapies that have revolutionized the treatment of serious diseases although many of them were created with the same technologies.
‐‐ Paul Berg

Paradoxically, resource-rich developing countries are often worse off than comparable countries that lack those resources. One reason for this is that large resource endowments provide a huge financial incentive for attempts to overthrow the government and seize power.
‐‐ Peter Singer

Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in gay life).
‐‐ Edmund White

Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries.
‐‐ Kenzaburo Oe

Paradoxically, the United States' determination to protect its troops can be self-defeating. Allies and adversaries see U.S. forces living in secure compounds, eating fancy chow and minimizing their exposure to potential terrorist assaults.
‐‐ David Ignatius

Paradoxically, those who call for family values also tout the wonders of an unregulated market without observing the subtle cultural links between the family they seek to regulate and the market they hold free.
‐‐ Arlie Russell Hochschild

Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.
‐‐ Om Puri

Parallel parking is desirable for two reasons: parked cars create a physical barrier and psychological buffer that protects pedestrians on the sidewalk from moving vehicles; and a rich supply of parallel parking can eliminate the need for parking lots, which are extremely destructive of the civic fabric.
‐‐ James Howard Kunstler

Parallel to our vast strides in technology, there is a dangerous rise in unemployment, foreclosures, and degrading education. Millions of people are stricken with hopelessness and strife. Sadly, in the name of progress we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.
‐‐ Radhanath Swami

Parallels between classical and pop are not new. The whole San Francisco movement of John Cage and Terry Riley went hand in glove with what the Velvet Underground were doing.
‐‐ Charles Hazlewood

Paralympic sport and other disability sport can and should be celebrated in its own right.
‐‐ Stella Young

Paralympics has always had to push the media into it being about sport and not focusing on the disability.
‐‐ Lee Pearson

Paramore will be the neighbor that comes over for tea and never leaves.
‐‐ Hayley Williams

Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.
‐‐ Hugo Black

Paramount is the need to secure human rights. The form of rule should be such that the citizen does not have to fear the State, but gives it direction and confidently participates in its administration.
‐‐ Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Paramount Pictures is a perfect partner for Electric Entertainment, with the most stable group of executives in Hollywood and unparalleled global promotion and distribution reach.
‐‐ Dean Devlin

Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
‐‐ Jack Henry Abbott

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.
‐‐ Hunter S. Thompson

'Paranormal 1' scared me because I didn't know if it was real or what. 'Blair Witch' was kind of scary for the same reason. It takes the voyeur element away and makes you think, 'Oh crap, this could really happen to me.'
‐‐ Marlon Wayans

'Paranormal Activity' was a unique project in that I made it basically on my own, with a little help, and I had no exposure to the filmmaking world when I made it.
‐‐ Oren Peli

Paranormal fiction offers authors - and readers - the chance to answer the question, 'What if?' All the different ways that question can be answered make for extremely entertaining reading.
‐‐ Jeaniene Frost

Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.
‐‐ John Goodman

Parent hard, play hard. That's my philosophy.
‐‐ Oliver Hudson

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw