All Quotes

Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young.
‐‐ Hugh Laurie

Pianos - if they don't like what you're saying, then they won't talk back to you. And you want it to talk back to you.
‐‐ Jason Moran

Pianos tend to get better as they age, the more you play them. They grow into their sound.
‐‐ Alicia Witt

Picabia is a very old painter who some people try to connect me to, but I refuse such comparisons very well.
‐‐ Sigmar Polke

Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.
‐‐ Hugh Hefner

Picasso is a character that has pursued me for a long time and I always rejected. He deserves a lot of respect because I am from Malaga, and I was born four blocks from where he was born.
‐‐ Antonio Banderas

Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.
‐‐ David Hockney

Picasso is what is going to happen and what is happening; he is posterity and archaic time, the distant ancestor and our next-door neighbor. Speed permits him to be two places at once, to belong to all the centuries without letting go of the here and now.
‐‐ Octavio Paz

Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.
‐‐ Damien Hirst

Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.
‐‐ Gertrude Stein

Picasso's always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from Picasso, and even my cartoons of Picasso were done almost to rid myself of his influence.
‐‐ Roy Lichtenstein

Picasso's superhuman gift for draftsmanship might have made him lazy about pursuing the full potential of color. It was not unusual for him to build a composition by first outlining figures and objects in black and then filling the interstices in a perfunctory manner that can put one in mind of a museum-shop coloring book.
‐‐ Martin Filler

Picasso said, 'Art is a lie that tells the truth.' What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?
‐‐ Nicolas Cage

Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.
‐‐ Kenneth Koch

Picasso was hugely innovative, and, wow, did he have facility, amazing ability, but I don't think he painted a masterpiece.
‐‐ John Hurt

Pick a co-founder that communicates in the same fashion that you do. If you are a screamer, then the only way you will ever listen to a conflicting point of view is to find someone who is passionate enough to yell back at you.
‐‐ Jay Samit

Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.
‐‐ Paul Dirac

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
‐‐ Dorothea Lange

Pick any scientific field, and you'll find that those snubbed by their communities, left feeling alone and despised, were often those on the forefront.
‐‐ Eliot Schrefer

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
‐‐ Jonathan Kozol

Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.
‐‐ Audrey Hepburn

Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
‐‐ Saul Alinsky

Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.
‐‐ James Cameron

Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.
‐‐ Jeff Cooper

Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or a pineapple, running from its bottom up its sides to the top, and you will find an extraordinary truth: recurring numbers, ratios and proportions.
‐‐ Charles Jencks

Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.
‐‐ Ann Voskamp

Pick up any newspaper in the morning. Count the words in the lead sentences. There will be at least 25 in all of them: Guaranteed. The writers just want to tell you how many degrees they have from this college or that university.
‐‐ Jimmy Breslin

Pick up any newspaper or magazine, open the TV, and you'll be bombarded with suggestions of how to have a successful life. Some of these suggestions are deeply unhelpful to our own projects and priorities - and we should take care.
‐‐ Alain de Botton

Pick your enemies carefully or you'll never make it in Los Angeles.
‐‐ Rona Barrett

Pickett's lines being nearer, the impact was heaviest upon them.
‐‐ James Longstreet

Picking a best friend who stands up for what she believes in, is true to herself and allows you to be yourself without judgement of how 'cool' you are? Well, now you're picking a friend for life.
‐‐ Renee Olstead

Picking and choosing what kind of love is worth recognizing is an expensive choice. Is discrimination worth that price?
‐‐ Nancy Lublin

Picking locks or handcuffs for me is not really a big deal, I can do it pretty much in seconds, I've been doing since I was 14 years old. I used to sit on my bed as a kid with a pick set and you know just picking locks and stuff, so I'm used to it.
‐‐ Criss Angel

Picking my topics is sort of a process of elimination for me. Most things don't work for me. I like to cover science and unexpected things happening in labs. Also, theoretical research doesn't work for my style. I need scenes and interactions. Then, humor. I'm having the most fun when I can have fun with my work.
‐‐ Mary Roach

Picking up a guitar - I couldn't imagine doing anything else.
‐‐ James McCartney

Picking winners among the many young companies seeking money is a tough business, even for the most sophisticated investors. Indeed, most professionally run venture funds lose money. For individuals, it's pure folly. Buy a lottery ticket instead. Your chance of winning is likely to be higher.
‐‐ Steven Rattner

Pickpockets either work alone or in pairs, or what is called a mob.
‐‐ Harry Houdini

Pickup lines are a major turn-off, they don't work on me and I tune them out. It's better to just be honest.
‐‐ Kim Smith

Pickups, S.U.V.'s, vans and the like represent about 80 million vehicles, with mileage of perhaps 13 to 16 miles per gallon. Converting those should be our first priority.
‐‐ Andy Grove

Pictorial is something that I am not used to. You have to pose, smile, bend your arm, straighten up, look to the left.
‐‐ Benigno Aquino III

Picture being forced to talk endlessly about your feelings and listen and care when what you needed was just to get something done.
‐‐ Liz Phair

Picture books are being marginalised. I get the feeling children are being pushed away from picture books earlier and earlier and being told to look at 'proper' books, which means books without pictures.
‐‐ Anthony Browne

Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader's imagination, adding so much to the excitement of reading a book.
‐‐ Anthony Browne

Picture books are the distillation of an idea, and you have to use just the right words. I love that, and I try to use a lot of action verbs.
‐‐ Denise Fleming

Picture it in your mind's nostril: you get in a cab in time to catch twin thugs named Vomit and Cologne assaulting a defenseless pine-tree air freshener.
‐‐ Sloane Crosley

Picture-taking is an ensemble art - like theater.
‐‐ Ansel Elgort

Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.
‐‐ Earl Nightingale

Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.
‐‐ Harry Emerson Fosdick

Pictures, abstract symbols, materials, and colors are among the ingredients with which a designer or engineer works. To design is to discover relationships and to make arrangements and rearrangements among these ingredients.
‐‐ Paul Rand