All Quotes

Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears.
‐‐ Dennis Eckersley

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
‐‐ Denis Diderot

Pittsburgh felt like the perfect size of a city to me. There's enough to do, but it's not like living in a circus. I also really loved how sports-enthusiastic Pittsburgh people are: how proud of their sports they are.
‐‐ Joel Edgerton

Pittsburgh was a great team. Coach Noll, Joe Greene, Jack Lambert, L.C. Greenwood and all those guys did a great job. That's the team that kept us from winning two Super Bowls. It was a great rivalry.
‐‐ Earl Campbell

Pittsburgh was the first chance to be in a classroom with other writers, to have conversations with other writers. In fact, after graduate school, I lived in Japan, Ohio and New Orleans, and only upon leaving Pittsburgh did I see what a special community it was for poets, so I was eager to come back. It's a strong arts community across the board.
‐‐ Terrance Hayes

Pity addresses the perceived suffering, not the whole individual.
‐‐ Phil Klay

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
‐‐ Oliver Goldsmith

Pity is a benign form of abuse.
‐‐ Michael J. Fox

Pity is just another form of abuse.
‐‐ Michael J. Fox

Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
‐‐ Vicki Baum

Pity is treason.
‐‐ Maximilien Robespierre

Pity sidesteps complexity in favor of narratives that we're comfortable with, reducing the nuances of a person's experience to a sound bite.
‐‐ Phil Klay

Pity speaks to grief More sweetly than a band of instruments.
‐‐ Bryan Procter

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
‐‐ Don Marquis

Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds.
‐‐ Arundhati Roy

Pity the poor senator or representative trying to stay alive in the political jungle. At every turn, there's a danger: a constituent who actually wants something done. Or worse, a campaign donor who might be offended by that something.
‐‐ Bill McKibben

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
‐‐ Elizabeth Bowen

Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!
‐‐ Jerry Lewis

Pixar films are not realistic. They are believable for the worlds we are creating.
‐‐ John Lasseter

Pixar has been compared to fine furniture makers who polish the backs of drawers - even if you don't see everything in a particular scene, you still feel that every little detail has been met.
‐‐ John Lasseter

Pixar has invented much of computer animation as it's known today, and I've been very lucky to be the first traditional animator to work with computer animation.
‐‐ John Lasseter

Pixar is going in the direction of the early Disney. And it's also corporate, where they have four or five projects in the works. I don't want to get into that subject.
‐‐ Joe Grant

Pixar is not about computers, it's about people.
‐‐ John Lasseter

Pixar's short films convinced Disney that if the company could produce memorable characters within five minutes, then the confidence was there in creating a feature film with those abilities in story and character development.
‐‐ John Lasseter

Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.
‐‐ David Bowie

Pizza certainly has its place in school meals, but equating it with broccoli, carrots and celery seriously undermines this nation's efforts to support children's health and their ability to learn because of better school nutrition.
‐‐ Jared Polis

Pizza Express has been a real godsend for me. I've been working there for several years, six weeks a year. You can go to work every night and play. It's a nice little club. It's just about the right size for me, about 150 people.
‐‐ Mose Allison

Pizza is no longer on my diet.
‐‐ John Catsimatidis

Pizza made me who I am. In the summer of 1998, I dropped out of college and started a pizza restaurant called Growlies in my hometown in rural Canada. My seed money: a credit card with a $20,000 limit.
‐‐ Ryan Holmes

Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

Pizza was made for television in so many ways: it is easy to heat up, easy to divide and easy to eat in a group. It is easy to enjoy, easy to digest and easy-going. It is so Italian!
‐‐ Yotam Ottolenghi

Place colors everything; It is the thing by which I find my way in my fiction.
‐‐ Ron Carlson

Place hitting is, in a sense, glorified bunting. I only take a half swing at the ball, and the weight of the bat rather than my swing is what drives it.
‐‐ Edd Roush

Place is so important to me. The Midwest is like a ghost in my life. It's present as I look out the window now. I see Texas, but if I close my eyes and look out the same window, I'm back in my hometown in Worthington, Minnesota, and I cherish those values and that diction.
‐‐ Tim O'Brien

Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground. There is a possibility that in some way or another I may be able to escape. But stand me on that floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No. Never.
‐‐ Karl G. Maeser

Place means nothing to me. I can be at home anywhere.
‐‐ Jonas Mekas

Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.
‐‐ Brian Molko

Placebos work.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character.
‐‐ Tabitha King

Places are part of nature, of the bigger picture. We are interrelated. When we contemplate them in their own right, they can sometimes change our lives; they can become spiritual experiences.
‐‐ Etel Adnan

Places change all the time, and the type of people who live there change.
‐‐ Martin Parr

Places change over time with or without oil spills, but humans are responsible for the Deepwater Horizon gusher - and humans, as well as the corals, fish and other creatures, are suffering the consequences.
‐‐ Sylvia Earle

Places have charisma, in short, as much as people do.
‐‐ Pico Iyer

Places I've lived since then had to have some kind of uniqueness and character about them. And logically Key West, and then Down Island. So, all of that stuff sort of had it's roots in New Orleans and went crazy.
‐‐ Jimmy Buffett

Places like Hilton Head, with water adjacency and nice climates, are in high demand, and land values are insane. In the case of Hilton Head, which was developed in 1970 on what had been a mosquito- and alligator-infested swampy barrier island, land value has leaped from nearly zero to now unaffordable.
‐‐ Susan Orlean

Places like India can give you a real culture shock because of the poverty you see, and it brings you up sharply.
‐‐ Terry Wogan

Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it's all too superficial for me.
‐‐ Carmen Kass

Places like the National Theatre or Sheffield, these great engines of theatre, make us cutting edge because they can be experimental. They can do plays that nobody else can afford to do in ways nobody else can afford to do.
‐‐ Toby Stephens

Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to do - unless we want to get more decrepit. I don't think we have to destroy the place totally.
‐‐ Rufus Wainwright