All Quotes

The pressure in Hollywood is bigger to look good than in Germany. In Germany, we are more forgiving. Having a personal coach in Germany is not nearly as common as in Hollywood. In Hollywood, I think everyone has a personal trainer.
‐‐ Sibel Kekilli

The pressure is all self-imposed, and it's to live up to the expectations of people who are going to shell out their hard-earned cash to listen to the music. It's actually more than that, though. I wouldn't want to make a record that didn't live up to my expectations.
‐‐ Tom Scholz

The pressure is on the women to be particularly small, and then not only that, the whole package. It's extreme.
‐‐ Benjamin Koldyke

The pressure is self-imposed because I always want to do excellent work, and I always want to be interesting to people watching me.
‐‐ Kristoffer Polaha

The pressure isn't on my brain, but on my mouth. I realized Sam Malone said very little, he spoke in little sentences. Which is much more comfortable for me for some reason.
‐‐ Ted Danson

The pressure makes me more intent about each shot. Pressure on the last few holes makes me play better.
‐‐ Nancy Lopez

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.
‐‐ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The pressure of getting an order right is greater than sinking a putt.
‐‐ Amy Alcott

The pressure of special interests, the demands of special sections of the state, the needs of friends, all must be subordinated to the good of the people as a whole.
‐‐ Arthur Capper

The pressure of survival in the big city will make you lose sight of your dream... Hang in there.
‐‐ James De La Vega

The pressure of the Olympic Games is real overwhelming.
‐‐ Natalie Coughlin

The pressure on women to be thin is like a plague. I have gone through my life, like a lot of women, rating my experiences on the basis of, 'Was I thin at that time or fat?' And it doesn't seem to let up.
‐‐ Felicity Huffman

The pressure on young chefs today is far greater than ever before in terms of social skills, marketing skills, cooking skills, personality and, more importantly, delivering on the plate. So you need to be strong. Physically fit. So my chefs get weighed every time they come into the kitchen.
‐‐ Gordon Ramsay

The pressure people put on themselves and the rivalry between the teams is much more marked. And I think that's a good thing. As long as that rivalry remains within the spirit of competition, it con only spur everyone on.
‐‐ Eric Cantona

The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency.
‐‐ Sally Ride

The pressure, the heat, the almost impossibly fast pace at which you need work - this is the reality of working in the culinary industry. This is what professional chefs do night after night.
‐‐ Joe Bastianich

The pressure to be pretty? I set, you know, boundaries and goals for myself. I try not to compare myself to anyone else because I will never be anyone else except myself. So I try and stay true to me, and hopefully the right projects will come my way.
‐‐ Elisha Cuthbert

The pressure to be timely with news has increased every year.
‐‐ Mary Hart

The pressure to being a comedian is being funny, but I've given that up, so there is no pressure whatsoever.
‐‐ Gilbert Gottfried

The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.
‐‐ Carl Bernstein

The pressure to keep up with what society tells us is perfect is causing us to enter a time when women are no longer women, but plastic shells of what women used to be.
‐‐ Chelsea Hobbs

The pressure used to wear on me. I was on Twitter a couple years ago, and I couldn't handle it all that well. Don't get me wrong, because 90% of the feedback you get is fantastic.
‐‐ Bryan Cogman

The pressure was huge going into London, definitely.
‐‐ Katie Taylor

The pressure was if I didn't get into that dress size someone else would - someone else would get the job.
‐‐ Carre Otis

The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.
‐‐ Alan Hansen

The pressures having grown up in this business can be really rough. And it is a testament to you that you have remained focused and NOT lost your mind.
‐‐ Keenen Ivory Wayans

The pressures, I don't really like to think about the pressures, I like to solve them, you know what I mean. I could sit here and complain about pressures but nobody wants to hear about pressures.
‐‐ Rick Danko

The pressures to get the story first, if wrong, are greater sometimes than the pressures to get the story right, if late.
‐‐ Alastair Campbell

The prestige of the Nobel Prize is such that one is suddenly promoted to a new status.
‐‐ Luis Federico Leloir

The presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, walking without worrying - these should not be hallmarks of white privilege. They are human rights - human rights - that should be enjoyed by all.
‐‐ Randi Weingarten

The presumption that an extant mode is efficient if the expected net gain is negative can nevertheless be rebutted by showing that the obstacles to implementing an otherwise superior feasible alternative are 'unfair.'
‐‐ Oliver E. Williamson

The pret-a-porter collection will be the same as couture in essence: I love luxury, beautiful products, handmade with care, but at more accessible prices.
‐‐ Stephane Rolland

The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
‐‐ Quintilian

The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
‐‐ Adam Sedgwick

The pretentiousness of literature really annoys me; the way a writer is held as this sort of magical person to be revered on the stage. Everything I do on tour is to try and destroy that pretense.
‐‐ Chuck Palahniuk

The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.
‐‐ Mary Wortley Montagu

The pretty girls get all the good stuff. Oh, God. So not true. I unlearned this after years of coaching beautiful clients. Yes, these lovelies get preferential treatment in most life scenarios, but there's a catch: While everyone's looking at them, virtually no one sees them.
‐‐ Martha Beck

The prevailing ideology of the modern west - which is political economy - is in the doghouse. Having failed to notice atmospheric pollution, the economists then frightened themselves with the sort of financial crisis they said they had abolished.
‐‐ James Buchan

The prevailing structures of personal reputation and career advancement mean the biggest rewards often follow the flashiest work, not the best.
‐‐ Randy Schekman

The prevailing view was that girls were outside of school because of the resistance of families to their education. But when I visited a local village, what everyone told me - the chiefs, the parents, the children - was that girls weren't in school because it was the boys that had a better chance of getting paid work in the future.
‐‐ Ann Cotton

The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.
‐‐ Havelock Ellis

The previous generation paved the way for my generation to gallop unheeded into jobs previously reserved for men.
‐‐ Beeban Kidron

The previous year it had taken England all their time to beat the full German team in an international and I had taken with me the programme from that match.
‐‐ Dixie Dean

The price I have personally paid for these extra Sisyphean years has been prohibitive.
‐‐ Caryl Chessman

The Price Is Right can really get me going.
‐‐ Sam Peckinpah

'The Price Is Right,' it was an honor to be offered it because it's such an American institution. To be able to carry on this tradition with a show that has been on for so long, I thought it was a great opportunity for me.
‐‐ Drew Carey

The price of a commodity will never go to zero. When you invest in commodities futures, you're not buying a piece of paper that says you own an intangible piece of company that can go bankrupt.
‐‐ Jim Rogers

The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.
‐‐ Jerry Saltz

The price of an e-book is a lot less than the price that we're charging for a hardcover book. It's about the same as we charge for a paperback. And that means a different revenue stream.
‐‐ Jonathan Galassi