P.D. James Quotes

One day I caught four Dolphins, how much I have gazed at these beautiful creatures... as they changed their hue in twenty varieties of richest arrangement of tints.

Excuse me? I'm alive too.

Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.

I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

Gazzy: "Just Ten?" Angel: "No." Gazzy: "Five?" Angel: "No.

I had to give him props, but how annoying of him to be a hero when I was trying so hard to dislike him. It was downright selfish.

For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.

Because youve done the horrible jobs, it gives you an even grittier determination to succeed.

If companies tell us more, insider trading will be worth less.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

They say living well is the best revenge but sometimes writing well is even better.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.

Enthusiasm moves the world.

Drag a $100 bill through a trailer camp and there's no telling what you will find.

Without ambition no conquests are made, and no business created. Ambition is the root of all achievement.

The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.

What I refuse to face within myself will meet me in the exterior world through you, not as you are, but as I have so construed you.

The truth about intimate relationships is that they can never be any better than our relationship with ourselves.

The storm of frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against the unshaken rock of the Constitution.

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

Ensure that no Marine who honorably wore the eagle, globe and anchor is lost to the Marine Corps family.

Thought is the fountain of action, life and manifestation; make the fountain pure, and all will be pure.

If I were to pick a language to use today other than Java, it would be Scala

Do what you do with love, and success is a natural symptom.

Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.

Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.

The only difference is that religion is much better organized and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes.

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

If I were not a king, I would be a university man; and if it were so that I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I would desire to have no other prison than that library [the Bodleian].

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.

I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?

It's easier to have faith in yourself if you have faith in God.

It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.

Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.

I like to call it 'the national automobile slum.' You can call it suburban sprawl. I think it's appropriate to call it the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world.

Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.

The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain.

We are responsible for the world in which we find ourselves, if only because we are the only sentient force which can change it.

I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.

I don't have to explain anything to anybody.

What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe

I only got a seventh-grade education, but I have a doctorate in funk, and I like to put that to good use

Home is where you hang your hangover.

There are all sorts of things embodied in the Lego brick - geometry and mathematics and truth and proportion and shape and colour... It is a faintly spiritual activity that everybody connects with.

Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue.

Nature's prime favourites were the Pelicans; High-fed, long-lived, and sociable and free.