P.D. James Quotes

In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.

Do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty.

Stop trying to write sentences and start trying to write stories.

I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.

Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.

There's no relationship that I find that's closer than a creative relationship.

You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.

A boy or girl who knows that love abounds at home will not resent well-deserved punishment. One who is unloved or ignored will hate any form of discipline.

If Hillary gave up one of her balls and gave it to Obama, he'd have two.

People don't know and they shouldn't know that you work incredibly hard as an actor.

There is a vast frontier that's going to take us a while to understand... it was very lunar, a very desolate place, isolated.

Once a song and dance man, always a song and dance man. Those few words tell as much about me professionally as there is to tell.

I do not want to make this charge. I do not see how it can succeed. I would not make it now but that General Lee has ordered it and expects it.

At last my love has come along. My lonely days are over and life is like a song.

Your imagination can create a reality

Where would Christianity be if Jesus got eight to fifteen years with time off for good behavior?

You'll always make mistakes and you'll miss the mark sometimes. That's inevitably going to happen, because the best people in the world make mistakes - even people who are brilliant.

There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.

The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, or to publish their sentiments; and the freedom of the press, as one of the great bulwarks of liberty, shall be inviolable.

The Government of the United States possesses no power whatever over the question of religion.

There is nothing stable but Heaven and the Constitution.

Sir, I do firmly believe that domestic slavery, regulated as ours is, produces the highest toned, the purest, best organization of society that has ever existed on the face of the earth.

If you expect someone else to guide you, you'll be lost.

Students of American glass must always keep in mind that the creations they collect are truly examples of our American culture... and thus have historical significance.

I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.

Write what you need to write, not what is currently popular or what you think will sell.

The world is full of Kings and Queens, Who blind your eyes and steal your dreams.

You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading.

I think you can only be truly mad at someone you really love.

Only the gentle are ever really strong.

Life is never easy for those who dream.

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.

There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.

There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.

Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you're not going to hire them.

Until you try, you don't know what you can't do.

Love of country is nowhere the same as love of government.

I don't like gourmet cooking or 'this' cooking or 'that' cooking. I like good cooking.

I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know.

We best serve intimate relationship by becoming sufficiently developed in ourselves that we do not need to feed off others.

I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.

The Postman Always RingsTwice.

The practice of leadership is not the same as the exercise of power.

You got to use what you got to get just what you want.

The only greatness for man is immortality.

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now with climate change, yet we dither.

We eat light, drink it in through our skins

Filmmaking is a miracle of collaboration.