There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four l...
EDWARD LEAR There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, 'It is just as I feared! -
Two Owls and a Hen, EDWARD LEAR It's a fact the whole world knows; That Pobbles are happier without their toes.
EDWARD LEAR And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon.
EDWARD LEAR I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the ...
EDWARD LEAR The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat.
EDWARD LEAR Who, or why, or which, or what, Is the Akhond of Swat?
EDWARD LEAR I stop and look at traffic accidents. I won't hang around, but when I hear something is terrible...
NORMAN LEAR Life is about having a good time, and it was a good time. We did some things well and some things po...
NORMAN LEAR My talk show takes place in bed, in Italy.
AMANDA LEAR I've tried to tell a story. For me, it is the best one.
AMANDA LEAR I hate to spread rumours, but what else can one do with them?
AMANDA LEAR I am not interested in releasing best of stuff and I have not given my permission. You release best ...
AMANDA LEAR They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, o...
EDWARD LEAR Two old Bachelors were living in one house; One caught a Muffin, the other caught a Mouse.
EDWARD LEAR Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people...
NORMAN LEAR Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come ...
NORMAN LEAR I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the ...
EDWARD LEAR Just because you went to school and to back-to-school night doesn't mean you know . . . the appropri...
CAROL LEAR The system we have is working.
CAROL LEAR One of the main comments that I've heard regarding this issue is parents and educators saying that t...
CAROL LEAR I don't want to put words in his mouth. I'm just saying his comments before certainly factor into th...
CAROL LEAR The State Board of Education has . . . constitutional authority to direct the public schools. I don'...
CAROL LEAR Is it risk free? No. But if we had teachers banging down the doors, crowding our hallways, I think w...
CAROL LEAR I think it should satisfy the Legislature . . . and give all students the greatest advantage to get ...
CAROL LEAR Proponents of the bill want to make sure there's an opportunity for intelligent design or creationis...
CAROL LEAR It is a bill trying to force intelligent design on the school districts through the State Board of E...
CAROL LEAR But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that h...
NORMAN LEAR How pleasant to know Mr. Lear! Who has written such volumes of stuff! Some think him ill-tempe...
EDWARD LEAR Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come ...
NORMAN LEAR Two old Bachelors were living in one house;/ One caught a Muffin, the other caught a Mouse.
EDWARD LEAR Serve up in a clean dish, and throw the whole out of the window as fast as possible.
EDWARD LEAR And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon,
The moon,...
EDWARD LEAR O lovely Pussy, O Pussy, my love,
What a beautiful Pussy you are,
You are,
You are! EDWARD LEAR They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
In a Sieve they went to sea:
In spite of all their...
EDWARD LEAR And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon. The moon. The moon....
EDWARD LEAR They dined on mince, and slices of quince
Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
And hand i...
EDWARD LEAR I know a lot of white people who have a lot more money than I do.
NORMAN LEAR It looks a little nutty. It's hard to believe people pay any attention to it.
NORMAN LEAR All in the Family,
NORMAN LEAR There is excess violence, excess sensationalism, excess sex. We are looking at an excessive culture,...
NORMAN LEAR They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, o...
EDWARD LEAR We did an episode on Good Times which came out of a newspaper article about the incidence of hyperte...
NORMAN LEAR In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offic...
NORMAN LEAR Life goes on pretty much the same way. I've been working on a couple of films on the side. You m...
NORMAN LEAR The Owl and the Pussycat,
EDWARD LEAR This isn't the best time for America laughing at ourselves. I think political satire thrives much mo...
NORMAN LEAR It will belong to the American people,
NORMAN LEAR It's a happy coincidence that when we bought the Fantasy catalog we were also able to sign one of th...
NORMAN LEAR Edith, stifle yourself!
NORMAN LEAR I am not interested in releasing best of stuff and I have not given my permission. You release best ...
AMANDA LEAR There was an old man with a beard, Who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, Four lark...
EDWARD LEAR There was an old man with a beard, Who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, Four larks...
EDWARD LEAR It's a fact the whole world knows, / That Pobbles are happier without their toes.
EDWARD LEAR In spite of all their friends could say, / On a winter's morn, on a stormy day, / In a sieve they we...
EDWARD LEAR And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon, The moon, The moon....
EDWARD LEAR The Dong!- the Dong! / The wandering Dong through the forest goes! / The Dong!- the Dong! / The Dong...
EDWARD LEAR Who or why, or which or what, / Is the Akond of Swat?
EDWARD LEAR And they bought an Owl, and a useful Cart,/ And a pound of Rice, and a Cranberry Tart.
EDWARD LEAR Ere the days of his pilgrimage vanish, How pleasant to know Mr
EDWARD LEAR And who so happy,- O who, / As the Duck and the Kangaroo?
EDWARD LEAR The Princess Bride.
NORMAN LEAR The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea/ In a beautiful pea-green boat,/ They took some honey, and ple...
EDWARD LEAR At great, great remove sit the head of General Electric, the head of News Corp, the head of Viacom, ...
NORMAN LEAR We got ratings. It isn't that they won't quarrel with you, or say you're always right. B...
NORMAN LEAR We see legislation coming. A lot of companies haven't stepped up to the plate.... If we do this righ...
DAVID LEAR Instead of keeping it in private hands on some wall someplace, this will travel to schools, to libra...
NORMAN LEAR The more we can get together and talk about various perspectives, feelings, beliefs, the better.
WILLIAM P. LEAHY Respectable men and women content with good and easy living are missing some of the most important t...
WILLIAM P. MERRILL Respectable men and women content with good and easy living are missing someof the most important th...
WILLIAM P. MERRILL Great men have not been concerned with fame. The joy of achievement that comes from finding somethin...
WILLIAM P. KING I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiratio...
WILLIAM P. YOUNG I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way.
WILLIAM P. LEAHY I was raised in a tribal situation, among cannibal people.
WILLIAM P. YOUNG The church may hold whatever it holds with regard to clerical celibacy.
WILLIAM P. LEAHY I think people are tired of religion and how it divides and damages people. You can name it whatever...
WILLIAM P. YOUNG Part of my journey is to say that the soul of the human being must be a massively intricate, wonderf...
WILLIAM P. YOUNG You know how the church has been hit so hard by the sexual misconduct by clergy, and what's that...
WILLIAM P. LEAHY Your involvement in the lives of your closest relationships was never mean to be built on a mutual l...
WILLIAM P. SMITH Impatience blossoms when something becomes more important than someone. In those moments, you need t...
WILLIAM P. SMITH Those moments when you sin against him become opportunities for you to taste once again his great lo...
WILLIAM P. SMITH When I realize that God makes his gifts fit each person, there's no way I can covet what you got bec...
WILLIAM P. SMITH We can be present in the sorrows of our loved ones...You only need to practice being aware that peop...
WILLIAM P. SMITH I'm glad that my willingness to be vulnerable about my life encourages other people to be more open ...
WILLIAM P. SMITH Even Jesus needed his human friends(Mark 14:32) And they went to a place called Gethsemane. And he s...
WILLIAM P. SMITH I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its...
WILLIAM P. LEAHY the world is conditioning our minds with violence
WILLIAM P. JOHNSON the world is conditioning your minds with violence
WILLIAM P. JOHNSON Women agonize over cancer; we take as a personal threat the lump in every friend's breast.
MARTHA WEINMAN LEAR As a practising lawyer, I was mediocre, but I worked hard as a law officer of the state government a...
P. SATHASIVAM If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take...
P. CHIDAMBARAM I have maintained that the people of India are ahead of their governments. The people of India are a...
P. CHIDAMBARAM When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union ...
P. CHIDAMBARAM Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a commi...
P. CHIDAMBARAM The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government.
P. CHIDAMBARAM We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.
P. CHIDAMBARAM I don't think we should label budgets even before the budget is presented.
P. CHIDAMBARAM A government can do only what is feasible given the political and economic context.
P. CHIDAMBARAM Police can only act on intelligence.
P. CHIDAMBARAM In income tax, there is no case for amnesty.
P. CHIDAMBARAM The voter does not vote only on one issue, the voter votes on a multiplicity of issues.
P. CHIDAMBARAM Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.
P. CHIDAMBARAM I think people respect governments that take decisions and act decisively.
P. CHIDAMBARAM Criticism of a policy is welcome. But in the garb of criticizing a policy, if you allege that the po...
P. CHIDAMBARAM Two successive commissioners in London police were fired by the mayor that came into office. That do...
P. CHIDAMBARAM People understand what is good for them in the long run. In the long run, what is good for people is...
P. CHIDAMBARAM People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.
P. CHIDAMBARAM 'Big business' was a bad phrase in India. To be accused of being big business was the worst ...
P. CHIDAMBARAM I respect the view of a rating agency, but I do not make a budget for the rating agency. I make a bu...
P. CHIDAMBARAM It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the deve...
P. CHIDAMBARAM Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.
P. CHIDAMBARAM All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
P. CHIDAMBARAM The concept of a Nash equilibrium n-tuple is perhaps the most important idea in noncooperative game ...
P. ORDESHOOK Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are lev...
P. CHIDAMBARAM Carey's had though times as well, so between the two of us, it's perfect
P!NK My mum and I have an incredible friendship now after a mixture of pain, honesty, unconditional love ...
P!NK I can turn heartbreak into songs that help other people
P!NK Independence is a very subjective assessment.
P. CHIDAMBARAM There are checks and balances and broad separation of powers under the Constitution. Each organ of t...
P. SATHASIVAM Television is not like making records. I wanna tell all you kids, do not try this at home, 'caus...
MASTER P The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence.
P. GODWIN Statistics are like lampposts: they are good to lean on, but they don't shed much light.
STORM P When your looking for the love you thought you had for someone and it starts to become too difficult...
JASHON P Love is about giving, about caring for the other person's welfare. Love is treating someone, in the ...
A. P. One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived
P. BOURGET ...music, music, records, records, noise to cover silence.
A. P. I feel pretty sure I know why the dinosaurs went extinct. They were waiting for Sam to pick out a ce...
P. ANASTASIA Cry in love, But never cry after breakup, It will cry your life.
PRASHANT P If I can go through what I've been through and do a television show with my son and then be a bo...
MASTER P So what! I'm still a rockstar, I got my rock moves, and I don't need you!
P!NK Nothing awakens the conscience like a lot of money.
P. SAINATH Denying the poor access to knowledge goes back a long way. The ancient Smriti political and legal sy...
P. SAINATH Too often, poverty and deprivation get covered as events. That is, when some disaster strikes, when ...
P. SAINATH WhatEver May Be The Problems, Dont Be Afraid, Think That They Are The Questions Infront Of You As An...
P. P. GURUMAULI ANNA SAHEB MORE To become a millionaire you must become a Lion, you can't even spell millionaire without the word Li...
P. P. GURUMAULI ANNA SAHEB MORE Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their...
P. J. O'ROURKE We call ourselves a dog's 'master' - but who ever dared to call himself the 'master&...
H. P. LOVECRAFT Humans have a light side and a dark side, and it's up to us to choose which way we're going ...
TARAJI P. HENSON Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a p...
H. P. LOVECRAFT The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.
H. P. LOVECRAFT We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant...
H. P. LOVECRAFT Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.
H. P. LOVECRAFT The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on Ne...
P. J. O'ROURKE The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.
SALMON P. CHASE What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?
SALMON P. CHASE The President then proceeded to read his Emancipation Proclamation, making remarks on the several pa...
SALMON P. CHASE All men are born equally free.
SALMON P. CHASE Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the inte...
SALMON P. CHASE What you have said, Mr. President, fully satisfies me that you have given to every proposition which...
SALMON P. CHASE The Proclamation does not, indeed, mark out exactly the course I should myself prefer. But I am read...
SALMON P. CHASE The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot...
SALMON P. CHASE Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the wor...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON It was this society and culture that among other things - including economic opportunities here and ...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON They weren't immigrating to some existing society; indeed, they often did whatever they could do...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms.
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly h...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON Immigrants are people who leave one country, one society, and move to another society. But there has...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON And so in terms of territorial control, in terms of economic preeminence, the western share of the g...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of imm...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has i...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitmen...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis ...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
TARAJI P. HENSON I feel like we all have our skeletons.
TARAJI P. HENSON I just like when I work with people that are professional and good.
TARAJI P. HENSON With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you,...
TARAJI P. HENSON I love the art of acting, so I don't care if I'm in a movie with 10 people, two people, or b...
TARAJI P. HENSON I would love to do a biopic of a famous singer, like Diana Ross or Donna Summer, or an old jazz stor...
TARAJI P. HENSON When I come home, it's about my kid, who needs to eat, needs to do homework, and needs to get to...
TARAJI P. HENSON Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes w...
TARAJI P. HENSON I'm nothing without God.
TARAJI P. HENSON Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.
TARAJI P. HENSON I don't ever want to feel complacent.
TARAJI P. HENSON I'm not a selfish actor. I believe that it's a team effort. You're not in a scene by you...
TARAJI P. HENSON I'm always the cousin that can't make it to the family functions because I'm busy.
TARAJI P. HENSON When I meet a person and that chemistry is there, I cannot hide the electricity. I need to learn mor...
TARAJI P. HENSON I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no ...
TARAJI P. HENSON I don't think a living being should suffer for the sake of fashion, period. End of story. You do...
TARAJI P. HENSON I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.
TARAJI P. HENSON I'm always interested in challenging myself and pushing and seeing how far I can go.
TARAJI P. HENSON It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies i...
TARAJI P. HENSON A woman is gentle, soft, delicate, and a man's position is to protect her, help her up stairs, m...
TARAJI P. HENSON At the end of the day, I stand by who I am. I'm a good person.
TARAJI P. HENSON Love is the greatest gift that God has given us. It's free.
TARAJI P. HENSON The best way to be productive is to have a great team. So I spend more time than most CEOs on human ...
KEVIN P. RYAN Most writers are unhappy with film adaptations of their work, and rightly so. 'Field of Dreams,&...
W. P. KINSELLA I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
W. P. KINSELLA Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that n...
W. P. KINSELLA Read, read, read, read and then read some more.
W. P. KINSELLA I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard ...
W. P. KINSELLA Baseball is meant to be a contemplative game. They play music to draw young people to the game. If y...
W. P. KINSELLA If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time.
W. P. KINSELLA