Quotes about Things, page 35

In the main, people say the same thing in relation to the same thing.

Quote by Michael Parkinson about things

It's a funny thing, but when people talk about jazz piano nowadays they seem to overlook Earl, and I don't know why, because he had perfect musical taste.

Quote by Michael Parkinson about things

It's so embarrassing watching yourself back then, those awful hairstyles we had and those terrible concord collars and all that sort of thing.

Quote by Michael Parkinson about things

I'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less getting a bad shake.

Quote by Gordon Parks about things

People in millenniums ahead will know what we were like in the 1930's and the thing that, the important major things that shaped our history at that time. This is as important for historic reasons as any other.

Quote by Gordon Parks about things

You can show with a camera you can show things that you like about the universe, things that you hate about the universe.

Quote by Gordon Parks about things

At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in.

Quote by Rosa Parks about things

I'm delighted about the track's success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is, I don't think I got rich on it. The labels and publishers did very cheap deals on our songs.

Quote by Alan Parsons about things

I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater.

Quote by Estelle Parsons about things

Knowledge is held to be an entirely quantitative affair. The one important thing is to have observed what had not been observed before.

Quote by Talcott Parsons about things

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

Quote by Dolly Parton about things

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

Quote by Dolly Parton about things

By the early '70s I had gotten reasonable and I started to get in hundreds of groups that rehearsed and never played at all. I mean, the most important thing was to look good and have a great name.

Quote by Andy Partridge about things

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about things

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about things

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about things

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about things

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about things

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about things

The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about things