| Peter Ustinov |  The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.
Peter Ustinov |
| Philip Pullman | For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you're writing, and for that you need silence.
Philip Pullman |
| Philip Stanhope | Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.
Philip Stanhope |
| Phillip E. Johnson | So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit religious content in what they are teaching.
Phillip E. Johnson |
| Phyllis Diller | The real reason your pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing at you.
Phyllis Diller |
| Phyllis Diller | The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing.
Phyllis Diller |
| Phyllis Diller | The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.
Phyllis Diller |
| Phyllis McGinley | When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.
Phyllis McGinley |
| Pia Zadora | The reason we shot it was that the script was geared to Las Vegas and it was something commercial that we wanted to have in the can in case Butterfly was a success and we needed a follow-up.
Pia Zadora |
| pictures | The reason good women like me and flock to my pictures is that there is a little bit of vampire instinct in every woman.
Theda Bara
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| Pierre Bonnard | You reason color more than you reason drawing... Color has a logic as severe as form.
Pierre Bonnard |
| Pierre Corneille | My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.
Pierre Corneille |
| Pierre Corneille | Reason and love are sworn enemies.
Pierre Corneille |
| Pierre Loti | I still went to church regularly every Sunday; that is we all went there together. I reverenced the family pew where we had assembled for so many years; and apart from that reason I hold it dear because it is associated in my memory with my mother.
Pierre Loti |
| Pierre Nicole | We need a reason to speak but none to keep silent.
Pierre Nicole |
| Piers Anthony | One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.
Piers Anthony |
| poetry | The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
Lascelles Abercrombie
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| politeness | Pardon me, I said, with equal politeness, but I have a special reason for wishing to know who purchased it. |
| Polly Toynbee | But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.
Polly Toynbee |
| Polly Toynbee | But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.
Polly Toynbee |
