Potent Quotes

See also Core English Vocabulary (P) Quotes

(speaking in 2004) There certainly is such a thing as screen chemistry, although I don`t believe you find it frequently. There was a definite on-screen chemistry between Errol (Errol Flynn) and me. Before us, the most potent example was Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell in the `20s and `30s. People should not be surprised by screen chemistry because, after all, life is chemistry.

- Olivia de Havilland

(From People Magazine, 5/20/03, in which he was listed as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World) It`s very hard being one of the most beautiful people. Having this kind of beauty is actually a burden. Sometimes I go to a party and not one of the other 49 most beautiful people is there. That makes me feel very solitary and alone, because it means I am the most beautiful person in the room. If I`m going to a party where I know there will be "less-beautiful people," I try to "dress down" in order to hide my beauty. But this seems to have a counter-effect of actually making me more beautiful. I guess me and dungarees are a pretty potent combination. I try not to lord my beauty over others. This is very hard. I try not to mention that I am one of the most beautiful people, but somehow it always comes out. I will usually only bring it up when I`m asked to do a task, like open a garage door. People seem to enjoy my beauty and are genuinely happy for me, because after I mention it they always say, "How nice for you."

- Steve Martin

(Referring to his successful Atlanta-based dog breeding business, Big Boi explained the name of the label:) My `Purple Ribbon` dogs have a strong blood line that goes back three generations. I want to put out potent funk music. Purple Ribbon is gonna be so strong you can smell it. ... This is a Big Boi thang, not an OutKast thang. I`m doing films, but music is my first love.

- Big Boi

Finding that small RNAs comprise a potent set of regulatory molecules in diverse organisms is among the most important discoveries in the past 10 years. This research is pioneering in its ability to characterize these important regulatory molecules on a genome-wide scale.

- John West

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

- Norman Schwarzkopf

We feel that Grendel is very, very potent as to where we are today, which may not be any different than where we were in the 10th Century.

- Julie Taymor

Prayer is not an old woman`s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

These weapons were extraordinarily potent. Some of them were actually engineered, genetically, to become more lethal than the strains in nature,

- Jonathan Tucker

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.

- Helen Keller

With the Giants desperate for a victory, it was an obvious strategy for them to pitch around the Tigers` most potent hitter.

- William Kelly

I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.

- King George V

`Yes` is a far more potent word than `no` in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.

- Dick Morris

I never would have thought it. But this is a pretty potent lineup. You can`t get down too much.

- Mark Bellhorn

The words `I am...` are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you`re claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.

- A. David Jimenez

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.

- Adam Krejci

The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel special, desirable, precious, innately good. Your lover couldn`t have seen (these qualities) in you, even temporarily, if they weren`t part of your essential being.

- Adam Pepmeier

The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.

- Adrian Pilz

Recently I saw Kasparov and he looked to me as still young and potent champion.

- Alain Bauer

If the union between England and America is a powerful factor in the cause of peace, a new Triple Alliance between the Teutonic race and the two branches of the Anglo-Saxon race will be a still more potent influence in the future of the world.

- Albert Newgarden

May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery.

- Alexander Savenkov

No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment.

- Ali Aoun

The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men.

- Allen Lee

Believe me, the drug of freedom is universally potent.

- American Council

The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.

- Andrea Dunn

The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

- Andrei Codrescu

The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

- Andrei Codrescu

We know they`re a very potent offense, and it`s a matter of going out and doing what we do,

- Angus Geddes

Never buy a a skin cream that`s not loaded with great potent stable antioxidents like vitamin C,

- Ann Belcher

They do a lot of misdirection and fake the ball real well. It`s almost impossible to blitz or pick up on any particular keys. It`s a very potent offense. They`re probably averaging in the low 40s (scoring). They`re solid on the line, got great skill position players and got a lot of people involved in their offense.

- Anthony Black

I think Haley`s time is pretty short, ... She fought very hard, but the leukemia just proved too resistant and too potent, and that`s been the story since the beginning of the year.

- Athena Hrevatis

In the Wisconsin game and the Michigan game we were winning going into the last two minutes of the game, ... Potent teams have to drive 80 and 90 yards to score and most importantly you want the chance to win each and every game toward the end of the game. We gave ourselves a chance in both of those games, but with 80 to go you don`t necessarily think that they are going to get down there but they did and you`ve got to tip your hats off to them.

- Barbara McKinney

What all the ads and all the whoreoscopes seemed to imply was that if only you were narcissistic enough, if only you took proper care of your smells, your hair, your boobs, your eyelashes, your armpits, your crotch, your stars, your scars, and your choice of Scotch in bars--you would meet a beautiful, powerful, potent, and rich man who would satisfy every longing, fill every hole, make your heart skip a beat (or stand still), make you misty, and fly you to the moon (preferably on gossamer wings), where you would live totally satisfied forever.

- Erica Jong

Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth

- Eric Hoffer

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death

- Robert Fulghum