Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Hirsch

I would be happier if people who went through MFA programs also were already, by then, deeply committed readers of poetry because we need readers of poetry as much as writers of poetry.

Edward Gibbon

The vain, inconstant, rebellious disposition of the people [of Armorica], was incompatible either with freedom or servitude.

Edward Gibbon

Extreme distress, which unites the virtue of a free people, imbitters the factions of a declining monarchy.

Edward Gibbon

[Arabs are] a people, whom it is dangerous to provoke, and fruitless to attack.

Edith Piaf

I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.

Edith Head

Some people need sequins, others don't.

Edith Schaeffer

When people insist on perfection or nothing, they get nothing.

Edith Sitwell

People are usually made Dames for virtues I do not possess.

Edith Wharton

...every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written.

Edith Wharton

What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.

Edith Wharton

[I]t's safer to be fond of dangerous people.

Edith Wharton

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

Eddie Murphy

I keep telling people I'll make movies until I'm fifty and then I'll go and do something else. I'm going to be a professional gentleman of leisure.

Eddie Murphy

You can't let the good things people say make you feel too good, because you're going to let the bad things make you feel bad.

Eddie Izzard

People still talk about a British sense of humour, or French slapstick or how the Germans have no sense of humour - and it's just rubbish. I do strongly feel that we are all the bloody same.

Eddie Izzard

Some people are widely read. I'm thinly read.

Eddie Izzard

If you're a performer, people tend to be quite positive about you or they have no opinion.

Eddie Izzard

My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.

Eddie Izzard

When I watched Braveheart I was in tears and I was rooting for the Scottish people

Eddie Izzard

Racist people, interestingly, are never as polite as smokers. Have you noticed that? Smokers always go, "Do you mind if I smoke? Oh, you do? Okay, I'll go outside and have a cigarette.

Ed Asner

A lot of people don't want to feel anti-black by being opposed to Obama.

Ed Belfour

I love proving people wrong.

Ed Belfour

When people count me out, that gets me motivated.

Earl Wilson

Today, there are three kinds of people: the haves, the have-nots, and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-haves.

Earl Warren

Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.

Earl Warren

Don't complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege.

Eason Jordan

Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.

Eartha Kitt

Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.

Dean Acheson

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.

David Walker

Allowing God to charge our lives that we may empower people around us to live In a greater relationship with him.

David Walton

Teasing was big in my family, and there is a wonderful way to tease and make people feel more loved.

David Walliams

Social satire has been around since people have been around.

David Roberts

People say 'Why do you make pots?' Because I'm compelled to - life isn't right without it.