Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Murray

One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.

David O. Russell

One of the things I've discovered at my age is I must have enchantment. And that was not clear to me in my earlier years. When I look at my favorite films, the Frank Capra - even Scorsese, even 'Goodfellas,' what makes that movie so remarkable is there's enchantment in their world.

Lee Scott

One of the things that strikes me is so many of the critics are people whose lifestyle doesn't change when the price of fuel changes, or if they keep a Wal-Mart store out of their area.

C. Everett Koop

One of the things we want to do is find ways, first, to impress these parents how important it is to have children in a situation where they can respond to them and, second, to bring intergenerational relationships into play.

Tim Kaine

One of the things we wrestle with nationally is, 'If we want the economy to be strong, what should we do?' Why not learn some lessons from Virginia?

Christopher Nolan

One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.

Leonard Mlodinow

One of the things your unconscious mind does for you - and it's a great gift - is it gives you extra courage to view the outer world and it does that by giving you an extra-special view of yourself.

Kathryn Minshew

One of the top causes of startup death - right after cofounder problems - is building something no one wants.

Jason Statham

One of the toughest guys in the world is Randy Couture - he is the true epitome of what a tough guy is.

Gary Weiss

One problem with the focus on speculation is that it tends to promote the growth of the great intellectual cancer of our times: conspiracy theories.

James Wolcott

One reason I'm such a wayward prognosticator of rightwing trends is that I'm incapable of blacking out enough neural sectors to see the world through reptilian-brained eyes, a prerequisite for any true channeling of the mean resentments and implanted fears that drive hardcore conservatives.

Robert Jay Lifton

One reason that I embarked on a study of Nazi doctors was that in this personal journey, I had the feeling increasingly that I did want to do a Holocaust study and that increasingly I wanted it to be of perpetrators, which I thought was more needed.

Henry Miller

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

Sylvia Plath

One should be able to control and manipulate experiences with an informed and intelligent mind.

Kathleen Battle

People are drawn to the spiritual. It has a universal appeal.

Wendy Kopp

People are everything in education, just as in the corporate world.

Mattie Stepanek

People are fighting over how our heartsongs are different. But they don't need to be the same. That's the beauty. We are a mosaic of gifts. Each of us has our inner beauty no matter how we look.

Amy Grant

People are going to come into your life that need you, and being there for them makes the day worth living. People are going to come into your life that you need, and that's the really crazy thing.

Howard Graham Buffett

People are hungry not because there aren't enough farmers or food, but because they don't have access to it or can't afford it.

Maisie Williams

People are like, 'What's Game of Thrones about?' I'm like, 'It's in the title.' For real, this is a game for the Iron Throne. No matter what character you are, you're sucked into that at some point.

Kevin Mitnick

People are prone to taking mental shortcuts. They may know that they shouldn't give out certain information, but the fear of not being nice, the fear of appearing ignorant, the fear of a perceived authority figure - all these are triggers, which can be used by a social engineer to convince a person to override established security procedures.

Kathleen Edwards

People are really set in their ways in how they produce records, and I was at least open enough to where I knew I wanted to do something totally different.

Azim Premji

People are the key to success or extraordinary success.

Brian McDermott

People ask me about my interests outside football, but I haven't really got any.

Martin Amis

People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children's book. I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who you're directing the story to is anathema to me, because, in my view, fiction is freedom and any restraints on that are intolerable.

Grace Slick

People ask me why I don't paint oils. It takes too long. Cleaning brushes in linseed oil, and it takes six months to really dry, and all this. I don't have that kind of time. I work with acrylic. It's water based. You can clean it under water. If you spill it on yourself, you just throw it in the washing machine.

Dominique Wilkins

People came to the All-Star Game to see the dunk contest.

Mencius

People can have a long-term life plan only if they know their private property is secure.

Susan Minot

People can have a variety of concerns at the same time. Even those undergoing grave or traumatic experiences will acknowledge the need for lightness or even entertainment.

Sheridan Smith

People can never work out where they know me from. They just come up and chat with me like mates.

Judith Light

People can only do what they are ready to do when they are ready to do it.

Gunter Grass

People change with time. There are things that happened to a person in his childhood and years later they seem to him alien and strange. I am trying to decipher that child. Sometimes he is a stranger to me. When you think about when you were 14, don't you feel a certain alienation?

Albert Ellis

People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.

Jeffrey Gitomer

People don't like to be sold, but they love to buy!

Dick Van Patten

People don't like to feed live mice and rats to their snakes. Now we have a regular meat food that they will eat. Ninety percent of the snakes will eat this food and love it.

Natasha Bedingfield

People don't listen to one radio station. On iTunes you can mix different worlds and bring country and pop and folk and live music together with a mass audience. I could have sung 'Easy' in a country way but I just sang it how I sing. I think it's a really nice blend.

Alan Greenspan

People don't realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but that's as far as we go. And I've had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward. The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.

Neil Peart

People don't realize the limitations of 200 words, and the way they get chiselled down into a song that has to be sung.

Nobu Matsuhisa

People eat the chicken, people eat the beef, they still say, 'Don't kill the fish.'

Neil Kinnock

People, even independently minded people, do to an extent draw their impressions from what they are told, especially if they are told it incessantly by newspapers.

Nafisa Joseph

People feel I don't mix much, but I'm working at it.

Ethan Zuckerman

People generally pay attention to what they already know about and what they care about.

Minnie Driver

People go 'You look a lot like Minnie Driver.' Once I said, 'Thanks, Minnie is a great actress.' But, it blew up in my face. This person said, 'Nah, didn't like the last movie she did.

Lionel Richie

People have allowed me into their homes, through my words and my music.

Sheila Jackson Lee

People have been turned away from hospitals simply because they have no insurance. People have been put out of hospitals because they have reached the lifetime caps.

John McWhorter

People have been warning us that language was going to the dogs ever since Latin started turning into French. Yet the dogs in question never seem to emerge yelping on the horizon.

Steven Spielberg

People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.

Anatole Broyard

People have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work.

Thomas Dooley

People have to pay a lot of money to play soccer here.

Gordon Parks

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.