Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marion Barry

People blame me because these water mains break, but I ask you, if the water mains didn't break, would it be my responsibility to fix them then? WOULD IT!?!

Bela Lugosi

People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.

Evan Bayh

People come into public life for different reasons. None of us are ego-challenged, I think, or we probably wouldn't be doing what we're doing, so if anyone tells you that they don't like the sound of the applause and the ego gratification, I don't think they're being straight with you.

James McAvoy

People come up to me and they're usually nice, but as it goes on you realise that some people aren't nice. Some people are not nice at all.

F. Murray Abraham

People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.

Natalie Maines

People do look at it as an insult that I say I don't listen to country music, which cracks me up.

Paddy Ashdown

People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.

Frank Iero

People don't always realize that a record is forever. It'll always be there under your name. You've got to be certain that it's right.

Nate Silver

People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.

Tea Leoni

People don't know this, but early in your career, you don't just glide on to The Tonight Show

Rodney Brooks

People don't say, 'I just had a kid and I hope it turns out to be a factory worker.'

Zachary Levi

People don't talk about religion a lot in Hollywood because it's not an incredibly safe place to do it.

Romeo Miller

People don't understand being a child star is very hard because first off, to be a child star, you have to be very unique. These kids are talented to be able to do it at such a young age. At the same time, you go through the pressures of bullying and a lot of people not understanding.

Ken Kesey

People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.

Kapil Sharma

People expect comedy from me but I am not just a stand-up comedian anymore. I act on stage, host 'Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa' and also conduct interviews on my show. I have grown as a person and an artiste.

Sarah Palin

People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation - much like building a mosque at Ground Zero.

Allan Gurganus

People have asked me about the 19th century and how I knew so much about it. And the fact is I really grew up in the 19th century, because North Carolina in the 1950s, the early years of my childhood, was exactly synchronous with North Carolina in the 1850s. And I used every scrap of knowledge that I had.

David Chase

People have said that I said I hate television. I never did say that. What I said was that I hated a lot of stuff that was on television. It's nothing about the medium itself.

Sun Ra

People have set that up as a standard, not to recognize a prophet in his own country.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the war started, including my parents, said, 'Oh, its temporary.' It lasted 17 years! People tend to underestimate the gravity of these situations. That's how they work.

Audrey Tautou

People in France are very intrusive when they recognize you. In New York, they are very polite, with quick words, so it's great.

Fred Upton

People in Michigan are good at separating fact from fiction. They know, better than most of the country, what happens to the economy and jobs when the scales are tipped too far in favor of one group over another.

Adrian McKinty

People in the North are really taciturn and reticent, and they don't really like to talk about the past.

Emily Blunt

People just want to know something, anything. It's all the stuff you never want to talk about, the private stuff.

George Steinbrenner

People keep coming up to me and asking, 'How does it feel to be banned for life?' Banned for life. I wasn't banned for life. There was never a word of suspension, probation or ban in that agreement. It was never meant to be part of it.

Lennox Lewis

People know I was the last true champion.

Kay Hagan

People like Elizabeth Dole have given too much power to the special interests.

Rick Wakeman

People like Frank Zappa were amazing for us Brits.

P. J. Harvey

People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart - all of these artists were what I grew up listening to every day of my life. And there's a very healthy music scene in the west country of England, where I grew up.

Ricki-Lee Coulter

People like to put you in a little box, and that's where they are comfortable with you being.

Rodney King

People look at me like I should have been like Malcolm X or Martin Luther King or Rosa Parks. I should have seen life like that and stay out of trouble, and don't do this and don't do that. But it's hard to live up to some people's expectations.

Harvey Weinstein

People love a true story and especially a true story where two people from opposite worlds come together.

Timothy Olyphant

People love to be scared. I guess it's a primal deal.

Niklas Zennstrom

People need to access Skype wirelessly, no matter where they are, and what happens is that we'll be taking advantage of the rollout of Internet everywhere - WiFi and WiMax in particular.

Lawrence Wright

People often pulled into Scientology want to address personal problems in their life, and Scientology says we have technology that addresses these kinds of problems. Just focusing on the problems and trying to remedy them can be helpful.

Willard Wigan

People often swear the first time they see my work. I like that,

Homaro Cantu

People often think that losing your job is one of the worst things that can happen to someone. And, in some cases, that might be true. But for me, unemployment can be the time and the motivation to finally go after my goals.

Mandy Patinkin

People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.

Warren Spector

People perceive games as being for kids, and I think that perception is going to change. Time is going to take care of that. I mean, we've already won. Games have won; it's inevitable.

T.I.

People put me on a box, and I love when people think they know what I am capable of or not capable of. I thrive off of that.

Rebecca Solnit

People rescue each other. They build shelters and community kitchens and ways to deal with lost children and eventually rebuild one way or another.

Tadashi Yanai

People say that globalisation has negative aspects, but I don't believe globalisation is bad. It's criticised from a western perspective, but if you put yourself in the shoes of people in the developing world, it provides an unprecedented opportunity.

Ronda Rousey

People say to me all the time, 'You have no fear.' I tell them, 'No, that's not true. I'm scared all the time. You have to have fear in order to have courage. I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.

Gail Porter

People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.

Sasha Cohen

People should have their rights to be who they want to be and love who they want to love.

Pauly Shore

People should stop poking fun at other people and worry about themselves.

Casey Affleck

People should try eating no animal products for just ONE DAY a week.

Spike Lee

People sometimes forget all the films that we've done. They remember the likes of 'Malcolm X' and 'Do the Right Thing.' But I've been working since 1986. From the beginning, I was determined to not just be a flash in the pan. I've got to keep up with Woody Allen. He's lapping me.

Paul Newman

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.

Brian Blessed

People talk about the difference between radio acting, TV acting and stage acting, but I think it's all the same. For instance, when I played Vultan in 'Flash Gordon,' I put as much energy into it as I would with 'King Lear' - it's all part of the same thing.