Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adam Carolla

People are stupid. There's a lot of dumb stuff that's successful.

J. K. Rowling

People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.

Jesse Eisenberg

People ask me what my hobbies are in interviews, and I always say biking. But all I bike for is to get to rehearsal more quickly.

Steve Chabot

People can really have an impact on a campaign and learn an awful lot. It can be an enjoyable experience.

Cyndi Lauper

People can save the world by the way they think and by the way they behave and what they hold to be important.

Hayden Panettiere

People can tell when you're happy with being you and when you're not. It's only cheesy because it's true. As I've gotten older and grown into my body, I've started realizing that the way you carry yourself and that light coming out of your eyes are the most attractive things about you.

Simon Cowell

People confuse ego, lust, insecurity with true love.

George McGovern

People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.

Jonathan Davis

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

John Dos Passos

People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.

Frankie Valli

People don't get married to get divorced. Maybe people weren't meant to be together forever.

Zola Jesus

People don't really understand who I am. They always think that I'm very dark or depressed, but it couldn't be further from the truth!

Malin Akerman

People do think you're more intelligent if you have dark hair. But my husband definitely prefers me as a blonde.

Dennis Potter

People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.

Henrik Fisker

People feel very emotional about cars, and I don't want them to feel bad about driving a fast car.

Kitty Kelley

People forget that unauthorized does not mean untrue and authorized does not mean authentic.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

People go surfing before work and paddling afterward. My husband is from Wisconsin, and he goes to work in his Hawaiian shirt.

Taylor Kitsch

People hate cardio. I hate cardio. But pick the five top songs that you love. Do your cardio during these songs, and you're done. I'd say 95 percent of the time you don't even know you just did it.

Dominic Monaghan

People have a fear of the unknown. Insects have different senses than us, different amount of limbs and their body structure is very different. It's hard for us to really relate to them and understand them.

N. T. Wright

People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was glorified - in other words, he went to Heaven, whatever that means. And they've never realized that the word 'resurrection' simply didn't mean that.

Marion Barry

People have criticised me because my security detail is larger than the president's. But you must ask yourself: are there more people who want to kill me than who want to kill the president? I can assure you there are.

Suze Orman

People have got to learn: if they don't have cookies in the cookie jar, they can't eat cookies.

Sara Paretsky

People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more

Joe Cocker

People have said I played some pretty amazing gigs in the seventies, but in all honesty, I probably played one good show in three.

Ioan Gruffudd

People in America and Hollywood are very good at pronouncing my name, to begin with. Socially, they're very adept at listening to somebody's name and repeating it, cleverly in the first couple of sentences so the name sticks to begin with.

Chris O'Dowd

People in England talk about stupid Hollywood idiots, but the industry attracts some of the cleverest people in the world.

Michael Pollan

People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.

Nellie Bly

People in the world can never imagine the length of days to those in asylums. They seemed never ending, and we welcomed any event that might give us something to think about as well as talk of.

Matthew Bourne

People know that they're going to see something which is entertaining but challenging as well because of the form it's in. It's dance theatre and it requires you to use your imagination - it's not straight forward.

Eugene H. Peterson

People learn to shop for churches; there is no loyalty to the church. They're consumers being attracted to one product or another. I think it's sacrilege, to tell you the truth, it really is.

Hannibal Buress

People like to compare something to something that they know. Even with Chris Rock, they say he's like Richard Pryor or Eddie Murphy.

Joan Jett

People like to tear you down. People are always going to take shots. You've just got to go for it.

Brandon Flowers

People misinterpret my emotions towards Nirvana because I've said things about how something happened with grunge that took a little bit of fun out of things. It's no offense to Nirvana; they were one of the greats, obviously. But something died there, too, and we haven't quite gotten the groove back.

Martin Luther

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

Chuck Norris

People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.

Tryon Edwards

People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.

David Viscott

People now feel time accelerating. Lists allow them to feel some sense of accomplishment.

Berenice Bejo

People recognize me, I have scripts, and auditions. And I meet great people

Edward Ruscha

People refuse to believe that I've never been to Starbucks or Disneyland.

Allan Gurganus

People rich enough to redecorate every 10 months are certainly careless with antique furniture. I found four 1760 French side chairs, tapestry seats intact. Claiming them proved easier than persuading any cabdriver to transport the things.

Robert Kennedy

People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.

Vinnie Jones

People say, 'I love 'Snatch,' I love 'Lock Stock,' but I want to be more than a movie name. I'd love to be more of a household name.

Joan Baez

People say I'm such a pessimist, but I always was. It never stopped me from doing what I had to do. I would say I'm a realist.

Ellen Stofan

People see space as a place where you go and cooperate.

Karel Capek

People should be a little loony, Helena. That's the best thing about them.

Queen Rania of Jordan

People sometimes think of 'queen' as a title that's shrouded with protocol and formality, and for that reason sometimes people are not easily saying what they want to say. They're reluctant to express their opinions, and I kind of find that frustrating because I want to know what people really, really think.

Keri Russell

People still take it really personally. They come up to me at breakfast places like, 'When are you growing your hair back?'

Justin Trudeau

People still think there's sort of a debate around the Charter that politicos go into. And I get wrapped up in it, too, from time to time.

Ben Vereen

People talk about love and it seems like a cliche but it's a real thing - the more love we spread around the world the more it's going to change lives.

Henry Cloud

People tend to look at dating sort of like a safari - like they're trying to land the trophy.