Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Cloud

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

Peter Sis

People think children's books are about teddy bears and little flowers. I realize people sometimes don't know what to do with my books because they say, 'Is it a children's book, and what age group?'

Sinbad

People think comedians don't do drama. Comics are drama. And what is drama, as opposed to comedy? It's all the same to me.

Orlando Bloom

People think getting a new partner is like getting a new car.

Serj Tankian

People think our music's very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it's just the opposite, really... I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley.

Brent Spiner

People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite

Nicholas Haslam

People think that buying something for their home which is up-to-date is chic, but often it's a cliche. I call people who simply give clients the current 'thing' stylists not decorators.

J. G. Ballard

People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.

Derrick Rose

People think that I'm mean because I'm quiet, and I don't really go out places or because I don't really say too much. On the other hand, people think that I'm soft because I may not handle myself the way other people handle themselves. That's just not me. They don't know my background or none of that stuff.

Chris Lilley

People think that I'm some kind of genius who's got these statements to say, and I'm not really.

Peter Lindbergh

People think that it is important to learn by assisting the great photographers. I say that is a big mistake. Be happy; just learn from any little guy. Learn how to use the camera - you don't need anything else. You can't be taught the real skill anyway.

Gennifer Flowers

People used to ask me: 'Well, was it the power that attracted you to Bill Clinton?' And I said, well, how much power do you think the attorney general of Arkansas has? Of course not. It wasn't that for me. I just a thought he was wonderful in general.

Bess Myerson

People want gimmicks. They have to lose 10 pounds by 8:30 tonight.

Tia Carrere

People want me to do the strangest things. They want me to sign their arms or chests.

Evan Williams

People want to do good things, they just need a prod sometimes, and what Twitter and other technologies that connect people are showing us is that if you make it a little easier for people then you will enable them to do what they want to do, to help people out, to form groups and do good.

Adam Lambert

People want to talk about whether I have rock cred, whether I'm selling out, the theatricality, the gay stuff... Chill out! And just enjoy yourself.

Don DeLillo

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

Pat Riley

People who create 20% of the results will begin believing they deserve 80% of the rewards.

Zac Posen

People who devote themselves to a life of style are admirable.

John Lasseter

People who get into animation tend to be kids. We don't have to grow up. But also, animators are great observers, and there's this childlike wonder and interest in the world, the observation of little things that happen in life.

Bee Wilson

One thing I always make - and I'm sure this is partly to do with memory and yearning and because I've made it ever since my children were born - I make gingerbread every year. And it's partly just the perfume of the spices in the house, makes it smell like winter to me.

Tavi Gevinson

One thing that I always liked about fashion was that it was tied in with music and art and film.

Marilyn French

One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

Aisha Tyler

On general principle, I boycott shows that don't employ actors.

Rod Stewart

Only a fool permits the letter of the law to override the spirit in the heart. Do not let a piece of paper stand in the way of true love and headlines.

Rod Steiger

Only after awhile. After it came out and people began to engage in discussions about the social reflections of the film that I realized it had an importance I hadn't thought of.

Novalis

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Jimmy Swaggart

Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.

Sitting Bull

Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also.

Joseph Prince

Only the holy spirit, the spirit of the lord, can transform us.

Billy Graham

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

Bernie Mac

Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.

Frederick Soddy

On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.

George W. Bush

On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.

Kirsten Vangsness

On television, you have an intimate moment with the camera. In theater, you are making something live with people there. My brain doesn't understand that you don't get another take ever. I'm finally learning on TV that you can do something over if you make a mistake.

Ken Thompson

On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.

Adam Smith

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

Nigella Lawson

On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.

Scott Bakula

On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married

Bob Uecker

On TV the people can see it. On radio you've got to create it.

Ali Babacan

Openly speaking, the only formula that will save Greece's future is more trade with Turkey and more investment with Turkey.

Li Keqiang

Openness has been vital to Asia's fast growth in the past and it will continue to be crucial for the area's further development.

Luciano Pavarotti

Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.

David Hewson

Opinions are 10 a penny. In the spin-driven, PR-controlled world of the 21st century, hard facts are rare indeed.

Chip Conley

Organizations that can diminish fear are those that are able to motivate, create, and innovate.

Jurgen Habermas

Osama bin Laden, the person, more likely serves the function of a stand-in. Compare the new terrorists with partisans or conventional terrorists in Israel. These people often fight in a decentralized manner in small, autonomous units, too.

Peter Hargreaves

Other men have created FTSE 100 companies. But I believe no man has done this in his lifetime without acquisition or borrowing. My one regret is handing over the reigns.

Carmen Electra

Other people's perspective, just seeing the sexy image, might be that I take my sexuality very seriously. But I really don't. I like being sexy. It's fun, and I have had a nice little career off it.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.

Marquis de Lafayette

Our articles of confederation ought to be revised and measures immediately taken to invigorate the Continental Union. Depend upon it: there lies the danger for America. This last stroke is wanting, and unless the states be strongly bound to each other, we have to fear from British and, indeed, from European politics.