Famous Quotes & Sayings

Helen Keller

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

Scott Cook

People don't place their trust in government or company pension plans; they have to be self-reliant.

Magic Johnson

People don't stop eating, and they don't stop drinking coffee.

Joe Barton

People don't want Congress dictating what light fixtures they can use.

Karl Pilkington

People eat duck and you think, well, we've got loads of chickens, leave the ducks alone!

Neve Campbell

People either know Alan Rudolph and love every single one of his films or they don't know him at all.

Marilyn Manson

People expect me to me a 'shock rocker,' but there's nothing you can do anymore to be shocking.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

People go into science out of curiosity, not to win awards. But scientists are human and have ambitions.

Ray Liotta

People have all these preconceptions about me. Whereas if you look at the roles, Henry Hill was the nicest guy in 'Goodfellas!' I was a nice guy too in the comedy 'Heartbreakers.' And I was a really sweet father to Johnny Depp in 'Blow!'

Bob Uecker

People have asked me a lot of times, because I didn't hit a lot, how long a dozen bats would last me. Depending on the weight and model I was using at that time - I would say eight to 10 cookouts.

P. J. Harvey

People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.

David Baldacci

People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book.' And it never does.

Norman Finkelstein

People have the right to defend their country from foreign occupiers, and people have the right to defend their country from invaders who are destroying their country.

Hamid Karzai

People in Afghanistan want peace, including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families, they have relatives, they have children, they are suffering a tough time.

Philip Yancey

People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive.

Jill Scott

People is, I think, it's their nature - some people's nature, in a way, to be angry or jealous or just spiteful about somebody else's blessings.

Travis Bradberry

People like to know you're listening, and something as simple as a clarification question shows not only that you are listening but that you also care about what they're saying. You'll be surprised how much respect and appreciation you gain just by asking good questions.

Peter Guber

People love to be swept off their feet, to go into an environment where they've never been, to experience things they only dream about. And filmmaking offers that potential.

Holly Near

People love to hear the mistakes you've made.

Veronica Roth

People make me key chains... someone attached a Dauntless symbol to a silver pen. That one is what I use to sign books. I use that a lot. I like to keep them around because they remind me that people are waiting for these books and that they really love them. It gives me motivation in those times when I'm not feeling very motivated.

Ivan Lendl

People may say I developed an iron will, but what really happened is that I made myself much fitter. I think an iron will is always supported by fitness.

Isaac Hanson

People my age don't always know where their music comes from.

Daisaku Ikeda

People need to be made conscious of a very simple reality: we have no choice but to share this planet, this small blue sphere floating in the vast reaches of space, with all of our fellow 'passengers.'

Sondre Lerche

People need to put my music in a perspective where they use other established artists from the past, and almost all the names I see related to my music are great musicians.

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Greta Van Susteren

People often ask why I left CNN - I didn't like management. I liked my colleagues in the news gathering but the corporate culture that seized management when AOL came in (Steve Case and Gerry Levin) was disgusting.

Curtis Jackson

People often say I have so much energy, that I never stop; but that's what it takes to accomplish your goals.

Alison Bechdel

People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that is important, but I know that when I finish reading a novel or something, I want to know how much of that really happened to this author.

Tim LaHaye

People recognize something's going to happen, and they'd better get ready.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

People say I am mad. I am not mad. I am trying to heal my soul.

Ruud van Nistelrooy

People say it is part of the game. You win some, you lose some. But not for me.

Ian Rush

People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.

Edward P. Jones

People seem to have trouble with the imagination. They can't believe that you can just pull things out of your brain like that.

Peter Hargreaves

People should buy a house to live in, not as an investment. Property has become such a national obsession - it was the primary subject at dinner parties and how many television shows were dedicated to the market. It's not good for the economy.

Lucille Roybal-Allard

People show surprise that I have interests outside my political career. There is subtle surprise, for example, that I would be interested in a recipe.

Ric Ocasek

People sometimes say that bands sound like The Cars, but when I hear it I don't know if they do or not.

Ben Hecht

People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.

Macaulay Culkin

People still recognize me all the time on the street. The first thing they say when they stop me is, 'Where have you been?' The second comment they make is always, 'Oh, you've grown up.

Katy Perry

People talk about bullying, but you can be your own bully in some ways. You can be the person who is standing in the way of your success, and that was the case for me.

Daniel Goleman

People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.

Diane Sawyer

People tend to vote the present tense - not the subjective.

Peter Morgan

People test movies within an inch of their life so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one.

Michael Reagan

People think I should be a success, but I'm afraid of it.

Nigel Barker

People think New York is this big city where no one knows each other, but when you live in the Village, it's the opposite.

Graydon Carter

People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people.

Teddy Thompson

People think unless you have loops and electronics and so on, you must be in your 50s. I quite like a lot of things that have loops and sequencers, but I couldn't really be bothered.

Sugar Ray Leonard

People try to live vicariously through fighters, but it's one-on-one; it's primal. There's no other feeling like it. The problem for me was accepting it - that nothing compares to being champ.

Estelle

People want to say something negative before they say something good.

Karen Allen

People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.

Neil Kinnock

People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It's less dangerous. Politics that is not applied in the real world and doesn't address the real challenges and paradoxes and agonies is a hobby.