Famous Quotes & Sayings

Linda Ronstadt

People have often written about me, that I did this for this reason and that for that reason, and theyre usually 98 percent wrong.

Sydney Schanberg

People in New York pay attention to national issues - a huge percentage of people.

John Tesh

People like Bryant Gumbel and Bob Costas are terrific broadcasters because they get challenged every day.

Karen Traviss

People lose it when I say this, but I'm a novelist who doesn't read novels. There are lots of good reasons for not reading novels! I'm also a game writer who doesn't play games - I keep everything very separate. The only crossover with me is comics. I write them, and I read them passionately.

Mick Jagger

People love talking about when they were young and heard Honky Tonk Women for the first time. It's quite a heavy load to carry on your shoulders, the memories of so many people.

Lynn Johnston

People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing.

Katherine Jenkins

People perceive opera and classical as elitist - I disagree. I've always tried to mix the two, make it more accessible.

Bryce Harper

People say, 'Weren't you deprived of your childhood?' No way. I would not take anything back at all. Everything about it was great. I got to go places, meet people, play baseball against older kids and better competition. I had a great time.

Helena Bonham Carter

People say, 'You're still breast-feeding, that's so generous.' Generous, no! It gives me boobs and it takes my thighs away! It's sort of like natural liposuction. I'd carry on breast-feeding for the rest of my life if I could.

Carrie Fisher

People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach.

Deborah Cox

People see that I have my own voice, my own opinion, my own likes. The album really reflects that.

Sarah Jessica Parker

People should dress the way they want. Any rules for age or shape are silly.

Sofia Vergara

People shouldn't stay married because of the kids. That's torture for everyone.

Conan O'Brien

People should say 'no comment' more often. No comment! I love no comment. Let's have more no comment.

Evan Spiegel

People started conceiving of their friends as networking tools, like, 'Friend me so you can be friends with someone else,' or, 'The more people you know, the more networked you are.' But we see real value in having a fun conversation with your friends.

Elsa Peretti

People surround themselves in their houses with things they don't really need, that they have to dust all the time.

Jason Statham

People take chances every now and then, and you don't want to disappoint them.

Robert Rodriguez

People talk about immigration, but they won't talk about the corruption that actually exists between Mexico and the U.S.

Elias Hicks

People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation.

Terence Winter

People talk about the plots and what happened, and they see your tricks a mile away.

Charles Kettering

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

Richard Avedon

People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion.

Francis Collins

People who are in a position of finding out that they're at risk for some illness, whether it's breast cancer, or heart disease, are afraid to get that information - even though it might be useful to them - because of fears that they'll lose their health insurance or their job.

Andrew Carnegie

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

Barbara Deming

People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.

Mitch Albom

People who don't normally read make an exception for my books, possibly because they're short.

Ann Landers

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.

Geraldo Rivera

One thing about these storms, we know how disruptive things can be when we depend on the system to keep working. What would happen if the terrorists do it? Knock down the power, destroy bridges, cut the water supply?

Richard Branson

One thing is certain in business, you and everyone around you will make mistakes.

Neville Marriner

One thing we were looking for from the start was players who really fit together, who sounded in tune.

Lorna Luft

One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions.

Wes Anderson

On Fantastic Mr. Fox, I got used to working with animated storyboards as a way of planning for the shoot. We did a lot of sequences that way with this movie. Partly as a result of that, I decided to build more sets in order to do certain shots.

Thomas Perez

On July 2, 1964, President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act. Its enactment, following the longest continuous debate in the history of the U.S. Senate, enshrined into law the basic principle upon which our country was founded - that all people are created equal.

Dada Vaswani

Only a fortunate few seek the Beloved. Only a blessed few seek to enter the shrine of the heart.

Jacques Barzun

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy

Vladimir Kramnik

Only he, who penetrates into the depth of the game, can express his personality in it.

Miguel de Unamuno

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

Larry Elder

Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.

Frederick William Robertson

Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.

Ram Dass

Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.

Arthur Smith

Only the pun remains. The pun, beloved of Shakespeare, children and tabloid headline-writers, is normally eschewed in the modern, sophisticated circles in which I move.

Joseph Prince

Only those who are built up can build others up, amen?

Paul Bloom

On many issues, empathy can pull us in the wrong direction. The outrage that comes from adopting the perspective of a victim can drive an appetite for retribution.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

On reflection, I am always pleasantly surprised when ordinary members of the public stop me in the street to say, 'Thank you,' I guess for making travel and other goods and services affordable to them.

Bruce Forsyth

On stage, I think I'm 35. Working takes over my whole body and I become a younger man - that's why I won't stop.

Wanda Jackson

On that show, I did country and some rock, too, whatever record I had out at the time, I'd sing that.

Woody Harrelson

On 'The Messenger,' just imagining playing the part of a soldier in that movie was kind of hard for me. And in 'Rampart,' the idea of playing a cop was even harder. It was hard to imagine myself as a cop.

Wilhelm Wundt

On the other hand, ethnic psychology must always come to the assistance of individual psychology, when the developmental forms of the complex mental processes are in question.

Ed Gillespie

On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.