Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roy Blount, Jr.

People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents, but the best of it is a rich vein running through the best of Southern literature.

Portia de Rossi

People might find me attractive, but it's also my job to prove that I can be intelligent.

Andrew Bernstein

People often say that stress is a motivator. What we're referring to when we say this is really better described as stimulation and engagement.

Anthony Edwards

People relate to things that feel real to them. All the good, happy, over-sexed and moneyed endings on TV are not the way most of us feel in our lives. The success of 'E.R.,' I think, is not relying on overly sentimental stories that are solved where people's lives wrap up nicely with happy endings.

Chris Bohjalian

People seem to read so much more nonfiction than fiction, and so it always gives me great pleasure to introduce a friend or family member to a novel I believe they'll cherish but might not otherwise have thought to pick up and read.

John Cale

People sort of know me for that solo piano music I did.

Margot Robbie

People take such an interest in your love life when you have a profile; it puts a lot of stress on a relationship.

Gordon Strachan

People talk about footballers and they get a bad press when not all of them deserve it.

Ali MacGraw

People tell me that I am well-grounded. I am sane in the New England sense of the word.

Jean Paul Gaultier

People think that everyone wears black in France; in fact they all wear grey.

Mick Jagger

People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.

Anne Rice

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

Billy Wilder

One's too many and a hundred's not enough.

Steven Adler

One thing about Texas people, they're very passionate about their Rock N' Roll, and I love it.

Waylon Jennings

One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to “have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones.

Jerry Cantrell

One thing that you hope for when you want to be a musician is that you have that recognizable sound.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

One time I got dressed in all black, Rambo-style, and took a massive pair of bolt-cutters and nicked a military bike.

Paul Keating

One tires of combat, although I can still throw a punch, you know.

Meghan O'Rourke

One word I had throughout the first year and a half of my mother's death was 'unmoored.' I felt that I had no anchor, that I had no home in the world.

Sidney Blumenthal

On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made.

Susanna Moore

On its 2015 list, the Fish and Wildlife Service included the 'ea, or hawksbill turtle, as well as the green turtle, Ridley sea turtle, leatherback turtle and loggerhead turtle. Four mammals are considered endangered: the Hawaiian hoary bat; the kohola, or humpback whale; the sperm whale; and the endemic Hawaiian monk seal.

Sebastian Thrun

Online education that leaves almost everybody behind except for highly motivated students, to me, can't be a viable path to education.

Shane Smith

Online is a revolution. The Internet is a revolution. And we should be revolutionary in the content that we put on it rather than derivative.

Barbara Amiel

Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.

John Major

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.

Manny Pacquiao

Only in death will I relinquish my belts.

Ellen G. White

Only the love that flows from the heart of Christ can heal. Only He in whom that love flows, even as the sap in the tree or the blood in the body, can restore the wounded soul.

Charlie Chaplin

Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.

Esperanza Spalding

On nights that I'm feeling a need to stretch personally and artistically, I tend to put together outfits that are very quirky, mismatched and over-the-top eclectic.

Britney Spears

Onstage I'm the happiest person in the world.

Florence Welch

On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.

Dweezil Zappa

On the average, I don't spend more than 15 minutes in the car - to go to the golf course or the gym. And that's the only time I listen to the radio.

Taye Diggs

On the set I never know what day of the week it is.

Andrew Young

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.

Victor Koo

On top of opportunities in further traffic growth, there are increasing opportunities to fully realize the potential of the online video ecosystem, as China continues to evolve into a consumer-driven economy.

Greg Walden

Operation Northern Star with Canada has made significant progress in battling meth from the north, and we are engaged in numerous training opportunities in Mexico to help curb the problem from the south.

John Gay

O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.

Mason Cooley

Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.

Napoleon Hill

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Margaret Atwood

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

Danny Elfman

Or certainly I would need time - which I would love to have but there almost never is on a film - to just spend a week with a roomful of guys laying down these patterns.

Ron Wyden

Oregonians aren't the only ones who recognize the extraordinary service and sacrifice of their state's National Guard.

Edwidge Danticat

Or even the state of Florida, where they are prepared to execute children. Umm, well, you hope that at least that there is something there to be claimed.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.

Ann Richards

Osteoporosis is a disease that attacks the bones in your body. It happens to really almost everyone when they get really old. But for women, after menopause, they can lose up to 30 percent of their bone mass.

George Whitefield

O that unbelievers would learn of faithful Abraham, and believe whatever is revealed from God, though they cannot fully comprehend it! Abraham knew God commanded him to offer up his son, and therefore believed, notwithstanding carnal reasoning might suggest may objections.

Nicolas Berggruen

Other people might have family - three kids or five houses. In my case, that doesn't exist. I'm going to give everything away. Everything has been transferred to charitable trusts. There is no question about that. The question is where, not if.

Teresa Medeiros

Others may prefer mindless entertainment, but on Sunday nights, you'll find me parked right in front of my television, munching popcorn and improving my intellect by watching 'Masterpiece Classic.'

Maria Monk

Others too would occasionally entertain and privately express such doubts; though we all had been most solemnly warned by the cruel murder of Saint Francis.

Tullian Tchividjian

Our assurance is anchored in the love and grace of God expressed in the glorious exchange: our sin for His righteousness.