Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bryan Fuller

One of the things that's important for anybody adapting source material that is primarily a male buddy picture is to find ways to latch on to strong female characters in the piece and bring them to the forefront and celebrate their point of view alongside the men; otherwise, it becomes a sausage party, and it's a singular point of view.

Curt Schilling

One of the walls of my bedroom was a collage of about 15 years of baseball photos. I would cut out the baseball pictures from every issue and I had this huge montage of thousands of pictures.

Benjamin Disraeli

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Ai Weiwei

People are always wondering if I am an artist or political activist or politician. Maybe I'll just clearly tell you: Whatever I do is not art. Let's say it is just objects or materials, movies or writing, but not art, OK?

Umberto Eco

People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.

Charles Kettering

People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.

Paulo Coelho

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they're much more open.

Elmore Leonard

People ask me, 'Why are you still writing books?' Like I'm still only writing to make money and as soon as I have enough I'll quit and go fishing? I like to write books. It's the most satisfying thing I do.

James Cameron

People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.

Mary Wortley Montagu

People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.

Ray Charles

People couldn't understand why my mama would have this blind kid out doing things like cutting wood for the fire. But her thing was: He may be blind, but he ain't stupid.

Tiger Woods

People don't understand that when I grew up, I was never the most talented. I was never the biggest. I was never the fastest. I certainly was never the strongest. The only thing I had was my work ethic, and that's been what has gotten me this far.

Gwen Ifill

People do still cheer for the President. And some of the military audiences are more likely to cheer than others. I have seen him speak lately in front of groups like Freedom House, where the applause was a long time coming.

Tim Conway

People enjoy sitting back knowing they won't hear a lot of four-letter words.

William Hague

People feel that in too many ways the EU is something that is done to them, not something over which they have a say.

Steven Adler

People fight, they get angry, they do drugs, and they do crazy things.

Laura Schlessinger

People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemingly simple word. 'Choice.'

Robert Griffin III

People have called me Superman my whole life. In various sports, that seems to be the common theme. My favorite superhero is actually the Incredible Hulk. He's the only superhero that can't die.

Aaron Carter

People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.

Patti Smith

People have the power to redeem the work of fools.

Charles de Secondat

People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.

Ian Frazier

People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.

Laurie Graham

People invade your space and offend your sensibilities because, to be plain, they couldn't care less about you.

Harvey Weinstein

People know that I have a great love for cinema. Not just for commercial cinema, but for the 'cinema d'auteur.' But to me, two of the great 'auteurs' are actually actors and they both happen to be French. One is Alain Delon and the other is Jean-Paul Belmondo.

Drew Carey

People laugh to forget their troubles, and to forget their troubles they like to look at people who aren't doing better than they are.

Bernie Mac

People like rumors. They're going to say things like, 'You was at the club with Lil' Kim, and you and Kanye West got into a fist fight.' You can't get upset. You've got to keep hope alive.

Charlie Rose

People like to be challenged. Most people that I know who are any good at life like to be challenged.

Eddie Vedder

People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!

Hayley Williams

People perceive punk rock in the sense of Sid Vicious, all strung-out, crazy and insane.

Bertolt Brecht

People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.

Edward R. Murrow

People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.

Robert Wyatt

People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back?

Ronda Rousey

People say this all the time and everyone, like, nods their head and is like, 'Oh yeah, totally,' but no one ever does it, including myself. I can do better at it, is just drinking a lot of water, like a gallon and a half, two gallons a day, like, straight water all day.

Bob Ross

People see you on television, and they think you make the same amount of money that Clint Eastwood does. But this is PBS. All these shows are done for free.

Oliver Goldsmith

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

Smokey Robinson

People still look at Michael Jackson as being a Motown artist.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

People still remember Sean Penn as Spicoli from 'Fast Times At Ridgemont High,' and if I can have, like, one-10th of his career, then I'm fine.

Laura Linney

People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.

Robert Mueller

People talk about the Patriot Act that was passed immediately in the wake of September 11. What the Patriot Act did was break down the walls between the various agencies.

Mitch Hedberg

People teach their dogs to sit; it's a trick. I've been sitting my whole life, and a dog has never looked at me as though he thought I was tricky.

Victor LaValle

People use the notion of God to bully people and hurt people, when we can use the concept to respect and uplift.

Seal

People want to sensationalize things. That's just the nature of the business.

Adam Ant

People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.

Aasif Mandvi

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

Barbara Kruger

One thing I learned working at magazines was that if you couldn't get people to look at a page or a cover, then you were fired. It was all about how you create arresting works, and by arresting I mean stop people, even for a nano-second.

Patrick Rothfuss

One thing I've learned now is that I should not say when a book is coming out until I'm sure I know.

Jay Weatherill

One thing we do know about the threat of climate change is that the cost of adjustment only grows the longer it's left unaddressed.

Robertson Davies

Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.

Gary Zukav

Only choices made in love are compassionate. There are no exceptions. Do you have the courage to act with an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome? If not, you have no ability to give or experience compassion. That is the shocking truth.

Tom Bissell

Only in about 2007 or so did it become clear to me that games could stand proudly beside other storytelling mediums, and that's when I became more, shall we say, evangelistic in my position. Prior to that, I don't know how enthusiastically I would have admitted that I game.