Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christopher Morley

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.

Willie Stargell

People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.

Anna Chlumsky

People look to you to replace a part in their lives that they can't get back. You can't get the past back, you can't do it. We've all tried.

Michelle Pfeiffer

People make a lot of jokes about the empty nest. Let me tell you, it is no laughing matter. It is really hard.

Michelle Paver

People often ask writers where they get their inspiration, and for me, the short answer is that I haven't a clue; I'm just grateful that I get them.

Erwin McManus

People outside of the faith really appreciate Mosaic and really love what we're doing.

Kay Redfield Jamison

People respond differently to people who are grieving. They reach out. But depression is so very isolating. It's hard to explain to anyone who has never been depressed how isolating it is. Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.

Gayle King

People respond faster to you on a text than an e-mail. Why is that? Why will they ignore an e-mail, but get back to a text?

Heidi Klum

People say, 'Oh, God, how devastating to go through a divorce.' Did I wish for this to happen to my family? No. But everyone is healthy; we're moving on with our lives.

Colin Quinn

People's - most people's job is talking about the future or like money not even in the present tense. It's not even paper.

Pat Metheny

People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a Jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.

Marilyn Manson

People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.

Brandi Carlile

People that could yodel always fascinated me. People that could sing loud always fascinated me. So I started trying to mimic at a really young age: 6, 7 years old.

Carolyn Murphy

People that I'm most attracted to, they're not living by any sort of rules. They're the kind of people with stories to tell.

Brooke Shields

People think of me as a mannequin. All show and no substance.

Tommy Chong

People try to put ownership on things: 'That's mine, that's my joke.' No such thing. Like if you tripped or stumbled and people go, 'Oh, that's Charlie Chaplin.' You know what I mean? You can't own a joke. You can be the guy that tells it the best, but you can't own a joke. Nowhere can you own a laugh.

Chuck Palahniuk

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.

Eli Roth

People want to be disturbed when they go see a horror movie.

Chen Guangbiao

One summer vacation, I carried water to the town market to sell it, and I used some of the money I made to help a neighbour.

Jo Brand

One thing lots of Christians do have in common is that they can't help coming across as smug. This winds lots of people up, particularly because famous Christians pronounce on the life of the poor from their very lovely affluent homes filled with their very lovely families and attractive pets.

Harry Styles

One time, a girl dropped her phone in my pocket and I found it and was like, 'There you go.' And she said, 'If you'd had my phone, you'd have had to meet up with me to give it back.'

Jennifer Aniston

One tradition I have with my friends is that when one of us gets married, we have a ton of fragrance oils and pretty bottles at the bachelorette party. Everyone puts a drop or two in a bottle for the bride and makes a wish, and the bride wears our creation on her wedding day.

Stephen Colletti

'One Tree Hill' gave me my first shot into acting, and they gave me the biggest chance, and that's something that I'll always respect and be grateful for.

Demian Bichir

One wants to think that - and this is really a stupid thought - that through your art or whatever you do as an actor you can actually affect someone else's lives and thoughts or whatever.

Alex Pareene

Only a small rich fringe hates Social Security for disincentivizing 80-year-olds from seeking full-time employment.

Stacy London

Only buy things that make your heart sing. If I don't love it, I won't buy it.

Hu Jintao

Only reform and opening up can develop China. We must not be afraid of any risks, and not be confused by any distractions.

Laurence Sterne

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

Gerry Mulligan

Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra

Ernest Mandel

Only under conditions of revolutionary crises do you have the highest level of self-organization; this is the Soviet type of organization, which is to say, workers' councils, people's councils, call them what you want, popular committees.

Augustus Hare

Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.

Pierre Salinger

On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself.

David Gest

On stage, don't go near her. She's the best performer in the world.

David Ogilvy

On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.

Hassan Rouhani

On the nuclear issue, the first point is that the entire world must recognize that Iran does not seek a nuclear weapon, nor shall it seek a nuclear weapon.

Julian Lennon

On the one hand, I've had such a normal upbringing with my mum, who has kept me grounded, but on the other, the wild experiences through my dad.

Charles Darwin

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.

Donna Tartt

On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own devices and to - I mean, writing is a lonely business.

Joe Slovo

On the other hand, one factor helps us that no other liberation struggle in this region could count on - our liberation front is characterized by relatively highly developed class forces, tested in political struggles.

Cynthia Weil

On the other hand when you are someone who records their own songs you are basically stuck writing for one voice and for one style that can stifle you a bit. It's a real trade off.

Feist

On the videos for '1234' and 'My Moon My Man' I wanted to make the songs visible. And, really, what way can you make sound visible other than good old naive dancing? I was working with a choreographer, but I'm not a dancer. Any notion of elegance is impossible with me.

Rob Walton

On the whole, and this comment can get me in a lot of trouble, I find that retailers in the comic book business are not business people. They're fans who've gotten themselves shops.

George P. Shultz

Open political and economic systems have been gaining ground and there's a good reason for it. They work better.

Bill Bryson

Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most households in the 18th century. The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed.

Robert Rauschenberg

Oracle was I had started it I guess two and a half years ago, maybe even longer than that, closer to three.

E. Stanley Jones

Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.

Calvin Klein

People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.

George Carlin

People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.

Pamela Anderson

People who wear fur smell like a wet dog if they're in the rain. And they look fat and gross.

Elon Musk

People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.