Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Soule

One of the things that's been really fun about my run on 'Swamp Thing' is putting him in all kinds of different locations around the world, and seeing how his exterior foliage changes based on his location.

Larry Wall

One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.

Martha Beck

One reason most people never stop thinking is that mental frenzy keeps us from having to see the upsetting aspects of our lives. If I'm constantly brooding about my children or career, I won't notice that I'm lonely. If I grapple continuously with logistical problems, I can avoid contemplating little issues like, say, my own mortality.

Nicolas Roeg

People are mistaken to view cinema as some sort of gimmick. It's very much ingrained in the ways in which we understand each other.

Dan Lipinski

People aren't just paying more to fill their gas tanks or when they pay for their heating bills for their home; they are paying more at the grocery store, on air travel and for many other daily expenses.

Anthony Foxx

People are sitting in traffic longer, and the types of solutions that are needed to relieve that congestion are ones that are paid for by the Highway Trust Fund.

Sade Adu

People are so used to having their lives filmed, they're not even conscious of having cameras around. I still have that sort of suspicion when a camera comes out. I view it as a thing to fear.

Michael Palin

People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe.

Christine Teigen

People are still under the misguided impression that models don't eat. Not sure about the other girls, but I do!

Reggie Watts

People ask, like, 'How are you going to incorporate what you do onstage into everything else?' I'm not too worried about that. Whether it's theater or a TV show idea, or an animated thing or, I don't know, an animated screensaver. I really just want to keep creating things. And I've always been able to do that.

Kris Carr

People ask me if I live each day like it's my last, and I don't. I live each day like it's my first, and I can't wait for the next one.

Ryan Seacrest

People bring up my hair quite a bit. It's strategically tousled. The flatiron is the key.

Utada Hikaru

People do ask me if I think I can make it in the States.

Maisie Williams

People don't always do what they say they're going to do.

Richard Sherman

People don't talk much about my punt returns.

Kerry Washington

People don't think about the fact that when Barack Obama's parents had him - it was illegal for them to be married in several states in this country. So if we start making it okay that certain people can marry and other people can't, it's a slippery slope of civil rights. Who knows who is going to be allowed to marry or not marry next.

Zach Galifianakis

People get TV deals by doing something in their grandmother's basement. It is definitely the wave. Everybody is trying to do all that stuff. I mean, the Internet is the only reason that I've gotten work is because I've somehow created a line and people have seen it. And then I've been asked to auditions.

Matt Groening

People go into cartooning because they're shy and they're angry. That's when you're sitting in the back of a classroom drawing the teacher.

Ruth Ozeki

People have always heard voices. Sometimes they're called shamans, sometimes they're called mad, and sometimes they're called fiction writers. I always feel lucky that I live in a culture where fiction writing is legal and not seen as pathology.

Joanna Lumley

People have always tut-tutted about actors stepping out of line politically. And I can sort of see it because what you've got your fame for is not being someone who can influence things, so it's cheating.

Brian Sandoval

People have their constitutional right to contribute to a campaign and if they have discretionary money that they want to contribute to a candidate, whether a Republican or a Democrat, they should be able to do so.

Chuck Palahniuk

People have to deal with their issues together; they have to expose themselves and kind of exhaust themselves.

Roger McGuinn

People have told me that other artists have been influenced by my music, and it's flattering. It's a wonderful thing.

Thom Yorke

People in bands don't have the kind of conversations people might think they have. The best things about being in a band are the things that are unsaid.

Bruce Sterling

People in the Pentagon had colleagues killed and maimed by bin Laden. They're trying to find bin Laden and kill him and his cult. Naturally they consider that a legitimate thing to do, but they're having mixed success at the job.

Hannah Simone

People know not to mess with my friends or my family because it's not going to work out well for you.

Anais Nin

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Sara Shepard

People might look great on the outside but they all have something that they're dealing with.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

Alyssa Milano

People on series are now given a lot more opportunities, sometimes more than film actors.

Willard Scott

People over 100 are the fastest-growing group in America. People soon will be working 'til 100 - some because they have to - and living 'til 125 or even 135. What do I know, I'm just a weatherman, but I've made a hobby of studying this, and it's phenomenal.

Marina Abramovic

People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one.

Alan Hansen

People say I'm bad at a lot of things. One I agree with is that I'm a bad driver.

Martin Scorsese

People say you should do it this way, someone else suggests that, yes, there's financing, but maybe you should use this actor. And there are the threats, at the end - if you don't do it this way, you'll lose your box office; if you don't do it that way, you'll never get financed again... 35, 40 years of this, you get beat up.

Tadashi Yanai

People shouldn't have to spend a lot of money to get high-quality clothing.

Howard Rheingold

People's social networks do not consist only of people they see face to face. In fact, social networks have been extending because of artificial media since the printing press and the telephone.

Alice Cooper

People that haven't seen us yet are shocked because they think that Alice Cooper must be a female folksinger. They don't expect the whole thing.

Juliette Binoche

People think actors have such glamorous lives, but the truth is actors go where nobody wants to go.

Banks

People think I'm going to be this really dark human when they meet me.

Tracey Emin

People try constantly to use me, and I hate it.

Chuck Feeney

People used to ask me how I got my jollies, and I guess I'm happy when what I'm doing is helping people and unhappy when what I'm doing isn't helping people.

Alexei Sayle

People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.

Rob Corddry

People want other people to know that they share our sensibility even if they're not exactly sure what that sensibility is.

Philip Treacy

People, when they buy a hat, they can't explain why they want to buy it or why they want it, but they do. It's like chocolate.

Travis Bradberry

One thing an exceptional employee never says is, 'That's not in my job description.' Exceptional employees work outside the boundaries of job descriptions.

Harrison Birtwistle

One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.

Roy H. Williams

One thing that hasn’t changed, though, is that we still have to hear the new ad 2 or 3 times before it begins to affect us, even when we’re already familiar with the advertiser in question and have a positive opinion of them.

Tim Scott

One thing without any question that is true today and that is that the winner of the 28-minute commercial is President Barack Obama.

Ella Maillart

One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind.

Alexander Pope

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.