Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Mankoff

One question about a joke is, how well is the strangeness of the situation resolved? At 'The New Yorker', we retain a lot of incongruity, tapping the playful part of the mind - Monty Python-type stuff. We also try to use humor as a vehicle for communicating ideas. Not editorial comment, but observation.

Al Kaline

One reason outfielders don't have stronger arms might be they don't practice as much as we did. Most teams today don't take outfield practice. Another reason is baseball has to compete with other sports now - basketball, football, soccer - for the better athletes that might have more skills and stronger arms.

Wilfrid Sheed

One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.

Lynn Fontanne

One reason we lasted so long is that we usually played two people who were very much in love. As we were realistic actors, we became those two people. So we had a divertissement: I had an affair with him, and he with me.

Eugene O'Neill

One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.

Elias Canetti

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Ravi Shankar

One single raga can be performed for two hours, three hours.

Pam Brown

One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.

Alexander Fleming

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.

Tom Kenny

People are always saying that I must have been the class clown, with all these voices. No, I was way too shy to be the class clown; I was a class clown's writer.

Jodie Foster

People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist.

Gary Vaynerchuk

People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy.

Nadia Giosia

People are complex. You can be smart and still look hot. You can be a punk rocker yet have a refined vocabulary. It's all about this mashup that makes us who we are and I think that's a beautiful thing.

Brian Johnson

People are famous for being famous and for nothing else. And good luck to them, because it lasts about a year and then they're nothing again.

Ted Yoho

People are fed up with the career politicians who created this mess or failed to prevent it and neither was acceptable, and the only way we could change that was by sending a different type of person to Washington.

Rohit Sharma

People are impatient. They want things to happen overnight, and have no idea of the circumstances and situations that can surround an individual at times.

Eva Mendes

People are incapable of stereotyping you; you stereotype yourself because you're the one who accepts roles that put you in this rut or in this stereotype

Ken Follett

People are much more complicated in real life, but my characters are as subtle and nuanced as I can make them. But if you say my characters are too black and white, you've missed the point. Villains are meant to be black-hearted in popular novels. If you say I have a grey-hearted villain, then I've failed.

Bob Black

People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.

Tony Conrad

People aren't used to thinking of cultural forms spreading out across the full range of formal interactions - or what is called the 'text' in literary terms.

George Aiken

People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations are like people and act the same way.

Linda Ellerbee

People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

Omar Epps

People are realizing that color has no bearing on what's known as brotherhood

Tracy McGrady

People are really hesitant about expressing that they don't know something - but what's the big deal? I'm not ashamed about that at all.

Toni Collette

People are so fearful about opening themselves up. All you want to do is to be able to connect with other people. When you connect with other people, you connect with something in yourself. It makes you feel happy. And yet it's so scary, it makes people feel vulnerable and unsafe.

Annabelle Wallis

People are so ready to cut you down if you take a risk and leave your comfort zone.

Eric Lewis

People are used to seeing kids jump around. You know, the target audience, the audience that's spending money on music, like rock and hip-hop - they're used to seeing people get really physically involved in their music.

Karen Maitland

People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.

Bow Wow

People ask for this life, but they don't really understand what comes with it. People just see the outside and that looks good - big houses, cars, girls, but you never see how the person is feeling deep down inside. Me personally, being a man, I'm going to feel better displaying all of this and pouring my heart out on each record.

Marina Abramovic

People ask why there are so few female artists who succeed. It's because women are not ready to sacrifice as much as men. Women want a man, they want a family, they want to have children, they want to be loved, and to be an artist. And they can't; it's impossible.

Tom Hollander

People behave differently to TV stars and film stars; it's to do with the scale of the medium. Film stars get hushed awe, TV stars get slapped on the back. Neither is good for you. Famous people don't hear the word 'no' enough.

Bobby Seale

People called me a hoodlum and a thug. But they didn't tell you I was a carpenter, an architect, a stand-up comic - even a bartender. And a barbecue cook. But they didn't tell you that.

Darlene Cates

People can be cruel, but that doesn't mean you have to take it home, wrap yourself up in it and wear it.

Daphne Zuniga

People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening

Sugar Ray Leonard

People can do more than they ever believe they can do. Physically, mentally, academically. You have to be pushed. It hurts. But it's worth it, and it's a great thing.

Robin Li

People can get information - on entertainment, politics, finance - much easier than before. That will change the way people do business, the way people live.

Paget Brewster

People come over, and we watch things like 'The Paul Lynde Halloween Special.' I have a hot tub. Everybody puts on a bathing suit and we splash around.

Will Carling

People complain professional sportsmen are locked away but when they get out and enjoy themselves, people have a go.

Seth Rogen

People constantly make pop-culture references. That's why it's called popular culture, because people are aware of it and reference it constantly.

Oliver Evans

People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.

Major Owens

People didn't always see a person with a disability who had to use a ramp or elevator as people who have been given unnecessary privileges. But I run into that often now. People are saying, 'Why do we have to go to great expense for these people?'

Geoffrey Canada

People don't believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm, where folks don't have faith that things will get better because history and circumstances have proven over 30, 40, or 50 years that things don't get better.

Diana Ross

People don't know about the human part of me that really cares about the world. For instance, I don't know what I feel about wearing my furs anymore. I worked so hard to have a fur coat, and I don't want to wear it anymore because I'm so wrapped up in the animals. I have real deep thoughts about it because I care about the world and nature.

Mike Conaway

People don't trust the federal government as it relates to health care.

Michelle Rodriguez

People forget we come from an embryo and we're part sperm and part ovary. We have both sides in us.

Nathan Myhrvold

People get cranky when you burst their bubble. Over time, advances in astronomy have relentlessly reinforced the utter insignificance of Earth on a celestial scale. Fortunately, political and religious leaders stopped barbecuing astronomers for saying so, turning their spits with human-rights activists instead.

William Quigley

People go into a gallery, and they're afraid to express their opinions about art. No one's afraid to say, 'Keanu Reeves was bad in that movie.' We see so many films that we can tell who's faking it. But with art, we can't always tell.

Mary-Louise Parker

People have a problem with me being different, but that propels me forward in life.

Yuri Kochiyama

People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back.

George Carey

People have described me as a management bishop but I say to my critics, Jesus was a management expert too.