Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Cave

People are always surprised to see clues to my being a normal kind of guy. As if I'm somehow letting the team down.

Yukihiro Matsumoto

People are different. People choose different criteria. But if there is a better way among many alternatives, I want to encourage that way by making it comfortable. So that's what I've tried to do.

Barney Frank

People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

Niger Innis

People are familiar with 'the stick' of the Tea Party... challenging incumbents, flooding the phone lines. What they're not so much familiar with, and what I want to expand, is 'the carrot.' So when a Mitch McConnell, or when a Republican caucus stands firm... we have to reward them.

Colin Angle

People are fascinated by robots because they're machines that can mimic life.

Mitchell Baker

People are more naturally protective of what they create than of what they consume.

Helen McCrory

People are not considerate of others. They tend not to consider themselves as all living together, but see themselves only as individuals.

Kiersey Clemons

People aren't really mean to me, but people say random things.

Ada Yonath

People are obsessed with my haircut; everyone wants to do something with my hair before the ceremony. Very senior figures tell me their hairstylist wants to do my hair for free. It's surprising. People from television are interested almost exclusively in aspects of my hair and my hairdresser.

Jeff Ross

People are roasting each other at parties, at work events, around the fire. It's so fun. People are busting each other's chops, and it's a sign of affection, truly. It's a true test of love and friendship: can you make a man laugh at himself? So what makes a good burn? Go after targets you love and respect. And hit 'em hard.

Gary Wolf

People are saying, 'Big Data is the new oil.'

Dave Grohl

People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.

Davy Jones

People ask me if I ever get sick of playing 'Daydream Believer' or whatever. But I don't look at it that way. Do they ask if Tony Bennett is tired of 'I Left My Heart in San Francisco?'

Stephen Rea

People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy.

Sandra Oh

People ask me what I'm writing. They think I'm Sandra Tsing Loh. Or they ask about stand-up. 'No, that's Margaret Cho.' I really think there is this kind of glomming, that they think we are somehow all the same person.

Chelsea Handler

People ask me why I'm so hard on men. It's because they've gotten a really easy ride. And it's not that I think women should take over the world. But I do think it should be 50/50.

Simon Spurr

People can take away your assets, but not your DNA.

Ricky Gervais

People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they're very rarely the same.

Claude Monet

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.

Davey Havok

People do get ridiculed for liking us or because they look the way they do and they're a part of what we do.

Katherine Parkinson

People don't realise what a nice thing it is for an actor to go to a job where they know or like everybody, because you're so often having to do new beginnings, starting off on set with people you don't know, having to introduce yourself and make friends.

Alain Prost

People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet.

Todd Barry

People don't understand that that's really what it is. They're looking for a magic phone number or something. And to a certain extent, I understand that, because comedy is treated so much as a stepping stone by a lot of people.

Susan Wojcicki

People don't understand the logistics of advertising. To have the ads purchased and run, you need to have a series of products that work together.

Sade Adu

People generally let me be me. People are aware that I'm not someone particularly begging for attention. They hold back a bit with me.

Eugenie Clark

People generally thought that sharks are dumb eating machines. After some study, I began to realize that these 'gangsters' of the deep had gotten a bad rap.

Todd Rundgren

People get comfort from music. They get joy from it and understanding from it, and most of all, the average person can't do without it in some sense.

Rachel Griffiths

People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.

Clare Short

People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning.

Ned Vizzini

People have always asked me why I'm drawn to material about kids, and for me, it's - I remember being at that age and feeling completely and utterly powerless. You know, there's so many things you wanna do and so many things you're told you can't do.

Kyle Massey

People have been watching me since I was eight. They've been watching me grow up, so they feel that connection with me.

David Brinkley

People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening.

John Mellencamp

People have the right to say what they want to.

Michelle Branch

People have this notion of me being this sweet, nice girl, but I'm kind of a pervert.

Norman Finkelstein

People have to liberate themselves, because liberation is not a single act. It's a question of eternal vigilance. Otherwise, you'll just become enslaved by someone else.

Eric Cantor

People have to take responsibility for themselves. We need to get the housing industry going again. We don't need government intervening in every step.

Zosia Mamet

People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.

Jimmy Cliff

People in the Hall of Fame tend to clap their hands and say, 'OK, I've done it all,' but for me, it was a new beginning.

L. Neil Smith

People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.

Greg Norman

People in this room must have back problems, I'm sure some of us do, and it is really, really one of the worst pains and debilitating parts of your body that you can actually have because you really can't do anything in your life when you have it.

Bob Weinstein

People intrinsically know there are secrets being held from us. Look at WikiLeaks: There are secrets that are really true to the world.

Matthew Vaughn

People just want to watch movies that are entertaining, it doesn't matter what genre it is.

Bill Irwin

People keep telling us, that they didn't know when they were booking tickets for it, but afterwards they say that they've had no sense that they were watching an old fashioned play.

Shelley Moore Capito

People let their guard down a little more when they're eating.

Illinois Jacquet

People like to hear songs that they can dance to. Even if they're sitting, they like being made to want to dance and move. By me being a dancer, I know how I'd dance at certain tempos. I was always good at it.

Jose Saramago

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.

Shari Sebbens

People look at me, and they don't see what they think is a typical Aboriginal. I always thought I'd be the white person in a black play.

Keegan Bradley

People look at me weird because I'm a Howard Stern fan, but he's very misunderstood. It's the first thing I do when I get in my car at a tournament - just pray that I get Howard 100 on Sirius or XM.

Robert Cecil

People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

LaDainian Tomlinson

People may remember something I did on the field for a couple of days, maybe a week.