Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Reed

People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public, someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality.

Hugo Weaving

People are more likely to pass me on the street without recognizing me, and that's good.

Mark Russell

People are not in a good mood when any politician's face appears on television.

David E. Kelley

People are out of their home on a Saturday night or they're at the movies or they're at dinner and a lot of the people who flip on the television are doing just that. They may have never seen your show before and you can't count on to your audience to be there week in and week out.

Peter F. Hamilton

People are put off by the perception of science fiction, and it doesn't help if you've got references to quantum this and quantum that on the first page, and people think, 'This isn't for me,' and chuck it. I'm probably a pretty bad offender, given how far in the future some of my stuff is.

Florence King

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

Ricardo Semler

People are too keen to follow standard preconceptions of how organisations should work. All too often, we feel that we are unable to make changes and so hope that someone, somewhere in your organisation knows what we are doing and what the overall aim is.

Charlie Munger

People are trying to be smart - all I am trying to do is not to be idiotic, but it's harder than most people think.

Mireille Guiliano

People are unhappy when they are on diets, because it's 'don't do this, don't do that, do this, do that.

Magnus Carlsen

People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.

Kip Moore

People ask who I am as an artist, who I am as a person. I don't ever want to tell them who I am; you can find that out in the music.

Katharine Weymouth

People assume that I came back to Washington because of the 'Post', but the truth is less romantic. I came back for a job.

Rem Koolhaas

People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming.

Bobby Knight

People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.

Jean-Luc Godard

People come to Cannes just to advertise their films, not with a particular message. But the advantage is that if you go to the festival, you get so much press coverage in three days that it advertises the film for the rest of the year.

Eugenie Clark

People come to me and say, 'What'll I do if I go in the water and see a shark?' You don't have to do anything. The chances of that shark attacking you in any way is so remote. The sea should be enjoyed, the animals in it. When you see a shark underwater, you should say, 'How lucky I am to see this beautiful animal in his environment!'

Emo Philips

People come up to me... concerned... that I'll reproduce.

Tinie Tempah

People discover you at festivals. They come to see Coldplay or whoever, and then wander over and catch your act. Festivals make a lot of sense to me.

Norman Ralph Augustine

People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.

Kurt Eichenwald

People don't have a constitutional right to leave loaded guns lying around. And if they choose to do so - and a kid gets shot and killed because of it - it's not an accident. It's negligent homicide.

Robert Rodriguez

People don't live in Austin to work, they work to live there.

Grant Hill

People don't realize the amount of stress you put on your body both physically and mentally from just the wear and tear of a season.

Gunnar Myrdal

People don't realize the great happiness there is in living to be very old and together all the time.

Mac Miller

People don't really give me much anymore, and for good reason. I have to pay for a lot of stuff now, I can afford a lot more than I ever could before. No one really gives me anything anymore, but it feels good.

Kevin Hart

People don't want drama 365 days a year. I'm a sense of relief; it's my job to take your mind off what's bad for that brief second you're in the room with me, regardless of shape, race, colour or anything. It brings people together, and it makes me feel good about what I'm doing.

Michael Pitt

People don't want to be plagued by not knowing-they want answers.

Martin Short

People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.

Daphne Zuniga

People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power

Vanessa Mae

People find it hard to understand how I can risk ruining my career as a musician by injuring myself on the slopes, but I've always been a tomboy.

Greg Ginn

People from major labels were afraid to go to Black Flag gigs throughout most of the bands existence. They treated our gigs as something threatening. Im sure that it probably was. They probably had reasons to be scared.

Jane Rule

People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.

Gay Talese

People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week.

Byron Dorgan

People habitat has to take priority over bird habitat.

Beeban Kidron

People have a right to have their lives witnessed; if we coexist with the systems that abuse people, then we have a duty to understand.

Ruud Gullit

People have expectations of me but I'm not a magician.

Tobias Hill

People have expectations of what you are as a writer. And writers, on the whole, don't like to be classified.

Thomas Horn

People have recognized me sometimes but not much. I'm glad my life isn't too different. I don't want it to be.

Greg Boyle

People have to see that there is a high degree of complexity about belonging to a gang. It's a symptom, not a problem.

Kurt Vonnegut

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.

Raymond Burr

People here always said to me, Why would you leave civilization to go to a place like Fiji? Fiji is a far more civilized place than California or New York City.

Shirley Manson

People in day-to-day life tend to skim the surface of things and be polite and careful, and that's not the language I speak. I like talking about feelings, fears and memories, anguish and joy, and I find it in music.

Paz Vega

People in Seville are very happy, the lifestyle here is very relaxed, you can walk everywhere; it's very easy.

Robert Teeter

People just automatically say 'If this guy is George and Barbara Bush's son, we don't have any question about those personal qualities that we were fooled on by Clinton.'

Samuel L. Jackson

People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you.

Charlotte Bunch

People learn to lead because they care about something.

Bob Nelson

People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition.

Steven Wright

People may think I'm trying something new by telling stories, but they're just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That's what I do.

Damian Lewis

People need revelation, and then they need resolution.

Terry McMillan

People need to be re - sometimes we need to reinvent ourselves and then get reacquainted with our better selves.

Duane Michals

People of my generation who became photographers in the late fifties, early sixties, there were no rewards in photography. There were no museum shows. Maybe MOMA would show something, or Chicago. There were no galleries. Nobody bought photographs.