Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dick Costolo

One of the things that amazes me about Twitter is the way it utterly eradicates artificial barriers to communication. Things like status, geopolitics and so on keep people from talking to one another. Those go away in Twitter. You see exchanges that would never happen anywhere else.

Ben Mendelsohn

One of the things that I found very confronting in my early working life was that people thought I was some sensitive doe-eyed lovelorn boy, because they'd seen me do that a couple of times. What tends to happen is you get a run of similar roles.

Bill Nighy

One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.

Marilynne Robinson

One of the things that is wonderful about hymns is that they are a sort of universally shared poetry, at least among certain populations. There isn't much of that anymore either. There are very few poems people can recite, but there are quite a few hymns that, if you hum a few bars, people can at least come up with two verses. Many of the older hymns are very beautiful.

Geoffrey Canada

One of the things that sells music is when the artist is looked at as someone who's come up from the streets. Not just any streets, but the toughest, meanest streets of the urban ghetto. And that's called 'street credibility,'

Gabe Newell

One of the things that's interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors.

Paul Wolfowitz

One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.

Barry Mann

One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.

Philip Emeagwali

One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations.

Barry White

People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.

Platon

People are at their best when they can be natural. And that's the hardest thing as a photographer.

Montel Williams

People are beginning to realize that it's important that we see animals in a natural state - but through film, through video, through documentaries, at wildlife preserves, and through other humanely protected ways, which don't involve... performing for us.

Michael Fassbender

People are complicated. Our behavior towards one another is strange. So I like opportunities to investigate that.

Saadi

People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.

Constance Wu

People are embracing the thing that made them different growing up instead of letting that thing elicit shame.

Peter Krause

People are first and foremost Republicans, first and foremost Anarchists, first and foremost a man or woman, and that is a mistake. It hurts the individual and it hurts the whole.

Fred Funk

People are going to paying attention to him whether they love him or hate him. So I think Tiger is a huge focus point on a stage that is as little as golf.

Luis von Ahn

People are good at figuring out what's attractive, and computers are good at quickly searching and finding. You put them together, and bang!

Kevin McHale

People aren't paying to see the Kevin McHale show, they're paying to see the cast of 'Glee.'

Brendon Burchard

People are remarkably bad at remembering long lists of goals. I learned this at a professional level when trying to get my high-performance coaching clients to stay on track; the longer their lists of to-dos and goals, the more overwhelmed and off-track they got. Clarity comes with simplicity.

Rolf-Dieter Heuer

People are saying I don't need science, I have everything, but everything is based on science.

Donald Fagen

People are usually afraid to say what's on their mind.

Andrea Arnold

People ask, 'Are your things autobiographical?,' and I think, no, they're not autobiographical directly, but of course my life has informed my work.

David Sedaris

People ask me, 'Have you ever considered doing stand-up?' To me it would be less offensive if someone asked me, 'Have you ever considered dental implants?'

Gretchen Wilson

People ask me where I go to get away and I say, 'home'

Joel Madden

People can say or think whatever they want... so in my reality, it's kind of irrelevant. I'm always the kind of person that does the right thing and keeps my side of the street clean.

Edward Hall

People come to the theatre to be excited and uplifted - I want to inspire my audience.

Sid Caesar

People come up to me and they thank me: 'I thank you for the many, many hours of laughter.'

Kenneth Fisher

People do dollar cost averaging because they have regret of making one big mistake. But the fact of the matter is that, mathematically, the market rises more of the time than it falls. It falls, but it rises more of the time than it falls.

Jimmy Wales

People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.

Adam Garcia

People do more important jobs than acting in film that should be recognised, but for some reason it's big money, so people are elevated in status. If I was a bus driver, I'm sure you wouldn't be interviewing me.

Gamal Abdel Nasser

People do not want words - they want the sound of battle - the battle of destiny.

Edmond de Goncourt

People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.

Brian McKnight

People don't like when you point out to them and remind them that they're not very smart.

Francisco Costa

People don't really go to museums in Rio. I shouldn't say it's not sophisticated, but, you know, they go to the beach.

Gary Vaynerchuk

People don't want to embrace culture shifts because it's not going to happen in the next 20 minutes.

Paul Mooney

People don't want to hear the truth, they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy. And then when they get caught up in it, they start being in denial because they don't want to be wrong.

Brooks Atkinson

People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.

Tiffani Thiessen

People expect me to be thin and perfect... I'm not.

Helmut Newton

People gave us everything for free. We were allowed only so much film per picture, but there was no limit to the creativity. I like to say that they let us loose like wild dogs in the streets of Paris.

Frank Black

People go back to the stuff that doesn't cost a lot of money and the stuff that you don't have to hand money to over and over again. Stuff that you get for free, stuff that your older brother gives you, stuff that you can get out of the local library.

Abdul Qadeer Khan

People go out of their way to show the love and respect for me. It is very gratifying.

George Smoot

People have contemplated the origin and evolution of the universe since before the time of Aristotle. Very recently, the era of speculation has given way to a time of science.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other.

Andrew Eldritch

People have taught me not to look for intelligence in rockmusic.

Morgan Freeman

People hear that and say I'm being modest, but I am not a modest person, but I have to be truthful about what I'm doing and what I'm doing is channeling.

Allan Savory

People in all walks of life, and especially business, do not want to experience the collapse of cities like New York along with global finance and economy in chaos, but this is what business faces if we continue to attribute climate change to fossil fuels alone.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

People in Britain always think of 'Jesus Christ Superstar' as a musical - it wasn't.

Tawni O'Dell

People, including me, can get so detached from everything, but when you can focus on a defined place, a home, it gets you back in touch.

Penelope Wilton

People in distress behave in a stressful way. They aren't all sweetness and light. They don't behave well when they are unhappy. That's just what I've observed.