Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Childish

People could live very happily without the Turner Prize, but they could not live without real communication and emotion.

Edmund Burke

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Thom Filicia

People define themselves aesthetically at a very young age.

Lou Gerstner

People don't do what you expect but what you inspect.

Henry Louis Gates

People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but he was a cunning and calculating politician; from the cultivation of his image as a hayseed from Illinois, to his ability to keep this country together under dire circumstances.

Bruce Schneier

People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.

Eugene Fama

People don't walk away from their homes unless they can't make the payments. That's an indication that we are in a recession.

Jack Nicklaus

People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.

Cheyenne Jackson

People either love me or they think I'm obnoxious. I get that.

Trey Parker

People have a lot of different beliefs, and at the end of the day, we all have deeply held beliefs that probably don't make sense to anyone else.

Amanda Bynes

People have a preconceived notion about who I am and it's interesting. It's like picking who you want to win for the Oscars and not seeing the movie. Before you make a statement about someone, get all the information and see everything before you make a judgment.

Amanda Holden

People have been able to see that as cheeky and as flirty as I am, I am not the dreadful slapper that the press used to portray me as. But it will probably all turn around and people will hate me again in a couple of years.

Dan Phillips

People have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years: using whatever is available to build shelter. If you ponder what could be used, then building materials are everywhere.

Freddie Highmore

People have different expectations when you're younger - it's less about changing yourself into a character; they want a more natural thing. And they just want you to be able to turn up every day and carry on working. They have a horrible fear of 10- or 11-year-olds, that they're going to say 'I don't want to play today.'

Marina Abramovic

People have so much pain inside them that they're not even aware of.

Nathan Lane

People have to do things in their own time, and that's what I did

Azim Premji

People have to take control of their own lives. Education is key because it also raises other social indicators like healthcare.

Patrice O'Neal

People have tried to corner the market on being offended, corner the market on language and corner the market on opinion. Should I lose my job 'cause I offended somebody? No, of course not. Your life should never be affected by public opinion.

Nico Rosberg

People in Finland have also adopted me because of my dad, and that's great, but it's the one language I can't speak.

Jasmine Guy

People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it.

Richard Holbrooke

People in uniform are not sacrosanct. They don't have all the answers. The use of force is a political decision at its core, in terms of its objectives; then the military, as the experts, must be brought in to tell you how to do it.

Chad Hurley

People just don't sit down and just watch TV at night. Between cellphones, television, video games, the Internet and instant messaging, people are just spending their time in different places.

Bill Vaughan

People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.

Don Miguel Ruiz

People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.

Heather Mills

People love me or hate me and all I think about is the people that I know and suffer with different causes and carry on my charity work and that's what keeps me alive really.

Taylor Momsen

People misinterpret what I say all the time: They think I'm being offensive, when really, I'm only being opinionated.

BeBe Winans

People need to know, before I'm associated with any party, I am an American, and that's what I want to drive home at the RNC.

Stanley B. Prusiner

People often ask me why I persisted in doing research on a subject that was so controversial. I frequently respond by telling them that only a few scientists are granted the great fortune to pursue topics that are so new and different that only a small number of people can grasp the meaning of such discoveries initially.

Bette Davis

People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.

Stephen Rea

People often refer to my career before The Crying Game as something which led up to that point. But I was very fulfilled in what I was doing.

Linda Fiorentino

People over 30 are interested in sex too, but they get real movies about it.

Zoe Kazan

People really do make the assumption that I had some weirdo Hollywood upbringing, but my parents are incredibly down-to-earth people who worked really hard to raise us in a way that was health.

Christian Louboutin

People say I am the king of painful shoes. I don't want to create painful shoes, but it is not my job to create something comfortable. I try to make high heels as comfortable as they can be, but my priority is design, beauty and sexiness. I'm not against them, but comfort is not my focus.

Logan Pearsall Smith

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Ben Horowitz

People say the most important thing is building a world-class team.

Meryl Streep

People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.

Uday Kiran

People's behaviour towards you changes when your films don't work. It's a painful period.

Pearl Bailey

People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.

Steve Harvey

People see me laughing and telling jokes, but they had no idea after the show was over, I had no joy in my life, in my heart.

Benedict Cumberbatch

People's hands fascinate me. It's tempting to look at a businessman's left hand and see if there's an indentation from a missing wedding ring. Or maybe there's a tan line and the skin is pressed down where's he's worked a ring off his finger.

Ariel Pink

People should be more passive with what they consider trustworthy.

Peter Schiff

People should have an escape valve for their money, their assets. If you have substantial financial assets, the government is going to confiscate the purchasing power of those assets and spend it.

Constance Wu

People's passion and desire for authenticity is strong.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

People tease me about knowing somehow that Obama would put Clinton into the cabinet, and everybody would talk about a team of rivals.

Elizabeth Jagger

People tell me that I should eat more, but they don't know me: I eat a lot. It's pretty unpleasant that people assume every model is anorexic and bulimic.

Kapil Sharma

People tell me that my appearance in real life is better than on-screen. Perhaps people think I am exactly like the characters I play on TV.

Mort Sahl

People tell me there are a lot of guys like me, which doesn't explain why I'm lonely.

Al Yankovic

People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.

Dana Spiotta

People think it's suspect and self-indulgent to make art, and I don't think that's true. Some people think you should be busy making something that you can sell in the marketplace, and if nobody wants to buy it, it must be crap. And that's not true.

Vikram Chatwal

People think money is life and your life is over if you lose it.