People Quotes · Page 5,262

Fiction is a place where people can meet, where they take the time to very seriously examine and think about the experiences…

— Phil Klay

The other thing is that when people mention computers - and I'm pretty much the same - they find it hard to…

— Ray Winstone

Treasure is the kind of thing you dig up... or bury! And when people say, 'Oh, he's an icon,' well, an icon…

— Terry Wogan

The young specialist in English Lit, ...lectured me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the…

— Isaac Asimov

I think the idea of being on stage and playing for people, and being able to inject a little bit of joy…

— Kimbra

Perhaps you know some well-off families who do not seem to suffer from their riches. They do not overeat themselves; they find…

— George Bernard Shaw

There's nothing like it, but it's not as good as you think it's going to be. . . . I was disappointed…

— Billy Connolly

I am trying to inspire people to just take control of their oral health, because if we don't take care of our…

— Sherri Shepherd

I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my…

— Kara DioGuardi

I have thought about this issue of abortion time and again. It is not an easy issue for most people. I came…

— Dick Durbin

Friend, you cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. And what one person receives without working…

— Adrian Rogers

I'm just interested in women's friendships generally. It always seems to me, and this is just my pet theory, that women are…

— Zadie Smith

My fans love what I do. That's what makes me love what I do. I don't do it for myself. I don't…

— Bow Wow

You can teach people specific reasoning, such as how to fly a kite or build a wheel. General reasoning cannot be imparted…

— Jacque Fresco

There are so few people given us to love. I want to tell my daughters this, that each time you fall in…

— Anne Enright

When I'm not wearing makeup, when I'm not in front of the camera, I can be just Hrithik. I can sit with…

— Hrithik Roshan

People who aren't minorities don't know what its like to be one. Of course they'll say, "He must've done something," because they're…

— Brandon Marshall

And that's the one thing that people do not understand is that we have very low interest rates and if those go…

— Ben Quayle

My name is Kirby Rose, and I'm adopted. I don't mean to make it sound like an AA confession, although sometimes that's…

— Emily Giffin

The new spirituality will also base itself on a third very large spiritual understanding, which is that life is eternal. Most religious…

— Neale Donald Walsch

Is this what you have in mind,' I asked the Dalai Lama, 'when you say in teachings that the buddhas and bodhisattvas…

— Anonymous

Studies show that a trusting workplace increases employees' level of happiness, work effort, productivity, and engagement. It also provides an environment that…

— Arthur Miller

Under present conditions, people are preoccupied with consumer goods not because they are brainwashed but because buying is the one pleasurable activity…

— Ellen Willis

I gather you yellow-skinned men, despite your triumphs in sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, still don't have democracy. Some politician…

— Aravind Adiga

At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked…

— Carrie Underwood

At its best New Wave/punk represents a fundamental and age-old Utopian dream: that if you give people the license to be as…

— Lester Bangs

I think that argument is completely morally bankrupt, and I think people know that when they make it. There's a very big…

— Jimmy Wales

When Donald Trump's projects go under, the first people that don't get paid are the contractors that he's - some of whom…

— Marco Rubio

But insensate Time is nothing if not cruel and heartless. It corrodes then destroys, so that the man you literally and figuratively…

— Sergio De La Pava

I think its going to be continually tougher on the big networks as more cable channels do really interesting television. The big…

— Rob Thomas

I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of having such…

— Hermann Hesse

The fundamental difference between Islamic government, on the one hand, and constitutional monarchy and republics, on the other, is this: whereas the…

— Ruhollah Khomeini

I think that some of the biggest surprises I've had early on, actually to this day, are all the misconceptions about my…

— Tess Holliday

That's definitely something I've experienced my whole life - people thinking one thing and then discovering that I'm not, hopefully. So I…

— Zoe Kravitz

If you let other people do some of the work that we ask ourselves to do, if you allow for the fact…

— Alva Noe

God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people's secrets we want to know -…

— August Strindberg

We have lots of heroes today - sportsmen, supermodels, media personalities. They come, they have their 15 minutes of fame, and they…

— Jonathan Sacks

Houston's a very big town. It's changed a lot over my lifetime, it's quite a bit bigger now than it was when…

— Shannon Walker

I would hear advice like, it takes 10 years to find your voice. I had the opposite. I first had the voice…

— Robby Hoffman

Pack the one bag. Unpack it, pack it, unpack it, pack it: passeport, ticket, book, taxi, airport, check-in, beer, announcement, stairs, airplane,…

— Ryszard Kapuscinski