Famous Quotes & Sayings

May Sarton

People who cannot feel punish those who do.

May Sarton

The price of being oneself is so high and involves so much ruthlessness toward others (or what looks like ruthlessness in our duty-bound culture) that very few people can afford it.

May Sarton

Most people have to talk so they won't hear.

Max Greenfield

Yeah, a lot of people ask me to take my shirt off, which is aggressive. I wish that I were just one of those guys who was just like, 'You know, look, when I was seven I had a six-pack, and it just never went away.

Max Frisch

A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society.

Max Frisch

We asked for workers. We got people instead.

Max Irons

People often find it surprising that actors find photo shoots difficult, because you're very concerned about what's going on externally in those things when you have to be concerned with what's going on internally as an actor.

A people's speech is the skin of its culture.

Maurice Baring

Avoid contradicting in general, especially people you love.

Maurice Blanchot

Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud.

Maureen Dowd

The Clintons want to do big worthy things, but they also want to squeeze money from rich people wherever they live on planet Earth, insatiably gobbling up cash for politics and charity and themselves from the same incestuous swirl.

Maureen Johnson

Rory: "People are being serious." Jazza: "There's a serial killer out there. Of course people are being serious." Rory: "Yeah, but what are the chances?" Jazza: "I bet all of the victims thought that." Rory: "But still, what are the chances?" Jazza: "Well, I imagine they are several million to one." Jerome: "Not that high. You're only dealing with a small part of London. And while there might be a million or more people in that area, the Ripper is probably focusing on women, because all of the original victims were women. So halve that--" Jazza: "You really need another hobby.

Maureen Johnson

And if we get caught, I will claim I made you go. At gunpoint. I am American. People will assume I'm armed.

Maureen Johnson

People always say they can't do things, that they're impossible. They just haven't been creative enough.

Maureen Johnson

There is no normal. I've never met a normal person. The concept is flawed. It implies that there is only one way people are supposed to be, and that can't possible be true. Human experience is far too varied.

Matthew Shipp

People come from a certain generation and a certain whole way of looking at things, and you really do become a prisoner of your own world.

Matthew Shipp

I like people not being able to be pigeon-holed.

Matthew Weiner

Super-confident people with no problems and great marriages and great parenting are not good entertainment.

Matthew Weiner

If you've ever had somebody try to sell you something - people who can sell, they really are not manipulating you. They are selling themselves.

Matthew Weiner

I'm very supportive of creative people being paid for the work that they do.

Matthew Vaughn

You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

I feel like it's important every once in a while to estrange ourselves from the familiar to remind ourselves of the potentialities of people, how many different ways there are of being.

Matthew McConaughey

The best advice comes from people who don't give advice.

Matthew Macfadyen

Nobody's just arrogant. I've met people who are embattled and dismissive, but when you get to know them, you find that they're vulnerable - that that hauteur or standoffishiness is because they're pedaling furiously underneath.

Matthew Lesko

There are thousands and thousands of free programs available for people of any income level.

Matthew Lesko

I am providing a service that many people obviously value.

Matthew Lesko

There are many programs specifically aimed at helping people in poverty start a business.

Matthew Lillard

I learned a lot, in terms of inspiring people. It became very clear to me, very early on, that directing a movie was a lot like being in a theater company.

Matthew Lillard

I've always been a guy that doesn't do well waiting for people to say, "You can act." It's always been a part of me.

Matthew Lillard

So much of Hollywood is about who the people you work with are.

Matthew Henry

Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in it.

Matthew Henry

When God intends great mercy for his people, he first of all sets them praying.

Matt McGorry

Did people waste time before the internet existed?