Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mignon McLaughlin

The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone — until they do.

Mignon McLaughlin

Forget about calories — everything makes thin people thinner, and fat people fatter.

Johnny Manziel

The thing thats caught me off guard is going to dinner and people asking me for autographs or to take a picture. People coming to my house asking for autographs - thats something I really havent grasped the whole entirety of yet.

Johnny Manziel

I still see myself as young, the same guy I was before I ever won the Heisman. Hopefully my friends still feel I'm the same way. I just want people to know I'm still the same person I've always been.

Johnny Giles

People didnt know until I said it publicly that I had a nasty side. It was never obvious to the fans. I never lost my head, you see. Never got sent off.

Johnny Galecki

You get to a certain point - gratefully - when youre out of your twenties, and you realize how fleeting life is. So, it becomes important to feel as if the people in your life know exactly how you feel about them at all times.

Johnny Mathis

I'm just one of the lucky people. I have no other reason for my longevity.

Johnny Mathis

Its just that some people are lucky and people still seem to enjoy the music.

Johnny Marr

When you're young, you obviously have people you look up to. People like Andrew Oldham and Nile Rodgers inspired me then, and they inspire me now. But at some point, you start to try to be the best you can be and you're not copying anybody else. I'm just doing it in public, and my work needs to reflect that as well.

Johnny Marr

I'm not interested in trying to have people who might like other kinds of music follow me. I don't want to please them.

Johnny Marr

I seem to attract and be attracted to very willful, fascinating people.

Johnny Marr

If people can finally recognize you on radio without being told who it is, thats what you aim for.

Johnny Marr

You've got to understand that. We all look out for Morrissey. It's a very brotherly feeling. When we first rehearsed, I'd have done anything for him. And as a person Morrissey is really capable of a truly loving relationship. Every day he's so open, so romantic and sensitive to other people's emotions.

John Wooden

Hardship brings people closer together if you share it.

John Wooden

All that matters is the pressure you put on yourself. External pressures cause people to choke. While you can't control what happens to you, you can control how you react.

John Wooden

How many of us have conflicts with someone else- and how many of us pray for that person? We have individuals with whom we are competitive, or whom we dislike or have a quarrel with; but very few of us have true enemies in the martial sense. And yet if Lincoln could pray fervently- and contemporary reports indicate he did- for the people who were opposing him, how much more can we do for someone we just find a little irritating?

John Wooden

Good values are like a magnet – they attract good people.

John Ruskin

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

John Ruskin

People cannot live by lending money to one another.

John Ruskin

The object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy them

John Ruskin

There is no music in a “rest” that I know of, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody.

John Ruskin

To invent a story, or admirably and thoroughly tell any part of a story, it is necessary to grasp the entire mind of every personage concerned in it, and know precisely how they would be affected by what happens; which to do requires a colossal intellect: but to describe a separate emotion delicately, it is only needed that one should feel it oneself; and thousands of people are capable of feeling this or that noble emotion, for one who is able to enter into all the feelings of someone sitting on the other side of the table.

John Prescott

I don't get a fair whack, I don't pursue vendettas or punch people on the nose.

Mark Twain

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

Mark Twain

There are things which some people never attempt during their whole lives, but one of these is not poetry. Poetry attacks all human beings sooner or later, and, like the measles, is mild or violent according to the age of the sufferer.

Mark Twain

These people´s God has shown them by a million acts that he respects none of the Bible´s statues. He breaks every one of them himself, adultery and all.

Mark Twain

You ought never to sass old people- unless they sass you first.

Mark Twain

There is nothing but that frail breastwork of earth between the people and destruction.

Mark Twain

We like to read about rich people in the newspapers; the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this appetite liberally fed.

Mark Twain

Public Servant: Persons chosen by the people to distribute the graft.

Marianne Williamson

A lot of us simply disengaged from politics altogether, but then we woke up and went wow, wait a minute. Why does that insane conversation get to dominate? Who made those people the creators of the conversation? And how can we start a new one?

Marianne Williamson

People don't usually come see me because things are going well.

Marianne Williamson

Sometimes, when I'm sitting with people who have been stripped of everything and who are naked and authentic and finding themselves for the first time, I am reminded of how good people really are.