Famous Quotes & Sayings

Doris Lessing

People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone.

Donna Reed

I hope more people decide to become organ donors.

Donna Shalala

In every community, whether large or small, there are people who lead in their community in easy and difficult times.

Donna Shalala

I'll be one of the spokespeople, one of the people who sells the Administration's plans.

Donna Shalala

I've spent my whole life with people underestimating me.

Donnie Wahlberg

You can't control what people gravitate to and what they don't. We can only control the work that we do and try to give it the best that we can.

Donnie Wahlberg

We're entertainers, while people want us to be gods.

Donna Tartt

We looked at each other. And it occurred to me that despite his faults, which were numerous and spectacular, the reason I’d liked Boris and felt happy around him from almost the moment I’d met him was that he was never afraid. You didn’t meet many people who moved freely through the world with such a vigorous contempt for it and at the same time such oddball and unthwartable faith in what, in childhood, he had liked to call “the Planet of Earth.

Donna Tartt

The trouble is when people read about authors, they don't feel compelled to read the authors' work.

The Olympics, you have to remember, is an event onto itself; it's unlike anything else. It's a multisport event, you have people from all over the world and it has its own special charm, its own special issues. But it's distinct from anything else.

Donald Kennedy

This is really a twin tragedy, both for the people who were misled over there, and for those of us who were misled over here.

Donald Johanson

The right question to ask from a Darwinian prospective is what was it about bipedalism that was so advantageous? Why did it lead to a - why did that adaptation ultimately lead to a species Homo sapiens that has come to dominate the planet today with six and a half billion people?

Donald Fagen

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

Donald Knuth

I try to learn certain areas of computer science exhaustively; then I try to digest that knowledge into a form that is accessible to people who don't have time for such study.

Donald Knuth

I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.

Donald Knuth

Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration.

Donald Glover

You used to have to beg and be the busboy to do standup. I got on Community because people saw my videos on YouTube, which were free.

Don Winslow

How much more money do we have to waste, how many more families have to be destroyed, how many more people have to be killed before you summon the courage to tell the truth to the American people?

Donal Logue

I'd have to say my favorite thing about working on the show, and something that might be intriguing to other people, is that it's just such an amazingly welcoming environment to work in.

Don Rickles

I'm always watching films. The Academy pretty much sends me every film that's ever been done. I enjoy watching them, especially with the people I know.

Don Rickles

Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor.

Don Rickles

Everything I do on stage, I made up in saloons. I started doing it in front of people, and that became my performance. I never had writers.

Don Rickles

Some people call me a legend and the last of the greats, and I appreciate it.

Don Rickles

Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera.

Dale Dauten

Criticizing lawyers for lawsuits is like criticizing linebackers for knocking people down.

Dakota Johnson

Some people will like it [Fifty Shades of Grey] and some won't. I have other movies coming up, this is not what my whole life turns around.

Dale Carnegie

People aren't interested in you. They're interested in themselves

Dale Carnegie

Become genuinely interested in other people.

Dale Carnegie

People do things for "their" reasons, not ours. So find their reasons.

Dale Carnegie

People support a world they helped create.

Dale Carnegie

If we speak poorly about that which we do well... people will assume we perform poorly!

Dale Carnegie

Success in dealing with people depends on sympathetic grasp of the other person's viewpoint.

Dale Carnegie

If we want to make friends, let's greet people with animation and enthusiasm.