Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrea Gibson

I don't have a single plan for my life more important than learning to love people well.

Andrea Bocelli

When you sing and people want that you sing, then you can hope to be great.

Andrea Bocelli

When you sing opera you are very far from the people, you are onstage, and between you and the people there is the orchestra. So you have to launch your emotions very, very far. When you sing pop, you are singing very close - the microphone is very close to your mouth. You can whisper your emotions into the microphone.

Try becoming a person people want to be with rather than conforming yourself to the false identity of what you conceive their ideal to be.

Ana Castillo

my Mamá Grande, a tiny Mayan woman, took me aside when I was an adolescent and told me several things that didn't make a bit of sense to my young and inattentive ears, and as young people tend to waste all attempts of our elders to relay to us wisdom accumulated over the decades, I thought my Mamá Grande had a few mice in the attic.

Ana Gasteyer

You know, once somebody knows you can sing Elphaba, it's like being able to sing Evita - people shut up about it already.

Ana Gasteyer

I love people who try to keep the world in control - because the world is inherently not in control.

Amy Winehouse

The more people see of me, the more they'll realize that all I'm good for is MAKING MUSIC.

Amy Winehouse

I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn't that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.

Amy Winehouse

Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.

Politicians are easy to attack, but frankly, we are all guilty of not meeting the needs of Africa's young people properly.

Amanda Burton

It always interests me how obsessed people are about age.

Amanda Beard

People wanted to be friends with me for not the right reasons. They'd introduce me to somebody else as the Olympian or the swimmer. I didn't want to stand out. I wanted to blend in.

Amanda Beard

Some people like to focus on other aspects of my life, but first and foremost I am a dedicated and top swimmer.

Amanda Bynes

I want to be married and I want to be away from people.

Amanda Bynes

I'm so protected in my Nickelodeon bubble and 'What I Like About You.' It's all pretty much the same people I've worked with and it was pretty protected.

Amanda Bynes

I don't want to be Marilyn Monroe. In many ways, that's a good comparison. Because Marilyn Monroe was a sexpot, all that stuff that I have no interest in. For me, it's much easier to just try to make people laugh than to try to be the hottest thing in the world.

Amanda Bynes

I have no clue [why people say I'm insane]. Every time I've heard it, it came from an ugly person's mouth, so I don't care.

Alphonse de Lamartine

The People will not allow themselves to be changed into hogs by the Circes of Atheism. Their souls will flash indignation against their transformers. A day will come when they will see that they are impoverished under the pretext of being enriched; that, when they are robbed of their souls and of God, both their titles to liberty are stolen from them.

Aerin Lauder

People love buying into a lifestyle and an overall concept. So when they buy a shell-colored lip gloss, they can also buy shells for their house, as well as sunglasses and [items in] other categories [in that shade] to create one consistent image.

Afrika Bambaataa

You have to look at the fact that Hip Hop is under attack. It's not just Hip Hop but Black people, Latino people and all people are under attack for different things.

Afrika Bambaataa

I'd like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the political side of what hip hop could do, or where hip hop is gonna go. I always say it's gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.

Aesop

Better to learn wisdom from other people's misfortunes than from your own.

Robert Redford

I think a lot of people thought my career started with Butch Cassidy.

Rachel Weisz

Some people like having eyes upon them and I don't.

Rachel Weisz

Most people care what people think about them... we all do.

Rachel Nichols

There are those people that eat to live and those that live to eat. I am of the latter, as many of you already know. To me, eating is an adventure.

Richard Sherman

People don't talk much about my punt returns.

Abraham Maslow

The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.

Abraham Lincoln

A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible. The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.

Abraham Lincoln

You can please some of the people some of the time all of the people some of the time some of the people all of the time but you can never please all of the people all of the time.

Harsha Bhogle

Sports and management are not as diverse as people think.

Harry Seidler

Fifty years ago people were talking about Sydney's sprawl, but nobody does anything about it.