Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

There were people thrice her size on the Trenton platform and she looked admiringly at one of them, a woman in a very short skirt. She thought nothing of slender legs shown off in miniskirts--it was safe and easy, after all, to display legs of which the world approved--but the fat woman's act was about the quiet conviction that one shared only with oneself, a sense of rightness that others failed to see.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Why did people ask "What is it about?" as if a novel had to be about only one thing.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

You Americans, always peering under people's beds to look for communism.

Edward Hoagland

Many people have believed that they were Chosen, but none more baldly than the Texans.

Edward James Olmos

I support the indigenous people anywhere in the planet

Edward James Olmos

I'm always pleased when people respond to the work

Edward James Olmos

Right now, the Anglo people are desperately trying to hold on to the United States, like they tried to hold on to Africa

Edward Hirsch

The very good thing about MFA programs is their democratizing. They bring a lot of different people to the table.

Edward Hirsch

I would be happier if people who went through MFA programs also were already, by then, deeply committed readers of poetry because we need readers of poetry as much as writers of poetry.

Edward Gibbon

The vain, inconstant, rebellious disposition of the people [of Armorica], was incompatible either with freedom or servitude.

Edward Gibbon

Extreme distress, which unites the virtue of a free people, imbitters the factions of a declining monarchy.

Edward Gibbon

[Arabs are] a people, whom it is dangerous to provoke, and fruitless to attack.

Edith Piaf

I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.

Edith Head

Some people need sequins, others don't.

Edith Schaeffer

When people insist on perfection or nothing, they get nothing.

Edith Sitwell

People are usually made Dames for virtues I do not possess.

Edith Wharton

...every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written.

Edith Wharton

What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.

Edith Wharton

[I]t's safer to be fond of dangerous people.

Edith Wharton

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

Eddie Murphy

I keep telling people I'll make movies until I'm fifty and then I'll go and do something else. I'm going to be a professional gentleman of leisure.

Eddie Murphy

You can't let the good things people say make you feel too good, because you're going to let the bad things make you feel bad.

Eddie Izzard

People still talk about a British sense of humour, or French slapstick or how the Germans have no sense of humour - and it's just rubbish. I do strongly feel that we are all the bloody same.

Eddie Izzard

Some people are widely read. I'm thinly read.

Eddie Izzard

If you're a performer, people tend to be quite positive about you or they have no opinion.

Eddie Izzard

My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.

Eddie Izzard

When I watched Braveheart I was in tears and I was rooting for the Scottish people

Eddie Izzard

Racist people, interestingly, are never as polite as smokers. Have you noticed that? Smokers always go, "Do you mind if I smoke? Oh, you do? Okay, I'll go outside and have a cigarette.

Ed Asner

A lot of people don't want to feel anti-black by being opposed to Obama.

Ed Belfour

I love proving people wrong.

Ed Belfour

When people count me out, that gets me motivated.

Earl Wilson

Today, there are three kinds of people: the haves, the have-nots, and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-haves.

Earl Warren

Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.