Famous Quotes & Sayings

Genesis Rodriguez

It's very important to me that people see I am an American and I was born in the States.

Taraji P. Henson

I'm really silly. That's the thing that people don't get.

Shaquille O'Neal

When you're in championships, it's never about what you do. It's always about what other people do.

Ben Carson

It's very important for people to know themselves and understand what their value system is, because if you don't know what your value system is, then you don't know what risks are worth taking and which ones are worth avoiding.

Ben Carson

So after a while, if people won't accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.

Ben Carson

A lot of people simply don't realize their potential because they're just so risk adverse. They just don't want to take the risk.

Beeban Kidron

I think the documentary is something that people are hungry for, that it embodies careful thought, nuance.

Tom Hollander

My parents are very lovely people - the sort of people that one should aspire to be like, really.

Tyler, The Creator

I'm a pretty nice dude. I have fun, and people take it the wrong way.

We're not tilting at windmills anymore. People are talking about it everywhere.

I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and an actor. Most people know me as a singer, but I am also an actor.

Vivienne Westwood

The last people with any ideas are young people.

Dan Stevens

Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anything I could, getting suspended from school, going on demonstrations.

Gordon Bethune

I learned that you can be successful if you get people to help you become successful.

Charlie Rose

I'm flattered by the fact that most people tell me they don't know what my politics are.

Charlie Rose

I want to challenge people to find out who they are.

Bill Maher

Curious people are interesting people; I wonder why that is.

Keri Russell

People still take it really personally. They come up to me at breakfast places like, 'When are you growing your hair back?'

Rihanna

I want to give people a taste of the Caribbean, and show them the fun side of me.

Pico Iyer

Places have charisma, in short, as much as people do.

Patricia Cornwell

I've had people turn up to book signings with knives, with guns.

Aberjhani

By striving so mightily to accomplish specific goals on behalf of one segment of humanity, she [Toni Morrison] went beyond them to create literary wonders capable of enriching the lives of not just her own people, but of all people.

Aaron Levie

Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.

A. B. Yehoshua

The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.

Adrienne Rich

The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual - all of that fermenting together. It can speak to people who have themselves felt like monsters and say: you are not alone, this is not monstrous. It can disturb and enrapture.

Agatha Christie

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]

Agatha Christie

Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.

Adam Smith

Now many such things may be done without intitling the people to rise in arms. A gross, flagrant, and palpable abuse no doubt will do it, as if they should be required to pay a tax equal to half or third of their substance.

Ada Leverson

Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have ...

Abraham Joshua Heschel

(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.

Ludwig von Mises

In the market economy the worker sells his services as other people sell their commodities. The employer is not the employee's lord. He is simply the buyer of services which he must purchase at their market price.

The problem I have with making an intelligent statement is that some people then think it's not an isolated occurrence.

Penelope Wilton

I can't understand why people so readily put themselves up to be humiliated.