Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. W. Howe

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.

Chelsea Clinton

People recognize me. Most people are really nice. Sometimes people say, 'Hi, Chelsea.'

Don Marquis

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Don Rickles

To this day, when I say that I went to the American Academy, people are very impressed. The reputation of the school has always been fantastic.

Don Rickles

Ninety percent of the people who come to see me are my fans.

Donatella Versace

I think my own look makes people think I'm tough, but when they get to know me I'm very different.

David Bailey

I suppose because my work was so popular people didn't really look at it.

David Bailey

I always look at people and think how I would cast them.

David Bailey

It always amazes me when people ask you to do something and then tell you how to do it.

David Byrne

In retrospect, I can see I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!

Dave Wannstedt

We are just shuffling some people and trying to get the most out of them.

Emile M. Cioran

Normal people have nothing to forget.

Fay Weldon

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Witold Pilecki

During the first 3 years at Auschwitz, 2 million people died; over the next 2 years - 3 million.

I can get a tune out of most things with strings, but I'm not really sure I'm what could be called a musician. I find it fascinating working with people who can play other instruments and sing.

Wendi Deng Murdoch

As for what other people think of me, I could worry about that every day, but choose not to.

William T. Vollmann

The instant people specialize, it's in their interest to dehumanize the people their specialized function operates upon.

George Orwell

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Aung San Suu Kyi

You cannot compromise unless people talk to you.

Amanda Peet

I'm interested in people who are very close to the people who commit crimes.

I have personal problems like other people have termites.

Allyson Schwartz

Some people have called me pushy. Well, I call it determined.

Amish Tripathi

In any industry, the people with the freshest ideas usually come from outside.

Allison Tolman

I don't think you realize how often on television people are not like anyone we know or have known.

Alison Jackson

The only people I really hate are parking attendants.

Alice Oswald

There's a whole range of words that people use about landscape. Pastoral? Idyll? I can't stand them.

Anita Brookner

People say that I am always serious and depressing, but it seems to me that the English are never serious - they are flippant, complacent, ineffable, but never serious, which is sometimes maddening.

Billie Jean King

It's fun to meet people from throughout the world who you don't have to explain yourself to.

Bill Parcells

When I was a young coach, there were people like Chuck Noll, Chuck Knox and Tom Landry who were there for me.

Damian Lewis

There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.

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.

Jason Statham

People like 'Crank,' some people like 'Redemption.' I'm just happy to do things that satiate a different part of me, that test me a little bit.

Alan Greenspan

Markets do very weird things because it reacts to how people behave, and sometimes people are a little screwy.