Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ruth Bernhard

I look at ordinary objects, and I see things that other people don't see. That's why I'm a photographer.

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.

Pina Bausch

I'm not interested in how people move, but what moves them.

Mario Andretti

I think it's counterproductive in many ways to pretend to know things you don't. You surround yourself with people who are the real experts.

David Morrissey

I'm the youngest of four kids. There's something in me that will always be the youngest child, will always look up to people when they don't necessarily need it.

Diane Warren

I usually don't write songs by people calling me and saying, 'Write a song about this.' Usually I'm just going with what I want to write, so you never know.

Clifford Geertz

Two people have been really liberating in my mind; one is Wittgenstein and the other is Burke. I read Burke before he was a secular saint, before everyone was reading him.

Dane Cook

I want to be able to challenge myself. And do things that are away from what I usually do. Stand-up is safe for me. I can do stand-up in front of twenty-five thousand people, and I'm like, "I know how to do this. This is what I do." I want to be a little scared.

David Bowie

Since early middle ages when people generally taking away the barbarity of their like, were pretty content. Although it was all an illicit contentment, what with the slave systems all over the world, in England especially, the peasants and the master, etc. People were incredibly content.

David Johansen

Young people are still looking and older people have found...

Dave Winer

The easier you make it for people to go, the more likely they are to stay.

Dave Grohl

There's poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don't like doing what people expect me to do.

David Macaulay

For some time now, I have been encouraging people to ask themselves why things look the way they do.

David Mamet

People only speak to get something.

Condoleezza Rice

I'm a huge proponent of exchanges, student exchanges, cultural exchanges, university exchanges. We talk a lot about public diplomacy, .. It's extremely important that we get our message out, but it's also the case that we should not have a monologue with other people. It has to be a conversation, and you can't do that without exchanges and openness.

Coco Lee

People have to respect intellectual property.

Every time I take a soak in a warm tub, ... I think of all the people in the shelter who can't even take a bath.

Peter Capaldi

I've always been interested in the idea of people who fell through the cracks.

Martin Scorsese

The young people today are the 21st century.

Michael O'Donoghue

One of my problems is I am getting so mature that I have to pick up a TV and toss it through the coffee table just to remind people of who I am. I want to go ranting and screaming into the grave.

Paloma Picasso

People say, 'Oh, to be the daughter of Picasso!' But it's not as extravagant as it seems. He was very special, very vibrant, but he was my father. I didn't have another.