Famous Quotes & Sayings

A. S. Byatt

Once you get older, people stop listening to what you say. It's very agreeable once you get used to it.

Robert Scoble

Things that are interesting, people will pass around the Internet, around the world. And the blogosphere is only the tip of the iceberg.

Robert Webb

It should go without saying that there are as many working-class people who hold socially liberal views as there are public-school bigots.

Raymond E. Feist

People like rules, or at least the appearance of rules, even in fantasy.

Sara Ramirez

The weird thing about working in television is that you only see the people that you're in scenes with.

Sara Ramirez

Conflict happens. People aren't happy all of the time.

Smokey Robinson

I left Motown because of the regime of people who were there.

Siri Hustvedt

The relationship between the imagined and the real is more complicated than people imagine.

Roger Moore

People are always reading things into the films.

Ronald Lauder

You are only as successful as the people who work for you want you to be.

People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

Riz Ahmed

My parents, man, they're just the most loving, encouraging... They're like those people who define themselves through their role as parents before people in their own rights.

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.

We're upset. We think this is unfair for us and the other people who are suffering in the process.

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 Boaz

We faced a crisis caused by the Federal Reserve, the corporate tax system, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the Community Reinvestment Act. But the response of many people in Washington was to blame it on capitalism.

David Boaz

Don't hit other people, don't take their stuff and keep your promises.

David Blunkett

Strengthening our identity is one way or reinforcing people's confidence and sense of citizenship and well-being.

David Blunkett

I can hear people smile.