Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ann Patchett

Some people need a huge amount of attention, and they are worthy of that attention, and they're still exhausting.

Ann Patchett

There are, of course, people who didn't create the trouble they're in, but lots of them do.

Ann Patchett

We have different kinds of intimacy with many, many people. I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.

Aneurin Barnard

I'm a big believer in playing truth and not doing things for effect. It's not about whether you look pretty or glamorous. It's about whether people connect.

Angela Ahrendts

When you have trust and you get that trust in place throughout the company, people are empowered — people are free.

Angel Olsen

People should know each other because they want to, because they have things in common.

Angel Olsen

I feel really good about the future and working with people.

Angel Olsen

My first ever tour of my music was in the Netherlands. I didn't really have a grace period to grow or anything; people just started booking for me. I feel pretty lucky.

Angel Olsen

It's a bit of a weird thing to know that (my music) has translated to that many people.

Angela Bassett

People confuse the person and the part.

Aneurin Bevan

A Society in which the people's wants do not exceed their possessions is not a Socialist society.

Aneurin Bevan

Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets

Anatoly Chubais

The diversification of the people's demand could not be followed by the state apparatus.

Anatole Broyard

In novels, I said, people are transfigured by love. They’re elevated, made different, lifted out of their ordinariness…It’s not so much to ask, I said. I just want love to live up to its publicity.

Anatoly Karpov

'Rubberneck' has nothing to do with comedy, nor does it follow comedic people.

Anatole France

For the majority of people , though they do not know what to do with this life , long for another that shall have no end .

Anatole France

People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.

Anais Nin

Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many creations, and then it ceases feeding on you.

Anais Nin

Some people read to confirm their own hopelessness. Others read to be rescued from it.

Anais Nin

We celebrate peace. Yet we pay no attention to the ways of curing aggression in human beings. And when one sees in psychoanalysis hostility disappearing as people conquer their fears, one wonders if the cure is not there.

Anais Nin

Mature people relate to each other without the need to merge.

Anais Nin

I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.

Amanda Marshall

To those people (who criticize me), get off your a** and make a record.

Amanda Schull

I would remind people on the planet that this is the only one we have, and we need to take care of it.

Amanda Seyfried

I don't want to be in magazines everyday, because I don't want people to get used to one thing.

Amanda Seyfried

I always wanted to make people feel something.

Amanda Seyfried

People are made up of flaws.

Alvin Toffler

We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision.

Alton Brown

Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.

Anne Fadiman

For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.

Anne Enright

There are about as many ways to be dead as there are to be alive. People linger in different ways, both publicly and privately.

Anne Enright

We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.

Anne Enright

People do not change, they are merely revealed.