Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adam McKay

I could see how people get addicted to animation, and I understand why it's so great for comedy. You can do whatever you want and it just happens.

Adam McKay

There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.

Adam McKay

There's nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.

Adam McKay

Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.

Adam Lambert

I've sung other people's music all my life.

Adam Lambert

I try to go throughout my daily life just as if nothing has changed, but you don't have much anonymity anymore, which feels really good. People come up, and say hi and they enjoy your work.

Adam Lambert

A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.

Adam Grant

Dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong. So instead of speaking to highly agreeable audiences, target suggestions to people with a history of originality.

Adam Hamilton

As a pastor, I have a deep desire to lead people to God and encourage people to pray, read the Bible, and carry their faith into every part of their lives.

Adam Johnson

In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range

Adam Johnson

But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can't live with what they've done.

Adam Johnson

I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves.

Adam Gopnik

If we are willing to act violently in pursuit of a peripheral interest, everyone can be certain that, when a vital interest is at stake, we will be still more violent. 'Credibility' is defined as the willingness to kill a lot of people now for a not very good cause to assure the world that we'll kill a lot more people if we can find a better one.

Ada Leverson

Most people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it's followed about and surrounded by the vulgar public.

Ada Leverson

Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.

Ada Leverson

People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.

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 ...

Ada Louise Huxtable

Some people wait constructively; they read or knit. I have watched some truly appalling pieces of needlework take form. Others - I am one of them - abandon all thought and purpose to an uneasy vegetative states.

Ada Louise Huxtable

Waiting is a large part of living. Great, passive, negative chunks of our time are consumed by waiting, from birth to death. Waiting is a special kind of activity - if activity is the right word for it - because we are held in enforced suspension between people and places, removed from the normal rhythms of our days and lives.

Adam Arkin

It's the same thing that drives people to want to experience sexual pleasure or have one too many drinks. We all want to experience the other, and to get out of our daily existence.

Adam Ant

People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.

Adam Ant

Creative people are more prone to depression.

Abraham Foxman

[Castellani's testimony] clearly illustrates the concern we have that there is no way to separate the efforts to proselytize from the efforts to reform people.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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

Abraham Joshua Heschel

(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

The degree to which one is sensitive to other people's suffering, to other (people's) humanity, is the index of one's own humanity

Abraham Maslow

People are not evil; they are schlemiels.

Today, there'll be 600 or 700 people on site. In the summer, there'll be 10,000 people on site during a day, which is pretty busy. In fact, it can get a little too busy.

Thousands of people were there watching me prepare ... they started getting in the way, getting into our space.

Tony Raines

Troy and Roger aren't getting into this just to be there. They are successful people who are doing this to be competitive and win.

Transportation is something that people feel every day. It's an ugly problem. It's very, very frustrating.

Laura Prepon

Yeah, the thing is, when people think '70s, they think disco, but we're not disco, we're like Kiss, Rolling Stones, Twisted Sister.

David Eckstein

Yeah, that's what people say. We'll see if that's true. But I know that in this lineup, I'm just going to do everything I can to get on base. That's my job.