Famous Quotes & Sayings

Juliette Binoche

People think actors have such glamorous lives, but the truth is actors go where nobody wants to go.

Banks

People think I'm going to be this really dark human when they meet me.

Tracey Emin

People try constantly to use me, and I hate it.

Chuck Feeney

People used to ask me how I got my jollies, and I guess I'm happy when what I'm doing is helping people and unhappy when what I'm doing isn't helping people.

Rob Corddry

People want other people to know that they share our sensibility even if they're not exactly sure what that sensibility is.

Philip Treacy

People, when they buy a hat, they can't explain why they want to buy it or why they want it, but they do. It's like chocolate.

Max Beerbohm

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

Herman Cain

People who oppose Obama are said to be racists - so I guess I'm a racist.

Tom Robbins

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

Jose Bergamin

Perhaps it's more merciful to forget the dead instead of remembering them.

David R. Brower

Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This 'solution', I think, requires an immediate poll of the next 20,000 generations.

Jurgen Habermas

Perhaps September 11 could be called the first historic world event in the strictest sense: the impact, the explosion, the slow collapse - a gruesome reality literally took place in front of a global public.

Gyorgy Ligeti

Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man

Simone Weil

Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.

Martin Parr

Photography is, by its nature, exploitative. It's whether you use this process with a sense of responsibility or not. I feel that I do so. My conscience is clear.

Jerzy Kosinski

Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort.

Elayne Boosler

Pigs are smarter than dogs, and both are smarter than Congress.

S. Robson Walton

Planet Lucy Press? I incorporated myself to deal with publishing and was calling myself Big Bang Incorporated, which of course has to do with the Big Bang at the beginning of creation.

Kim Cattrall

Shows like 'Sex and the City' got women involved again in a political way. They were drawn into the personal stories of the four women who together make up one complete cosmopolitan woman. We want to have community, and the show filled that void in our lives: friendship between women.

Terri Windling

Since fantasy isn't about technology, the accelleration has no impact at all. But it's changed the lives of fantasy writers and editors. I get to live in England and work for a New York publisher!

Edmund White

Since, in the best Southern tradition, I was named Edmund Valentine White III, sometimes when people look up my books on Amazon they find 'Chocolate Drops from the South' by my grandfather.

Robert Plant

Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.

Method Man

Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, my soap operas, and all that.

Victor Koo

Since our inception, Youku Tudou as the leader in the multi-screen video space has helped transform how video and entertainment-related content is distributed and marketed.

Penelope Lively

Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom I return again and again, not so much because I want to write like them, even if I were capable of it, but simply for a sort of stylistic shot in the arm.

Julie Andrews

Singing has never been particularly easy for me.

Henry Miller

Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Thomas Huxley

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

Havelock Ellis

Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments.

Peter York

Socially smart people have always mocked the threateningly mobile, and anti-branding is a central strand of high-end status conflict now.

George Saunders

So for me the approach has become to go into a story not really sure of what I want to say, try to find some little seed crystal of interest, a sentence or an image or an idea, and as much as possible divest myself of any deep ideas about it. And then by this process of revision, mysteriously it starts to accrete meanings as you go.

Lily Rabe

So, for the most part, I really like when I read a scene that scares me and makes me sweat a little bit, thinking about doing it. That's usually a good sign to me.

David Ricardo

The facility of obtaining food is beneficial in two ways to the owners of capital, it at the same time raises profits and increases the amount of consumable commodities.

Frank Gehry

The fact is I'm an opportunist. I'll take materials around me, materials on my table, and work with them as I'm searching for an idea that works.

Jack White

The fact that we elected Obama was a sign that the black struggle inherent in the blues and so much of the music I have loved can triumph.

Francois Rabelais

The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.

Debbie Stabenow

The Farm Bill is one of the only bills that provides substantial deficit reduction that passed the Senate this year. It only makes sense that this deficit reduction bill would be included in a larger deficit reduction agreement.

Tristram Stuart

The Feeding the 5000 campaign is inviting food businesses to sign up to the principles of the Food Waste Pyramid tool, which illustrates a simple set of steps that any food business can take to avoid and reduce food waste.

Tom Perrotta

The few times I've tried to write original screenplays, it's a difficult process because I just don't feel like I know the characters the way I know them after the year or two it takes to write a novel.

Kailash Satyarthi

The fight against child slavery is the fight against traditional mindset, policy deficit, and lack of accountability and urgency for children across the globe.

Muhammad Ali

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

Rutherford B. Hayes

The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.

Eric Clapton

The first guitar I ever had was a gut-string Spanish guitar, and I couldn't really get the hang of it. I was only 13, and I talked my grandparents into buying it for me. I tried and tried and tried, but got nowhere with it.

John Dryden

The first is the law, the last prerogative.

Ernest Hemingway

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

Dan Jenkins

The first president I met was L. B. J.

Pat Metheny

The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.

Rosemary Mahoney

The first thing the Chinese ask you when they meet you is: 'How much money do you make?' It's a legitimate question to ask in China.

David Copperfield

The first trick I bought at Macy's was a little wooden board where a quarter would appear and disappear.

Vincent Van Gogh

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.