People famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
-- A. A. Gill -
Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.
-- A. A. Gill -
There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.
-- A. A. Milne -
God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
-- A. B. Simpson -
Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.
-- A. B. Simpson -
Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.
-- A. B. Simpson -
We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.
-- 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.
-- A. B. Yehoshua -
There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
-- A. C. Benson -
I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
-- A. C. Benson -
People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
-- A. C. Benson -
The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.
-- A. C. Cuza -
The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.
-- A. E. Housman -
Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.
-- A. E. van Vogt -
Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.
-- A. G. Gaston -
Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.
-- A. G. Gaston -
People don't resent having nothing nearly as much as too little.- Ivy Crompton
-- A. J. Burnett -
I have some amazing fans! They're just so dedicated and so nice and so sweet. I'm like NO ONE and I'm just starting out and these people appreciate your work and it's nice to hear that.
-- A. J. Cook -
Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.
-- A. J. Jacobs -
More people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving.
-- A. J. Jacobs -
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
-- A. J. Liebling -
Communication is so much better when people are vulnerable.
-- A. J. McLean -
Be very, very patient and very open-minded, and listen to what people have to say.
-- A. J. McLean -
I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
-- A. J. McLean -
Hugs are part of everybody life for me. Hug all sorts of people - I don't worry about it looking unmanly or whatever. I think physical human contact is one of the things that makes living worthwhile.
-- A. J. McLean -
But people who really know me, know that I am not a bad boy at heart I am a big teddy bear.
-- A. J. McLean -
History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work.
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
Psychoanalysts believe that the only "normal" people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else.
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
My belief has come about in large measure because of the lives and examples of people I have known - not the famous, not saints, but friends and relations who have lived, and faced death, in the light of the Resurrection story, or in the quiet acceptance that they have a future after they die.
-- A. N. Wilson -
I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy.
-- A. N. Wilson -
In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.
-- A. N. Wilson -
I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
-- A. N. Wilson -
I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.
-- A. N. Wilson -
It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.
-- A. N. Wilson -
The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
-- A. N. Wilson -
People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament.
-- A. P. Herbert -
Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.
-- A. Powell Davies -
Music is all about transporting people; speaking a language which languages fail to express.
-- A. R. Rahman -
My biggest dream to connect people through music has come true. In a world where there are enough reasons to separate us, the Oscars have unified us.
-- A. R. Rahman -
Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is
-- A. R. Rahman -
People Expect Something New From Me All The Time.And That's Good It Keeps Me On The Edge
-- A. R. Rahman -
What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.
-- A. S. Byatt -
I like my subjects to be American, and not too dead, so I can interview people who knew them.
-- A. Scott Berg -
There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it. More than a billion people. That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you.
-- A. Whitney Brown -
People should be left to believe what they like, so long as they harm no one else. Apart from normal expectations of politeness, it is not however clear why people should require their personal beliefs to be treated with special sensitivity by others, to the point that if others fail to tip-toe respectfully around them they will start throwing bombs.
-- A.C. Grayling -
It takes a certain ingenuous faith - but I have it - to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth.
-- A.C. Grayling -
Eagleton has spent his life inside two mental boxes, Catholicism and Marxism, of both of which he is a severe internal critic—that is, he frequently kicks and scratches at the inside of the boxes, but does not leave them. Neither are ideologies that loosen their grip easily, and people who need the security of adherence to a big dominating ideology, however much they kick and scratch but without daring to leave go, hold on to it every bit as tightly as it holds onto them. The result is of course strangulation, but alas not mutual strangulation: the ideology always wins.
-- A.C. Grayling -
And I say, the meaning of life is what you make it. There will be as many different meaningful lives as there are people to live them.
-- A.C. Grayling -
I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.
-- A.C. Grayling -
The ground for taking ignorance to be restrictive of freedom is that it causes people to make choices which they would not have made if they had seen what the realization of their choices involved.
-- A.J. Ayer -
A lot of people get flipped out if you're quiet. They say stuff like, What are you thinking? And if they don't start interrogating you, they start talking, going on and on about stuff that's totally irrelevant, and the silence gets so big and loud that it's scary.
-- A.M. Homes -
It annoys the hell out of me when people say, This is the kitchen, and this is the bathroom. What am I, Helen Keller? I mean, it's pretty obvious when you're in a kitchen and when you're not.
-- A.M. Homes -
People should pay more attention. Everyone wants attention, but no one wants to give attention.
-- A.M. Homes -
I knew not to give the best of myself to the worst of people.
-- A.S. King -
But that's a side effect of alcohol, isn't it? Stopping to think about other people is not on the bar menu.
-- A.S. King -
Look at our culture. Look at the computer-enhanced people we compare ourselves to. Look at the expensive cars and trinkets we're all supposed to have. Look at how many people are wrapped up in that! Imagine how much money and worry we'd save ourselves if we stopped caring what kind of car we drove! and why do we care? perfection. But there is no such thing, is there? And if there is, then everyone is perfect in their own way, right?
-- A.S. King -
I place us where we are a happy couple who are madly in love, and we are kissing the way people kiss on their wedding day. With joy and relief and love. Without guilt. Without Shame.
-- A.S. King -
It’s a known fact that in certain contexts people’s great strengths become their epic failings.
-- A.S.A. Harrison -
Other people are not here to fulfill our needs or meet our expectations, nor will they always treat us well. Failure to accept this will generate feelings of anger and resentment. Peace of mind comes with taking people as they are and emphasizing the positive.
-- A.S.A. Harrison -
In asserting that people don't change, what she means is that they don't change for the better. Whereas changing for the worse, that goes without saying.
-- A.S.A. Harrison -
Basic personality traits develop early in life and over time become inviolable, hardwired. Most people learn little from experience, rarely thinking of adjusting their behavior, see problems as emanating from those around them, and keep on doing what they do in spite of everything, for better or worse.
-- A.S.A. Harrison -
I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.
-- Aaliyah -
People are gonna look up to me because I'm young, black, and female.
-- Aaliyah -
The journey that I have undertaken, meeting people from all walks of life and learning from them, has been my biggest achievement.
-- Aamir Khan -
I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.
-- Aamir Khan -
I personally feel that I should support people who are doing good work and people should also support such good work.
-- Aamir Khan -
Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.
-- Aaron Allston -
There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.
-- Aaron Allston -
People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.
-- Aaron Carter -
Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific.
-- Aaron Copland -
You may feel depressed, but it can't be so depressing that you can't move. No, I would say that people create in moments when they are elated about expressing their depression!
-- Aaron Copland -
I hope my recordings of my own works won't inhibit other people's performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn't always get the exact tempo one wants, although one improves with experience.
-- Aaron Copland -
The day you stop caring what other people think of you is the day your life begins.
-- Aaron Eckhart -
Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.
-- Aaron Eckhart -
I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.
-- Aaron Eckhart -
If it helps me in the way that if this movie is successful, I get to make more films, great, and the more films that I make and the more interest that I'm allowed to cover, the better for me and the better, hopefully, for the people who like to watch me.
-- Aaron Eckhart -
Be more interested in people's character, than their contributions.
-- Aaron Gillespie -
If I'm not pointing people to Jesus then I'm wasting my life.
-- Aaron Gillespie -
My success is not measured in money. I have no financial security, I have no savings account. I measure my success by asking myself if I’m telling a story that the world needs to hear, if I am educating people.
-- Aaron Huey -
People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do very useful work.
-- Aaron Klug -
Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.
-- Aaron Levie -
Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.
-- Aaron Levie -
I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that’s cliche, I don’t know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.
-- Aaron Levie -
I'm certainly not into money and prestige. For me there is simply nothing more exciting than people involved in the creation of great products. That is what drives me.
-- Aaron Levie -
If people don't think the odds are against you, you're doing it wrong.
-- Aaron Levie -
I think bad politics are incredibly dangerous, so it's important to make sure that people are communicating well. Culture and morale are super important. It's best to not force it, but let it happen organically and genuinely.
-- Aaron Levie -
You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they're gonna get rich off of the merchandise.
-- Aaron McGruder -
The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.
-- Aaron McGruder -
And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it.
-- Aaron McGruder -
It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great.
-- Aaron Neville -
So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday.
-- Aaron Neville -
I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.
-- Aaron Neville -
People do make judgments of trust on appearance - in the real world and online.
-- Aaron Patzer -
Recessions are great because they unlock the best people.
-- Aaron Patzer
