People Quotes
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What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this chatter and praise, and blame and meeting people who admired one and meeting people who did not admire one was as ill suited as could be to the thing itself- a voice answering a voice.
Virginia Woolf
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The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
Billy Wilder
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I don't think people buy technology products because of the personalities of the people behind them.
Jim Balsillie
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I was returned to the Senate by the people of Alaska, and I have an obligation to all of them - it's not an obligation to my party; it's an obligation to Alaskans.
Lisa Murkowski
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Far too many people hide behind their busy lifestyles
Charles Lee
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People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog.
Ann Patchett
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I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. Its record for being accurately predictive is really, really poor! If you look at the whole history of science fiction, what people have said is going to happen, what writers have said is going to happen, and what actually happened - it's terrible.
William Gibson
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I think a lot of people may have a unique insight or some idea that they feel could be a great solution for a particular problem, but for some reason never have a chance to try or never have the courage or maybe the self-doubt. Really, it's best just to remain naive and continue to work on things and see if people have the same problems.
Chad Hurley
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I know well enough that very few people who are supposedly interested in writing are interested in writing well. They are interested in publishing something, and if possible in making a "killing." They are interested in being a writer not in writing. . . If this is what you are interested in, I am not going to be much use to you.
Flannery O'Connor
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I had never seen so many old people in one place at one time. Neither had Harry. 'It’s like Wednesday morning at the world’s biggest Denny’s,' he said.
John Scalzi
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The worst beauty advice that I have ever taken has been from people who have told me that sunscreen isn't necessary. Not true!
Amanda Schull
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Lunches don't get free just because you don't see the prices on the menu. And economists don't get popular by reminding people of that.
Thomas Sowell
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I don't have to carry myself as anybody that I'm not, and people picked up on it.
Chance The Rapper
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We've got roughly four to six million people right now who are experiencing hurricane or tropical storm-force winds.
Craig Fugate
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What makes cookbooks interesting is to find out about the people and the culture that invented the food.
Vincent Schiavelli
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I'm a Christian. I was born and raised a Catholic. But I think there are people that are frauds that are ministers.
Sean Hannity
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At Accenture, we are visibile, and I feel when you are visible - when people are watching you - you need to speak up.
Pierre Nanterme
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I think it's a little unfair for people to say you're not paying your fair share of taxes. I'm paying what I'm supposed to pay. Change the law, and I'll pay what I'm supposed to pay.
David Rubenstein
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I think if you make good, interesting content with compelling story lines and good characters, people will tune into the web for as long as you want them to.
Freddie Wong
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A lot of people would flee from what they think is award-show cheesiness, and I don't. I often joke that my speeches are very personal moments that play themselves out in front of billions of people.
Tom Hanks
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There is no sound more powerful than the marching feet of a determined people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Not naming names, but it shocks me, some of the people who get the breaks.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
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People won’t start dumping Google en masse; Google is a habit.
David Pogue
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My feeling is that in the purest form, an actor is a service to the people. It's democratic in its purest form. That's what an actor is. If he or she isn't that, then there is no purpose in doing it. They're like priests.
Scott Cohen