All Quotes

People often ask me about what constitutes a nerd-friendly show - like, does it have to have sci-fi elements? But I think it's just a show that satisfies the secret craving we all have to be obsessed with something and not feel at all stupid about it.
‐‐ Dan Harmon

People often ask me how I developed my vocal sound, and the answer usually disappoints them: 'It's just the way I sound when I sing.'
‐‐ Michael Franks

People often ask me how I feel about my invention being used to kill people every day and the AK being a common weapon of ethnic conflicts. I want to make it clear that I created my assault rifle to protect my country. You can blame politicians for its spreading out of control on a global scale.
‐‐ Mikhail Kalashnikov

People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny.
‐‐ Richard Russo

People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
‐‐ Samantha Morton

People often ask me what I consider my goal to be at TOMS. The truth is that it's changed over the years. When we first began, the goal was to create a for-profit company to help the children that I met in a small village in Argentina.
‐‐ Blake Mycoskie

People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.
‐‐ Kapil Dev

People often ask me whether I prefer theater or film, and the answer is that I prefer the one I'm not doing: The grass is always greener.
‐‐ Helen Mirren

People often ask me why I persisted in doing research on a subject that was so controversial. I frequently respond by telling them that only a few scientists are granted the great fortune to pursue topics that are so new and different that only a small number of people can grasp the meaning of such discoveries initially.
‐‐ Stanley B. Prusiner

People often ask where I get my inspiration from, and I always say I have no good answer because, well, inspiration comes from everywhere: people, places, memories.
‐‐ Richelle Mead

People often ask whether I consider myself successful. I don't yet, because there's so much more I want to accomplish. I put more pressure on myself than anyone else can.
‐‐ David Ulevitch

People often ask whether Obama passes the 'kishka test:' whether he likes Israel special, not in the same way he likes Taiwan or South Korea? Does he? I think the kishka test was decided when he visited Israel. I think the reaction there was emotional and genuine.
‐‐ Michael Oren

People often ask, why aren't you reading about what it is you're working on right now? And the truth is, you only get three pages a night before your eyelids close.
‐‐ David Petraeus

People often ask why comedy is harder for women, and the reason is because a tampon will sometimes fall out when you're on stage. Blokes don't have that worry.
‐‐ Jenny Eclair

People often ask why I left CNN - I didn't like management. I liked my colleagues in the news gathering but the corporate culture that seized management when AOL came in (Steve Case and Gerry Levin) was disgusting.
‐‐ Greta Van Susteren

People often ask why I remain so optimistic, even in the face of the complex challenges we are facing in the Jewish world, in Israel and beyond. It's because I am so impressed and inspired by the young people I meet.
‐‐ Lynn Schusterman

People often ask writers where they get their inspiration, and for me, the short answer is that I haven't a clue; I'm just grateful that I get them.
‐‐ Michelle Paver

People often assume New York City is no place to keep a dog. This is certainly what my parents told me when I was growing up there. But I have found this not to be the case at all.
‐‐ Jill Abramson

People often assume that the same approach will work for everyone, that the same habits will work for everyone, and that everyone has the same aptitude and appetite for forming habits, but from my observation, that's not true.
‐‐ Gretchen Rubin

People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
‐‐ Bette Davis

People often call 'If I Stay' my baby novel, and I have to correct them. It's not my first book. It's just the first one anybody paid attention to.
‐‐ Gayle Forman

People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.
‐‐ Paul Simon

People often can't separate, or can't understand, that to be funny is to be serious; it's a way of pulling people in and not scaring them off. I think a lot of the funny stuff, underneath it, there's a deep anxiety going on.
‐‐ Nick Cave

People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.
‐‐ Felix Mendelssohn

People often cover their mouths when lying. A hand on the mouth or even a touch of the lips shows you that they are lying because this unconscious body language represents a closing off of communication.
‐‐ Travis Bradberry

People often don't believe me when they first meet me and I tell them I'm a judoka. I then show them my arms, which speak for themselves.
‐‐ Kelita Zupancic

People often expect me to be something other than what I am.
‐‐ Melissa Leo

People often expect me to be very serious, but it's not like my record company told me not to smile in photographs, because I was like that anyway.
‐‐ Jose Gonzalez

People often express surprise that I'm not a psychopath. But it's not about what I want to do to other people, it's that I'm scared of what other people might do to me.
‐‐ Neil Cross

People often focus on the downsides of population growth but neglect the upsides. These upsides may even outweigh the downsides, making a larger population a good thing overall.
‐‐ Ian Goldin

People often forget this - a vinyl album could only contain a maximum of 20 minutes per side!
‐‐ Ken Hensley

People often get the wrong impression of Mick. The clever businessman is just one side of Mick. The other side is the same as the rest of us, a true rocker!
‐‐ Ron Wood

People often get very entangled in their work and life, so de-stressing is very important to keep generating fresh ideas and provide satisfaction with one's activities.
‐‐ Sunidhi Chauhan

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.
‐‐ Aesop

People often link grime with other things, like street culture, and clashing, and MC battles and whatnot. But no one's ever talked in misogyny in grime. That's often linked to hip-hop, I know people talk about that is a problem in hip-hop. But not grime.
‐‐ Stormzy

People often panic when the markets go down and sell off their stocks - but then they aren't in the game when the markets are doing well.
‐‐ Suze Orman

People often pulled into Scientology want to address personal problems in their life, and Scientology says we have technology that addresses these kinds of problems. Just focusing on the problems and trying to remedy them can be helpful.
‐‐ Lawrence Wright

People often put me in a V-neck tennis club sweater, driving a Bentley, but my life wasn't like that.
‐‐ Julian Casablancas

People often refer to bygone days as a simpler time. Perhaps, more accurately, my grandparents' generation focused better on what mattered. Traffic jams and minor quibbles with my husband Daniel pale in comparison with the worries that were faced on the home front and battlefield during the Second World War.
‐‐ Kristina McMorris

People often refer to my career before The Crying Game as something which led up to that point. But I was very fulfilled in what I was doing.
‐‐ Stephen Rea

People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.
‐‐ Frank Sinatra

People often say I have so much energy, that I never stop; but that's what it takes to accomplish your goals.
‐‐ Curtis Jackson

People often say that a bad event is a 'blessing in disguise.' Trust me, experience will teach you that some are unbelievably well disguised. Everyone gets fired, or decides to make a radical change at some point. Everyone suffers setbacks.
‐‐ Tom Freston

People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
‐‐ Salma Hayek

People often say that having a family makes you make safer choices. It's been the total opposite for me. It's really made me want to make bolder choices.
‐‐ Jamie Cullum

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.
‐‐ Isaac Bashevis Singer

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
‐‐ Zig Ziglar

People often say that stress is a motivator. What we're referring to when we say this is really better described as stimulation and engagement.
‐‐ Andrew J. Bernstein

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
‐‐ Thomas Szasz