All Quotes

The people who were in college in the '50s were my first real audience, and their kids, the people who found my records in the cabinet during their 'Mad 'magazine years picked me up also.
‐‐ Tom Lehrer

The people who were learning from me tended to be more commercial performers who were gonna rip off the salient idea to do it in a way that will sell, but they weren't going for the music.
‐‐ Iggy Pop

The people who were marching at Peggy O'Hara's funeral gave the impression they were associated with the INLA, which is supposed to be on ceasefire and to have decommissioned some of their weapons. I ask if they could have honoured her in a more dignified way.
‐‐ Martin McGuinness

The people who whine about Fox News are hypocrites - they say they're totally tolerant, but when they run into someone who doesn't share their assumptions, they say, 'Fox News is evil, and it must be stopped.'
‐‐ Greg Gutfeld

The people who work in the scientific field, they need help to convey what it's about.
‐‐ Edward Norton

The people who work in Wall Street still look up to Gordon Gekko. He's sort of a guru.
‐‐ Michael Douglas

The people who write official histories for the Army believe that a generation needs to pass before you can tackle the official history. It's useful to have some distance. Sources become available. Passions cool. It allows an opportunity to make some real assessments and judgments about personalities and characters.
‐‐ Rick Atkinson

The people whose necks hurt when I write about the Middle East tend to live in Brooklyn or Boca Raton: the kind of Zionist who pays another man to live in Israel for him. I have nothing but contempt for such people.
‐‐ Tony Judt

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln

The people with money to build today are corporations - they are our popes and Medicis. The sense of pride is why they build.
‐‐ Philip Johnson

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.
‐‐ Virat Kohli

The people you're friends with on Facebook or the people you follow on Twitter are trusted sources of information.
‐‐ Jonathan Klein

The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high.
‐‐ Chinua Achebe

The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.
‐‐ Dan Buettner

The peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America have common interest and are in the position to support each other in their anti-imperialist and anti-U.S. struggle. As long as Africa and Latin America are not free.
‐‐ Kim Il-sung

The peoples of the Andes believe in the concept of 'living well' instead of wanting to 'live better' by consuming more, regardless of the cost to our neighbors and our environment.
‐‐ Evo Morales

The peoples of this world must unite or they will perish.
‐‐ J. Robert Oppenheimer

The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.
‐‐ Sam Mendes

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, has doubled since 1985.
‐‐ Serj Tankian

The percentage of people that go to drama college in the U.K. is probably just like anywhere in the world. It's a very hard business to work in. They say that, at any one time, there's only 5% of actors in the world that are actually working and getting paid, which is a shocking percentage, really.
‐‐ Luke Evans

The percentage you're paying is too high priced While you're living beyond all your means And the man in the suit has just bought a new car From the profit he's made on your dreams.
‐‐ Steve Winwood

The perception in Silicon Valley is that if you dress well, you couldn't possibly be smart, or you're in P.R. but couldn't possibly run a company. I remember briefly attempting the Adidas and jeans and sweatshirt over T-shirt look, but I realized I was trying to dress like a young tech geek, and that just wasn't me.
‐‐ Leila Janah

The perception is that baseball's players' union is protecting players to use steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing drugs.
‐‐ Jim Bunning

The perception is that more important people watch news in the evenings than in the mornings.
‐‐ Reese Schonfeld

The perception of beauty is a moral test.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

The perception of identity is so intimately bound up with the perception of the human form.
‐‐ David Hanson

The perception of linked fate and that feeling of being always on the spot as a representative of the race, at least in mixed company, are features of African American life that predate affirmative action and arise outside of its presence.
‐‐ Randall Kennedy

The perception of the audience is the interesting part. If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on or not?
‐‐ Robert Fripp

The perception of the horizon is an earthbound event; all horizons disappear in space, and we are left shorn of the sweet roots that have held us to the earth, challenged to imagine what is truly present just before us, a unified and seemingly limitless universe.
‐‐ Eugene Kennedy

The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.
‐‐ James J. Gibson

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.
‐‐ Gail Sheehy

The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
‐‐ Samuel Alexander

The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism, economic inequality, is real and growing.
‐‐ Jon Meacham

The perfect antidote to dark, cold and creepy is light, warm and cozy.
‐‐ Candice Olson

The perfect date for me would be staying at home, making a big picnic in bed, eating Wotsits and cookies while watching cable TV.
‐‐ Kim Kardashian

The perfect date is the one where anything and everything goes wrong, but at the end of it, all you want is to see them again.
‐‐ Dylan O'Brien

The Perfect Dog is an enticing fantasy pooch. It's the dog that instantly learns to pee outdoors, never menaces or frightens children, plays gently with other dogs, won't jump on the UPS guy, never rolls in gross things, eats only the appropriate food at the right time, and never chews anything not meant for him. This dog does not exist.
‐‐ Jon Katz

The perfect dressing is essential to the perfect salad, and I see no reason whatsoever for using a bottled dressing, which may have been sitting on the grocery shelf for weeks, even months - even years.
‐‐ Julia Child

The perfect example of Darwinism is what technology has done to businesses.
‐‐ Charlie Munger

The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it out.
‐‐ Harold Prince

The perfect fit for L.A. would be the St. Louis Rams. I really believe that. I know their stadium deal is about expired, or it is expired. They're working through that. I think it would be the old Los Angeles Rams in town.
‐‐ Eric Dickerson

The perfect gadget would somehow allow me to fly. Isn't that what everybody wants? It would also cook a damn good microwave pizza. So while in flight you had something to eat - an in-flight meal. Where would I go? Well, nowadays, it would probably just take me to work a lot quicker.
‐‐ John Krasinski

The perfect ham and cheese sandwich is all about focusing on quality ingredients and about simple techniques. You start with great bread, a well-cured ham and a sharp local cheese, and the rest is easy. A little butter in a pan and a little patience - in the end you'll have a sandwich that is at once comforting and delicious.
‐‐ Daniel Humm

The perfect knowledge of events cannot be acquired without divine inspiration, since all prophetic inspiration receives its prime motivating force from God the creator, then from good fortune and nature.
‐‐ Nostradamus

The perfect life would be to have an amazing part every year and to spend all my free time to just write.
‐‐ Melanie Laurent

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
‐‐ Karen Horney

The perfect party for me is having six to 12 people for dinner Friday or Saturday - good, fun friends, a lot of artists. I have a beautiful deck that looks over the canyon and Los Angeles on one side, so it's very pretty at night. It's a great opportunity to catch up with friends.
‐‐ Sofia Milos

The perfect PIN is not four digits and not associated with your life, like an old telephone number. It's something easy for you to remember and hard for other people to guess.
‐‐ Kevin Mitnick