All Quotes

There are people who say they want to write novels. They think, 'I'll learn my craft on the romance novel.' If you don't love the genre, it's going to show, and it's not going to be a good book.
‐‐ Julia Quinn

There are people who specialise in lettering, and I've had my hand lettering made into a digital font. I picked up a copy of the 'Dandy' the other week, and I was amazed to see that it was completely lettered in my hand-lettering font. It was quite a thrill, really, having been a 'Dandy' reader years and years ago.
‐‐ Dave Gibbons

There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can.
‐‐ Bob Woodward

There are people who take tap class, do a tap dance. And then there are people who know the dance, who know why they take tap classes. Who know why they do 20 shuffles, or 50 shuffles, before they go on.
‐‐ Savion Glover

There are people who tell you to shut up because you're just a celebrity, but pundits, talking heads, they're every bit the celebrity and a lot of them aren't any more qualified than the average man on the street.
‐‐ Kevin Bacon

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
‐‐ Jane Austen

There are people who think I am Israeli. That's rubbish.
‐‐ Zubin Mehta

There are people who think I should be using the position of secretary of state simply to weigh the scales on the side of my own party. I just don't accept that, and it would not be proper.
‐‐ Sam Reed

There are people who think it's easier to write books in verse, and it's definitely not.
‐‐ Ellen Hopkins

There are people who think the film 'This Is Spinal Tap' is simply a very funny 'mockumentary.' Well, with Yes, we lived it. Take the hilarious scene in the film in which the bass player is trapped in a giant pod - that actually happened to Alan one night.
‐‐ Rick Wakeman

There are people who think they know everything about everything. What they don't know is that every moment is a learning moment.
‐‐ Mickey Rooney

There are people who travel because they want to push themselves to physical limits, people who walk across deserts or cycle across the Antarctic - like Ranulph Fiennes, who just does it because it's there. And then there are people like me, who are just genuinely curious about the world.
‐‐ Michael Palin

There are people who try to get atheists to form a sort of atheist church and have atheist community singsongs and things. I don't see the need for that, but if people want to do it, why shouldn't they?
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

There are people who've enjoyed my work in the theater, and they let me know that it was special for them. I'm not going to say, 'Well, you should have seen me as Gandalf!'
‐‐ Ian Mckellen

There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff - something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.
‐‐ Patrick Swayze

There are people who want the comfort and structure of a job where they're given tasks and told what to do. I think it's actually a minority of people. The majority of people don't want that, but I'd say that the companies I've built are full of people with something to prove.
‐‐ Mark Pincus

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.
‐‐ Friedrich Nietzsche

There are people who went to prison, died, gave their life so Obama could be president of the United States.
‐‐ Lela Rochon

There are people who wish to do us harm in the most heinous way. They want to kill Americans simply because they are Americans. They wish to destroy our culture and Nation because they don't like our freedoms, they don't like the fact that we are prosperous.
‐‐ Judd Gregg

There are people who wonder if faith is real. I can tell you, in my family there is not a second of doubt.
‐‐ Ted Cruz

There are people who would love to spend their last ten years, or five years, or whatever it is, on the surface of Mars.
‐‐ Mary Roach

There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time.
‐‐ Alec Baldwin

There are people who you see on screen and think, 'Wow, that's a slim person,' and in the flesh they look nearly dead.
‐‐ Romola Garai

There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.
‐‐ Helen Rowland

There are people with an explicit political bent complaining about people having political agendas while nominating stories with political agendas. Is it political to try to be diverse? Is it political to try to imagine a non-heteronormative society? Yes, because it involves politics. But how do they expect us to not write about our lives?
‐‐ Alaya Dawn Johnson

There are people with otherwise chaotic and disorganized lives, a certain type of person that's always found a home in the restaurant business in much the same way that a lot of people find a home in the military.
‐‐ Anthony Bourdain

There are people with vested interest who do not want us to reform our energy sector so that we remain dependent on imports. All reform moves are resisted. Bureaucrats are hesitant to take bold decisions.
‐‐ Veerappa Moily

There are people working in Mahoning Valley in steel, in Findlay, Ohio, in rubber, in many other places because we've enforced trade deals.
‐‐ Sherrod Brown

There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old.
‐‐ Barry Took

There are perennial stories like 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Sherlock Holmes' and those sorts of things, which have been around since almost as long as film, and 'Frankenstein' is another one. They're perennial favorites, which get remade every 20 years, and that's OK.
‐‐ Peter Jackson

There are performers who have built their whole career doing magic on TV and can't really perform live at all - don't really have jobs and skills.
‐‐ Penn Jillette

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
‐‐ Marcel Proust

There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.
‐‐ Oswald Mosley

There are periods that we forget that in the pursuit of fruit, that if we just abide in Him, then fruitfulness is a guarantee.
‐‐ Francis Chan

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
‐‐ F. H. Bradley

There are philosophical issues involved in that about choosing the right discount rate, the value, the future, and things like that which drive it. But its start with the premise that global warming is real and if you're a denier of that fact, then you're not going to find climate change mitigation policies to have particular appeal.
‐‐ Brad Carson

There are photographers who don't really engage with their subject. It's a really unfortunate phrase, but they take their photo and they leave with it. It works but I think it ultimately limits how profound the work can be.
‐‐ Sebastian Junger

There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.
‐‐ Jock Sturges

There are physical characteristics which are inherited. These include things like good looks, high intelligence, physical coordination. These attributes contribute to success in life, and success in life is a determinant of optimism.
‐‐ Martin Seligman

There are physicists, and there are string theorists. Of course the string theorists are physicists, but the string theorists in general will not attend lectures on experimental physics. They will not be terribly concerned about the results of experiments. They will talk to one another.
‐‐ Sheldon Lee Glashow

There are pitfalls in World Cups, there are players who can win penalties and players who get the slightest touch and go down holding their face or whatever and get someone sent off. There are all these little things and you're hoping that you're not on the wrong end of it.
‐‐ Michael Owen

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
‐‐ Jules Renard

There are places in the world that the power goes out in hospitals, and there isn't clean water, and it's horrific.
‐‐ Sheri Fink

There are places on a man's head that are as hard as a rock. Your head's actually stronger than your body. And you don't have too many instruments up there workin'. But you got a lot of tools workin' in that body: the liver, the kidneys, the heart, the lungs. You soften that up and see what happens. I lived by the body shot.
‐‐ Joe Frazier

There are places that I've always wanted to go. First I went to Africa, and when I was there I realized there were places in Africa I really to wanted to visit: The Congo, West Africa, Mombassa. I wanted to see the deep, dark, outlandish places.
‐‐ Paul Theroux

There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.
‐‐ Sam Shepard

There are plans for a Wii port of 'Gray Matter,' and I hope it happens.
‐‐ Jane Jensen

There are plenty of actors who've caught the singing bug and vice versa, but with musical performers, you're constantly a persona - which is something I love about acting: you play a character, you leave and you get to be yourself again.
‐‐ Freddie Stroma

There are plenty of African-Americans in this country - and I would say this goes right up to the White House - who are not by any means poor, but are very much afflicted by white supremacy.
‐‐ Ta-Nehisi Coates