All Quotes

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.
‐‐ F. Scott Fitzgerald

When people are thinking, we are quite inventive animals.
‐‐ Andre Geim

When people are told to 'eat many small meals,' what they may actually hear is 'eat all the time,' making them likely to respond with some degree of compulsive overeating. It's no coincidence, I think, that obesity rates began rising rapidly in the 1980s more or less in tandem with this widespread endorsement of more frequent meals.
‐‐ Andrew Weil

When people are uncomfortable - and many people are when they have to negotiate - they start rambling as a way to fill the vacuum of silence. Some of the strongest negotiators I know just sit back and listen. The less they engage, the more likely the other person is to slip up and offer information they otherwise would have kept guarded.
‐‐ Ivanka Trump

When people are used to you doing something, they want you to stay in that lane.
‐‐ Kevin Durant

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.
‐‐ J. K. Rowling

When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream.
‐‐ Michel Gondry

When people are worried about the future, they don't take trips to Hawaii.
‐‐ Linda Lingle

When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.
‐‐ Orlando Cepeda

When people around me are getting rattled, I may just close my eyes and do a breathing exercise.
‐‐ Carla Hall

When people arrive at El Bulli, everybody goes through the kitchen. It's a way of making them feel at home. When they leave, the only thing I ask is whether they've been happy. Everything in between, I don't particularly care.
‐‐ Ferran Adria

When people ask about inspirations, and you're like 'oh, it was a flower or a mountain or a pony', some people just think you're insane. I'm worried to come across that way.
‐‐ Phillip Lim

When people ask, Do you like children? I always say, I like some children, yes. Some children I don't like.
‐‐ Isaac Mizrahi

When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.
‐‐ Edith Wharton

When people ask how have I kept on top, I have to say with the help of every photographer, make-up artist and hairdresser I've ever worked with.
‐‐ Linda Evangelista

When people ask if I have any advice for young designers, the best advice I could ever give to somebody is to work for someone else, when you are playing with someone else's money. It is very expensive when you start doing it on your own.
‐‐ Victoria Beckham

When people ask if I'm going to be sad that 'The Office' is over, they don't even understand the depth of that question for me. It's an era of my life. No one would have known my name if it wasn't for the show.
‐‐ John Krasinski

When people ask me about being portrayed onscreen by Leonardo DiCaprio, I always say, 'I love it - no matter how old I get, people are going to think that's what I look like.'
‐‐ Frank Abagnale

When people ask me about my dialogue, I say, 'Don't you hear people talking?' That's all I do. I hear a certain type of individual, I decide this is what he should be, whatever it is, and then I hear him. Well, I don't hear anybody that I can't make talk.
‐‐ Elmore Leonard

When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.
‐‐ Shia LaBeouf

When people ask me about what I learned from martial arts, I don't talk about favorite punches or kicks, or about fights won or lost. I talk about learning self-discipline, about ethics and manners and benevolence and fairness.
‐‐ Jonathan Maberry

When people ask me, 'Are you happy?' I respond with, 'You've asked the wrong question.' There is a deep kind of satisfaction you get from building a company. This kind of satisfaction transcends happy, sad, hard, or easy. I seek satisfaction. I want to be positively disruptive.
‐‐ David Ulevitch

When people ask me do I believe in feminism - well, I didn't even know I was a feminist. I was the top of the bill; I've always been the top of the bill. So I don't know what equality is.
‐‐ Cilla Black

When people ask me exactly how much time I spend in each country, I always tell them I have no idea.
‐‐ Utada Hikaru

When people ask me for secrets to writing, I say, 'Read to write.'
‐‐ Terrance Hayes

When people ask me if Dean Martin drank, let me put it this way. If Dracula bit Dean in the neck, he'd get a Bloody Mary.
‐‐ Red Buttons

When people ask me if I am a feminist film maker, I reply I am a woman and I also make films.
‐‐ Chantal Akerman

When people ask me if I have a hobby, a lot of times my answer is that I like to surf in warm water. I like to ski, if I have the opportunity. But really, I like to go to my studio and write music that I want to write, where there's no pressure to come up with a hit single.
‐‐ Scott Weiland

When people ask me if I have worked for the C.I.A., I often answer: what good to you is my answer? Because if I did, I might not say so.
‐‐ Robert Littell

When people ask me if I'm liberal or conservative, I say, 'Yeah.' I'm both of them. To be a liberal means to be open-minded and generous and open to new ideas. And to be conservative means to hold onto things that are important, things that shouldn't be cast aside.
‐‐ Adam Hamilton

When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'
‐‐ Quentin Tarantino

When people ask me really stupid questions or get it really wrong, I feel embarrassed for them. I don't really feel angry at them.
‐‐ Chris Isaak

When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.
‐‐ Imogen Cunningham

When people ask me what I do, strangers on a plane, perhaps, I tell them that I think. Thinking is excellent exercise, as much as swimming or jogging.
‐‐ Tom Glazer

When people ask me what I miss most about the game, it's being in the locker room and getting to know the guys. Back in those days, we had roommates. We had to talk basketball and that was a great way to understand the game itself and form those lasting relationships.
‐‐ Earl Monroe

When people ask me what is an editorial cartoonist, I often say we're kind of a hybrid. We're a cross between Edward R. Morrow, Ted Koppel and the Son of Sam.
‐‐ Michael Ramirez

When people ask me what it is about Brazil and my work, it's not something that I can say literally. It's unidentifiable. It's like when you do research and things inspire you. If you're smart enough, then obviously you don't take it literally. The inspiration will come out later somehow.
‐‐ Francisco Costa

When people ask me what makes movies great, it's the material.
‐‐ Harvey Weinstein

When people ask me what my motivation is, I have a simple answer: money.
‐‐ Jerry Reed

When people ask me what my religion is, I say it's the Arsenal.
‐‐ Marcus du Sautoy

When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'
‐‐ Yoko Ono

When people ask me where I am from I never say, 'Serbia.' I always say, 'I come from a country that no longer exists.'
‐‐ Marina Abramovic

When people ask me where I get my ideas, I lie. I tell them I draw inspiration from the news, the world, my dreams. Or I joke and say that I steal from other writers. I lie because I don't know where ideas come from, and I'm afraid if I look too hard, they'll stop coming.
‐‐ Marcus Sakey

When people ask me where my roots are, I look down at my feet, and I see the roots of my soul grasping the earth. They are here... in the Southwest... I still live in New Mexico.
‐‐ Rudolfo Anaya

When people ask me who I'd want to have dinner with, dead or alive, I always say, 'John Lennon.' I just feel that he was an artist who was, in his own way, committed to wholeness and authenticity in a not dissimilar way that I am years later.
‐‐ Alanis Morissette

When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, 'What choice do I have?'
‐‐ Patricia Schroeder

When people ask me why I'm amazed at what Barack Obama has accomplished, I tell them it's not because of what most of America and the world sees and knows of his history. It's because I witnessed what I can only describe as a bizarre turn of events that thrust him into position to even become a U.S. senator.
‐‐ Don Lemon

When people ask me why is 'Winter's Tale' a fantasy, I point out that it is not a fantasy.
‐‐ Mark Helprin

When people ask what 'American Pie' is about, they're missing the point. The song isn't about the lines themselves - it's about what is between the lines. The song is about what isn't there.
‐‐ Don McLean