People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
Thomas SowellOne has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.
Virginia WoolfIt is known that there are an infinte number of worlds simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However not every one of them is inhabited. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near nothing as makes no odds so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely products of a deranged imagination.
Douglas AdamsThe American people I talk to don't spend every moment thinking 'How can I tax my neighbor more than they're being taxed?' They say 'How can I get a good job? How can my kids get good jobs? How can seniors have a confidence in their future when they know that Social Security Medicare and Medicaid are bankrupt?'
Mitt Romney[Cancer] is a big big problem. It's an old problem and people have sort of gotten used to it ... Let's make it a priority again. Let's put it out there. Let's fix the problem.
Lance ArmstrongYou do the work and you want people to see it, but um while I'm doing the work the result doesn't matter at all to me. Ultimately I don't I don't care whether the film is - you know - some big giant box-office bonanza and I don't care if its a complete flop. To me when a film gets made and it's actually finished it's a success. They're all a success in their own way.
Johnny DeppSome people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
Dwight D. EisenhowerBut let me perfectly clear because I know you'll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250 000 a year you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.
Barack ObamaTaxes are important. President Bush's tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they were one of.
Andy RooneyAgeism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously.
Alanis MorissetteGreat dad. Yeah he would ask me for money on birthdays and you know inappropriate times. And I just wrote him off like 'You're not a father.' I just learned you cannot emotionally invest in people who are not attainable.
Drew BarrymoreFortunately we have help from the media. I have to say this: I'm very grateful for the support and kindness that we've gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way I think you know no matter what people may feel about my husband's policies or what have you they care about children and that's been good to see.
Michelle ObamaYou get people from all walks of life here -- who work in domestic service.
Dave BarryThere is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
E. B. WhiteAnd what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think excuse me if you'll pardon me American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?
Milton FriedmanI wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.
William Butler YeatsNot only 'moderns' but even those who earned distinction as the foremost Pundits those who expound to the people gathering fame use the Vedas for promoting their material well-being and not for helping them on the spiritual path. They are unable to discover the sacred task for which the Vedas exist. Whenever the chance arises they benefit by the scholarship but they are not eager or able to use the Vedas to purify their daily lives.
Sai BabaI'm sure we the American people are the butt of jokes by those in power.
Alice WalkerI'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her I'd also be marrying her former life her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.
Henry RollinsPeople think the free market is a philosophy they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale it is a measuring tape it's simply a measurement.
P. J. O'RourkeSince I'm the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate it's understandable that people are saying you know 'What have you done?'
Barack ObamaThe secret to understanding me is I'm not trying to be anybody other than who I actually am. People want candid refreshing leadership. And I've always tried to go with solutions. You know I've always tried to say here's how we get our economy growing here's why we get our debt under control. That's what Mitt Romney is offering.
Paul RyanMarriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people how you argue how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?
William ShatnerConstancy... that small change of love which people exact so rigidly receive in such counterfeit coin and repay in baser metal.
Lord ByronThe mainstream media today has the biggest disconnect with its audience that it's ever ever had. And as the disconnect grows and as more and more people distrust them then the media digs in more and more and says you don't know what you're talking about you don't know how we do our jobs you don't know what's important.
Rush LimbaughWhen success comes people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.
Christina AguileraWhat I saw today was a collection of people who have obviously been through a devastating time but are not down. Their spirits are not down. It's a bounce-back kind of attitude and energy that I got from them. ... Their energy is just tremendous.
Kobe BryantWe think the Mac will sell zillions but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.
Steve JobsI don't do much more than organise other people's ideas and insights and thoughts and sort of harvest them and inventory them and present them.
Chuck PalahniukThese technologies can make life easier can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups get medical information the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.
Steve JobsI keep my ideals because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne FrankAlways go to other people's funerals otherwise they won't come to yours.
Yogi BerraThree years ago this week a newly elected President Obama faced the American people and he said look if I can't turn this economy around in three years I'll be looking at a one-term proposition and we're here to collect! You know the results. It's been 35 months of unemployment above 8 percent.
Mitt RomneyAll I want to do is be normal. But really it's other people who won't let me be that way.
Christina AguileraI care about our young people and I wish them great success because they are our Hope for the Future and some day when my generation retires they will have to pay us trillions of dollars in social security
Dave BarryI really want to understand the mind so I can be more comfortable with the way people are. Being comfortable with people is incredibly important.
Drew BarrymoreI can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.
Dwight D. EisenhowerWhen people laugh at Mickey Mouse it's because he's so human, and that is the secret of his popularity.
Walt DisneyPeople of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.
Barack ObamaI like long walks especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
Noel CowardThe people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.
Steve JobsI believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.
George W. BushIf you hear (evacuees) talk on television it seems that they have a feeling on top of the emotional devastation that they're on an island by themselves. As Americans we rally around our people. We're going (to Houston) to let them know that we care for them and will be there to support them.
Kobe BryantI have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people being always excited, women wine fame the table even ambition sate now and then but every turn of the card and cast of the dice keeps the gambler alive -- besides one can game ten times longer than one can do any thing else.
Lord ByronFor a people who are free and who mean to remain so a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
Thomas JeffersonOnce conform once do what other people do because they do it and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness, dull callous and indifferent.
Virginia WoolfWe meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions.
William ShatnerIt takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking you just can't shut them up.
Chuck PalahniukRemember that the happiest people are not those getting more but those giving more.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing all you hear is the booing.
Lance ArmstrongI have been stressing the vital importance of people giving up this habit of eating non-vegetarian food even from my boyhood days. Meat eating fosters animal qualities in man making him descend to the demoniac level, it is a heart-rending sight to see cows being slaughtered to serve as food for man.
Sai BabaEveryone knows what the Masters is even if you're a non-golfer. People know what Wimbledon is. They know what the Super Bowl is. There are certain events that people just know about.
Tiger WoodsEver more people today have the means to live but no meaning to live for.
Viktor E. FranklPeople get a kick out of my stupidity.
Dolly PartonI mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can't answer it. If I would answer 25 letters a day I would be just a guy answering mail and not an artist anymore.
Henry RollinsWhen you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.
Desmond TutuDuring the 1960s I think people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.
Andy WarholWith people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
Arthur SchopenhauerIf we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.
Christopher MorleyA spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
Edmund BurkeSome people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.
John W. GardnerIf people don't want to come out to the ball park nobody's gonna stop 'em.
Yogi BerraObscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys.
Andy RooneyThere's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.
P. J. O'RourkeYou know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.
William Butler YeatsI let people see the cracks in my life. We can't be phony. We've got to keep it real.
Charles R. SwindollDemocracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
E. B. WhiteI like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
Oscar WildeI think we have to own the fears that we have of each other and then in some practical way some daily way figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
Alice WalkerIt's been quite a roller coaster ride but I've grown and learned a lot about myself. The greatest thing is being able to interact with fans and touch people's lives... for that I give thanks.
Christina AguileraI teach people that no matter what the situation is no matter how chaotic no matter how much drama is around you you can heal by your presence if you just stay within your center.
Deepak ChopraHow many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand.
Emo PhilipsI think people who create and write it actually does flow-just flows from into their head into their hand and they write it down. It's simple.
Paul McCartneyThe manual for WordStar the most popular word-processing program is 400 pages thick. To write a novel you have to read a novel - one that reads like a mystery to most people. They're not going to learn slash q-z any more than they're going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.
Steve JobsThere is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
Victor Hugo