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People Quotes


"Obviously, the hit singles get the biggest reaction - that's when you can see people really getting excited."


"If people don't sit at Chaplin's feet, he goes out and stands where they are sitting."


"First of all I would make about 80% of the people law-abiding citizens again. The policy which is carried out now makes every entrepreneur and businessman a thief against his own will."


"It wasn't the greatest script in the world, but not many people can say they've played a wicked king in a swashbuckling Arthurian special-effects monster movie."


"The idea of bringing young people up to Literature is doubtless calculated to raise the eyebrows almost as much as the suggestion of bringing them up to the Stage."


"We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason."



"We were the finest. We were the best in the world. We were a department that people came from all over the world to study, to look at, to see how we accomplished so much with so little; and we did."


"We went to - I guess it was a legitimate boiler room, and I sat in front of this guy who literally was on the phone with two people at once. They call it double fisting."


"And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow."


"I can be very critical on myself and on other people; I can be very demanding."


"By requiring that any surplus in Social Security taxes be returned to the American people in personal savings accounts, the plan ensures that Social Security taxes will be used for Social Security."



"We find just as many things to rip on the left as we do on the right. People on the far-left and the far-right are the same exact person to us."


"Ninety percent of the people I grew up with didn't succeed."



"Everybody has forgotten about showmanship. People don't look like rock stars any more. They just look like regular dudes off the street."


"Well, I think probably the main reason people overeat is stress."



"This league is getting big. We have way more 300-pound guys than ever before. That's not to say all the people in athletics who have died are 300-pound guys. There are so many different reasons."


"You can get on with your job. I'm going to get on with mine. And mine is to deliver for the people of Northern Ireland, that's what they expect from me and I'm not going to be deflected by interesting academic or media speculation or attempts to take the whole debate back."


"The American people demand results, not rhetoric, especially when it comes to national security issues."



"If you learn late, you pass it on to people so they can learn early. It's a step process."



"Most people say that as you get old, you have to give up things. I think you get old because you give up things."


"First off, it's wonderful how much people are supporting me and felt I should have stayed in the competition."


"Many people still regard many users of public services as undeserving."


"There is no doubt that, with the exception of a very small number of people close to a vicious regime, the people of Iraq have been liberated and they understand that they've been liberated."


"'Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?"


"It is because the people are citizens that they are with safety armed."


"I write plays for people who wouldn't be seen dead in the theatre."



"Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people."


"China is more prosperous than before. The people have better lives but they are not happy and confident because the scars are still there."


"Maybe the best way to get people to be pro-life is to start 'em off in amateur-life."


"I'm thrilled of the acceptance I get abroad. The people are so hearty, warm and grateful and I feel privileged having seen so many countries and some of the greatest monuments."



"This filing spike is a result of bad information being pushed on people, and then they file for bankruptcy out of fear."


"When we toured... I was hungry to take out people like Jeff Beck in front of us; Fleetwood Mac, just before they hit; Heart, just before they hit."
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