300 Quotes on People

• Life's unexamined pieces coalesce into a tapestry of meaning only when we pause to observe the delicate threads that weave us together.

  Author: Ava Morrison

• People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening.

  Author: Daphne Zuniga

• When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!

  Author: Daphne Zuniga

• I am, as a European, absolutely shocked by European people. I am also shocked by European nationalist people. They have allowed themselves to be so emasculated so silently.

  Author: Ernst Zundel

• You know, many people have called me, friends from the nationalist camp, revisionists and so on, from around the world, have called me over the years - and now again because of what happened - and they are all very cynical about the police and the authorities.

  Author: Ernst Zundel

• You cannot stoke the fires of prejudice against German people and then not find that somewhere, sometime down the road it doesn't discharge.

  Author: Ernst Zundel

• We're running the company to serve more people.

  Author: Mark Zuckerberg

• The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

  Author: Mark Zuckerberg

• It is a significant acknowledgment that the way people are watching television is changing and the model is quickly changing.

  Author: Jeff Zucker

• Michael Jackson is the ultimate traffic accident. People can't take their eyes off him.

  Author: Jeff Zucker

• People are looking for original content in many different places, as are advertisers. This takes us into a whole new ballgame.

  Author: Jeff Zucker

• I don't really know a lot of famous people. I've met a lot of famous people. If I ran into Tom Hanks today, I would have to remind him who I was and he would then remember me. But he wouldn't come up to me and say, "Hi Dave!"

  Author: David Zucker

• That's where I began to ask questions that maybe don't have one specific answer. And the more people you get answers from, the richer the environment becomes.

  Author: John Zorn

• That is a lot of the reason I do what I do, to really spread the word and spread information and turn people onto different things they may not be, y'know, aware of. That is what Naked City is certainly about.

  Author: John Zorn

• It's a matter of keeping people on a spontaneous edge.

  Author: John Zorn

• It breaks even. We lose ten, twenty grand every year. But then the people who are working say, Look, I'll kick this back in, I don't need to take this profit share. It's very cooperative.

  Author: John Zorn

• For about seven years. I really like it there. There are a lot of great musicians. The scene is very open. A lot of stuff going on. People's ears are really open, they are not closed. A lot of scenes here, people just get tunnel vision and are into one thing.

  Author: John Zorn

• Like you have seven people with their hands up. I gotta make a choice. Y'know, that's tough. Sometimes I gotta go with someone that has an idea and make several calls in a row, because they got an idea.

  Author: John Zorn

• The pirating thing is bad. The people it hurts the most are the ones you least think it hurts. It's not the big Britney Spears albums that are being pirated; it's the indie bands that don't have two cents to their name.

  Author: Rob Zombie

• The hardest part was convincing people that I was serious. The people were like 'you want to do this again'?

  Author: Rob Zombie

• Probably the biggest thing that surprises people is that I am obsessed with hockey. I grew up in the Boston area so I am obsessed with hockey since I was a little kid.

  Author: Rob Zombie

• When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend.

  Author: Rachel Zoe

• I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it.

  Author: Slavoj Zizek

• Communists should be the first to be concerned about other people and country and the last to enjoy themselves.

  Author: Zhao Ziyang

• Not exactly hit them, but I've restrained a few people.

  Author: Chuck Zito

• I do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys, because we'll always be connected in people's minds.

  Author: Barry Zito

• If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates.

  Author: Howard Zinn

• There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

  Author: Howard Zinn

• Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people.

  Author: Howard Zinn

• I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?

  Author: Philip Zimbardo

• People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.

  Author: Zig Ziglar

• The way you see people is the way you treat them.

  Author: Zig Ziglar

• When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.

  Author: Xun Zi

• The police belongs to the people and the people belong to the police.

  Author: Todor Zhivkov

• A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write.

  Author: Todor Zhivkov

• My memory is not even what most people's is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.

  Author: Warren Zevon

• I think people enjoy a series. When you like a story, many readers want more of the same, which is dandy, if the author and the characters have more to say.

  Author: Sarah Zettel

• Fortunately, many people also enjoy a stand-alone as a sample of something new, like trying the special at a favourite restaurant one night instead of going for the usual.

  Author: Sarah Zettel

• After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity.

  Author: Catherine Zeta-Jones

• We have just started, and if you compare the number of people using Skype to the number using a telephone network around the world, we're still just starting.

  Author: Niklas Zennstrom

• Then people started using it more and more and it became the most downloaded software on the internet.

  Author: Niklas Zennstrom

• People need to access Skype wirelessly, no matter where they are, and what happens is that we'll be taking advantage of the rollout of Internet everywhere - WiFi and WiMax in particular.

  Author: Niklas Zennstrom

• We also have a conference call feature where up to five people can talk on one Skype call.

  Author: Niklas Zennstrom

• People with fertility problems are not alone. It is a very very common problem for couples today. I've seen statistics that are just staggering.

  Author: Michael Zaslow

• People will sooner aid a sick dog lying on the sidewalk than to try to find shelter for a sick person. It's too much to deal with.

  Author: Michael Zaslow

• I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

  Author: Frank Zappa

• There's no difference in a lot of people's minds between good musicians and popular musicians.

  Author: Dweezil Zappa

• You can't bomb a people just in case.

  Author: Jose Zapatero

• Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.

  Author: Darryl Zanuck

• Because a lot of straight people think I'm nuts.

  Author: Pia Zadora

• There used to be an old thing where every team had a heavy bag in their locker room for people to punch, but again, it was more about conditioning because if you hit a heavy bag for a minute, it feels like your arms are about to fall off.

  Author: Steve Yzerman

• I hope people like me and appreciate me the way I am.

  Author: Steve Yzerman

• Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

  Author: Lin Yutang

• There is only one conflict in Ukraine today and it is between the regime and the people.

  Author: Viktor Yushchenko

• The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.

  Author: Viktor Yushchenko

• Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.

  Author: Muhammad Yunus

• I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation.

  Author: Muhammad Yunus

• Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars people needed right away.

  Author: Muhammad Yunus

• Being an American is such a rich environment, because there's so many people from other countries and cultures, and through that you're able to see other people's experiences.

  Author: Rick Yune

• I can't understand why anyone would want nuclear warheads. If you shoot them off, it's not like you can take over that country-all you do is kill millions of people.

  Author: Rick Yune

• You know no one ever accomplishes something like this without a lot of help from good people along the way. And this is certainly true in my case, and I would like to thank some of those people.

  Author: Robin Yount

• And George Brett. I think most people know that George and I have become pretty good friends over the years.

  Author: Robin Yount

• The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that section the people seemed to be born fighters, the instinct being inherited from a long line of ancestors.

  Author: Cole Younger

• Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem.

  Author: Whitney Young

• People in London think of London as the center of the world, whereas New Yorkers think the world ends three miles outside of Manhattan.

  Author: Toby Young

• I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say.

  Author: Neil Young

• When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

  Author: Neil Young

• Some people put down all presidents. If you say anything good about any of them, they think you're supporting everything they do.

  Author: Neil Young

• It's cool to go places where working people are happy.

  Author: Neil Young

• I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real.

  Author: Marguerite Young

• I think most people don't like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly don't want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.

  Author: Marguerite Young

• Give people knowledge and they really eat it up and they appreciate it a lot and the more that knowledge is made available to people, the more they will utilize it and let it be a part of them.

  Author: La Young

• Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves.

  Author: James Young

• People like to let loose at rock concerts and it gives them an excuse to do it in a way that is not destructive to others and not really destructive to the band.

  Author: James Young

• My specialties are corpses, unconscious people and people snoring in spectacular epics.

  Author: Gig Young

• I don't care about my character here on earth.I don't care about what other people think or say about me, all I care about is my standing before the Lord.

  Author: Brigham Young

• Yes, we're still five little people with a noisy attitude.

  Author: Angus Young

• There are all sorts of cute puppy dogs, but it doesn't stop people from going out and buying Dobermans.

  Author: Angus Young

• To find people who don't want anything is rare.

  Author: Andrew Young

• A lot of people recognize me or feel that they know me. A lot of times when I speak, they recognize my voice. It's fun, it's exciting. It's always good feedback.

  Author: Tina Yothers

• It's definitely a struggle to prove yourself just as a good human being. I'm so proud of who I am and what I've become, the morals I have, and the people that I'm surrounded by.

  Author: Tina Yothers

• When entertainment was begun, during the Depression, it was supposed to take people's minds off reality. People could sing, dance, act or do anything. It was the type of entertainment that was available.

  Author: Tina Yothers

• Things went in a direction that I didn't want to go. I started doing bit parts and things that are pretty much laid out for people in my position. The parts were pretty generic.

  Author: Tina Yothers

• People never cease to amaze me.

  Author: Tina Yothers

• The people in charge, globally, are maniacs. They are maniacs, and unless we do something about it these people are going to deprive us of a future.

  Author: Thom Yorke

• Radio allowed people to act with their hearts and minds.

  Author: Dick York

• I'm trying to go over my lines. I woke up on the floor, somebody had me in their arms. I didn't quite know who, people looked so unfamiliar. That's about all I remember.

  Author: Dick York

• I let people make remarks about me, but it doesn't touch me, all those remarks.

  Author: Maharishi Yogi

• It became a metaphor for the lives of the people in this film and for the Old West, for the abandonment that occurred in the early part of the 20th century.

  Author: Dwight Yoakam

• First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas.

  Author: Daniel Yergin

• A total of 1,580 people, the civilian population, suffered as a result of the bloody wave of terrorist acts that swept over Moscow and other towns and villages of our country.

  Author: Boris Yeltsin

• Your commanders have ordered you to storm the White House and to arrest me. But I as the elected President of Russia give you the order to turn your tanks and not to fight against your own people.

  Author: Boris Yeltsin

• The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.

  Author: A. Yehoshua

• We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.

  Author: A. Yehoshua

• Now we are using the body scanner to scan the pilots. They became the dangerous people of this country?

  Author: Isaac Yeffet

• We need to put undercover security armed people at the curbside of the terminal with the uniform of policemen. We need to protect the terminal. We need to protect the security checkpoint, the gate, the aircraft, the perimeter.

  Author: Isaac Yeffet

• I 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.

  Author: William Yeats

• Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

  Author: William Yeats

• People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

  Author: William Yeats

• Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.

  Author: Chuck Yeager

• It is an exaggeration to call the Hamas and Islamic Jihad announcement a military alliance. It is rather a message that our people are united in the face of Israeli aggression.

  Author: Ahmed Yassin

• In all cases our stance will be determined by what serves the interests of the Palestinian people.

  Author: Ahmed Yassin

• If it is in the interest of the Palestinian people to have a hudna, we'll have a hudna. If it isn't, we won't.

  Author: Ahmed Yassin

• However, the resources at our people's disposal are very few and we require assistance from the neighboring Arab countries, and for weapons in order to fight the enemy.

  Author: Ahmed Yassin

• The current stage does not allow the entrance of everyone into a military conflict, however everyone must be ready for the day in which it might take place, as the Zionist enemy is planning to attack our people and to control our land once again.

  Author: Ahmed Yassin

• The attacks inside Israel are operations we carry out in response to Israeli crimes against our people.

  Author: Ahmed Yassin

• Where are the Muslim people's sponsors? Where are its kings? Where are its leaders? The Muslim people is calling upon you, Jerusalem is appealing to you, will anyone answer?

  Author: Ahmed Yassin

• I knew Childress was going to help me because my crew told me on the radio. I really appreciate what Richard did, but that is typical of people in this sport.

  Author: Cale Yarborough

• I think it turned the whole sport around. It got everybody's attention. People who were watching TV live were jumping up and down in their living rooms.

  Author: Cale Yarborough

• I have never allowed anti-Russian rhetoric in Ukrainian policy toward such a strategic partner like Russia. This is the first point. I never went against the interests of the Ukrainian state and the Ukrainian people.

  Author: Viktor Yanukovych

• For me, there are no my people and strangers, no bad people and good people. All people are equal for me.

  Author: Viktor Yanukovych

• At this point I've got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when 'Weird Al' wants to go parody, it's not meant to make them look bad... it's meant to be a tribute.

  Author: Al Yankovic

• You don't have to show people how successful you are.

  Author: Martin Yan

• Today in India there are all sections of people, as the BJP realized when the poor voted them out.

  Author: Lalu Yadav

• Let some people get rich first.

  Author: Deng Xiaoping

• People can expect to see a lot of me - I'm not too proud to stand on corners and hold my campaign signs.

  Author: Albert Wynn

• The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that.

  Author: Bill Wyman

• If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.

  Author: Bill Wyman

• Boy, oh, boy, people get jaded fast. I got nominated for an Emmy.

  Author: Noah Wyle

• Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.

  Author: Zakk Wylde

• I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.

  Author: Andrew Wyeth

• My sense is that, when you look at what people such as former Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have said over the years, you don't go with a story unless you have two independent sources to confirm it.

  Author: Ron Wyden

• I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for.

  Author: William Wycherley

• I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.

  Author: Robert Wyatt

• People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back?

  Author: Robert Wyatt

• People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know.

  Author: Robert Wyatt

• Sometimes I think that I was forced to withdraw into depression because it was the only rightful protest I could throw in the face of a world that said it was alright for people to come and go as they please, that there were simply no real obligations left.

  Author: Elizabeth Wurtzel

• I need to die for the killing of those people.

  Author: Aileen Wuornos

• Why stick your neck out if you don't have to? If you're right nobody will remember and if you're wrong people will ask a lot of questions.

  Author: David Wu

• In an online community, there's this kind of social economy between the community members. Some people have status because they make cool skins or that's a good website that's visited a lot, but there's no real gameplay there.

  Author: Will Wright

• And every now and then people find the bugs, and they interpret those as cool failures in the Sims terms. For them it's like a treasure hunt, you know.

  Author: Will Wright

• It used to be that you knew your neighbors and maybe your coworkers - the people in your physical vicinity.

  Author: Will Wright

• I like to reminisce with people I don't know.

  Author: Steven Wright

• I installed a skylight in my apartment... the people who live above me are furious!

  Author: Steven Wright

• A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.

  Author: Steven Wright

• Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

  Author: Steven Wright

• Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.

  Author: Ronald Wright

• I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake.

  Author: Peter Wright

• I used to paint landscapes without any people in them but now I paint people who happen to be in a particular place. They might be outside a pub, or on a beach or in a studio. They might have clothes on or they might not.

  Author: Peter Wright

• We started the AIDS virus. We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty.

  Author: Jeremiah Wright

• In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just 'disappeared' as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns.

  Author: Jeremiah Wright

• My name is usually the one on the end of people's lips.

  Author: Ian Wright

• All I ever wanted to do was write songs and get on a bus and go play them for people.

  Author: Chely Wright

• My next book is Scene by Scene: as Seen by Fay Wray. It'll be about different incidents. Just my feelings about quite a few people. Attitudes. My thoughts about the universe and simple things like that.

  Author: Fay Wray

• I went to Washington to ask for a little residual payment for the people who had written films in the early, early days, people who never got any residuals on tapes or anything at all.

  Author: Fay Wray

• A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.

  Author: Steve Wozniak

• For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution.

  Author: Steve Wozniak

• People stopped hanging out with me at the point when I stopped doing drugs. All of a sudden they didn't wanna hang out with me anymore. And I would have hung out with them. I mean they were killing themselves, but I still would have hung out with them.

  Author: John Wozniak

• A lot of these people were getting to where they didn't need help anymore. You have to start all over again.

  Author: Sam Worthington

• To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense... you have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired.

  Author: Sam Worthington

• People care and are willing to help me out my desperate circumstances.

  Author: Sam Worthington

• People like my voice and say I can sing, but I don't like microphones in front of my face: it distracts me.

  Author: Bernie Worrell

• As we move toward a new Middle East, over the years and, I think, over the decades to come, we will make a lot of people very nervous.

  Author: James Woolsey

• Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist's drill.

  Author: Leonard Woolf

• I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don't know. The source you didn't go to. The phone call you didn't return.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• I deal with first-hand sources. And give the people, even John Sununu, the opportunity to respond to what I've been told by first-hand sources.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• Clinton... believes that the Washington Press Corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters would understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• There is a garbage culture out there, where we pour garbage on people. Then the pollsters run around and take a poll and say, do you smell anything?

  Author: Bob Woodward

• People like to pigeonhole and say, Well, I'm a Washington insider, and you know, that's quite silly. What does that even mean?

  Author: Bob Woodward

• Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.

  Author: James Woods

• I'm a pretty quiet guy, but if people want to think of me as a lady killer, I guess that's good.

  Author: James Woods

• I was able to lean on people for favors and things to help out because their budget was so low. It was half of what John Travolta's perk package is on a film. Our whole budget was half of what his staff makes on a film.

  Author: James Woods

• People aren't interested in seeing themselves as they really are.

  Author: Jim Woodring

• Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

  Author: John Wooden

• I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something.

  Author: George Woodcock

• I think people need to understand that with plays and with cinema, when you hear about it, call and get a ticket then or go and see it then. It's especially with the play, which I can do because it's a limited run.

  Author: Alfre Woodard

• The first people I ever saw were probably Little Richard and Gene Vincent.

  Author: Roy Wood

• I've always been a bit of a Jekyll and Hyde. I always feel that you should keep singles as commercial as possible so that the people can walk down the road and whistle a song. But on the other hand on albums I think you can afford to show people what you can do.

  Author: Roy Wood

• People often get the wrong impression of Mick. The clever businessman is just one side of Mick. The other side is the same as the rest of us, a true rocker!

  Author: Ron Wood

• I was so overprotected, I used to think I was as delicate as people said I was.

  Author: Natalie Wood

• The worst kind of lying I've ever done is keeping things from people.

  Author: Elijah Wood

• This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he likes to wear dresses. Should he tell her? Should he not tell her? He's torn, Georgie. This is drama.

  Author: Ed Wood

• There is nothing like the high of being on stage and reaping applause, especially for emotionally needy people like me!

  Author: Douglas Wood

• People call me Wayne Wonder and it also goes back to football because I could do mad skills with the ball and people would marvel and wonder how I could do it.

  Author: Wayne Wonder

• I am a conservative type of person, so sometimes when I'm chilling with myself, people always come ask me, 'What's wrong with you? What are you wondering about?'

  Author: Wayne Wonder

• What I say is from my heart. You must be sincere. So when I sing a song, people are supposed to feel it.

  Author: Wayne Wonder

• I want to reach as many people as I can.

  Author: Lee Womack

• People shout out for songs and I don't even remember writing them.

  Author: Bobby Womack

• There are a few very small incompatible changes - I really doubt most people will ever run into them.

  Author: Stephen Wolfram

• I think one has to say it's not just simply a matter of capturing people and holding them accountable, but removing the sanctuaries, removing the support systems, ending states who sponsor terrorism. And that's why it has to be a broad and sustained campaign.

  Author: Paul Wolfowitz

• You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing because the best short stories are not constructed like novels.

  Author: Tobias Wolff

• I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion.

  Author: Tobias Wolff

• Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing.

  Author: Tobias Wolff

• Anybody can be very destructive in that position without at all meaning to be, and I know that I have been inadvertently destructive in the past for certain people on certain occasions.

  Author: Tobias Wolff

• As you look at the flow of Muslim fundamentalism, or fundamentalism in various areas and various religions, they all play on the people who have very little.

  Author: James Wolfensohn

• We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.

  Author: James Wolfensohn

• Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.

  Author: Naomi Wolf

• I don't think people want to see someone buy a congressional race.

  Author: Frank Wolf

• The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in.

  Author: Dick Wolf

• TIVO executives stand up and say, 'Well, we're not getting rid of commercials, but we are letting them fast forward, because people like commercials, and if they see one that they like they stop and watch it.' I mean, please.

  Author: Dick Wolf

• You have this disturbing reality that there are a lot of people who would rather say, 'I'm on strike' than 'I'm unemployed.' And those are the people who vote for strikes.

  Author: Dick Wolf

• I get bored with establishing shots of people getting out of cars and walking into buildings, getting into elevators and then 45 seconds later they have a line.

  Author: Dick Wolf

• I think most people don't react well to being screamed at. It's counterproductive.

  Author: Dick Wolf

• People recognize certain things, like 'D' means 'this dialogue stinks.' We're dealing with shows that are written here, shot in New York and posted back here. Accurate communication is a necessity.

  Author: Dick Wolf

• If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.

  Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein

• Technically you need the extra dimensions. At first people didn't like them too much, but they've got a big benefit, which is that the ability of string theory to describe all the elementary particles and their forces along with gravity depends on using the extra dimensions.

  Author: Edward Witten

• It occured to me the other day that I've made out with more people on camera than I have in real life!

  Author: Alicia Witt

• Being a Southern person and a blonde, it's not a good combination. Immediately, when people meet you, they think of you as not being smart.

  Author: Reese Witherspoon

• It's fun to do a comedy and hook people in and then hoodwink them into watching a serious movie. I like to lead in with the comedy and then hit them over the head with a drama.

  Author: Reese Witherspoon

• It really bothers me when people don't use coasters. Particularly on my table.

  Author: Reese Witherspoon

• The people in general ought to have regard to the moral character of those whom they invest with authority either in the legislative, executive, or judicial branches.

  Author: John Witherspoon

• I've always been proud of being a Hoosier. When I talk to people, I tell them that.

  Author: Robert Wise

• You know, people always think if you start out as a film editor, you shoot less footage. Actually, just the opposite is true. I tend to grab as much coverage as I can because as a former editor I know how important it is to have those few frames.

  Author: Robert Wise

• Virginians were no more angels or philanthropists than people to the north or to the south of them. They were moved by their affections, their interest, and their resentments, just as humanity is moved today.

  Author: John Wise

• I've an idea for doing a Situation Comedy myself but its always difficult to get people to listen to you because they like to put their own ideas forward.

  Author: Norman Wisdom

• Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy is another fallacy.

  Author: Niklaus Wirth

• The eyes of all people are upon us.

  Author: John Winthrop

• I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older.

  Author: Jeanette Winterson

• London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.

  Author: Jeanette Winterson

• Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.

  Author: Jeanette Winterson

• My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough.

  Author: Jeanette Winterson

• I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.

  Author: Jeanette Winterson

• I prefer to watch people.

  Author: Michael Winterbottom

• There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn't just one or two people. My vocal influences were Ray Charles and Bobby Blue Bland.

  Author: Johnny Winter

• I think the blues will always be around. People need it.

  Author: Johnny Winter

• I think it will always be around it just takes one person to make people aware of the blues.

  Author: Johnny Winter

• I hadn't realized the number of people that are still interested in listening to what I am doing, people I would never know about if not for being online.

  Author: Edgar Winter

• My favorite favorites are people like Bunuel, Fellini and Charlie Chaplin.

  Author: Alex Winter

• Like I said about Freaked, people tend to find these films, and I think that in the end the cool thing about a movie is that it can be sort of burnt temporarily, but then it's burnt into the fabric of your culture.

  Author: Alex Winter

• I'm one of the few people who really like Eyes Wide Shut.

  Author: Alex Winter

• Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to what they want to do.

  Author: Kathleen Winsor

• Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.

  Author: Kate Winslet

• A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.

  Author: Michael Winner

• I've studied voice from a few different people for years.

  Author: Kip Winger

• The songs were really complicated. I used to meet people in bar bands who were trying to play our songs and they were really struggling with it. Technically it was really difficult stuff.

  Author: Kip Winger

• I'm sick of people sittin' in chairs stating their problems. Then we roll the videotape... then we have our experts on the topic... I'm in the 'What's next?' phase of my career.

  Author: Oprah Winfrey

• Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

  Author: Oprah Winfrey

• Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.

  Author: Oprah Winfrey

• A lot of people go to find themselves.

  Author: Paul Winfield

• People I look to: again, Hank Aaron, man you challenged the status quo and the records of the game. Monumental feats in an era where people didn't like that.

  Author: Dave Winfield

• To give you an idea what it feels like to be going in with some of the best baseball players of all-time, I mean it is fantastic. I have to say this about them, there are so many of these guys up here that were my role models, people I looked up to, people I wanted to be like.

  Author: Dave Winfield

• To the people out there, baseball is a simple sport. But it is complex. It is never easy.

  Author: Dave Winfield

• The people like the American Legion Post that gave us a chance to play. A place to play and a chance to play.

  Author: Dave Winfield

• The infrastructure of the US is a long-term suspension of disbelief that such things won't be exploded deliberately by people who don't create anything.

  Author: Dave Winer

• I'd like to encourage people to please keep reading-and most importantly, to please keep trying new writers. The only way we can bring fresh new material into the field is if people go out and buy it.

  Author: Terri Windling

• I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.

  Author: Walter Winchell

• The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people.

  Author: Walter Winchell

• Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.

  Author: Walter Winchell

• Walt gave me a VIP tour of the studio. I remember people doing voices.

  Author: Paul Winchell

• Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.

  Author: Woodrow Wilson

• Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

  Author: Woodrow Wilson

• There was an opening in the ER program at King Drew, so I spent the next month there, fascinated with the range of pathology that I observed, the diversity of skill that the ER physicians had to acquire, the variety of cases, and the ability to interact closely with people.

  Author: Samuel Wilson

• Most of my mail comes from young people.

  Author: Richard Wilson

• The great challenge working on this show for me is wearing polyester all day long and having the worst haircut known to man at the top of my head and sitting under fluorescent lights. That is America, people. Polyester, bad haircuts, under fluorescent lights.

  Author: Rainn Wilson

• I'm probably one of the worst people with numbers you've ever met. My brothers always kid that they think I'm counting cards in Vegas, but I'm just trying to add things up.

  Author: Luke Wilson

• You don't have to know people personally for them to be role models. Some of my most important role models were historical or literary figures that I only read about - never actually met.

  Author: John Wilson

• Prices have stayed up because people in control of supply decided they could keep them up.

  Author: John Wilson

• Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that.

  Author: Joe Wilson

• In the world of photography, you get to share a captured moment with other people.

  Author: James Wilson

• Community-based policing has now come to mean everything. It's a slogan. It has come to mean so many different things that people who endorse it, such as the Congress of the United States, do not know what they are talking about.

  Author: James Wilson

• I'm aware of what kids like because I'm constantly in touch with them. Also, they say that a lot of people who write for children can remember their own childhoods vividly and I can remember my childhood very vividly.

  Author: Eric Wilson

• People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.

  Author: E. Wilson

• Little did we know it would be watched by millions of people and break viewing records.

  Author: Douglas Wilson

• People who don't use the tools given to them only injure themselves.

  Author: Debra Wilson

• Many people do not realize that where unions have bargaining rights employers cannot raise wages or improve benefit plans any more than they can reduce them without of the consent of the union.

  Author: Charles Wilson

• Canada has great natural resources, and its people have the spirit and ability to develop them.

  Author: Charles Wilson

• There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.

  Author: Charles Wilson

• The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times.

  Author: Angus Wilson

• Black people are inferior to Caucasians. Blacks constitute a totally distinct group; they overshadow the country with the germ... of evil.

  Author: David Wilmot

• I am often disgusted at hearing young people I know, declare that they are afraid of doing this or that, because they MIGHT be killed.

  Author: William Wills

• We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm.

  Author: Marianne Williamson

• As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.

  Author: Marianne Williamson

• That's the thing about the script, is that how these people were affected by their decision, and how it could ultimately kill them, and I mean literally.

  Author: Kevin Williamson

• Some people say that I have an attitude- Maybe I do. But I think that you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does- that makes you a winner right there.

  Author: Venus Williams

• I am not a lesbian and I am not a slut, and somehow I am going to make people believe me.

  Author: Vanessa Williams

• If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don't regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

  Author: Tennessee Williams

• All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

  Author: Tennessee Williams

• A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'

  Author: Ted Williams

• I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.

  Author: Ted Williams

• You see a person when you look in the mirror that no one sees but you. Other people see a person when they look at you, but you're not that person, either.

  Author: Roy Williams

• Even when I was Archbishop of Wales and working with new bishops, I used to say, not realising quite how true it was, 'One of the things you will do as a bishop is disappoint people'.

  Author: Rowan Williams

• The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world.

  Author: Rowan Williams

• Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

  Author: Robin Williams

• People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.

  Author: Robin Williams

• Gentiles are people who eat mayonnaise for no reason.

  Author: Robin Williams

• I had always been intrigued by the emotional aspect of adventure gaming-the fact that people get so personally involved.

  Author: Roberta Williams

• You've got a beautiful country with so many beautiful people and so many beautiful things happening and stuff like that lets it down. I feel sad for them.

  Author: Robbie Williams

• I still find trusting people quite hard. I've got a couple of mates that I do let in, but that's it. It's something I've got to sort out - I cut people off.

  Author: Robbie Williams

• We're from the ghetto. Venus is a ghetto Cinderella. People from the ghetto don't get nervous.

  Author: Richard Williams

• When you're dancing, you're dancing for people to see.

  Author: Pharrell Williams

• I'll find places to grab as I walk and talk, sometimes even walking backwards because I have more control that way. People have no idea that I'm doing this.

  Author: Montel Williams

• I have visited some places where the differences between black and white are not as profound as they used to be, but I think there is a new form of racism growing in Europe and that is focused on people who are Middle Eastern. I see it.

  Author: Montel Williams

• I've had trouble being in relationships and writing. This has been a real problem for me. I don't know if it's because I'm not free to fantasize or create these fantasy things about other people.

  Author: Lucinda Williams

• So few people are truly themselves when they're in the spotlight.

  Author: Lucinda Williams

• Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets.

  Author: Lucinda Williams

• I grew up in a very literate, very independent household where people spoke their ideas and were very supportive of helping each other find their own way.

  Author: Lucinda Williams

• I have to try different things to see what works best. Other people get impatient with that.

  Author: Lucinda Williams

• I started by looking at what others had done before me. You see, over the years there have been attempts by many different people to reconstruct the chariot.

  Author: Kit Williams

• We know grooming is important for people. To get their hair done, to get makeup and things like that - that makes a person feel better.

  Author: Kenneth Williams

• A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor he's not alone in the way he feels about himself.

  Author: Kenneth Williams

• People need to be peppered or even outraged occasionally. Our national comedy and drama is packed with earthy familiarity and honest vulgarity. Clean vulgarity can be very shocking and that, in my view, gives greater involvement.

  Author: Kenneth Williams

• So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories.

  Author: John Williams

• People pump gas and then they go in the store and pick up some things and pay for them, and they forget to mention the gas.

  Author: Joe Williams

• I will never be able to move on as much as people would like me to.

  Author: Jayson Williams

• Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.

  Author: Charles Williams

• It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts.

  Author: Charles Williams

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