Top 100 Most People Quotes
#1. Most people sell stock to pay taxes, but I didn't want to sell any stock.
Christie Hefner
#2. I never envisioned myself being a film star at all. Most people know that pro wrestling is a little bit of an accident for me. I never really had any real aspirations of being in front of a camera.
Roddy Piper
#3. It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing.
John Perry Barlow
#4. I think sex is very interesting for most people, but I'm interested in sex as a way of communication, I'm not that interested in the fantasy version of a sex scene.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
#5. For most people bedtime was early, although Cicero admitted to writing speeches or books and reading papers at night (there was a Latin word for it, lucubrare - to work by lamplight).
Anthony Everitt
#6. Ideas that most people derided as ridiculous have produced the best outcomes. Don't do the obvious thing.
Fred Wilson
#7. He believed in Communism the way most people believed in God: he would not be greatly surprised or disappointed if he turned out to be wrong, and meanwhile it made little difference to the way he lived.
Ken Follett
#8. Getting fired, despite sometimes coming as a surprise and leaving you scrambling to recover, is often a godsend. Most people aren't lucky enough to get fired and die a slow spiritual death over 30-40 years of tolerating the mediocre.
Timothy Ferriss
#9. Most people who have a problem concentrate on the problem. They take it to bed with them and stay awake all night thinking it over. Let go of that problem. Rise above it in consciousness.
Emmet Fox
#10. Most people don't have shit ... But paper and pencils are cheap, that's why I draw.
Ida Lokas
#11. I think that most art is asking a question or is looking for something, looking for answers and that is what life seems to be about for most people.
PJ Harvey
#12. It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste
Henry Ford
#13. I believe the war on poverty is a more American idea than the war on the war on poverty. I believe that most people feel like that. And I believe that it ain't over till it's over.
Bruce Springsteen
#14. I think it would shock most people if they really knew what we have each survived by the time we graduate high school.
Jennifer Elisabeth
#15. Most people aren't overly afflicted with curiosity. It separates the creative and the tormented from the rest of the pack. -
Jonathan Kellerman
#16. I wanted to make something that raised questions and was completely different and challenged the way most people experienced electronic music. So some people don't like me; that's OK.
Casey Spooner
#17. I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people - being always excited.
Lord Byron
#18. We're getting the sort of 'compromise' American politics specializes in: the one where things are intentionally made worse for most people in the hopes that if things are made bad enough, the other side will cave.
Alex Pareene
#19. I wanted to try something different. Most people my age go off to college; I thought I'd try out New York.
Sky Ferreira
#20. Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it - the quality of temptation.
Hannah Arendt
#21. My fans truly are a part of me, we share something that most people will never experience.
Michael Jackson
#22. Most people who have told a lie think they got away with it ... when in fact, they didn't
Randy Pausch
#23. The roots of the word 'anarchy' are 'an archos,' 'no leaders,' which is not really about the kind of chaos that most people imagine when the word 'anarchy' is mentioned. I think that anarchy is, to the contrary, about taking personal responsibility for yourself.
Alan Moore
#24. Most people don't know what it's like to stand up there and speak their mind. I have a venue to do that. I get paid to do that. It's not like I'm doing heavy lifting up there. It's not like I'm solving the world's problems. It's like I'm hanging out with a bunch of people and it's cool.
Dave Chappelle
#25. I do not believe in God. I'm an atheist. I consider myself a critical thinker, and it fascinates me that in the 21st century most people still believe in, as George Carlin puts it, 'the invisible man living in the sky'
Seth MacFarlane
#26. Most people remember being 4 objectively, as if they're seeing a movie of a 4-year-old. But me, if you ask me to think about when I'm 4, I can feel myself being 4, and I am there, looking out through my 4-year-old eyes.
Lois Lowry
#27. Most designers want to show apparel that makes the wearer look as long and lean as possible. And most people who buy clothes want to look as long and lean as possible.
Tim Gunn
#28. Most people think that God wants us to demonstrate our love for God by having churches and by having symbols - and I think that's a huge error.
Wayne Dyer
#29. I've had a very interesting career. I get to do amazing things and work with amazing people and travel and learn languages - things most people don't get the opportunity to do.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#30. Most people who are healthy, and I'm healthy, can't even live my life. Trust me. I get up 530-6 every morning. I'm in the gym. I run a couple miles. I lift weights, and then I'm at work until 8-9 o'clock at night.
Magic Johnson
#31. Most people did not think dirty thoughts at a time like this. Only me.
Jennifer Echols
#32. Most people just want to see you fall, that's more reason to stand tall.
Emma Michelle
#33. They do think the world is some kind of science-fiction novel, then. Do you realize how fervently most people will believe in the promises of technology, even when those promises fly in the face of common sense?
Dexter Palmer
#34. Just goes to show, everyone really does have a story to tell. And most people, at least in my experience, are a little more noble than they think they are.
R.J. Palacio
#35. For most people, chemotherapy is no longer the chamber of horrors we often conceive it to be. Yes, it is an ordeal for some people, but it wasn't for me, nor for most of the patients I got to know during my four months of periodic visits to the chemo suite.
Geraldine Brooks
#36. I liked being inside the head of someone who reveals himself unknowingly while he still thinks most people find him sympathetic. DG:
Herman Koch
#37. I lost my voice for the first time. I was so bummed out, but it happens to every singer at some point in their career. I don't think most people understand, but I sing every night and sometimes we do five shows in a row, which is really bad for your voice.
Avril Lavigne
#38. I love comedy. I'm not known for comedy, but I love it. I've done a lot of it, in my lifetime. But most people are surprised to hear that I made a funny movie.
Leonard Nimoy
#40. Yeah, well, it did earlier - but as Bobby and I have played together, our thing as a unit has become so strong that they kind of had to get in where they fit in. And most people do.
Charlie Hunter
#41. People and places are the source of my work, both in prose and verse-and this remark is not the truism it seems, for I do not distinguish as sharply between a place and a person as most people seem to do.
Leonard Alfred George Strong
#42. Most people he knew, his wife included, wouldn't make it through an hour on the promise of four sentences. But Frankie Bard was like a camel. She could hold her words for days
as long as she could watch the goings-on.
Sarah Blake
#43. Psychedelics can carry you farther and faster than most people care to go. Once you get to psychedelics, it's no longer a matter of seeking the answer, you have found the answer. Now the issue changes dramatically, you must face the answer.
Terence McKenna
#44. I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, "I tried, I can't do it" and give up and don't try it again; they get too discouraged.
Keith Richards
#45. The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.
Lady Gregory
#46. The difference between time and money is that money can be stored for future use. Most people make the mistake of saving money by wasting their time.
J.R. Rim
#47. Most people who know me know I'm not switched on all the time. I don't like to be like that in real life, because it's draining.
Rebel Wilson
#48. I don't think anyone should get married just to please their parents and get to wear a nice dress, Ruby.'
'Well, that's why most people I know get married!'
'Well, maybe that's why one in three marriages end in divorce!
Helen Chandler
#49. [ ... ] things most people do naturally are often inexplicably difficult for me.
Tina Fey
#50. Americans, perhaps more than most people, have pondered the question of who they are and what their country is.
Edmund Morgan
#51. Thanks to relentless media exposure and little-understood financing and sales practices, not to mention the perception of autos as important status indicators, most people replace their cars on a regular basis.
Ian Lamont
#52. The Playwright was excited in the way a child is excited on Christmas morning. I liked this. Most people didn't get excited about anything other than their own discontent.
Maria Dahvana Headley
#53. The reason most people don't accomplish much is because they don't want much.
Jim Rohn
#54. Most people would rather suffer through a bad situation than take steps needed to free themselves ...
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#55. Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.
Frank Zappa
#56. Is there a reason for the sudden fashion for the eight-goal tie? Maybe it's because defending is hard, and boring, and thankless, and most people who are paid a six-figure sum weekly do very little that is hard or boring or thankless.
Nick Hornby
#57. If it was about lying under oath - we actually know that Clinton certainly was deceptive, as most people would be about their sex lives - but, in fact, he did not lie.
Paul Begala
#58. Most people just give up with time and go, "I'm a victim." The only reason I've got the reputation for delays and spending a long time on things is because I just don't stop.
Kevin Shields
#59. Every child likes to take a pencil to make a mark. Everybody makes beautiful things when they are three, four, or five years old. Most people lose that spontaneity; I think that always happens. Some are able to win a second spontaneity.
Alvaro Siza
#60. If you'll excuse a brief history lesson: most people didn't experience 'the sixties' until the seventies. Which meant, logically, that most people in the sixties were still experiencing the fifties
or, in my case, bits of both decades side by side. Which made things rather confusing.
Julian Barnes
#61. Most people are not auditory learners and struggle to keep focused for any period of time, especially now in the era of the short attention span.
Jim Putman
#62. Most people are blind to magic. They move through a blank and empty world. They're bored with their lives, and there's nothing they can do about it. They're eaten alive by longing, and they're dead before they die.
Lev Grossman
#63. well', he said. 'most people aren't like you. They're locked up in themselves. They live in their castles - all alone. They're like me.'
'Well, everyone lives in his own castle', said Maude. 'But that's no reason not to lower the drawbridge and go out on visits.
Colin Higgins
#64. Great scientists are Peter Pans, still anxious to classify and explain at an age when most people are concerned with money, power and sex.
David M. Knight
#65. Most people aren't honest with themselves about money.
Hill Harper
#66. My family is all lawyers. Most people when they come on shows like this, "I'm proud of the first member of my family to get a college education."
Rush Limbaugh
#67. I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get that, and go for the simple songs, but I prefer something a bit more complicated, which is more meaningful to the creator.
Jack Jones
#68. Most people, they're trying to escape from boredom, but I'm trying to get into the thick of boredom. That's why I'm not complaining when I say my life is boring. It was enough to make my wife bail out, though.
Haruki Murakami
#69. Work in a bookstore and learn that most people in this world feel guilty about being who they are.
Caroline Kepnes
#70. Most people are not sure about much,' she said. 'But you only really need to be sure about one thing.
Sarah-Kate Lynch
#71. Most people, especially activists, recognize their differences with others rather than what they have in common and that leads to frustration more than persuasion.
Dan Mathews
#72. It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label ... Most people don't have any dignity in the first place.
Kurt Cobain
#73. It's a good thing most people bleed on the inside or this would be a gory, blood-smeared earth.
Beatrice Sparks
#74. I would say that I have become more radical as I have gotten older. I started out very radical when I was young, like most people, but I became less actively politically engaged in the middle of my life.
Tony Judt
#75. I'm not most people. I have no patience for those who can't execute a plan with elegance.
David Iserson
#76. People don't really know themselves until they're 30. Like most people nowadays, I went to university, got a degree and wandered for a bit. I trained to be a chartered accountant, which I didn't much enjoy, and it was only slowly that the idea of becoming a creative writer gelled.
Wilbur Smith
#77. I always take photographs when I attend a funeral. Most people there know who I am and expect me to be there with my camera.
Martin Parr
#78. In a structure as complex as the human brain a multitude of things can go wrong. The wonder is that for most people the brain functions effectively and unceasingly for more than 60 years.
Seymour S. Kety
#79. Here's the thing about hair; I think most people think that I have Lego hair, like I can just take it on and off in one piece, and that's not quite the case - although pretty close.
Pete Wentz
#80. Most people fail not necessarily because who they are, but whom they are with.
Jeffrey Fry
#81. Most people went and sat down in front of the television. Others stared into space, others talked in low voices to themselves, but who has not done the same at some moment in their lives?
Paulo Coelho
#82. Admire as much as you can. Most people do not admire enough.
Vincent Van Gogh
#83. Most people try to make a better world for our children when what they should be doing is making better children for our world.
Carlos Slim
#84. Personal publicity of every kind is utterly distasteful to me, and I have made greater efforts to escape it than most people make to get it.
Albert J. Nock
#85. Like most people, I used to wear clothing off the rack. But having them fitted to me makes a really big difference, especially with pieces like a cocktail dress. Little nips and tucks can take 10 pounds off you.
Lauren Conrad
#86. Most people waste the best years of their life waiting for an adventure to come to them instead of going out and finding one.
Jeff Goins
#87. What am I in most people's eyes? A nonentity or an eccentric and disagreeable man ... I should want my work to show what is in the heart of such an eccentric, of such a nobody.
Vincent Van Gogh
#88. Most people gawked at her because of her exotic appearance or stared with envy at her beauty. However, he always looked at her in a studious way, as if he was trying to piece her together like she was a marble puzzle. A statue he was constructing from parts of her abstract soul.
Sarah Noffke
#89. Due to mistakenly believing that outer problems are their own problems, most people seek ultimate refuge in the wrong objects. As a result, their suffering and problems never end.
Kelsang Gyatso
#90. Most people, originally when Google Earth first came out in 2005, they thought, well, what can I do with it? I can figure out where to go on vacation, or I can look at my neighbor's backyard from space. But the point is, you can do so much more.
Rebecca Moore
#91. Within the U.S., you could have argued that most people who watch 'Mad Men' would watch 'House of Cards.' But the viewing is much more on par with the large-scale mainstream things like 'The Walking Dead.' It was much younger than we thought.
Ted Sarandos
#92. When I was starting out, science fiction was a little genre over there, which only a few people read. But now
where are you going to put, for example, Salman Rushdie? Or any of the South American writers? Most people get by calling them magical realists.
Doris Lessing
#93. We can debate this or that aspect of climate change, but the reality is that most people now accept our climate is indeed subject to change as a result of greenhouse gas emissions.
Tony Blair
#94. For most people to be happy, there has to be a person, place, or thing involved in their happiness. In true happiness, there are no things involved. It's a natural state. You will abide in that state forever.
Robert Adams
#95. Do what you love and try not to look at what other people occupy themselves with. Most people seem restless and bounce around too much to focus or even pay attention enough to themselves to figure out exactly what they really do love, as opposed to what the people that surround them are doing.
Rodney Mullen
#96. Writing old school HTML code was never very much fun but now it's getting downright tedious for most people.
Mike Davidson
#97. Stupid people do make me lose my temper and most people are stupid, fortunately for me. It's made it easier for me to make a living.
Albert Gubay
#98. If retirement requires a certain degree of peace of mind and an easy conscience, Victor Florian did not appear to have much of either. He held an unlit cigar in his mouth and had more hair in each eyebrow that most people have on their head.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#99. Most people who think they're happy are really just stupid.
Tom Kitt
#100. Almost nobody's competent, Paul. It's enough to make you cry to see how bad most people are at their jobs. If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in the kingdom of the blind.
Kurt Vonnegut
