Top 100 People Say Quotes
#1. I think, for me, listening to music is a very solitary thing. Or maybe that's just something people say when they're too lame to go to live shows.
Becky Albertalli
#2. But that's part of faith. Believing and knowing despite what other people say, and despite what the world might think of your beliefs.
James Frey
#3. Some people say I'm a pussy. I say, you are what you eat.
Peter Steele
#4. Women are not making it to the top of any profession in the world. But when I say, 'The blunt truth is that men run the world,' people say, 'Really?' That, to me, is the problem.
Sheryl Sandberg
#5. How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.
Karen Gillan
#6. What do you say? There really are no words for that. There really aren't. Somebody tries to say, 'I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.' People say that to me. There's no language for it. Sorry doesn't do it. I think you should just hug people and mop their floor or something.
Toni Morrison
#7. Have I done more business-related things to help my career grow? Yeah. I took the business end more seriously, hooked up with a manager, got some help, because at a certain point, you get frustrated when you go do auditions, and people say you did a great job, and then you don't get he part.
Gary Sinise
#8. I still get very excited when people say they fall in love. It doesn't matter how old you are, falling in love is a beautiful thing. And I still act like I did when I was a teenager. I get fluttery and tap dance around. I'm never afraid of making funny faces or being completely goofy.
Cote De Pablo
#9. I don't accept what people say. I took something to be copied recently, to be enlarged and blown up, and they said it couldn't be done, and I went somewhere five minutes away, and they did it.
Charles Grodin
#10. Some people say lawyers are sons of bitches. I won't argue with that. But when it comes time to negotiate, it's great to be a lawyer.
Manel Loureiro
#11. Some people say a person receives a position in this church through revelation, and others say they get it through inspiration, but I say they get it through relation. If I hadn't been related to Heber C. Kimball I wouldn't have been a damn thing in this church.
J. Golden Kimball
#12. My head spins. One moment I'm told I'm too edgy, then people say I'm too angry, then that I show too much passion ... make your minds up.
Nick Clegg
#13. People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good.
Edith Piaf
#14. People say, My God, you're so disciplined. But it has nothing to do with discipline; I loved it. Because I knew that every time I went to the gym I was one step closer to winning the competition.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#16. Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs.
Earl King
#17. At screenings for 'Black in America,' I've heard people say, 'Well you know, I never thought you were black until you did Katrina, and then I thought you were black.'
Soledad O'Brien
#18. People say there are thousands of options we have in life. I say we have only two: we can either be happy or be unhappy.
Pawan Mishra
#19. I have had many Ashfield people say to me that they might not agree with my political views or my decisions but that they supported my right to be heard.
Geoff Hoon
#20. In the off-season you like to take a little time for yourself, but I'd like to say that people say I live in the weight room and that I had the keys to it. That's just the type of character I am.
Justin Cole
#21. On coaching the 1970s Philadelphia Flyers: Nobody likes us. Nobody outside Philadelphia, that is. In fact, the nicest thing people say about us is that we are a bunch of muggers.
Fred Shero
#22. Leadership is standing with your people. People say you have to live to fight another day, but sometimes you have to show you are a true leader.
Leymah Gbowee
#23. I'm the leadoff hitter, it's my job to lead this team. I know people say the way I go is how the Mets go, so I'll do whatever it takes.
Jose Reyes
#24. Sometimes people say,' One day you are going to look back at this and laugh.' My question is:' Why wait?
Richard Bandler
#25. People say the good Lord fills the stomach before the eyes. I haven't noticed; my eyes have had enough and I am weary of everything, and yet I hunger.
Soren Kierkegaard
#26. My mother told me that truth is like my skin, a beautiful, protective covering, and the things that people say or do can be easily changed or discarded. She told me truth comes from the heart.
Stewart Lewis
#27. Lots of English people say exactly the opposite of what they mean.
Leon Krier
#28. Too many people say something when they really have nothing to say.
Rick Yancey
#29. I've heard people say that the trouble with the world is that we haven't enough great leaders. I think we haven't enough great followers. I have stood side by side with great thinkers - surgeons, engineers, economists; people who deserve a great following - and have heard the crowd cheer me instead.
Babe Ruth
#30. People say 'The Wire's bleak, y'know, but I see it as a love letter to Baltimore, and it's one written in a very strange and complex way.
Aidan Gillen
#31. The funniest thing people say to me: "I wish I had your life". Hello! I make a living writing about it.
Daniel Marques
#32. I know what people say, that water's a lot like air. Do you charge for air? Well, of course not. Well, you shouldn't charge for water. Okay, watch what happens you won't have any water
T. Boone Pickens
#33. Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?
L.M. Montgomery
#34. Guess - You know how people say, Don't borrow trouble? Well," said Morgan, "I guess it's the opposite of that. Doc is borrowing happiness." The
Mary Doria Russell
#35. I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art.
Helena Bonham Carter
#36. I am fortunate in having this bone structure because I have a tremendously prominent temple. I like to think that's it's because I'm so intelligent. People say: 'You haven't got a line on your forehead.' I do. It's just the bones are holding them all out, and the cheekbones are holding my face up.
Kate O'Mara
#37. I've heard people say that the more you like someone, the more you think they are beautiful even if you didn't think so in the beginning.
Jenny Han
#38. I used to hang out with Salvador Dali a lot. He was such a nice man. I really liked his wife Gala, too. People say that she was tricky, but she was never difficult with me.
Jerry Hall
#39. People say that to me and I think what unites all my characters is that they are hurt; it's most accurate to say I play characters that are hurt but are responding to their environment.
Ashley Judd
#40. It was important that I became successful. People say they do it for the love, and yes, you do it for the love, but you want to be successful.
Wyclef Jean
#41. People say home is where the heart is but my heart feels far from home i just feel like an outsider or someone who is a freak but i know one thing for certain love can make a family
Felisha Rush
#42. I am me because I choose to be me. I am what I want. Some people say you have to find yourself. Not I. I believe we create ourselves to be what we want.
Tricia Levenseller
#43. Wood pellet grilling could potentially have a lower risk of cancer when compared to other forms of grilling, as some people say that it leads to the creation of fewer carcinogens.
Homaro Cantu
#44. People say, 'You're like Dickens', but I'm not like Dickens. Zadie Smith is a Dickensian writer because she's writing about society now, just as Dickens was writing about his society.
Sarah Waters
#45. We want who we want, right? No matter what other people say. No matter what reason or reality we're faced with. No matter what facts our brains process. The heart's a stubborn organ.
Kim Harrington
#47. My parents were very unusual people, but it was more valuable to have other people say that than me.
Brooke Hayward
#48. People say that a person has a fever, when [in reality] the fever is leaving! The fever which accumulated within the body as a result of abnormal food, the body's vitality power then creates the fever for the purpose of purification.
Dada Bhagwan
#49. People say that I am always serious and depressing, but it seems to me that the English are never serious - they are flippant, complacent, ineffable, but never serious, which is sometimes maddening.
Anita Brookner
#50. Well what's funny is, again, people say they believed what was going on, but again, Bob's hands are about three times bigger than his feet. So these are very caricatured.
Brad Bird
#51. So many people say they want a new life, but then they take the new one they get every morning for granted. Don't do this.
Marc D. Angel
#52. When people say sex is a filth of society, I say, yes! You're born by enchanting mantras and breaking coconuts!
Himmilicious
#53. Most people say, "Show, don't tell," but I stand by Show and Tell, because when writers put their work out into the world, they're like kids bringing their broken unicorns and chewed-up teddy bears into class in the sad hope that someone else will love them as much as they do.
Colson Whitehead
#54. To lead people, walk beside them ...
As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence.
The next best, the people honor and praise.
The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ...
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
We did it ourselves!
Lao-Tzu
#55. I hate it when people say that they don't like 'MMMBop.' Everyone likes 'MMMBop.' Whether they like it or not, the song rocks.
Steven Tyler
#56. People say I slept with seven miss worlds, I didn't. It was only four, I didn't turn up for the other three
George Best
#57. Unless you know who you are, you will always be vulnerable to what people say.
Phil McGraw
#58. When you prepare well; you will appear well. For you not to disappear when you have appeared you must deal with fear and close your ears to what people say for you not to be discouraged.
Osunsakin Adewale
#59. Lots of people say if you dredge too much stuff up, you'll go crazy - "You'll go insane!" But for a comedian, insanity is not a problem. It's a goal.
Jim Carrey
#60. A lot of people say, 'AC/DC - that's the band with the little guy who runs around in school shorts!'
Angus Young
#61. People say to me, 'You're so lucky. You get to see the world.' But I don't. I go to the hotel and to the pools and back again. That's it.
Michael Phelps
#62. But I do think that when people say 'a learning curve,' they make a mistake. Learning to me always seems to go in a straight, ignorant line and then, every so often, takes a jump straight upward.
Diana Wynne Jones
#63. People say God only gives us as much as we can handle. I say, his holiness thought spiders were a good idea. Point me toward a different authority.
Julie Johnson
#64. Some people say that true love is a myth, that soulmates don't exist. I feel sadness for those cynical souls. They'll never know the high that comes from being with the one you're meant to be with. They'll never experience the absolute rightness of finding their true mate.
E.K. Blair
#65. People say love is the international language. I'd say jealousy and anger are also pretty articulate.
Marshall Thornton
#66. Some people say readin too many books will stunt your growth.
Henry Dumas
#67. Home is hard... People say home is where the heart is, but I think maybe home IS the heart
David Arnold
#68. People say it's really the press who create those soundbites about fashion. That's what sells magazines and clothes.
Isaac Mizrahi
#69. I feel more and more at ease, because I think the older I get, the less pressure there is. People say, 'Well, he's not cutting edge because he's not in his twenties, so he's not expected to be.'
Jude Law
#70. I wear wigs all the time on shows, and every day when I'm in public, at Dollywood. People say, 'How many wigs do you have?' And I say, 'Well, at least 365 because I wear at least one a day.'
Dolly Parton
#71. People say "God will find a way." God can't find a way if you're in the way.
Bill Cosby
#72. I get a lot of responses to my movies. Some people say, 'Oh, I thought it was really funny - I hope that's okay!' And my answer always is 'Yes. It's totally okay.'
Noah Baumbach
#73. They say I'm a natural, I have natural charisma. People say that. I don't know.
Dwight Henry
#74. There are always protests, whether you do something good or bad. Even if you do something beneficial, people say you do it because it's advertising.
Giorgio Armani
#75. I wonder if these wack niggas realize they wack,
And they the reason that my people say they tired of rap.
Common
#76. 65% of people say that cheating on your income tax is worse than cheating on your spouse. The other 35% were women.
Jay Leno
#77. A lot of times people say, 'You act like a grandmother, you're just totally laid back, nothing bothers you.'
Chamique Holdsclaw
#78. People say he doesn't score a lot of goals with his head, but does he really have to with the ability he has in his feet? He makes spectacular goals look easy. His technique is fantastic.
(on Thierry Henry)
Alan Shearer
#79. Praising people behind their back is monstrously unfair, because the one thing you can't defend yourself against is the good that people say about you.
Gregory David Roberts
#80. You don't have to wait until people say they accept everything you say until you are actually prepared to sit down and discuss matters with them.
Chris Patten
#81. If people say "no" to you and it's something you really want to do, keep going and you'll succeed.
Elle Fanning
#82. I think you hear a lot of people say 'I support the troops' and all of that, but I really feel deeply that I do.
Jake Gyllenhaal
#83. Four world titles is a good swath at the top of the podium. The Olympics didn't work out for a couple of reasons, but it feels good when people say 'four world titles.'
Kurt Browning
#84. Usually when people say they have mixed feelings about something, it's a sort of euphemistic way of saying they hate it.
Matthew Specktor
#85. A lot of people say colonialism was 'evil' or whatever, but what have they really done with Africa since we gave it back to them? I don't think it should be considered 'racist' to admit maybe ending apartheid did more harm than good in South Africa.
Zach Braff
#86. Too many people say to their brokers, I can't deal with this. Take my money. Do what you want. That's the worst attitude you can have.
Maria Bartiromo
#87. Some people say that their pets will tell them when it's time to go. I don't believe that. No animal of mine has ever told me he was ready to die. I wish it were that simple. Dogs can communicate, but they cannot talk, nor do they think in our language or on our terms.
Jon Katz
#88. I look at myself and read what people say on the internet and some fans say the club should get rid of me - which shows how fickle some people can be.
Robbie Savage
#89. People say you can't have peace without a war, but on the contrary they say they don't support war. You can not, ever achieve happiness from focusing on suffering, you have to change your perspective. World peace starts with Inner peace.
Mark Ryan
#90. I've never walked out of a meaningless movie thinking ALL movies are meaningless. I only thought the movie I walked out on was meaningless. I wonder, then, if when people say life is meaningless, what they really mean is THEIR lives are meaningless.
Donald Miller
#91. People say "I want peace." If you remove I (ego), and your want (desire), you are left with peace.
Sathya Sai Baba
#92. When I hear people say that Fox News is right wing, I know that's not true, because I'm the one doing the news. It's my show, and there's no place for opinion on my show. It's uninteresting to me.
Shepard Smith
#93. I'm motivated by solving new and challenging problems, especially ones that people say can't or shouldn't be tackled.
Ryan Holmes
#94. People say, 'You're still breast-feeding, that's so generous.' Generous, no! It gives me boobs and it takes my thighs away! It's sort of like natural liposuction. I'd carry on breast-feeding for the rest of my life if I could.
Helena Bonham Carter
#95. I talk to my mom about six times a day, and we constantly email in between that. People say that I'm her twin. I guess it would be the Kennedy genes; my cheekbones are coming out.
Katherine Schwarzenegger
#96. People say writing is really hard. That's very unfair to those who are doing real jobs. People who work in the fields or fix roofs, engineers, or car mechanics. I think lying on your back working under an oily car, that's a job.
Paul Theroux
#97. People say I'm around because I have a lot of heart, but I know all the heart in the world couldn't have helped me if I wasn't physically fit.
Jimmy Connors
#98. Yes some people say ignorant things about autism but silencing them solves nothing. They need to be educated. That's how things change.
Stuart Duncan
#99. My books flow. People say they pick them up and they can't put them down. It's because when I'm writing them I pick my pen up and I cannot put my pen down.
Jackie Collins
#100. I hate people saying anything stupid. I don't really suffer fools very well at all. When people are acting like idiots, not that I'm not guilty of doing the odd idiotic thing myself from time to time, but when people say stupid things, it stresses me out.
Joshua Jackson
