People
What is there to do when people die – people so dear and rare – but bring them back by remembering?
Author: May SartonTopics: Experiences, Famous, People
I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it seems) they can let go and go deep into their roots for renewal and sleep…. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.
Author: May SartonTopics: Famous, Inspirational, People
Tomorrow at 7, I shall be shot; but I am innocent of the crime of rebellion. I am going to die with a tranquil conscience.
Author: Jose RizalTopics: Experiences, Famous, People
I have always loved my poor afflicted country, and I am sure I shall love her until death.
Author: Jose RizalTopics: Famous, Feelings, People
I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law.
Author: Daniel RadcliffeTopics: Famous, Meaningful, People
It’s not about being perfect; it’s about being real.
Author: Manisha KoiralaTopics: Ability, Famous, People
Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
Author: Al PacinoTopics: Famous, Feelings, People
Good leadership is about helping people grow and develop, not just giving orders.
Author: Norman SchwarzkopfTopics: Experiences, Famous, People
The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
Author: Cesare PaveseTopics: Famous, Life, People
Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest – thought, action – is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.
Author: Cesare PaveseTopics: Famous, Feelings, People
As a coach, my job is to instill belief in the players and give them the confidence to perform.
Author: Ravi ShastriTopics: Confidence, Famous, People
Jesus must have had a sense of humor. I like to think of Him as a guy who got people to listen to Him by leaving them laughing and chuckling with one another.
Author: Bil KeaneTopics: Famous, Meaningful, People

The first step in the direction of progress is the declaration of the people’s rights.
Author: William Jennings BryanTopics: Famous, People, Positive
Ninety-nine percent of the world’s lovers are not with their first choice. That’s what makes the jukebox play.
Author: Willie NelsonTopics: Famous, People, World

If you want to be a leader, you must lead by example.
Author: Gautam GambhirTopics: Famous, Life, People
A certain columnist has been banned from all Shubert openings. Now he can wait three days and go to their closings.
Author: Walter WinchellTopics: Famous, Inspirational, People
Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.
Author: John RuskinTopics: Famous, People, Positive
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Author: Paul ValeryTopics: Famous, People, Positive
I dreamed I was a soldier who could bring peace. Sooner or later, though, you always have to wake up.
Author: James CameronTopics: Dream, Famous, People
The film industry is about saying ‘no’ to people, and inherently you cannot take ‘no’ for an answer.
Author: James CameronTopics: Famous, Feelings, People

People have a tendency to see me as this quirky character, and I’m perfectly fine with that.
Author: Teri GarrTopics: Famous, Life, People

Being funny is one of the easiest things in the world for me.
Author: Teri GarrTopics: Famous, Funny, People
Please, people, don’t drink and vote. We’ll all pay for that.
Author: Teri GarrTopics: Famous, People
My dad always taught me to be a good person first, then be a good player.
Author: Tiger woodsTopics: Experiences, Famous, People
Spend time with people who know how to use their days well. Just as iron sharpens iron, positive people will inspire you to be positive.
Author: RihannaTopics: Famous, People, Positive
A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.
Author: Edgar DegasTopics: Famous, Inspirational, People
The sixties were a time when ordinary people could do extraordinary things . . . !
Author: TwiggyTopics: Famous, Feelings, People
People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.
Author: Yoko OnoTopics: Famous, Meaningful, People
There’s no greater joy than representing your country and giving your best for your team.
Author: Harbhajan SinghTopics: Believes, Best, Famous, People
Fame is weird. It can be a blessing and a curse.
Author: Amy WinehouseTopics: Experiences, Famous, People

Every film I make, I make it for the audience. They are the real stars.
Author: Yash ChopraTopics: Famous, Life, People
It is better to teach or live equality and love… than to have hatred and prejudice.
Author: Rosa ParksTopics: Achievement, Famous, People
Each person must live their life as a model for others.
Author: Rosa ParksTopics: Famous, Life, People
The people in the villages had turned in on themselves. You can understand it. When you have a bad day on the field, what do you do? Talk to your teammates.
Author: Ian BothamTopics: Famous, People, Teammates
People might think I am hypocritical because clearly my batting gave me an opportunity, certainly in the one-day team. I still always placed most importance on my wicketkeeping.
Author: Adam GilchristTopics: Famous, Inspirational, People
And I cherish more than anything else the Analogies, my most trustworthy masters. They know all the secrets of Nature, and they ought to be least neglected in Geometry.
Author: Johannes KeplerTopics: Experiences, Famous, People

You need to enjoy the pressure of international cricket.
Author: James AndersonTopics: Famous, Life, People
I’d studied dance in Chicago every summer end taught it all winter, and I was well-rounded. I wasn’t worried about getting a job on Broadway. In fact, I got one the first week.
Author: Gene KellyTopics: Famous, Meaningful, People
In this business, my business, I get to meet all kinds of incredible people, fascinating people, glamorous people and sexy people and highly intellectual people. And you meet them and you go ‘interesting, interesting, interesting’. They’re interesting, but not very many people stop you in your tracks.
Author: MadonnaTopics: Business, Businessman, Famous, People
I wish that people could understand that the brain is the most important organ in your body. Just because you can’t see it like you could see a broken bone doesn’t mean it’s not as detrimental and devastating to a family or an individual.
Author: Demi LovatoTopics: Famous, Inspirational, People
You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that’s a home run.
Author: Vin DieselTopics: Famous, Feelings, People
By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense.
Author: Brad PittTopics: Famous, People, Poverty
Calling women slut is out of date. Shaming people for wearing what they want is out of date.
Author: Billie EilishTopics: Famous, Feelings, People
No one’s ever really given me any style advice. I wear what I want, and it doesn’t matter what other people think.
Author: David BeckhamTopics: Famous, Meaningful, People
At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.
Author: Imran KhanTopics: Famous, Law, People
I am not here to be a superstar. I’m here to entertain and make people happy.
Author: Akshay KumarTopics: Famous, Happy, People
People are not your most important asset. The right people are.
Author: Ratan TataTopics: Famous, Feelings, People
Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive
Author: Ratan TataTopics: Famous, Life, People
Why do we have 47 million people without health care? Because America has become about ‘me’. What’s happened to ‘we’ as a people? I believe in that and that resonates to most people.
Author: Carl LewisTopics: Famous, Feelings, People
Marriage hasn’t been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!
Author: Ben AffleckTopics: Famous, People
I don’t think I was ever the best bowler in the world, but I always gave my best.
Author: Shane WarneTopics: Best, Famous, People
I lose my cell phone so much that I switch it every month or so, but Sony Ericsson is usually what I use.
Author: Chris PrattTopics: Acceptable, Famous, People

I’m always inspired by people who are unapologetically themselves.
Author: Emma StoneTopics: Famous, Inspirational, People
The select group of people who do make realistic cinema, who do make cinema perhaps a little more acceptable to the Western audience, is a very small percentage.
Author: Amitabh BachchanTopics: Acceptable, Famous, People
‘What will people say?’ is a feeling every Indian girl grows up with.
Author: Amitabh BachchanTopics: Famous, Feelings, People
Immature is aword boring people use to describe fun people.
Author: Will FerrellTopics: Famous, Fun, People
Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.
Author: Will FerrellTopics: Famous, Feelings, People

I think music is the best therapy for a lot of people.
Author: StingTopics: Famous, People, Positive
The most powerful way to connect with people is through music.
Author: StingTopics: Famous, People, Positive

I think the world’s a much better place when people are allowed to be themselves.
Author: StingTopics: Accept, Famous, People, World
I don’t know why people are so hung up on fame. It’s just a byproduct of success.
Author: StingTopics: Famous, People, Success
I think you have to pay attention to the people you love.
Author: StingTopics: Ability, Famous, People

In basketball, you have to have a short memory. You can’t dwell on mistakes.
Author: Larry BirdTopics: Life, People, Positive
I think a lot of blue collar people related to me because a lot of people work for their money.
Author: Larry BirdTopics: Famous, Money, People
In the closing seconds of every game, I want the ball in my hands for the last shot – not in anybody else’s, not in anybody else’s in the world.
Author: Larry BirdTopics: Famous, People, World
There are many times when you are better off practicing than playing; but most people just don’t understand that.
Author: Larry BirdTopics: Famous, People, Positive

Being patient and persistent is key to achieving your goals.
Author: Carlos SlimTopics: Famous, Life, People
Most people try to make a better world for our children when what they should be doing is making better children for our world.
Author: Carlos SlimTopics: Famous, People, World
I think two people with strong points of view can appreciate each other even more.
Author: Tim CookTopics: Famous, People, Strong
Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.
Author: Tim CookTopics: Achievement, Famous, Inspirational, People
We’re very simple people at Apple. We focus on making the world’s best products and enriching people’s lives.
Author: Tim CookTopics: Famous, Life, People
Life is fragile. We’re not guaranteed a tomorrow so give it everything you’ve got.
Author: Tim CookTopics: Famous, Life, People
The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.
Author: Virat KohliTopics: Cricket, Famous, People
The bat is not a toy, it’s a weapon. It gives me everything in my life, which helps me to do everything in the field.
Author: Virat KohliTopics: Famous, Life, People
When you live for others’ opinions, you are dead.
Author: Larry EllisonTopics: Famous, Life, People
I believe people have the right to be foolish. As long as they pay the price.
Author: Larry EllisonTopics: Believes, Famous, People
Take the time to find and hire the best people you can.
Author: Larry PageTopics: Best, Famous, People

The world is full of people who want to make a difference. Find them and join them.
Author: Larry PageTopics: Famous, People, World
I want people to remember me as a Good Person, Not as a Good Cricketer.
Author: MS DhoniTopics: Experiences, Famous, People
You get my point now? Coz before I thought you missed it. I’ma viagra triple shot, you just a limp bizkit. WORD LIFE.
Author: John CenaTopics: Famous, People, World
I was fortunate that when I was first starting out in New Orleans, I had a remarkable high-school teacher. And she was a great, great influence in my life, and I think she gave me the courage and the confidence to go forward into the real world. She instilled in me that my dreams were important and that what I was passionate about was most important.
Author: John CenaTopics: Famous, Inspirational, People
Well John Cena’s like a pinwheel, so you can go ahead and blow me.
Author: John CenaTopics: Famous, Life, People
I would say luck and preparation. I didn’t dominate WWE when I first started, it was a slow process. I wasn’t labelled the golden child from day one, it’s been a very long road.
Author: John CenaTopics: Famous, People, Positive, Prepare
People know Modi did not do anything for himself. Whatever he has done is for people and the country.
Author: Yogi AdityanathTopics: Famous, Life, People
Most of the people who oppose idol worshipping belong to TMC.
Author: Yogi AdityanathTopics: Famous, People, Positive
The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.
Author: Jim RohnTopics: Famous, Life, People
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
Author: Winston ChurchillTopics: Famous, Great, Life, People
I just try to write songs that people are going to have a dialogue about.
Author: Beyonce KnowlesTopics: Famous, People, Positive

I want my music to inspire people to be themselves and to be proud of who they are.
Author: Beyonce KnowlesTopics: Famous, Inspirational, People
I just hope people don’t get sick of us. I’m sick of us and I’m in Destiny’s Child.
Author: Beyonce KnowlesTopics: Famous, Inspirational, People
I learned that you can’t be afraid to fail, and you can’t let other people’s expectations define you.
Author: Beyonce KnowlesTopics: Famous, Learn, People

The only difference between a successful person and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.
Author: Alexander Graham BellTopics: Famous, Feelings, People
The happiness of my people is a testament to the values and principles I hold dear.
Author: Queen VictoriaTopics: Famous, Happiness, People
The happiness of my people is a reflection of the positive changes and progress that have been made.
Author: Queen VictoriaTopics: Famous, Happiness, People
Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.
Author: Queen VictoriaTopics: Ability, Famous, People
To be a queen is not a matter of being on a throne, but of being in the hearts of the people.
Author: Queen VictoriaTopics: Famous, Hearts, People
The great thing about the British people is their unshakable faith in themselves.
Author: Queen VictoriaTopics: Famous, Great, People
I’m always amazed by the way music can connect people from different backgrounds.
Author: AdeleTopics: Famous, Life, People
I want my music to be honest and authentic, and not just follow trends.
Author: AdeleTopics: Famous, Honest, People
Don’t chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing, and work hard.
Author: Will SmithTopics: Famous, Hardwork, People
Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.
Author: Will SmithTopics: Famous, Life, People
Life is about moving forward, no matter how steep the path.
Author: Edmund HillaryTopics: Famous, Life, People

What is a uni-polar world? No matter how we beautify this term, it means one single centre of power, one single centre of force and one single master.
Author: Vladimir PutinTopics: Famous, People, World

Terrorism has once again shown it is prepared deliberately to stop at nothing in creating human victims. An end must be put to this. As never before, it is vital to unite forces of the entire world community against terror.
Author: Vladimir PutinTopics: Famous, Inspirational, People
The future of the country depends on the unity of its people.
Author: Vladimir PutinTopics: Famous, People, Unity
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
Author: Vladimir PutinTopics: Famous, People
Maybe they have nothing else to do in America but to talk about me.
Author: Vladimir PutinTopics: Famous, Life, People
We will not allow anyone to interfere in our internal affairs.
Author: Vladimir PutinTopics: Ability, Famous, People
We must ensure that the fruits of reform and development are shared by all people.
Author: Xi JinpingTopics: Famous, People
Our Party’s fundamental task is to maintain and improve the living standards of the people.
Author: Xi JinpingTopics: Famous, Life, People
Friends from the press, China needs to learn more about the world, and the world also needs to learn more about China. I hope you will continue to make more efforts and contributions to deepening the mutual understanding between China and the countries of the world.
Author: Xi JinpingTopics: Famous, People, World
The Chinese people have the ability to create a better life.
Author: Xi JinpingTopics: Famous, Life, People
Peace can only thrive when the climate is right. We remain open to bilateral dialogue with Pakistan on all outstanding issues in an environment free from terrorism and violence.
Author: Narendra ModiTopics: Famous, Peace, People
Each one of us has both; good and evil virtues. Those who decide to focus on the good ones succeed in life.
Author: Narendra ModiTopics: Famous, Life, People
The key to progress is in the collective effort of our people.
Author: Narendra ModiTopics: Ability, Famous, People, Positive

The true measure of our success is the well-being and progress of our people.
Author: Narendra ModiTopics: Famous, People
My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.
Author: Narendra ModiTopics: Famous, Government, People

We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.
Author: Narendra ModiTopics: Ability, Famous, People
I know the best people. I have the best people.
Author: Donald John TrumpTopics: Famous, Life, People
Well, yes, I’ve fired a lot of people. Generally I like other people to fire, because it’s always a lousy task. But I have fired many people.
Author: Donald John TrumpTopics: Famous, Life, People
The problem with fiat money is that it rewards the minority that can handle money, but fools the generation that has worked and saved money.
Author: Adam SmithTopics: People, Positive
With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
Author: Adam SmithTopics: People, Rich
Sport is something that is very inspirational for young people.
Author: PeléTopics: People, Positive

In life, there are ups and downs. It’s how you handle them that defines who you are.
Author: PeléTopics: Life, People, Positive
Post ‘Ek Tha Tiger,’ which was a more mainstream, action film, I spent a lot of time with Salman and I realised that he has a very strong commitment and believes strongly about certain issue and one of them is secularism in India.
Author: Kabir KhanTopics: Activities, People
I have been to Afghanistan many times, even before the Taliban collapsed. I was fascinated by the country.
Author: Kabir KhanTopics: People, World
Storytelling is the most powerful way to connect with people.
Author: Kabir KhanTopics: People, Powerful

If people buy my books for vanity, I consider it a tax on idiocy.
Author: Umberto EcoTopics: People, Tax
A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis.
Author: Umberto EcoTopics: People
What life means to me is to put the content of Shelley into the form of Zola .
Author: Upton SinclairTopics: Life, People, Positive
I am not the one who will say that technology is better than art. Technology is in the hands of the people.
Author: Umberto EcoTopics: Experiences, Famous, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Technology

To survive, you must tell stories.
Author: Umberto EcoTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Story, Survived
Music is what makes us human.
Author: Zac HansonTopics: Famous, Feelings, Human, Inspirational, Life, Love, Meaningful, Music, People, Positive

The best songs are the ones that come from the heart.
Author: Zac HansonTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Heart, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Music, People, Positive
Music is a powerful force; it has the ability to bring people together.
Author: Zac HansonTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Life, Love, Meaningful, Music, People
When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
Author: Victor HugoTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Love, Meaningful, People, Positive
Every moment you’re on this planet, you’re given an opportunity to learn and to teach others.
Author: Zac EfronTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Learn, Life, Meaningful, Opportunity, People, Teach

It’s important to be nice to everyone. You never know who you might meet on the way up.
Author: Zac EfronTopics: Famous, Humble, Life, Love, Meaningful, People, Positive
Never forget that you’re not alone. There are always people who care about you.
Author: Zac EfronTopics: Famous, Life, Love, Meaningful, People
In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.
Author: Viktor E. FranklTopics: Crisis, Meaning, People, Strength, Survival
Usually people who attack the rap are people who aren’t even fans.
Author: O'Shea Jackson, Jr.Topics: Famous, Fans, Meaningful, People, Rap, Usually
I love music. It’s freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.
Author: O'Shea Jackson, Jr.Topics: Famous, Freedom, Frustration, Love, Meaningful, Music, People
The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
Author: O'Shea Jackson, Jr.Topics: Career, Famous, Instant, Love, Meaningful, Moral, People, World
I do what I do. You like it, great. You don’t, go listen to somebody else. I’m stickin’ with the people that stuck with me.
Author: O'Shea Jackson, Jr.Topics: Famous, Great, Listen, Meaningful, People, Somebody, Stuck
I believe our society has fell into a pyramid system where there’s people relegated to the bottom of that pyramid and there’s people that feel like they’re entitled to the top of that pyramid
Author: O'Shea Jackson, Jr.Topics: Famous, Meaningful, People, Pyramid, Pyramid system, Society

The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is just be nice to everyone and always smile.
Author: Zac EfronTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Journey, Life, Love, Meaningful, People, Positive
I think people need something to believe in, because they don’t want to have control over their own lives. They’d rather be able to blame it on an unknown being, or a greater god, or a greater spirit of sorts. And I think it’s easier for them to blame it on that.
Author: Sasha GreyTopics: Control, Famous, Greater, Meaningful, People, Rather, Something, Spirit, Unknown
Honestly, I look at the project and I look at the people attached and I look at the director. If it’s a role that I feel will help me, as an actor, then I’ll definitely take it.
Author: Sasha GreyTopics: Actors, Definitely, Famous, Help, Honestly, Meaningful, People, Projects, Role

I am an actor. I am an artist. I am a daughter. I am a sister. I am a partner. I have a past that some people may not agree with, but it does not define who I am.
Author: Sasha GreyTopics: Actors, Daughters, Define, Famous, Meaningful, Partner, People, People’s, Sister, Sisters
I am selective, but at the same time, I want to be out there as an actor and show people my range.
Author: Sasha GreyTopics: Famous, Meaningful, People, Selective
I can be a very sarcastic person, and sometimes people take every word I say literally.
Author: Sasha GreyTopics: Literally, People, Person, Sarcastic
I commit to most things I do in life, so I don’t really have any serious regrets. But I’ll say this: There are plenty of people that I wish I could un-meet. It’s kind of an L.A. syndrome.
Author: Sasha GreyTopics: People, Regrets, Serious
I find it vulgar that people are so fascinated by natural disasters, and we allow footage of young people that are looting because they have no choice because of natural disaster.
Author: Sasha GreyTopics: Natural, People, Young
I have this brand, I have my name. And I’m going to do what I want because people will buy it. People will enjoy it. So don’t tell me I have to follow this formula and sit inside the box. Because I don’t.
Author: Sasha GreyTopics: Famous, Follow, Meaningful, Name, People
I think there are very few people, in my generation at least, that are that passionate about what they do.
Author: Sasha GreyTopics: Famous, Few, Few People, Generation, Least, Meaningful, Passionate, People
I’m not one to sit here and judge here. But I think it’s funny that the people that condemn the adult industry the most are the ones consuming the product the most.
Author: Sasha GreyTopics: Famous, Industry, Judge, Judges, Meaningful, People, Product
Even at church, people would not shake my hand.
Author: Ryan WhiteTopics: Church, Famous, Hand, Meaningful, People, Shake
How could these people in the public eye not be afraid of me, but my whole town was?
Author: Ryan WhiteTopics: Famous, Meaningful, People, Public, Town
People would get up and leave so they would not have to sit anywhere near me.
Author: Ryan WhiteTopics: Famous, Leave, Meaningful, People
Avoid employing unlucky people – throw half of the pile of CVs in the bin without reading them.
Author: Ricky GervaisTopics: Experiences, Famous, Meaningful, People, Reading, Unlucky

Be happy. It really annoys negative people.
Author: Ricky GervaisTopics: Famous, Happy, Meaningful, Negative, People
Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity
Author: Thomas HardyTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, People
I want people to follow their dreams, yes… but I’m not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers… I want to show them that there’s so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.
Author: J. ColeTopics: Dreams, Famous, Inspirational, Motivational, New Paths, Opportunities, People, Rappers, Want
But I certainly know a lot of people that existed at that level and are always kind of pining for more, always thinking that the next big break, the next opportunity, the big role are just around the corner of the next audition
Author: Thomas Haden ChurchTopics: Famous, Feelings, Kind, Level, Life, Meaningful, Opportunity, People
People congratulate me. I just tell them God is good.
Author: J. ColeTopics: Famous, God, Inspirational, People

You can’t reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you’ll never lose people knowing you.
Author: J. ColeTopics: Fame, Famous, Inspirational, Lose, Meaningful, Money, Own identity, People, Reverse

I think everybody has a bent, and the key is to follow that bent. So much human wastage comes from people who are doing things with their lives that they really aren’t happy with.
Author: J. Carter BrownTopics: Famous, Follow, Happy, Human, Key, People, Things, Thinking, Wastes
You saw the exodus of many people on the business council, who resigned, who said those are not my personal values, those are not our corporate values, and those – we don’t believe – are the values of our country.
Author: J. C. WattsTopics: Business, Country, Famous, People, Personal Values
In 2008, as a matter of fact, I had people accusing me of being a Senator Obama supporter because I wouldn’t slam him. I said, ‘Well, consider the fact that I voted for impeachment for President Clinton, but it wasn’t a personal vote. I voted based on the facts and the law and the Constitution and what we were dealing with.
Author: J. C. WattsTopics: Constitution, Dealing, Fact, Famous, Law, People, Supporters, Voted
We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn’t want to take the humanness out of the political arena.
Author: J. C. WattsTopics: Famous, Humanness, People, Political, Politics, Remember
The Republican Party is terrific at determining how a program will impact the federal budget, but we’re not nearly as good as the Democrats in explaining to people how our agenda will directly benefit them and their families.
Author: J. C. WattsTopics: Budget, Families, Famous, Impact, People
Republicans think that the NAACP is the only voice in the black community. It is a voice in the black community. But it’s not the only voice.
Author: J. C. WattsTopics: Famous, People, Republican, Thinking, Voice

You always hear ‘black Republican,’ but you never hear ‘white Democrat.’ We’ve got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don’t.
Author: J. C. WattsTopics: Famous, Labels, People, Republican, Stereotypes
One of the Republicans’ major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country… not out of it.
Author: J. C. WattsTopics: Country, Dream, Famous, People, Republican
Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that’s right is to get by, and the only thing that’s wrong is to get caught.
Author: J. C. WattsTopics: Character, Famous, Integrity, People, Thinking
People are backsliders on their knees long before they backslide openly in the eyes of the world.
Author: J. C. RyleTopics: Eye, Famous, Long, People
A crucified Savior will never be content to have a self-pleasing, self-indulging, worldly-minded people.
Author: J. C. RyleTopics: Famous, People, Pleasing, Savior, Self
All the simplicity in the world can do no good, unless you preach the simple gospel of Jesus Christ so fully and clearly that everybody can understand it. If ‘Christ crucified’ has not His rightful place in your sermons, and sin is not exposed as it should be, and your people are not plainly told what they ought to believe, and be, and do – your preaching is of no use!
Author: J. C. RyleTopics: Famous, Jesus, People, Simple, Simplicity
The fear of punishment, the desire of reward, the sense of duty, are all useful arguments, in their way, to persuade people to holiness. But they are all weak and powerless, until a person loves Christ.
Author: J. C. RyleTopics: Christ, Desire, Famous, Holiness, Love, Meaningful, People, Powerless, Punishment, Rewards, Weak
People think its hard to travel to the airports. 9/11 has made our travel difficult, with the security laws and that. As far as comparing what we do to driving 3,000 miles a week, making fifty bucks a night, sometimes one hundred bucks a night, its a lot different. Guaranteed contracts, first class air fare, Hilton hotels in London, Champaign. Waddaya want? What more could you ask for!
Author: Ric FlairTopics: Comparing, Guaranteed, People
If you have notoriety, you can dress any way you want to dress. That’s the way it is. I just like to get dressed up. I think that they go hand in hand – notoriety and people lookin at ya. If they look at ya, either you look like a million dollars, or you don’t. A guy can have a phenomenal body, but if the suit doesn’t fit him, forget it.
Author: Ric FlairTopics: Dollars, Hand, Million, People
I was really good at being a bad guy; I like that role. Not being bad to people – just talking bad.
Author: Ric FlairTopics: Good, People, Really, Talking
Your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes, far in the distance.
Author: Rainer Maria RilkeTopics: Noise, People, Solitude
Sin, in short, is that vast moral disease which affects the whole human race, of every rank and class and name and nation and people and tongue, a disease from which there never was but one born of woman that was free. Need I say that One was Christ Jesus the Lord?
Author: J. C. RyleTopics: Disease, Famous, Human race, Jesus Christ, Lord, Name, Nations, People, Sin
The love of Christ towards His people is a deep well which has no bottom.
Author: J. C. RyleTopics: Christ, Famous, Love, People, Selfless, Selfless connection, Well
Be very sure of this – people never reject the Bible because they cannot understand it. They understand it too well; they understand that it condemns their own behavior; they understand that it witnesses against their own sins, and summons them to judgment. They try to believe it is false and useless, because they don’t like to believe it is true.
Author: J. C. RyleTopics: False, Famous, People, Rebellion
True holiness does not make a Christian evade difficulties, but face and overcome them. Christ would have His people show that His grace is not a mere hothouse plant, which can only thrive under shelter, but a strong, hardy thing which can flourish in every relation of life.
Author: J. C. RyleTopics: Christ, Christians, Famous, Grace, Holiness, People, Results, Trials, Victory
My chief desire in all my writings, is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him beautiful and glorious in the eyes of people; and to promote the increase of repentance, faith, and holiness upon earth.
Author: J. C. RyleTopics: Desire, Earth, Faith, Famous, Glorious, Holiness, Jesus Christ, People
Good hymns are an immense blessing to the Church. They train people for heaven, where praise is one of the principal occupations.
Author: J. C. RyleTopics: Church, Famous, Immense, Occupation, People, Praise
Obedience is the only reality. It is faith visible, faith acting, and faith manifest. It is the test of real discipleship among the Lord’s people.
Author: J. C. RyleTopics: Faith, Famous, Manifest, Meaningful, Obedience, People, Real, Reality, Visible
We print money. The people that print the money is actually us. The government of the United States of America. By its very nature, we control that, and this system is there as representation of us.
Author: J. C. ChandorTopics: Famous, Government, Money, People
When I have people around, I’m a chatterbox. But when I’m alone, I never speak. I don’t talk to myself; it’s just not my schtick.
Author: J. C. ChandorTopics: Famous, Never, People, Speak

Sometimes you can make friends, and sometimes you can take friends. Sometimes people want to be friends with you, and you gotta be like, ‘Okay, I can deal with this person’s personality and be their friend, but not necessarily do I have to change who I am. I’m not gonna change myself to be their friend.
Author: J. B. SmooveTopics: Change, Dealing, Famous, Friends, People, Personality, Sometimes, True Self
People love things about Hollywood. People love to see the inside of what’s going on.
Author: J. B. SmooveTopics: Famous, Hollywood, Loves, People
You don’t want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That’s the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
Author: J. B. SmooveTopics: Dirty, Famous, Overlooks, People, Shower
Mel Gibson is losing it. I don’t know how people still supporting this dude’s movies like it’s all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don’t support any of his movies.
Author: J. B. SmooveTopics: Famous, Losing, People, Supporting
Keep it real by being straight forward. Don’t pull no punches on people. It’s better to tell somebody than just lollygag around, letting them think they’re living their life the right way. Because some people don’t know what the hell they’re doing, they don’t know if they’re living the right way or making the right decisions. Some people don’t know that.
Author: J. B. SmooveTopics: Decision, Famous, People, Real, Straightforward

I tell people all the time, as I was going through my process of being a comedian or being an actor and a writer at ‘SNL,’ I tell people that everything you do is all a piece of your puzzle to determine where you’re going to end up at.
Author: J. B. SmooveTopics: Actors, Determination, End Up, Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful, People, Process, Puzzle, Telling
I’m sure back in the Greek days or the Roman Empire days, when guys fought in arenas and were fighting lions, people were talking smack. Every era in history has someone talking smack. No way you can have talent and not proclaim your victory.
Author: J. B. SmooveTopics: Era, Famous, Greek, History, Impactful, People, Roman empire, Talent, Talking, Victory
Improv relies just as much on listening as it does you delivering dialogue. That’s the hard for some people. Some people just concentrate on what they’re going to say, and they’re not listening. You have to listen in order to see where the other person is going to.
Author: J. B. SmooveTopics: Famous, Hard, Improvements, Listening, People

There’s book smart, there is street smart, there’s relationship smart, there’s too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them. Everybody doesn’t know every kind of smart. There’s money smart, there’s movie smart, there’s computer smart. There’s just too many different kinds of smarts for people to know all the smarts.
Author: J. B. SmooveTopics: Everything, Famous, People, Streets
I’m, like, everybody’s friend. I’m one of those dudes. I can be friends with anybody. Any race of person, any personality, I can kind of deal with them. I accept different types of people.
Author: J. B. SmooveTopics: Famous, Friends, People, Personality, Race
When you’re on stage performing stand-up, things only happen one time. I’ve done bits where I improv a joke, and people are dying. The next show, I try to repeat it, I can’t do it. Because with the first audience that was our moment. It can’t happen the same way again. We were all there: a certain type of people were at that show and we all got it.
Author: J. B. SmooveTopics: Dying, Famous, People, Trying
You can’t let people take advantage of you. Go get that ass.
Author: J. B. SmooveTopics: Advantages, Famous, People
I have my website, The Ruckus, which is an Internet site, similar to the Funny or Die format, where people post funny videos. I get a chance to rate their videos; they get a chance to blog and kick it with me.
Author: J. B. SmooveTopics: Chance, Famous, Internet, People
Comedians are therapists. People honestly think we’re doing it for ourselves. No. If we wanted to do stand-up for ourselves, we would perform in front of a mirror and never go to a club. We are giving this away. Some people are going through so much in their lives, they want to hear something else that’s going on in the world and laugh.
Author: J. B. SmooveTopics: Famous, Mirror, People, Therapist, Thinking

Rhetoric coming out of the White House is making it worse, people are experiencing real pain, we’ve got to have national leadership calling for calm and legitimate concern for protestors.
Author: J. B. PritzkerTopics: Calm, Concerned, Famous, Leadership, People, Politics, Protestors, Real pain

For the sake of public safety, any FOID applicant with prior clear and present danger information needs to have that considered when having their application processed, these changes will immediately allow ISP to see a fuller picture of an applicant’s history and keep the people of Illinois safe from those who should not be in possession of firearms.
Author: J. B. PritzkerTopics: Famous, People, Public safety, Safe, United States
People who are denigrating her are aggrandizing themselves, right now, she seems to be an albatross.
Author: J. B. PritzkerTopics: Famous, People, Politics
The 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago will welcome people from across the nation to an unforgettable event highlighting our party’s vision for lifting up working families and those who too often have been left out and left behind.
Author: J. B. PritzkerTopics: Chicago, Development, Event, Families, Famous, Highlight, People, Politics, Unforgetable, Uplifts
The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.
Author: J. B. PritzkerTopics: Famous, Help, Low wages, People
My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
Author: J. B. PritzkerTopics: Famous, Father, House, Openness, People
There’s no doubt that there’s a public backlash against the way campaign money is raised, but I don’t think the only alternative is to elect people with money.
Author: J. B. PritzkerTopics: Campaigns, Doubt, Famous, Money, People, Public
I’m in the business of providing people with secondary satisfactions. It wouldn’t have done me much good if they had all written their own plays, would it?
Author: J. B. PriestleyTopics: Business, Famous, People, Play, Providing, Satisfaction, Secondary

Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people are past my comprehension. There is something bovine about them.
Author: J. B. PriestleyTopics: Famous, Past, People, Something, Touched
I fancy that the Hell of Too Many People would occupy a respectable place in the hierarchy of infernal regions.
Author: J. B. PriestleyTopics: Famous, Hell, Hierarchy, Occupy, People, Place, Region
The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must be a tremendous event.
Author: J. B. PriestleyTopics: Death, Dying, Famous, Meaningful, People, Pretending, Unconvinced
There can be no doubt that smoking nowadays is largely a miserable automatic business. People use tobacco without ever taking an intelligent interest in it. They do not experiment, compare, fit the tobacco to the occasion. A man should always be pleasantly conscious of the fact that he is smoking.
Author: J. B. PriestleyTopics: Business, Famous, Intelligent, Interest, Miserable, Occasion, People, Tobacco
The happiest types I’ve ever known ran puppet shows – turning puppets into people. It works much better than turning people into puppets.
Author: J. B. PriestleyTopics: Famous, Happiest, Known, People, Puppet, Shows, Works
A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.
Author: J. B. PriestleyTopics: Famous, Holiday, People, Time
Economy: cutting down other people’s wages.
Author: J. B. MortonTopics: Business, Economy, Famous, People, Wages

What I love about the sci-fi community is that it’s the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There’s no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
Author: J. August RichardsTopics: Community, Diverse, Famous, Inclusivity, Love, People, Science Fiction
Whenever I get an audition to do something that is sci-fi-related, it makes me really happy because I realize that I can continue doing the work that I’m doing and continue meeting people all over the world. It does baffle my management team sometimes, though!
Author: J. August RichardsTopics: Famous, Happy, People, Science Fiction, Team, Work
I’ve always been able to sense the relationship between two people based on how one person says the other’s name!
Topics: Famous, Name, People, Relationship, SenseAll writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves.
Author: J. Anthony LukasTopics: Famous, People, Thinking
People are bound to recognize the name Quasimodo.” “Why is that?” “Because he rings a bell.
Author: J. A. KonrathTopics: Famous, Name, People, Recognize
People, even crazy, evil people, tended to believe they have a good reason for doing what they do. Though some consider religion the opiate of the masses, others use it to further their obsessions, or rationalize their crimes.
Author: J. A. KonrathTopics: Crazy, Crimes, Evil, Famous, Obsession, People
I enjoy writing. Publishing … not so much. I’ve been lucky to work with some very talented people in the publishing world, and the print industry has allowed me to write full time.
Author: J. A. KonrathTopics: Enjoy, Famous, Lucky, Opportunity, People, Publishing
The best and sweetest flowers of paradise God gives to His people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is the gate of heaven.
Author: Thomas BrooksTopics: Famous, Feelings, God, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive
Like people would ever want to read books on an electronic screen.
Author: J. A. KonrathTopics: Famous, Kindlehighlight, People, Read, Screen, Want

People aren’t carved out of marble. We’re all works in progress. The trick is to define ourselves, rather than let outside influences define us.
Author: J. A. KonrathTopics: Famous, Marble, People, Progress, Trick, Work

Some people are naturally brave. Others, like me, learn to fake it. I still had no idea if faked bravery and real bravery were the same thing.
Author: J. A. KonrathTopics: Brave, Difference, Fake, Famous, Natural bravery, Naturally, People, Real
When someone threatens me, I don’t threaten them back. Bad people don’t respond to threats. They respond to violence. The only time I point a gun at someone is when I’m going to shoot that person.
Author: J. A. KonrathTopics: Ambition, Famous, Gun, People, Reaction, Respond, Threat, Threatening, Time, Violence
Write the best book you possibly can, then dedicate yourself to getting people to read it.
Author: J. A. JanceTopics: Famous, People
Back in August, I wrote a post about the supposed race to the bottom with ebooks, refuting some nonsense written by an establishment bonehead. This meme won’t die. People are still convinced that new ebooks are going to be priced at ten cents, and writers will starve, and this will cause a second Great Depression where banks will close and people will be forced to buy Kindles with food stamps, and then the earth will enter another ice age where all the bunnies will freeze to death.
Author: J. A. KonrathTopics: Depression, Famous, Ice, Meme, People, Race
Some people are born with a fire inside them. The will to succeed. It isn’t a learned behavior. It’s just some unknown biological factor that makes them try harder.
Author: J. A. KonrathTopics: Famous, Fire, Harder, People, Succeed, Trying, Unknown

When things get tough, look at the people who love you! You will get energy from them.
Author: J-HopeTopics: Famous, Hardship, Looking, Love, People, Positive Energy, Things, Tough
No matter how dark the future path is, you guys are always shining and lighting up the path for us. I love you all.
Author: J-HopeTopics: Famous, Fans, Lighting, Path, People, Sense of gratitude, Sense of happiness, Shining

We are happy that we could resonate with so many people.
Author: J-HopeTopics: Connection, Famous, Happiness, People
We deliver many different messages to people of our generation. I want them to get good energy by listening to BTS music.
Author: J-HopeTopics: Deliver, Different, Energy, Famous, Listening, Meaningful, Messages, People
I prefer cynical people. Nice guys grow on trees.
Author: J MascisTopics: Famous, Nice, Nice Guy, People, Prefer, Trees
I thought about New York but in New York the studio would get crowded with a lot of people. In LA, you look outside its like palm trees, sunshine and you know a totally different feel working.
Author: J DillaTopics: Different, Experience, Famous, Feeling, Los Angeles, New York, People, Studio
When I make my music, I want people to feel what I feel, I want them to feel that energy. That’s all it is, because I make it straight from the heart. To be taken for anything else is crazy to me.
Author: J DillaTopics: Crazy, Energy, Famous, Feel, Heart, Making Music, People, Want
Shattered people are best represented by bits and pieces.
Author: Rainer Maria RilkeTopics: People, Pieces, Shattered
Most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth.
Author: Rainer Maria RilkeTopics: Narrow, People, Room, Walking, Window
I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.
Author: Rainer Maria RilkeTopics: Highest, People, Solitude, Task
Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.
Author: Rainer Maria RilkeTopics: Good, People, Reading
It’s important to surround yourself with good people, interesting people, young people, young ideas
Author: A. J. CookTopics: Experiences, Famous, Idea, Idea of Freedom, Idea of success, Important, Important event, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, People Respect, People’s Opinions
Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Free trade, Government, Life, Meaningful, People
My fans are so amazing, dedicated, and nice. I’m nothing. It’s just my beginning, and these people keep appreciating my work. It’s a great experience.
Author: A. J. CookTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, People Respect, People’s, People’s Opinions
I did four movies where I gained, like, fifty pounds. I had curly hair, and I had all of this facial hair. I had put on all this weight for these movies, and I did four or five of them back-to-back. Then I cut the weight and I got fit again. I cut my beard and I took away the mustache, and people were like, ‘What are you doing?’
Author: A. J. BowenTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Movies, Moving, Moving forward, People, People Respect, People’s, People’s Opinions
Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: ‘There is change. Look, today’s fantastic story is tomorrow’s fact.
Author: A. E. vanTopics: Facing, Fact, People, People Respect, People’s Opinions, Science, Science Fiction, Sciences, Scientific, scientific community, Story, Storytelling
When you’re too close to people, when you spend too much time with them and love them too dearly, sometimes you can’t see them
Author: Thomas AquinasTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People

I just want to make music that moves people.
Author: J DillaTopics: Famous, Make, Move, Music, People, Want
To me, music is art and science. It’s like a combination of people and machines.
Author: J DillaTopics: Combination, Famous, Machines, Music, People, Science
I want to make people feel happy, comfortable—make them feel like it’s the first time they heard Reggaeton and play with their emotions. That goes beyond music.
Author: J BalvinTopics: Comfortable, Famous, Happy, Making, Music, People, Playing, Reggaeton, Want

I want to change the perception about Latinos worldwide. I think people don’t know yet how cool we are.
Author: J BalvinTopics: Change, Cool, Famous, Inspirational, Latinos, People, Perception, Thinking, Want
I just work with people that I love and respect, that inspire me to be a better person, a better artist.
Author: J BalvinTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Inspire, Love, People, Respect
A watch shows how you want to look – or how you want people to look at you.
Author: J BalvinTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Look, People, Shows, Want, Watch
Who would have thought that somebody Latino was going to be singing with Beyonce at Coachella? Years ago? Nobody. But I did believe in me. So, that’s what I want to do: keep inspiring people as much as possible.
Author: J BalvinTopics: Confidence, Famous, Inspirational, Inspiring, Latino, People, Possible, Self Belief, Self-Worth, Singing

I pay a lot of attention to the people I let surround me. I learn something from those people and from everyone – from other musicians, from people on the street.
Author: J BalvinTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Learning, Musicians, Paying, People, Streets, Surround
I think it’s important to show people, especially young people, that it’s okay to have a personality. And that they can express themselves however they like.
Author: J BalvinTopics: Famous, Important, Individuality, Inspirational, Meaningful, People, Personality, Self-Acceptance, Self-Expression
I was like, “Yo, we got to come up with something that the people that fell in love with Reggaeton, they gonna like a reintroduction to what they love.
Author: J BalvinTopics: Falling In Love, Famous, Love, People, Reggaeton, Reintroduction
I’m gonna be real everywhere I go, but I’m with my people, I’m connected to my roots – I’m in my country! I don’t need to live somewhere else.
Author: J BalvinTopics: Country, Famous, People, Real, Roots
I want to inspire people to follow their own dream, not what the world wants for them.
Author: J BalvinTopics: Dreams, Famous, Follow, Inspiring, People, World
I think music is to have fun. It’s for people to have a good time with.
Author: J BalvinTopics: Famous, Fun, Good Times, Music, People, Thinking
When I would go to the barrio, people saw me as a rich person, but when I’m around rich people, they see me as someone from the ghetto. It’s all perceptions. I like moving between worlds. I feel equally comfortable in both.
Author: J BalvinTopics: Comfortable, Famous, Moving, People, Rich People, Societal Perceptions, World

My medium is music, but my goal is to motivate people to dream.
Author: J BalvinTopics: Dream, Famous, Goal, Inspirational, Medium, Motivating, Motivational, Music, People
I’d love to work with people like Drake, Kendrick Lamar, Rihanna, Bruno Mars, and The Weeknd.
Author: J BalvinTopics: Famous, Legends, Love, Musical Legacy, People, Singer
The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic. His opinions are determined not by his reason — ‘the bulk of mankind’ says Swift ‘is as well qualified for flying as for thinking’ — but by his passions; and the faintest of all human passions is the love of truth. He believes that the text of ancient authors is generally sound, not because he has acquainted himself with the elements of the problem, but because he would feel uncomfortable if he did not believe it; just as he believes, on the same cogent evidence, that he is a fine fellow, and that he will rise again from the dead.
Author: A. E. HousmanTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Love, Meaningful, Opinion, People, Positive, Problem, Truth, Will, Will power
My heart always warms to people who do not come to see me, especially Americans, to whom it seems to be more of an effort.
Author: A. E. HousmanTopics: Effort, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaning, Meaning of life, Meaningful, Meaningful connections, People, People Respect, People’s, People’s Opinions
Being authentic and staying true to yourself is important. I want to make music that people can relate to and connect with.
Author: J BalvinTopics: Famous, Important, Inspirational, Meaningful, Music, People, Relate, Stay true, Want
I want to use music to bring people together and spread love.
Author: J BalvinTopics: Famous, Love, Music, People, Together, Unite, Using
There is no deeper pathos in the spiritual life of man than the cruelty of righteous people. If any one idea dominates the teachings of Jesus, it is his opposition to the self-righteousness of the righteous.
Author: Reinhold NiebuhrTopics: Deeper, Opposition, People, Spiritual
Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.
Author: J AllardTopics: Enjoy, Famous, Movies, Music, People, Television, Video games
Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people.
Author: J AllardTopics: Famous, People
These considerations and many others that might be mentioned prove, and experience confirms it, that artisans and manufacturers will commonly be disposed to bestow their votes on merchants.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Consideration, Famous, Merchants, Might, People, Vote
Love works in a circle, for the beloved moves the lover by stamping a likeness, and the lover then goes out to hold the beloved inreality. Who first was the beginning now becomes the end of motion
Author: Thomas AquinasTopics: Circles, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, People
In war, too, the discretionary power of the executive is extended. Its influence in dealing out offices, honors and emoluments is multiplied; and all the meaning of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war and in the degeneracy of manners and morals, engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Freedom, Opportunity, People, War
The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon . . . has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Character, Communication, Famous, Guardians, People
It may well happen that the public voice, pronounced by the representatives of the people, will be more constant to the public good than if pronounced by the people themselves.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Democracy, Famous, People, Voice
It is too early for politicians to presume on our forgetting that the public good, the real welfare of the great body of the people, is the supreme object to be pursued; and that no form of government whatever has any other value than as it may be fitted for the attainment of this object.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Government, People, Real
In order to judge of the form to be given to this institution the Senate, it will be proper to take a view of the ends to be served by it. These were,first, to protect the people against their rulers, secondly, to protect the people against the transient impressions into which they themselves might be led.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Institutions, Judge, Order, People, Rulers, Views
In suits at common law, trial by jury in civil cases is as essential to secure the liberty of the people as any one of the pre-existent rights of nature.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Civil, Famous, Law, Nature, People, Rights
The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Essential, Famous, Government, People, Power
The American people are too well schooled in the duty and practice of submitting to the will of the majority to permit any serious uneasiness on that account.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, People, Practice, Serious
The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Fountain, Government, Liberty, People, Power
Democracy was the right of the people to choose their own tyrant.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Democracy, Famous, People
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Foundation, Government, Happiness, People, Powers, Rights, Safety
In framing a government, which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty is this: You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Check, Control, Famous, Freedom, Government, Leaders, People, Rule
A good Government implies two things: first, fidelity to the object of Government, which is the happiness of the People; secondly, a knowledge of the means by which that object can be best attained.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Federalist-no-62, Government, Happiness, Knowledge, People
Donna Tartt blows me away – that impeccable writing, so rich you could eat it and so luminous that it lights up the whole room, and the way she brings her characters to life so completely and in such fine detail that you know them as intimately as your dearest friends.
Author: Tana FrenchTopics: Character, Famous, Life, Meaningful, People, Room
In proportion to the value of this revolution; in proportion to the importance of instruments, every word of which decides a question between power and liberty; in proportion to the solemnity of acts, proclaiming the will authenticated by the seal of the people, the only earthly source of authority, ought to be the vigilance with which they are guarded by every citizen in private life, and the circumspection with which they are executed by every citizen in public trust.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Liberty, People
In no instance have the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Guardians, Instance, Liberties, People
The ultimate authority resides in the people, and that if the federal government got too powerful and overstepped its authority, then the people would develop plans of resistance and resort to arms.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Government, People, Powerful
The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Liberalism, Liberty, People, War
Through my experience in my life, the number of people I ever come across most of them are only interested in one single thing, and that is actually how to escape at all times. But I don’t understand why people always want to run away or to escape from their things in life.
Author: A. C. BensonTopics: Act, Interested, People, People Respect, People’s Opinions, Times, Times of difficulty, Understand, Understanding Language
I have always observed that many of people usually or rather seldom refuse or avoid help even if someone is offering them the help in the right manner or in an ideal way.
Author: A. C. BensonTopics: Always, Help, helper, Helpful, Idea, Idea of Freedom, Idea of success, People, People Respect, People’s Opinions, Somebody, Someone
Disarm the people- that is the best and most effective way to enslave them.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Effective, Famous, People, Way
The people can never willfully betray their own interests: But they may possibly be betrayed by the representatives of the people; and the danger will be evidently greater where the whole legislative trust is lodged in the hands of one body of men, than where the concurrence of separate and dissimilar bodies is required in every public act.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Act, Danger, Famous, Interest, Legislative, People, Trust
Nothing could be more irrational than to give the people power, and to withhold from them information without which power is abused.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Giving, Information, People, Power
A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Liberty, People, Well
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Government, Happiness, Ideas, Liberty, People
The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Devotion, Famous, Morality, Numbers, People, Religion
The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Government, Liberty, People, Power
In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Liberties, People
The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, or to publish their sentiments; and the freedom of the press, as one of the great bulwarks of liberty, shall be inviolable.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Freedom, Freedom of speech, Liberty, People, Press, Right to voice
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Choice, Complicated, Famous, Laws, People, Read, Understood
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Forever, Ignorance, Knowledge, Meaningful, People, Power
War … should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Consequences, Declaration, Famous, Government, People, Support, War
Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Advantages, Famous, People, Trust
A well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best natural defense of a free country.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Free country, Military, People
Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind, which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Dangerous, Famous, Favorite, Freedom, Minds, Object, People, Public, Public liberty, Security
Toleration of people who differ in convictions and habits requires a residual awareness of the complexity of truth and the possibility of opposing view having some light on one or the other facet of a many-sided truth.
Author: Reinhold NiebuhrTopics: People, Possibility
I grew up in a household where the FryDaddy was always bubbling,
Author: Ian Anthony DaleTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Household, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive
I’m a big believer you should design work around a vast majority of people who want to do the right thing rather than around the tiny minority who might take advantage.
Author: Gail KellyTopics: Designs, Famous, Majority, Might, Minority, People, Vast, Work
My mother dedicated over fifty years of her life to the nursing profession, giving selflessly of her time, energy, and passion for the benefit of others. I always marvel at what an indelible and honorable contribution she has made and hope to be able to make a similar impact over the course of my life and career.
Author: Ian Anthony DaleTopics: Course, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Honorable, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Mother, Passion, People, Positive

I have a very genuine care for individuals; I have a very genuine sense of the power of individuals to make a difference, a very genuine belief that people matter, a very genuine belief of wanting the very best for individuals.
Author: Gail KellyTopics: Famous, Individuals, People
I grew up in a household where the FryDaddy was always bubbling, and butter and salt were never in short supply. I’ve never been one to choose the healthy option over the non-healthy option if the healthy option was lacking in taste. I believe a little bad is good for you from time to time. When it comes to maintaining a healthy soul, nothing beats traveling.
Author: Ian Anthony DaleTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Healthy, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive
I believe there is a right way to fail and a wrong way to fail.
Author: Ian Anthony DaleTopics: Experiences, Fail, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Wrong
I’m a very consistent leader, and people won’t find me different day to day. You won’t have to have the sort of conversation that says, ‘How is she today? Is this a good day to have this conversation?’ You won’t find that situation with me. I treat people with respect.
Author: Gail KellyTopics: Conversation, Famous, People, Respect, Situation, Treat
I am inspired by those who dedicate their lives to bringing about positive social change throughout the world.
Author: Ian Anthony DaleTopics: Change, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Inspired, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive
I run or hike three to four times per week and believe that an “everything in moderation” approach to dieting is the best way to keep your mind and body healthy and your taste buds happy.
Author: Ian Anthony DaleTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Moderation, People, Positive, Week
I’ve always looked at directing as the next step for me in my creative career, and after spending the better part of the last decade on a television set absorbing as much as I could from in front of the camera, I’m now eager to learn as much as I can from behind it.
Author: Ian Anthony DaleTopics: Career, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive
One of my favorite experiences in my career, certainly one of the most interesting characters I’ve ever played, was Simon Lee on ‘The Event.’ That was a show I was quite proud of and a character I really enjoyed playing. It was one of the most three-dimensional characters that was ever written for me and that I’d ever gotten to play.
Author: Ian Anthony DaleTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Quite, Really
I’ve been playing both sides of the law my entire career. It’s not really surprising for me to be doing opposing sides simultaneously. I would argue that even though my character on ‘Hawaii Five-0’ originated on the wrong side of the law, I’d say he’s worked his way over to the good side.
Author: Ian Anthony DaleTopics: Career, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Wrong
As an Asian-American actor, I believe it is important to never settle for the status quo. I feel a responsibility to do everything in my power to create positive perceptions of Asian Americans through my work.
Author: Ian Anthony DaleTopics: Creative, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Power

We’ve all seen the same situation happen to two people. One looks for the lesson, sets their shoulders back and presses on while the other asks ‘why does it always happen to me?’ You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.
Author: Gail KellyTopics: Doors, Famous, Mind, People, Positive
Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on ‘Hawaii Five-0,’ where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.
Author: Ian Anthony DaleTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Power, Settle
We all go to the theater and cinema to be inspired and moved on an emotional level, sometimes to laughter, sometimes to tears. Once I discovered that acting could have such an effect, I was sold. It has been one of the most rewarding discoveries I have ever made.
Author: Ian Anthony DaleTopics: Effect, Emotional, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive
So many good fortunes have come my way, and I’m trying to pay it forward by helping to raise money to complete ‘Bulbul: Song Of The Nightingale,’ a documentary that brings attention to the social and human injustices suffered by the Banchara tribe in India.
Author: Ian Anthony DaleTopics: Documentary, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Money, People, Positive
Whether we’re stuffing our faces with Kogi tacos or playing a pickup game of football outside the stages, there’s never a shortage of fun behind the scenes on ‘Murder In The First.’
Author: Ian Anthony Dale
Topics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Football, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Murder, People, Positive, Shortage
Shadowing is really a great way to learn how the entire TV-making mechanism works. I had the distinct pleasure of shadowing the gifted and talented Allison Anders, who taught me a great deal about the importance of collaboration and trusting the talent around you.
Author: Ian Anthony DaleTopics: Deal, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive
Moving to Los Angeles and working in places like Hawaii, you get to experience a true melting pot. It’s really nice to be around people who are multiethnic.
Author: Ian Anthony Dale
Topics: Experience, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive
I was one of the only people of color at my grade school and also my high school. It’s weird recollecting on my childhood, I think, because my brothers are all white. We all share the same father but different mothers. I guess I kind of associated white, but I was occasionally reminded in a really negative way that I wasn’t.
Author: Ian Anthony DaleTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, School, Share, White
You can’t protect other people, however hard you try.
Author: Gail HoneymanTopics: Famous, People, Protection, Trying
I am quite handy; not to sound bragadocious, but I’ve been working with wood and building things my entire life. I used to be a skateboarder and built ramps with my father. Then, the first two years I lived in Los Angeles, I worked as a carpenter building sets.
Author: Ian Anthony DaleTopics: Built, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Quite
There was a time when I was offered two episodes of ‘Alias,’ that show with Jennifer Garner which J.J. Abrams did back before he became the mega producer and super successful director. I instead decided I wanted to play this family guy on a short-lived UPN ‘Second Time Around.’ It starred Boris Kodjoe and Nicole Ari Parker.
Author: Ian Anthony DaleTopics: Episode, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Producers
‘Murder in the First’ takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, ‘How did we get to this point?’
Author: Ian Anthony DaleTopics: Crimes, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Issues, Life, Meaningful, Murder, People, Positive
My phone doesn’t ring often – it makes me jump when it does – and it’s usually people asking if I’ve been mis-sold Payment Protection Insurance. I whisper I know where you live to them, and hang up the phone very, very gently.
Author: Gail HoneymanTopics: Famous, Insurance, People, Phone
A lot of the time, a moral compass is all that separates a hero from being a villain; otherwise, the two are very much the same. Both are generally the richest and most complex characters, and they get to have all the fun. I guess it’s those types of roles that I ultimately gravitate towards.
Author: Ian Anthony DaleTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Roles, Time
O, vile! These tauntauns have an awful stench outside, But nothing did I know of wretchedness, Disgusting rot, and sick’ning filth till this New smell hath made attack upon my nose.
Author: Ian DoescherTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive
Thou man of scruffy looks, thou who heard’st nerfs, Thou fool-born wimpled roughhewn waste waste of flesh!
Author: Ian DoescherTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Fool, Heard, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Waste
“LEIA O, I do love thee wholly, Han. HAN – I know.”
Author: Ian DoescherTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive
Try thou not. But do thou or do thou not, For there is no.
Author: Ian DoescherTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive
“LUKE – But O, what now? What light through yonder flashing sensor breaks? HAN It marks the loss of yon deflector shield.”
Author: Ian DoescherTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive
She had tried to steer me towards vertiginous heels again – why are these people so incredibly keen on crippling their female customers? I began to wonder if cobblers and chiropractors had established some fiendish cartel.
Author: Gail HoneymanTopics: Customers, Famous, Female, Heels, Keen, People, Steer, Wonder
“Fie! One point twenty-one in gigawatts! Foh! Gigawatts of one point twenty-one! Great Scott! What have I done? How can it be?”
Author: Ian DoescherTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Great, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Twenty
Our cause is for the truth, for righteousness, For anyone who e’er oppression knew. ‘Tis not rebellion for the sake of one, ‘Tis not a cause to serve a priv’leg’d few – This moment shall resound in history For ev’ry person who would freedom know! So Biggs, stand with me now, and be my aide, And Wedge, fly at my side to lead the charge – We three, we happy three, we band of brothers, Shall fly unto the trench with throttles full!
Author: Ian DoescherTopics: Charge, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Freedom, History, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Sake
I feel sorry for beautiful people. Beauty, from the moment you possess it, is already slipping away, ephemeral. That must be difficult.
Author: Gail HoneymanTopics: Difficult, Famous, Feeling, Moment, People, Sorry
O, let it go – fear not, but be at ease: The heat ne’er bother’d R2 anyway.
Author: Ian DoescherTopics: Experiences, Famous, Fear, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive
“LEIA Ah! Gov’nor Tarkin, scurvy knave art thou.”
Author: Ian DoescherTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive
“DAMIAN She doth not even go here!”
Author: Ian DoescherTopics: Dmian, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive
“ACKBAR – O knavery Most vile, O trick of Empire’s basest wit. A snare, a ruse, a ploy: and we the fools. What great deception hath been plied today – O rebels, do you hear? Fie, ’tis a trap!”
Author: Ian DoescherTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Fools, Great, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Trick

I wear my heart on my sleeve and that can hurt. To be vulnerable is an enriching way to live, but when it goes wrong it can be agonizing. But if you don’t open your heart to people, you end up being excluded from the rest of the world.
Author: Keanu ReevesTopics: Famous, Heart, People, World
Twas on October third he ask’d the date – By calendar, not for a date, I mean. ‘Twas two weeks later when we spake again.
Author: Ian DoescherTopics: Calendars, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Later, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive
R2-D2, where art thou?
Author: Ian DoescherTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive
“LEIA Thou truly art in jest. Art thou not small Of stature, if thou art a stormtrooper? Does Empire shrink for want of taller troops? The Empire’s evil ways, I’ll grant, are grand, But must its soldiers want for fear of height?”
Author: Ian DoescherTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Want
Some people, weak people, fear solitude. What they fail to understand is that you don’t need anyone, you can take care of yourself.
Author: Gail HoneymanTopics: Famous, Fear, Lonliness, People, Solitude, Weak
REGINA Come hither, folly-fallen Cady, come! We shall anon unto the shopping mall.
Author: Ian DoescherTopics: Experiences, Fallen, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Shopping
There are no rules within this house of mine – I am no mother regular, forsooth! A cool mom I, ’tis so, Regina, yea?
Author: Ian DoescherTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, House, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Mine, Mother, People, Positive, Rules
When thou dost put thy mind unto the task, Thou mayst accomplish nearly anything.
Author: Ian DoescherTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Mind, Nearly, People, Positive, Task
“LEIA – O help Me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, help. Thou art Mine only hope. LUKE – I wonder who she is. Whoever she may be, whatever is Her cause, I shall unto her pleas respond. Not e’en were she my sister could I know A duty of more weight than I feel now. It seemeth she some dreadful trouble hath – Mayhap I should replay the message whole.”
Author: Ian DoescherTopics: Duty, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Sister
“KAREN On Wednesdays, we array ourselves in pink!”
Author: Ian DoescherTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Ourselves, People, Positive
REGINA – Nay, Gretchen, “fetch” shall never catch, Stop hosting an event no one attends. It shall not hap – the zeitgeist thou art not. The fad is bad; I’m mad and thou art sad.
Author: Ian DoescherTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Mad, Meaningful, People, Positive, Stop
In time so long ago begins our play, In star-crossed galaxy far, far away.
Author: Ian DoescherTopics: Experiences, Famous, Far, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Long, Meaningful, People, Play, Positive
I watched the Star Wars trilogy with some good friends of mine for the first time in a few years, I read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies-one of those first mashup books-and then I went to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival with my family.
Author: Ian Doescher
Topics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Friends, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Pride
“I do a lot of writing in my capacity as the creative director for a marketing agency. These days, though, I’m trying to write a little bit most evenings just to keep the creative juices flowing.”
Author: Ian DoescherTopics: Capacity, Creative, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive
Trying to write while I’m distracted definitely doesn’t work for me. I’m also a compulsive saver of my files, so every writing session ends with me emailing what I’ve written to myself, just in case.
Author: Ian DoescherTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Session, Work
My favorite play is Hamlet. It was my first love when it comes to Shakespeare, and I’ve read it and seen it performed more than just about every other Shakespeare play. I’ve had the “To be or not to be” monologue memorized since I was 15, and it’s just really close to my heart.
Author: Ian DoescherTopics: Close, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Shakespeare
In many ways, ‘William Shakespeare’s Star Wars’ is modeled on Shakespeare’s Henry V, which relied on a chorus to explain in words the battles of Harfleur and Agincourt that could never be captured on the Elizabethan stage.
Author: Ian DoescherTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Shakespeare, Words
In writing ‘William Shakespeare’s Star Wars,’ I had the freedom to go beyond the original script and add asides, soliloquys and even new scenes. The main characters all get a soliloquy or two – or in Luke’s case, several.
Author: Ian DoescherTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Freedom, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Original, People, Positive
Writing ‘William Shakespeare’s Star Wars’ was a fun exercise in mixing just the right amount of the Bard with just the right amount of everyone’s favorite galaxy far, far away.
Author: Ian DoescherTopics: Everyone, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive
People ask me whether I see ‘Star Wars’ as a comedy or a tragedy, but it’s really neither – it’s partly a history, like ‘Henry V,’ and partly a fantasy, like ‘The Tempest.’
Author: Ian DoescherTopics: Experiences, Famous, Fantasy, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Really, Star
The Ewoks were definitely a challenge of writing ‘The Jedi Doth Return.’ After having done so many things with characters who don’t speak English, how was I going to make them stand out? Jedi is also rich with emotional material, particularly Darth Vader’s transformation from the dark side back to the good.
Author: Ian DoescherTopics: Challenge, Dark, Emotional, Emotional comfort, English, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, In return, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Speak, Transformation
I grew up with the ‘Star Wars’ movies since before I have many memories. We had them on VHS back in the day, so they were part of the fabric of growing up in my family.
Author: Ian DoescherTopics: Experiences, Family, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Memories, People, Positive
I always wanted Han Solo’s confidence and swagger. My personality is way more C-3PO, but Han was always who I wanted to be.
Author: Ian DoescherTopics: Confidence, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Way
I have often noticed that people who routinely wear sportswear are the least likely sort to participate in athletic activity.
Author: Gail HoneymanTopics: Famous, People, Sportswear
People don’t like these facts, but I can’t help that. If someone asks you how you are, you are meant to say FINE. You are not meant to say that you cried yourself to sleep last night because you hadn’t spoken to another person for two consecutive days. FINE is what you say.
Author: Gail HoneymanTopics: Famous, Lonliness, People, Pleasant, Social
But, by careful observation from the sidelines, I’d worked out that social success is often built on pretending just a little. Popular people sometimes have to laugh at things they don’t find very funny, do things they don’t particularly want to, with people whose company they don’t particularly enjoy. Not me. I had decided, years ago, that if the choice was between that or flying solo, then I’d fly solo. It was safer that way.
Author: Gail HoneymanTopics: Careful, Company, Famous, Observation, People, Popularity
These days, loneliness is the new cancer—a shameful, embarrassing thing, brought upon yourself in some obscure way. A fearful, incurable thing, so horrifying that you dare not mention it; other people don’t want to hear the word spoken aloud for fear that they might too be afflicted, or that it might tempt fate into visiting a similar horror upon them.
Author: Gail HoneymanTopics: Famous, Fearful, Lonliness, People, Shameful, Things
I’ve spent so much time with iambic pentameter that I can now recognize it when I hear it in conversation or a movie – it’s like a weird, useless superpower.
Author: Ian DoescherTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Hear, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Movies, People, Positive, Recognize
The hardest part of writing ‘William Shakespeare’s Star Wars’ was probably the sheer amount of iambic pentameter and tiptoeing around certain scenes I knew would be hot-button issues for ‘Star Wars’ fans.
Author: Ian DoescherTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Hardest, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Star
People commit thousands of small suicides every day that go unnoticed
Author: Gail GodwinTopics: Famous, People, Suicide, Unnoticed

When people are sensitive, they can tell when they meet someone who is going to influence their lives.
Author: Gail GodwinTopics: Famous, People, Premonition, Sensitive
Other people don’t exist when you’re not with them.
Author: Gail GodwinTopics: Exist, Famous, People
Oh father high in heaven – smile down upon your sonWho’s busy with his money games – his women and his gun.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Heaven, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive
Maybe it’s because I’m more confident of my own powers now, not so afraid of losing myself, of being molded by other people’s needs of me, of being overwhelmed by them, that I can live in those strange, green days again and willingly be that girl.
Author: Gail GodwinTopics: Famous, Live, Overwhelmed, People, Powers, Strange
Martin, Dave, and I get together and rough out a few songs and put them on cassettes for some reference…With the actual music, I’m not interested in objectivity, quite the opposite. I want a solely and totally subjective experience…A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Children, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Quite, Rougher
The original Jethro Tull was a 19th century English agriculturist who invented a seed drill you see. The first automatic process where by small holes were made in Mother Earth and even smaller seeds were deposited one at a time and neatly covered over as a cat does after having being naughty.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Century, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive
Question all as to their ways and learn the secrets
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Learn, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Question, Ways
It was instilled in me that the money I was given was not to be lost or spent on any other purpose.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Money, People, Positive, Purpose
Nonie often remarked that every one of us needed to get away from other people and replenish our personal reserves.
Author: Gail GodwinTopics: Famous, Needs, People, Personal
We do hear perhaps too many accolades generally aimed at people like Steve Jobs. We have to remember that there are other classic things in life that we undervalue and take them for granted. If you think of the classic lines of the modern jet aircraft, it’s really been there since early World War II.
Topics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Jobs, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, UndervaluedOur politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Status
The flute was an alternative to being a small fish in an increasingly bigger pool filled with a number of great guitar pl
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Small
It’s only the giving that makes you what you are.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Makes, Meaningful, People, Positive
Unnur Birna is a Reykjavik-based violinist and singer. She has performed as a session musician with countless Icelandic and international artists while recording and appearing as a solo artist as well. Unnur has joined me as an unpaid guest on a few Icelandic shows in recent years, so it is a great pleasure to return the favour and appear on one of her songs at last. This new track, Sunshine, came about in Italy, written as an ode to sunlight and happiness after fleeing the dark winter in Iceland
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive
Most of what I’ve written songs about are things that come out of the confusing emotional, spiritual and psychological period of time when you’re going through puberty.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Emotional, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Periods, Positive
I’m very motivated by the occasional creative payoff that comes when something goes really well, be it a song, a recording or performance. The payoff is enormous – when you get it. Most of the time, though, I’m filled with self-loathing and general frustration at the limitations I have as a musician.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Creative, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, payoff, People, Positive, Really
I’m not sure I know what ‘simple-hearted’ means,” I said haughtily. “When there’s no deceit or malice in your heart. Most of us have some; it protects us. People without it are rare.
Author: Gail GodwinTopics: Famous, Heart, Know, Mean, People, Simple, Simple-hearted
Because you’re a child and you have no way to compare your life to other people’s lives. Your foremost need is to stay safe within the only life you know.
Author: Gail GodwinTopics: Child, Compare, Famous, Life, People
You change people by delight, by pleasure
Author: Thomas AquinasTopics: Change, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Pleasure
In writing lyrics – well, for me, anyway – it’s about getting into character, you know? ‘Who is writing this?’ In the case of the original ‘Thick As A Brick,’ supposedly a precocious, very young child who’s fantasizing about his future and the context of all the confusing elements to which school boys are subjected at that time.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Character, Children, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive
If you’re gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of dialogue or sentiment, then you’re sort of writing a novel, really. But rock lyrics are not really known for their sophistication.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Odds, People, Positive, Sentiment
At times … one is downright thankful for the self-absorption of other people.
Author: Gail GodwinTopics: Famous, People, Self-absorbed, Thankful
Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It’s a mixture of two approaches, and I imagine writing anything is like that, really. Some of it just flows, and you just go with it.
Author: Ian Anderson
Topics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Imagine, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Mixture, Part, People, Positive
As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Dark, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Musician, Older, People, Positive, Retirement
It was instilled in me that the money I was given was not to be lost or spent on any other purpose.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Lost, Meaningful, Money, People, Positive
I’m not one for Sudoku or crosswords – the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive
There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and hotel deals on our tours to maximise the band’s income – I don’t want too see too much taken off the top line.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Hotel, Income, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Money, People, Positive, Rock
Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.
Author: Ian Anderson
Topics: Couple, Creative, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Second, Thing
Not to be mean about it, but some great rock and rollers, like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, are pretty one-dimensional.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Great, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Pretty, Rock
I feel the audience has a right to know if some of the money they’re spending is going to a certain cause, and reassuring them the money is going to where it’s supposed to be going.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Right
I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Mind, People, Personal, Positive, Sense
When I was a teenager, I really didn’t like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I’ve always preferred acoustic music. And it was only, I suppose, by the time Jethro Tull was getting underway that we did let the music begin to have a harder edge, in particular with the electric guitar being alongside the flute.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Music, People, Positive, Rock
I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Idea, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Older, Outcomes, People, Positive
I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could’ve gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Parallels, People, Positive, School, Trees
We do hear perhaps too many accolades generally aimed at people like Steve Jobs. We have to remember that there are other classic things in life that we undervalue and take them for granted. If you think of the classic lines of the modern jet aircraft, it’s really been there since early World War II.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Granted, Inspirational, Life, Lines, Meaningful, People, Positive
I think I’ve owned all the models of iPods so far. And these days between my iPod, iPhone and my personal laptop computer, I’m someone who is very, very grateful for all the ways to listen to music and completely switch off from people around me and listen to the music in detail, which is very hard to do if you’re in a room with other people.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Music, People, Personal, Positive
I’m all in favor of banks that play their part in community endeavors, private individuals looking for loans, people who want to start up a little business, and that’s what banks are for.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Business, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Play, Positive, Start
When I was a young boy, I preferred cats to dogs. From the age of seven or eight onwards I just felt more comfortable with cats. And I felt more comfortable with girls, I didn’t really like hanging out with guys. When I was about ten or eleven, I was friendlier with the girls in my school than with the guys.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Comfortable, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Hanging, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, School
Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Child, Church, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Music, People, Positive
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame traditionally has had a management style that is very supportive of American talent, first and foremost, over everything else. And I think that’s right and proper.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Everything, Experiences, Fame, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Supportive
I think the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, first of all, has got to be put into the context of being an American cultural showcase. It’s there to be a museum showcase of all that’s great about American music.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Rock
I don’t think people really do listen. We plug into music, and we have short attention spans. We tend to download individual tracks from iTunes rather than a whole album. We buy music DVDs and watch them once, and then they disappear into a drawer, or we loan them to a friend, and we never watch it again.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Listen, Meaningful, People, Positive
All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based on my guitar skills. I did not play the flute to exploit its natural faculties, but I used it as a surrogate guitar.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Natural, People, Positive
I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago, and a flute.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Exchange, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Great, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive
The flute was an alternative to being a small fish in an increasingly bigger pool filled with a number of great guitar players.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Number, People, Positive
I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own sake. And, for the audience too, that thrill of – just being there.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Interested, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive
Touring is what you make it. I like to organise as much as possible myself.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, myself, People, Positive, Possible
Prog didn’t really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Generation, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Really
I’ve always felt that some of my best lyrics are less than three minutes long, and it’s great when you can do that – be succinct and get the message across in a simple, clear idea.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Great, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Minute, minutes, People, Positive, Simple
As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you’re trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people’s music.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Perform, Positive
I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a fully fledged guitar instrumentalist. And my early excursions on the electric guitar were curtailed when Eric Clapton came on the scene, and I decided I was never going to be in the same arena as a Clapton or a Peter Green.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Guitar, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive
I’ve always been fond of acoustic music.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Fond, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Music, People, Positive
I think we always view people who make us feel uncomfortable and appear to intrude on our middle-class cozy space, we view them with, if not hostility, at least suspicion, discomfort, embarrassment.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feel, Feelings, Hostility, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Uncomfortable
I think it’s really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I’m just really reflecting the thoughts and actions around me.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Action, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Job, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Present, Really
Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Persuade, Positive
I can never make up my mind if I’m happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Player, Positive, Wish
A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Music, People, Pocket, Positive, Stealing
There’s always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It’s how you lend some authority to what you write – you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Content, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive
When I was in my teenage years, I went to sign up as a cadet entrant to the police force but was at the very last moment rejected, just as I was about to sign my name on the dotted line. I won’t get into why that happened, but it was a moment where it could’ve been predetermined then that I was off to become a policeman.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Happened, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Police, Positive
If Jesus Christ came back today, He and I would get into our brown corduroys and go to the nearest jean store and overturn the racks of blue denim.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Christ, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Store
I’m very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Observer, People, Positive, Thoughts
It’s nice to be recognized, but it’s not great to have it too conspicuously recognized, if you see what I mean. Gold records on the wall, or titles after your name, it’s just not something… I don’t feel that great about it.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Gold, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive
I don’t really set out to please anybody, and I don’t think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Radio, Releasing, Write
I’m really terrible with small children; they’re small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Children, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Terrible
It’s only the giving that makes you what you are.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Giving, Inspirational, Life, Makes, Meaningful, People, Positive