People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.

Most of what I do is for creative people - writers and painters and photographers - trying to work through creative problems.

The best time to give feedback to strong people is when they're feeling weak, and to weak people when they're feeling strong.

I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.

The people who really run organizations are usually found several levels down, where it is still possible to get things done.

Alexey Brodovitch used to say, "Astonish me." We as the team at Bazaar hear that everyday because we want to surprise people.

Disasters have no mercy hours where they stop visiting the people; for them, all hours are favourite and legitimate to visit!

I'm not the singer that I wish I was or that some people think I could be. I wish I had the pipes to just jump into musicals.

I try to stay incognito as much as I can. I don't go places that people would expect to see me because I'm trying to lay low.

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

I was elected by the Australian people to bring back a fair go for all Australians. I have given my absolute best to do that.

The more people learn about them (Obama and Hillary) and how they handle the pressure, the more their support will evaporate.

We are not here to enjoy the things on earth, but to pass them around. The people who do it are the happiest people you know!

People see me laughing and telling jokes, but they had no idea after the show was over, I had no joy in my life, in my heart.

If we save people from HIV/AIDS, if we save them from malaria, it means they can form the base of production for our economy.

I've always tried to be funny, or stupid, or whatever. I love making people laugh and I think it comes quite naturally to me.

Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you're being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.

When faced with a decision, many people say they are waiting for God. But I understand, in most cases, God is waiting for me.

I think my main concern is because I worry about demagoguery. It`s real. You see the people standing up there and applauding.

Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.

People who mattered could not take the humdrum world. But this was not the world, it was enchantment; and all of it was mine.

I think that's foolishness on the part of the playwright to write about himself. People don't know anything about themselves.

Many great people over the centuries have depended on their faith- it is a sign of great strength to need Jesus in your life.

You hear about bands who say, "We did one show where only 20 people showed up", well that was our average gig for five years.

Paths are so much clearer when people stop looking at what everyone else is doing and instead concentrate on themselves ~Gabe

For me, performing is the biggest part of being a rapper. There's nothing like the feeling of screaming your story to people.

I feel my characters are valid, my characters are people, my characters have hope. Hope is the thing that'll take us through.

There's something about football that's exciting. The defense is trying to shut you down and you're trying to blow people up.

For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

I aim to be translucent, so you don't notice the words, just their meaning. I haven't much insight into people's motivations.

I was homeless and I was in San Diego and I started singing in a local coffee shop and people started coming to hear me sing.

Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.

You know, people'd always ask "Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House?" They never seen the house I'm running from.

I'm really lucky because I surround myself onset with people who I really trust to give me feedback, so I'm directing myself.

I'm one of those people for whom success is one thing, but significance is another. If I can have both, I'm living the dream.

Most of the work that's done in the world gets done by people who weren't feeling all that well at the time that they did it.

Some people are marching together and some on their own. Others are running, the smaller ones crawl. But some sit in silence.

Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven't paid the price to decide what is really important to them.

I envy the people who say, 'oh, well, I've got my name in the golden book and I'm going to be entered into the pearly gates.'

Deplorable, a rancid smelling aphrodisiac . . . it fosters almost totally negative and destructive reactions in young people.

I'm kind of shy, and I think that I take that out by performing in front of a lot of people. That's how I get out my shyness.

The people who matter the most to us in the end, who teach us the most, are the people who make their worst mistakes with us.

Talent is the No. 1 priority for a CEO. You think it's about vision and strategy, but you have to get the right people first.

In a country with millions of people & cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in a while.

Put me up in front of a million people and ask me to speak. I'll flop. But put me behind my drums and I'll always go with it.

When you start to talk about comic books, a lot of the time, people forget about the comic part of it. They need to be funny.

You must not become a mere peddler of words. The thing to learn is to know what people are thinking about, not what they say.

Venice was and is full of lost places where people put up for sale the last worn bits of their souls, hoping no one will buy.

They were like people who run to meet, holding out their arms, but their aim is wrong; they pass each other and keep running.

I understand human needs. I grew up where far too many people lived day to day without elemental needs like food and shelter.

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