“I think the voice is an underrated instrument these days and it's easy to make up for lack of ability with effects. I think sometimes people are more wowed with effects than core craftsmanship. Strong voices are not as common as they used to be.” PeopleThinkingSometimesUsedStrongEasyVoiceAbilityCommonEffectsInstrumentsCoreUsed To BeThese DaysUnderratedCraftsmanship Author:Victoria Legrand
“People like me, whose income largely comes from dividends, should pay more taxes. The problem is that taxes aren't used efficiently.” PeopleShouldProblemUsedPayTaxesIncomeLike MeDividends Author:Mian Muhammad Mansha
“Stephen Jones' hats are what we used to call 'creations'; extravagant, odd things for extravagant, odd people like Madonna or Lady Gaga. They're worn in a parallel universe.” PeopleUsedUniverseCreationOddHatsWornParallelsExtravagantGagaOdd ThingsParallel Universe Author:Peter York
“Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.” PeopleIfsShouldDifferentPlayShowsHandsUsedForcePowerfulWatchesTelevisionFoolPoliceMediumsSomething BetterSitcom Author:Roone Arledge
“I'm a lot luckier than most people, although I used to look at it the other way around-that so many people seemed luckier than me.” PeopleWayLooksUsed Author:Dana Hill
“Pretty soon we'll have robots in our society, you're going to have a lot of automated processes that used to be done by people - this is happening. Society and technology is changing so fast, and the impact of the change on society and technology is global, not local.” PeopleDoneUsedProcessTechnologyHappeningsImpactLocalsUsed To BeOur SocietyRobots Author:Jose Padilha
“From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, listening to The Beatles and Carly Simon and Lionel Richie. The old LPs used to have the lyrics. From there, I would put on dance and music displays for my family, just to entertain them and make people laugh and smile.” PeopleAgeYoungUsedHouseLaughingListeningMomMy FamilyMy MomDisplayYoung AgeMaking People LaughLaughs And Smiles Author:Lara Pulver
“Unfortunately, money is more often misused and abused than used intelligently. Most people haven't figured out how to use money wisely to truly enhance their lives. Most, it seems, act rationally with their money only when they can't dream up any more irrational ways to spend it. To be sure, financial insanity has developed its own big following including you and me.” PeopleWayInspirationalUseDreamBigsSeemsUsedHavensIncludingFinancialFollowingInsanityIrrationalMisused Author:Ernie J Zelinski
“In order to exert influence over people, there were other things that could be used besides love. Knowledge seemed to be an equally strong force, perhaps even stronger. Whoever possessed knowledge not only had power over the changeable passions of people, but also power over their thinking, over their minds, hearts and souls.” PeopleThinkingMindHeartSoulUsedOrderPassionStrongForceInfluenceStrongerPossessedHeart And SoulMind Heart Book:The Philosopher's Kiss: A Novel Source: The Philosopher's Kiss: A Novel
“I think there's been this long cycle of the big companies making a lot of money by underestimating people's intelligence and people are used to it now. So, they're so used to having their intelligence underestimated that, for most of them, it really isn't worth the bother of paying a little more attention to something that might hit them on a deeper level. But you can't really read people's minds.” PeopleThinkingMindLittlesLongBigsMightUsedLevelsAttentionCompanyDeeperBotherCyclesLots Of MoneyUnderestimateUnderestimatedBig Companies Author:J. Robbins
“The marriages come and go but your friendships stay, which is the opposite of what it used to be, so that there will be people in our lives for 30 years and often it is not your husband, it's your women friends, male friends with whom you come of age.” PeopleYearsAgeUsedOur LivesHusbandOppositesMalesUsed To BeComes And GoesYour HusbandPeople In Our Lives Author:Wendy Wasserstein
“I was one of Them: the Strange Ones. The Funny People. The Odd Tribes of autograph collectors and photographers. The Ones who waited through long days and nights, who used other people's dreams for their lives.” PeopleLongDreamUsedNightStrangePhotographerOddTribesDay And NightCollectorsAutographsLong DayFunny People Author:Ray Bradbury
“Some people are aware of another sort of thinking which... leads to those simple ideas that are obvious only after they have been thought of... the term 'lateral thinking' has been coined to describe this orther sort of thinking; 'vertical thinking' is used to denote the conventional logical process.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensIdeasUsedProcessTermSimpleObviousLogicalConventionalVerticalLateral ThinkingSimple Ideas Author:Edward de Bono
“I've always liked wrinkles. When I was a young girl, I used to make lines on my face with my nails because I loved Jeanne Moreau. I always wanted to be older; I always added years to my life. For the longest time, if people thought I was older I would take it as a compliment.” PeopleIfsYearsWantedFacesYoungUsedGirlLinesComplimentNailsWrinkles Author:Diane von Furstenberg
“I'll get an inspiration and start painting; then I'll forget everything, everything except how things used to be and how to paint it so people will know how we used to live.” PeopleKnowsInspirationUsedForgetKnow HowPaintingPaintUsed To BeForget Everything Author:Grandma Moses
“By far the most common task for which the machines are used is writing - or word processing, as it's known to the same people who call journalism 'content.” PeopleWritingUsedCommonKnownTasksMachinesJournalismProcessing Author:Robert Motherwell
“Creative people... are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity, sensitivity, and defenselessness for the gift of 'divine madness,' to borrow the term used by the classical Greeks.” PeopleMayFactsUsedTermCreativeDivineAnxietyMadnessPaidGreekInsecuritySensitivityDistinguishedCreative PeopleHigh Prices Author:Rollo May
“If you live in Ohio and you don't wear scarlet and gray now, you're an oddball. And it used to be that you could go around town even in Columbus and see a bunch of people in Michigan shirts ... And that's horrible, isn't it?.” PeopleIfsUsedTownsHorribleBunchUsed To BeShirtsGrayOhioMichiganColumbusScarletOddballs Author:Dave Foley
“My government is going to deal with all forms of corruption. White-collar corruption will be high on the list and we are going to plug all gaps that are being used by corrupt leaders (and) business people.” PeopleGovernmentFormUsedWhiteDealsLeaderCorruptionListsGapsCollarsPlugsWhite Collar Author:Jakaya Kikwete
“People used to complain to me all the time, 'I can't even hear you sing because your clothes are so loud.” PeopleI CanUsedClothesSingingComplainingLoud Author:Cyndi Lauper
“When people see one of these new forms of art for the first time, often they can't make sense of it. Then, if it's around long enough, a lot of people get used to it and it becomes assimilated into culture. So there's a morphic field both for the kind of art and for the appreciation of it.” PeopleIfsFirstsKindLongArtEnoughFormUsedCultureFieldsFirst TimeAppreciationMake SenseModernism Author:Rupert Sheldrake
“In the past we used to think of poverty in absolute terms - meaning straightforward material deprivation... We need to think of poverty in relative terms - the fact that some people lack those things which others in society take for granted.” PeopleThinkingNeedsFactsPastUsedTermPovertyMaterialsAbsolutesGrantedRelativeStraightforwardDeprivation Author:David Cameron
“Detecting and culling infected birds is still the key, and for that we have to compensate the owners of chicken whose flocks are killed. And we have to limit interaction between humans and birds, which is a huge challenge within an environment where people are used to living very close to their chickens.” PeopleHumansStillsUsedChallengesEnvironmentHugeKeysLimitsBirdOwnersChickensInteractionFlocksCulling Author:David Nabarro
“I used to think of all the billions of people in the world, and of all those people, how was I going to meet the right ones The right ones to be my friends, the right one to be my husband. Now I just believe you meet the people you're supposed to meet.” PeopleThinkingWorldBelieveUsedHusbandMy FriendsBillionsMy HusbandMatrimonyJust Believe Author:Andrew Schneider
“I'm used to people being a mile away. That suits me. It's more nerve-wracking playing in front of people who are two feet away from me.” PeopleTwoUsedFeetFrontsMilesSuitsNervesMiles Away Author:Noel Gallagher
“We all should choose our friends carefully. I used to think that no one could know me better than somebody else, because you're inside yourself, your body, you can't see yourself. If you think like that, you surround yourself with other people who are willing to tell you who you are, which are usually judgmental people ... we should really surround ourselves with the ones that adore us and believe in the highest of us.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsShouldBelieveBodyUsedWillingLike YouHighestWho You AreYour BodySurroundKnow MeAdoreInsomniaJudgmentalSurround YourselfI Like YouJudgmental People Author:Jewel
“Hiking - I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains - not hike! Do you know the origin of that word 'saunter?' It's a beautiful word. Away back in the Middle Ages people used to go on pilgrimages to the Holy Land, and when people in the villages through which they passed asked where they were going, they would reply, "A la sainte terre,' 'To the Holy Land.' And so they became known as sainte-terre-ers or saunterers. Now these mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not 'hike' through them."” PeopleKnowsAgeBeautifulUsedKnownLandMiddleGoes OnOughtHolyMountainVillageDo You KnowHikingMiddle AgesPilgrimageSaunteringInspiring TravelHiking In The MountainsBeautiful WordsHoly Land Author:John Muir
“I love two-lane highways. They say something about the way things used to be, and about areas that don't have a lot of people. On those two-lanes at night you get the sense of moving into the unknown, and that's as thrilling a sense as human beings can have.” PeopleWayHumansTwoMovingUsedNightHuman BeingsAreasUsed To BeHighwaysThrillingLanes Author:David Lynch
“Slogans are apt to petrify man's thinking ... every slogan, every word almost, that is used by the socialist, the communist, the capitalist. People hardly think nowadays. They throwT words at each other.” PeopleThinkingMenUsedCommunistCapitalistSocialistSlogans Author:Jawaharlal Nehru
“A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless; forests which are so used that they cannot renew themselves will soon vanish, and with them all their benefits. A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood and at the same time a reservoir of water. When you help to preserve our forests or plant new ones you are acting the part of good citizens.” PeopleChildrenCountryHelpingFacesUsedWaterActingTreeCitizensBenefitsPlantWoodsForestsPreservesHopelessFactoriesHelplessReservoirsGood Citizen Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“Time has been used destructively by people of ill will much more than it has been used constructively by those of good will.” PeopleHas BeensUsedIllGood WillIll Will Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Gothenburg's definitely a music city as well, but I think just because of the weather - it's so cold and miserable - people stay in. Coming to the States and going into the store and people are like, "Hi, can I help you?" - I'm not used to people randomly talking to me that I don't know.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWellsStatesHelpingUsedCitiesTalkingColdStoresWeatherMiserableMiserable PeopleMusic City Author:Yukimi Nagano
“I used to envy people who had written books, the way I think women envy other women who've had babies. I was resentful, shy, and inhibited around people who had written books. They'd done things I wanted to do.” PeopleThinkingWayBookDoneWantedUsedWrittenBabyEnvyShyResentful Author:Joan Juliet Buck
“I used to be too subjective, and I was always tempted to find my inner self in the exterior and dissipate my imagination on other people and on life.” PeopleSelfUsedImaginationUsed To BeTemptedSubjectiveMy ImaginationInner SelfExterior Author:Oskar Kokoschka
“Acting is not a genteel profession. Actors used to be buried at a crossroads with a stake through the heart. Those people's performances so troubled the onlookers that they feared their ghosts. An awesome compliment. Those players moved the audience not such that they were admitted to a school, or received a complimentary review, but such that the audience feared for their soul. Now that seems to me something to aim for.” PeopleHeartSoulSeemsSchoolUsedActorsActingAudiencePlayerPerformancesAimMovedProfessionGhostUsed To BeReviewsComplimentBuriedStakesCrossroads Author:David Mamet
“We used to say to the apartheid government: you may have the guns, you may have all this power, but you have already lost. Come: join the winning side. His Holiness and the Tibetan people are on the winning side.” PeopleMayGovernmentUsedWinningLostSidesGunHolinessApartheidTibetan Author:Desmond Tutu
“Ego is one of the biggest weapons that is used to take us down. It's self-destructive. It's a problem on all levels - even regular people can have big ego problems.” PeopleSelfProblemBigsUsedLevelsEgoWeaponsDestructiveSelf DestructiveBig EgoEgo Problem Author:Yehuda Berg
“People want to buy cheap and sell dear; this by itself makes them countertrend. But the notion of cheapness or dearness must be anchored to something. People tend to view the prices they’re used to as normal and prices removed from these levels as aberrant. This perpective leads people to trade counter to an emerging trend on the assumption that prices will eventually return to “normal”. Therein lies the path to disaster.” PeopleWantUsedLyingLevelsViewsPathReturnNormalTradeSellsNotionDearDisasterAssumptionTrendsEmergingCheapness Author:William Eckhardt
“When I was a kid I went to Catholic school, and they used to drag us out to pro-life rallies and stuff full of crazy people.” PeopleKidsSchoolUsedStuffCrazyCatholicDragPro LifeCrazy PeopleCatholic School Author:Tim Heidecker
“I used to hide it but after a lot of encouragement from my friends at university, I've gained the confidence to come out with it. I am the sun from Teletubbies. There has been quite a few people pretending to be 'the sun' but only I could tell you the real story. Everyone says they can see the likeness between my face now and me as a baby. I still have a baby face. I haven't changed much either. I am still giggly.” PeopleHas BeensStillsRealStoriesFacesUsedSunHavensChangedBabyMy FriendsEncouragementUniversityPretendingReal StoryI Haven't Changed Author:Jess Smith
“In the case of drama (stage, movies, television ), there appear to be people in almost every audience who never quite fully realize that a play is a set of fictional, symbolic representations. An actor is one who symbolizes other people, real or imagined. [...] Also some years ago it was reported that when Edward G. Robinson, who used to play gangster roles with extraordinary vividness, visited Chicago, local hoodlums would telephone him at his hotel to pay their professional respects.” PeopleYearsRealPlayUsedActorsRealizingPayRolesCasesAudienceStageTelevisionDramaYears AgoExtraordinaryLocalsHotelChicagoRepresentationTelephonesNever QuitSymbolicGangstersVividness Author:S. I. Hayakawa
“Erotic practices have become diversified. Sex used to be a single-crop farming, like cotton or wheat; now people raise all kinds of things.” PeopleKindUsedSexPracticeRaisesAll KindsUsed To BeEroticFarmingCropsWheatCotton Author:Saul Bellow
“I want people to remember me that I was faithful, faithful to the gospel, faithful to the call that God gave me. And when I get to heaven, I'm going to ask him why he called me, because I was much used to milking cows and working on the farm than I was preaching.” PeopleWantRememberUsedAsksHeavenFaithfulFarmsCowsPreachingRemember MeMilking Cows Author:Billy Graham
“I used to be a chemical-engineering student, but I started studying acting, and I went for a cattle call, up against hundreds of people. They tore me down because I was too tall. They said "How tall are you?" "6'5"." "Next."” PeopleSaidUsedNextActingStudyStudentsUsed To BeTallChemicalsEngineeringThey SaidCattleChemical Engineering Author:Dolph Lundgren
“I used to play Barbies with my Mormon neighbor friend; it was always, "Oh, we're going to go on a date. Ken's taking us out, and we're going with Ken on a date." And I was like, "We're parachuting behind enemy lines to save the Jews." That's how I played Barbies. I was told when I was a girl that every Jewish woman has to have five children to replace three fifths of our people that were killed. That's how I was raised.” PeopleChildrenPlayUsedGirlThreeLinesBehindsEnemyFiveGoes OnRaisedJewNeighborBarbieNeighbors Friends Author:Roseanne Barr
“I always thought that Seth [Rogen] was a fun, caustic, bombastic, sweet, underdog-type of person that I would root for the way you used to root for Bill Murray or John Candy in "Stripes." Seth had something that very few people you encounter have: he had a writer's mind and he had his own comic point of view.” PeopleWayMindPersonsUsedFunViewsSweetTypeRootsBillsPoint Of ViewComicEncountersCandyUnderdogStripesCausticBombastic Author:Judd Apatow
“What tends to happen in most movies is that strip clubs are used as a short hand for unsympathetic, sleazy people. And that's just a lazy cliché.” PeopleHandsHappensUsedClubsLazyUnsympatheticSleazy Author:Steve Coogan
“I remember when I had my show [The Chris Rock Show on HBO], I used to run my show. It was so hard to get people to bring sketches to me. No one had ever worked for a black person before. Even the black people hadn't worked for a black person. It literally took a month or two for everybody to know: I'm really running the show.” PeopleKnowsPersonsTwoHardShowsRunningRememberUsedBlackRocksMonthsBlack PeopleRemember WhenHboBlack Person Author:Scott Raab
“I worked out of desperation. I used to hit fast and run in hopes that people wouldn't realize that I really couldn't do anything.” PeopleRunningUsedRealizingDesperation Author:Betty Hutton
“The reason why people think of programming as being hard is because you're writing down a general rule which is going to be used for lots of instances that a particular instance must process correctly.” PeopleThinkingWritingHardReasonUsedProcessParticularInstanceReason WhyProgramming Author:Gerald Jay Sussman