People Quotes

If you look at the history of communication, new technologies like the phone and e-mail didn't just let people do things faster; it fundamentally changed the scope of the kinds of projects people dared to take on.

~ Justin Rosenstein

Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.

~ Charles Sturt

I don't think that TV on the Radio is some dark mysterious band that no one can know about. We write music because it's an immediate form of communication. We're able to put on record what's happening in our times, and we want that message to be heard by the most amount of people.

~ Dave Sitek

People could live very happily without the Turner Prize, but they could not live without real communication and emotion.

~ Billy Childish

I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.

~ Mac Davis

It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

~ Marya Mannes

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

~ John Selden

People break down after a couple of hours. All the defenses go down, and there's a kind of communication that if I spent 20 years in a living room with one of these people, I would never, never know as much about them as I do in that one day.

~ Lee Grant

Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.

~ Karen Black

Every month I do a webcast for 55,000 people, and it's a great tool, great communication vehicle.

~ Terry J. Lundgren

You used to be able to just call people. You didn't have to be on someone's calendar to have a phone conversation. The telephone was an important and valuable domain of communication, both for casual, friendly chats and for professional exchanges of ideas and information. But no more.

~ Dan Pallotta

Even though I was manically overachieving and involved in everything, I still never felt like I belonged. That's definitely affected my whole life and why I wanted to become an actor and tell people stories, because communication and feeling like you belong is such an integral part of our social fabric.

~ Penelope Mitchell

In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.

~ Cherrie Moraga

I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.

~ Mike Tyson

I'm one of these people that likes adrenaline and new things, like extreme sports. It makes me feel alive.

~ Gisele Bundchen

Contrary to the royal and uptight image of polo, I want to bring it to a younger generation. This is a great sport that can have a larger audience and appeal to more people. Sportsmanship is lacking in many other sports that I don't want to name.

~ Randeep Hooda

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.

~ Barry Switzer

Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.

~ Norman Ralph Augustine

I've gotten to know a lot of great people here in all the different sports. It's fun. It's fun to get involved where you live. And this is where I live. I'm a registered voter here. I have my Wisconsin driver's license.

~ Aaron Rodgers

In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.

~ Billie Jean King

Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.

~ Elon Musk

I know that some of the finest writing I've ever read has been sports writing, whatever the topic was, whatever the sport they were writing about. It seems to be an area where people are allowed a little more leeway than when they're reporting on traffic jams and city-council meetings.

~ Katherine Dunn

If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.

~ Jack Lemmon

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.

~ Sam Snead

Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four.

~ Chris Rock

The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.

~ Billie Joe Armstrong

I still feel that in India we look upon sports as a recreational activity - which it is - but people have to understand that there is a career in sports. It's not just necessary to be a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer, as most of us Indians appear to think that our children should grow up to be.

~ Abhishek Bachchan

If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.

~ Charles Barkley

The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.

~ Avery Brundage

The BBC sports department when I was there was seriously to the right of Ghengis Khan, and if people think I am strange, they should have met some of the production staff I worked with. Margaret Thatcher and the Queen were the pin up girls for many of them.

~ David Icke

Global sports tournaments have a range of benefits that go far beyond the games themselves. They can transform the image of a country or a region. They bring people together and reveal new possibilities to a nation's youth.

~ Richard Attias

I've always been a reserved cat. When I play sports, there's people used to get mad at me because I didn't hang out and things like that. I've never been that kind of person. Nothing has changed in that regard. I've never been posse, and all that. I'm a quiet storm.

~ Bernie Mac

There are a few things that people all around the world need to admit to themselves. Trade restraints slow economic growth, the euro is not a reserve currency, and scoreless sports ties are boring.

~ P. J. O'rourke

The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.

~ P. J. O'rourke

Above all, such sports as judo, in my view, teach people to relate to each other. They teach us to respect a partner, teach us to understand that an externally weak partner can not only put up worthy resistance, but, if you relax and take too much for granted, may even win.

~ Vladimir Putin

We should reach out to people to try to go after the fans the way other sports do. Because we can't just depend on the fact that it is a great game.

~ John Mcenroe

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

~ William James

I have long been one of those tedious people who rails against the coronation of 'student-athletes.' I have heard the argument that big-time athletics bring in loads of money to universities. I don't believe the money goes anywhere other than back into the sports teams, but that's another story.

~ Susan Orlean

I talk to people of different ages, and a guy who's 38 who says, 'I could've played Major League Baseball, but I had this knee injury...' Yeah, probably not. It's a big thing with men and sports, where they think they could have touched that thing.

~ Christopher Guest

I always tell people that our sports aren't that dangerous.

~ Shaun White