Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people’s values. – Gerald Brenan
Most people are flying to Heathrow because it’s a hub, so they can fly on to other places, often long-distance flights. If they can’t go on those long-distance flights from Heathrow, they will go to Paris, they will go to Amsterdam, they will go to Frankfurt, because those are viable alternatives. – Geoff Hoon
For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you. – Halsey
When people go to Ladakh, they go to Leh; they don’t go to everything in the middle. – Gautam Singhania
Good people hire people better than themselves. So A players hire A+ players. But others hire below their skills to make themselves look good. So B players hire C players. C players hire D players, etc. – Guy Kawasaki
I think maybe even one of the reasons I became an actor was actually to hide. I mean, it sounds paradoxical because, of course, people are standing up in a public place and encouraging other people to look at them. So that’s not the conventional definition of hiding. – Hugh Laurie
In the U.S. there are many people willing to work on $9 per hour, which is causing Tasmania to lose its famous apple industry and Australia to import more and more of its fruit and food from lower cost countries. In fact, all over Australia there are warning signs of us killing or restricting our own industries. – Gina Rinehart
I don’t save people. God saves people. I can point them in the right direction. I can say, ‘There’s that door. I think if you walked through it, you’d be happier than you are.’ – Greg Boyle
Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That’s oppression in this country. – H. Rap Brown
When I finished my degree at Oxford, I went and acted for a bit. And I was appalling. And with each part, I thought, ‘Well, that’s embarrassing. I’d better do one more to show people I’m not that bad.’ And, in fact, instead of a taking a year, that’s gone on for 35 years. – Hugh Grant
I think a lot of people think I’m doing kind of a character onstage, but what you’re really getting is just me. – Harland Williams
I’ve always felt happy in my own company. It’s only when I get around other people that things get sticky. – Helen Oyeyemi
I always used to say I’m definitely not a straight-ahead jazz singer, because then there’s people who would hear what I do and say, ‘Is it jazz? I don’t know…’ Whatever it is, it really comes down to creating music that makes people feel something. – Gretchen Parlato
I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something. – George Woodcock
Post-9/11, we saw an immediate uptick in the amount of people in our stores, all over the country. People wanted that human connection. We are not going to fracture the Starbucks experience. – Howard Schultz
Certainly, those of us in the entertainment industry, we are part of creating fear in people – ‘fear’ for me stands for ‘false evidence appearing real.’ We create fantasy, and in certain ways that’s wonderful because it allows people to escape. But it can suck people into wanting to achieve something that isn’t real. – Hill Harper
When I left South Africa there were 10 million people – when I came back there were more than 40 million. I had to learn how to get to the highways because when I left where there were no highways. – Hugh Masekela
The way to connect with voters on the plan is to simply give the facts. Fifty per cent of taxpayers pay 97 per cent of the taxes. By most people’s standards, that’s already fair. The President is playing the class warfare card because he knows that a lot of people may never hear that particular fact. But it’s a fact. – Herman Cain
I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People’s Charter were in the habit of assembling. – Henry Mayhew
A lot of people still disregard something like yoga. I would have as a young player. I would have been too busy playing golf or something. – Gary Speed
It’s not the work which kills people, it’s the worry. It’s not the revolution that destroys machinery it’s the friction. – Henry Ward Beecher
I neglected my health, and I was reluctant to have medical check-ups. It was a fundamental mistake for a revolutionary, to the Venezuelan people and the international public opinion. – Hugo Chavez
People often ask me whether I prefer theater or film, and the answer is that I prefer the one I’m not doing: The grass is always greener. – Helen Mirren
Crop insurance should be a policy that keeps people from going broke, to make sure they can farm next year, but not to make them rich. – Howard Graham Buffett
No computer is ever going to ask a new, reasonable question. It takes trained people to do that. – Grace Hopper
They’re very harsh people, the British: hard to impress, very tough on each other, but I rather like that. It’s not that the British are more honest – you’re just under no illusion with them. – Hugh Laurie
