John Williams People Quotations

I find that musically, looking back, I have learned much more from those relationships, people I have bumped into that I have admired, that's the way I feel musically I have learned most in life.

So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories.

I saw the devastation and I wanted to help. People need to know that ... we are here for them. They need words of encouragement and to know that everything is going to be OK.

I've never known anyone that is a better manager of people or is a harder worker than Kessel. His willingness to jump in and help take on public-private partnerships is legendary.

What was so scary about it was it was still school time, the kids were walking around. There as a group of kids right there when I took off to help her. They shouldn't chase people around the neighborhoods like this especially with the school at the corner. They should have let up a long time ago.

Toronto is a big, sophisticated city and multi-ethnic, and people love coffee here.

Obviously we're not a coastal city, but we felt (the fair) could be a nice service to the community. We saw that people on the Gulf Coast were not prepared.

People are certainly tuned in to the discussions about the reliance on foreign oil, and gas prices are going up. We're not suggesting that everybody wake up and sell their car tomorrow, but for a certain slice of people, car share is the way to go.

It's been a process. George and I started with two people and 1,000 square feet. We just kept knocking out walls.

If the anchor is facing the outside, people will play to that.

These are people who don't want to spend their weekends mowing their lawns. They want to have more free time.

People will learn things like emergency first aid, how to cook with no power and how to find shelter in an emergency.

It's not ethical. As auctioneer you sit on the fence between buyers and sellers. We get hundreds of absentee bids and I would hate people to think, 'Oh, he's taken a higher bid.

Every day, we get concerned about the age of the school buses in this county. You've got to keep in mind that they're built as buses to start with, and they carry young people who may not treat them as if they were their very own, so to have these buses running 13 or 14 years ... is not the best way to do business.

As I told one parent, we appreciate the generosity, but every drop of fuel that we put in a bus is fuel that could have gone in an ambulance or emergency vehicle trying to help the relief effort. Now, as we look at the news in the newspaper and on television of what's going on, to imagine an ambulance trying to help those people might run out of fuel because we're running the chess team over to Colleton County, well, to us it highlights some priorities.