Bill Cosby People Quotations

For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Never say [to younger people] "that was before your time," because the last full moon was before their time!

These people marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education and now we've got these knuckleheads walking around.

The summit, which is set up to educate people about managing their money and protecting their income, leads to empowerment of self, for which this summit needs to be applauded.

Beware of people who fall at your feet. They may be reaching for the corner of the rug.

People say "God will find a way." God can't find a way if you're in the way.

If you know two languages, the level of your intelligence is multiplied a hundredfold in other people's eyes.

Education happens to be something that all people, all cultures, need to embrace. Math, science, the words of the world. To be able to speak and be able to have clarity and to be able to think. Those are the greatest of gifts.

People should fact check. People shouldn’t have to go through that and shouldn’t answer to innuendos.

When a person has a gun, sometimes their mind clicks that this thing will win arguments and straighten people out.

We've got to get the gun out of the hands of people who are supposed to be on neighborhood watch.

People will frighten you about a graduation.... They use words you don't hear often: And we wish you Godspeed." It is a warning, Godspeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices."

Mediocre people are the most dangerous people in the world.

People will frighten you about a graduation....They use words you don't hear often...

Intellectuals are people who go to study things other people do naturally.

The measure ov overexposure is not how many times people see you on TV or in the bookstores. It's whether you can maintain the quality of your entertainment. If you can, people will always be glad to see you.

Listen to John Coltrane enough and after two bars, just two bars at any place, and you know that's him. We all have signature things that happen to be similar that you can predict and you try to stay away from that except the rhythms: those pauses, they're part of my signature, the part where I know when I say nothing, I already painted enough, led enough and I don't even have to say anything. But those pauses don't belong to me. Jack Benny was one of the first guys in comedy to make the anticipation so great that during the pause people start to laugh before the execution.

Sometimes you try to help people, and it backfires on you, and then they try to take advantage of you.

This happened to the people. The Constitution says of the people, by the people, for the people... but the people who got the office, got into office and forgot about the people.

There should be marches in every neighborhood every day telling the people about the negativity of drugs and how the drugs help us to behave negatively.

I feel that in-person contact with people is the most important thing in comedy. While I'm up on stage, I can actually put myself into the audience and adjust my pace and tuning to them. I can get into their heads through their ears and through their eyes. Only through this total communication can I really achieve what I'm trying to do.

Parents are people who yell and they yell and they yell and they yell. And you already have the point... and they're still yelling.

There are some people who have trouble recognizing a mess.

As a comedian, I can walk out in front of 5000 people and not worry about a thing. Not a thing, believe me. But to stand up a face a camera and crew of maybe 15 guys and get up tight about it - to me that's weird.

I know people are tired of me not saying anything, but a guy doesn’t have to answer to innuendos,

When my son was murdered, people asked me how I felt about God and what had happened to my son. I said, 'No, you can't go there. You have to understand that there is a devil, and he works 24/7. Whoever murdered our son was with the devil.'

I can't negate the theory that the Huxtables on 'The Cosby Show' may have helped pave the way for the Obama family. People enjoyed watching that black family.

What we need is for people to realize - 'I want to raise my kid. I want to go back and get my three kids. I want to take on that responsibility. I want to love my children.'

I'm one of those who cut off seeing people after a certain time, when the weight is gone and they sound like the dementia is very advanced - I don't want to see that. I don't even go in to look at the body. That's not my last memory.

Comedy Central is what these young people are viewing. The network speaks to their audience, which is saying, 'Give me fast jokes. Give me party stories and party language.'

There's no tradition today except initials, 'CSI,' 'NCIS,' all the rest. Even with reruns today, people don't know there was a 'Dick Van Dyke Show,' or 'Andy Griffith,' or 'Cheers.'

What people are tired of, the people who agree with me, what they're tired of is listening to that sound, the sound of the people who've given up.

I see Obama as Sisyphus in the first four years. And nobody would speak about the size of the rock, or the elevation of the hill. All you hear people talk about is what he didn't do.

There's a gap between people knowing what I do and really believing that I still do that - and wondering what it is I really do.

People say to me, 'Do you know who you look like?' And I say, 'I'm really tired of looking like that guy.'

People have all kinds of approaches when they come up to me. Some of them are so nervous: 'You know, Mr. Cosby, you are my biggest fan!' I am? Some of them even claim that I raised them.

Things from real life are the things that get people laughing.

I've always heard about people having a conniption, but I've never seen one.

In dealing with kids, no matter how little we understand their explanations, we must always remember that we're the adults. What this means I have no idea. It certainly means nothing to the kids, who instinctively seem to know that adults are merely strange people who have dopey ideas like ""Stop throwing peas at your sister.

We are all anxious to be accepted. But if you have a strong mother and father who tell you that you don't have to dress a crazy way, or hang out with people who are looking for trouble in order to be loved and accepted, then half the battle is over.

I don't see much comedy in the Bible, where people are writing about funny people. It's not there.

I want all this loud profanity in the street stopped. I want people to think about choices.

Social networking helps reach people easier and quicker.

I can't even talk the way these people talk. 'Why you ain't?' 'Where you is?' Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth.

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

Did you ever see the customers in health-food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They're dying, of course, but they look terrific.

People will frighten you about a graduation...They use words you don't hear often... "And we wish you Godspeed." It is a warning, Godpeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices.

about these magical people with no jobs who live in apartments.

Karl Malden was a good friend of mine, and he said, 'You draw the people to you,' and I guess that's what I do.

I love Twitter, but some people use profanity so much that at some point it's like saying, 'Pass the salt.'

I am not going to give in to people who try to exploit me because of my celebrity status.

I don't care what right-wing white people are thinking.

Too many people are waiting for Jesus to come along and cut your grass. And Jesus isn't going to come along and cut your grass.

There should be more on television that uplifts people and shows them how to better prepare themselves for earning a living.

People say children are charming because they tell the truth. That's a lie. I've got five of them. They only tell the truth if they're in pain.

Ladies and gentlemen, the lower economic and lower middle economic people are not holding their end in this deal. In the neighborhood that most of us grew up in, parenting is not going on.

The people who got into office forgot about the people.