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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Social networking helps reach people easier and quicker.

There are some people who have trouble recognizing a mess.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.'

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.'

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

The people who got into office forgot about the people.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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,

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.