Persons Quotes

Imagination consists in expelling from reality several incomplete persons, and then using the magic and subversive powers of desire to bring them back in the form of one entirely satisfying presence.

It is seeing ourselves in others that often prompts the remark, 'There's something about that person I don't trust.

If you can make just one person laugh, then you are already doing better than Tony Danza.

According to the Spanish proverb, four persons are wanted to make a good salad: a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a counsellor for salt and a madman to stir it all up.

I am a chatty person, but colossally discreet.

Every artist - even if they do Superman, they do Batman, and things like that - they are speaking about his life. Every person, every artist makes his life an artwork.

The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.

My comments concerning persons afflicted with AIDS as well as various minority groups have left people wondering if I am a racist.

I am a melancholy type of person.

They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.

Every time I play with someone, not just a new person, but someone I've been with all along, that's where I really learn.

I'm a very stereotypical person... and that's part of my flavor, I guess, because I tell it like it is.

Worthless persons appointed to have supreme control of weighty affairs do a lot of damage.

I'm a really good hacker, but I'm not a sensible person.

A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.

Any power, of course, depends upon the values of the person exercising the power.

You don't see the struggle part of a person's life. You only see the success they have.

Relationships are such that if one person changes, the relationship changes.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature.

If we had not been dealing with the devil in person, we could have saved Algeria.

The photograph annihilates the person.

Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse.

Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded persons who wish I would write another These Old Shades, it ought to sell like hot cakes.

Unless what you say benefits the other person, don't say it.

I'm a person who has life and wants to live, and always have.

Find one thing every day to forgive the other person for. Don't let them know what it is...just forgive them and let it go.

My objective is to build a bridge to a person, to establish a dialogue.

The person who gets hired is not necessarily the one who can do that job best; but, the one who knows the most about how to get hired.

Each time we act to improve the life of another person, we send forth a ripple of hope in what appears to be a hopeless society.

No discussion between two persons can be of any use, until each knows clearly what it is that the other asserts.

The most destitute person in the world is the one without a smile.

Persons who think there is no such thing as luck good or bad are entitled to their opinion, although I think they ought to be shot for it.

Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.

When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.

You can still practice to be a better and kinder and happier person. That's perfectly possible.

Money sometimes makes fools of important persons, but it may also make important persons of fools.

I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona.

If a person fears God, she has no reason to fear anything else.

A nod, a bow, and a tip of the lid to the person who coulda and shoulda and did.

Every person on the face of the earth has a gift. In some this reveals itself spontaneously, others have to work to find it.

You can respect a person without necessarily liking that individual.

Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

It's not the photographer who makes the picture, but the person being photographed.

No one sells a song better than the person that wrote it.

You've given up your whole life to be the person you are now. Is it worth it?

The key to praying with power is to become the kind of persons who do not use God for our ends but are utterly devoted to being used for His ends.

I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who have understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks,-who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering.

Man has a primary property right to his person and his labor.

It's good that I managed to hoodwink so many people. I am actually not that nice a person.