With People Quotes

I hate wasting people's time.

To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue.

I even agree that the concept of god helps some people lead better lives. That does happen. Don't ever forget it. I just think there are better ways to help people lead better lives.

It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening to more music than ever and from a greater diversity of artists.

In general, people are comfortable sharing their music. There are two exceptions, though - Lady Gaga and Britney Spears.

Both the Bush people and [Barack] Obama people had no problem working with the holdovers. They weren't out to get them.

I'm not a conservative or a free market advocate or a Republican because, you know, I want people to like me.

Never does the Tanakh suggest that our being a people means that only we have a right to an ancestral homeland and that other people don't.

Having people be afraid of you comes with responsibility.

Especially for fostering creative, conceptual work, the best way to use money as a motivator is to take the issue of money off the table so people concentrate on the work.

Tens of millions of people have iPods, whereas eight years ago, they didn't know they were missing them.

"Mad" magazine is like one of my few formative experiences, absolutely. "Mad" magazine teaches a whole generation of people to be irreverent toward power.

If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.

I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing books, I'm trying to do that in a modest way.

It's dangerous to be people-blind.

Technology changes, but people stay the same.

People need meaning as much as they need air. Lucky for us, we can give meaning to each other for free. Just by being alive.

Human reactions to robots varies by culture and changes over time. In the United States we are terrified by killer robots. In Japan people want to snuggle with killer robots.

For people who have been raised on text-based interactions, just speaking on the telephone can be high bandwidth to the point of anxiety.

The worst surroundings in the world can be tolerated if the people in them are interesting and kind.

It has been said that the hardest job in the world is raising a child, but the people who says this have probably never worked at a comb factory or captured pirates on the high seas.

Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.

Well-read people are less likely to be evil.

It is always cruel to laugh at people, of course, although sometimes if they are wearing an ugly hat it is hard to control yourself.

As I am sure you know, when people say 'It's my pleasure,' they usually mean something along the lines of, 'There's nothing on Earth I would rather do less.' [...]

That night it felt that somehow by flicking them off the roof, the matches would burn down everything, the sparks from the tips of the flames, torching the world and all the heartbroken people in it.

It is always terrible to be told to go play with people one doesn't know.

It is one of the peculiar truths of life that people often say things that they know full well are ridiculous.

So you’re reluctant, I said to myself. Many, many people are reluctant. It’s like having feet. It’s nothing to brag about.

I kind of always think my work is unfilmable, and when I meet people who are interested in filming it, I'm always stunned.

I like writing for movies. It's nice to be alone working on fiction in your room, and then it's nice to be in a room with a bunch of people working on a movie.

Appearance matters a great deal because you can often tell a lot about people by looking at how they present themselves.

You meet people who are in pain in life and love and you forgive them for behaving the way they do.

People who say money doesn’t matter are like people who say cake doesn’t matter—it’s probably because they’ve already had a few slices.

This is love if it's not with you, a terrible fiery something that makes people look away, and it feels like a punch in the throat.

One of the remarkable things about love is that, despite very irritating people writing poems and songs about how pleasant it is, it really is quite pleasant.

Like People, animals will become frightened and likely do whatever you say if you whip them enough.

-Most people would say that she's beautiful. -That's because she's been with most people.

Is it OK not to be a virgin, yes. Most people aren’t virgins, Min. That’s why there’s people to begin with.

Don’t repeat yourself. It’s not only repetitive, it’s redundant, and people have heard it before.

Historically, a story about people inside impressive buildings ignoring or even taunting people standing outside shouting at them turns out to be a story with an unhappy ending.

It is not always the job of people shouting outside impressive buildings to solve problems. It is often the job of the people inside, who have paper, pens, desks, and an impressive view.

Adverbs is a book about love, and I thought that was pretty cheerful, but people who are reading it now are telling me that it's actually quite dark.

Like a lot of people whose children were small in the 2000s, I read [Daniel Handler] books out loud and I loved them.

I was never a fan of anything, and yet some people are fans of my books. That's a bit odd. But I like meeting them.

I always think it's silly when people talk about works of culture taking risks. Because there's not any risk involved.

I like to think that I get better and better as a writer, but it seems pretty easy to me to slip on disguises of various people.

I love meeting people who have absolutely no sense of irony. It's really fascinating to imagine what it would be like to go through life without understanding even the most basic of ironies.

Historians will not fail to note that a people who could spend $300 billion on defense refused to spend a tiny fraction of that total to keep their libraries open in the evening.

Never have people been more the masters of their environment. Yet never has a people felt more deceived and disappointed. For never has a people expected so much more than the world could offer.