With People Quotes

I feel that we have come a long way as American people, and we have to start looking at ourselves as human beings.

We're living in a time where we want to be entertained but I think part of what people are looking for, that they don't even know they're looking for is to be uplifted in many ways.

I try to be more goofy when I'm on set now that I'm more comfortable. In real life, I'm so goofy and super weird. I'm never mean but people don't see the weird side of me.

I get to go back and ride my horses with all the people that I grew up with because that's really fun for me.

I have so much respect for people that can do it [tredmill running], I wish I could because it looks really cool and really fun.

It is amazing that something I did 23 years ago still has an audience that people respond to and I am touched and surprised that people are still very positive about.

I think people connect better with TV. stars over film stars.

But generally speaking, people weren't fired, art jobs were very hard to get, so something really calamitous had to happen to a person who was working there in order for you to find a space.

You can have a poem like "B-Movie" and sum up thirty conversations that people have had on the subject, but I wrote it down, and other people didn't.

I don't think people in power have the potential to do anything like that to me. I feel as though as long as our music is available, folks are going to hear it.

People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing.

You never know what people will choose to be offended by.

The joy of the roasts is to watch people get hurt and offended, and then have to laugh to pretend they're a good sport.

A lot of people who claim they're political comedians are just comedians who have opinions. But they stop being funny the minute they give their opinions.

If you're a lead actor, people are just waiting to say 'you're too old' or 'you're too unhip.' If you're a supporting actor, you can just work forever.

I don't know if I change my act from century to century. Sometimes I'm onstage doing imitations and references to people who have been dead for 50 years.

I've never understood people who say they're not a practicing Jew. You never hear a black guy say he's not a practicing African-American. What does it even mean?

Many of the snarly bad-tempered teachers whom we remember with hatred were really nice people soured by years of anxiety and penny-pinching.

None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.

I think the oddest thing about the advanced people is that, while they are always talking about things as problems, they have hardly any notion of what a real problem is.

My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday.

The determining bulk of Scotch people had heard of golf ever since they had heard of God and often considered the two as of equal importance.

People that insist upon drinking and driving, are putting the quart before the hearse.

Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?

If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing.

I am not fighting a hopeless fight. People who have fought in real fights don't, as a rule.

The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.

It was the people who did not care who filled the world with fire and oppression. It was the hands of the indifferent that lit the faggots; it was the hands of the indifferent that turned the rack.

Research is the search of people who don't know what they want.

The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.

There are two kinds of people in the world, the conscious dogmatists and the unconscious dogmatists. I have always found myself that the unconscious dogmatists were by far the most dogmatic.

In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it.

People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things.

The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.

The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.

Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and a respect for labor uncorrupted by cynicism.

All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out.

Once we got going on the Fantagraphics version of Love and Rockets, our encouragement was constant. People wanted us to do more, do more. Thirty years later, here we are.

I've seen that most people change as they get older.

Some people get lots of pleasure; From books or from music or art; But boys seem to think it's fantastic; To just have a really good fart.

My recent drawings that personal ones aren't fashion-related. I sometimes sit and draw people on the bus, or some fantasy hybrid animal. You know, wherever the hand will lead.

I had been a fashion photographer for over ten years, but I'd always been dissatisfied with what I was doing. It was all about selling people, and I got disheartened by the whole industry.

Self-esteem should have nothing to do with what you look like – if you exude genuine confidence, people will be swept into it. You have to be able to hold yourself.

Most beautiful, good things were done by women people scorn.

Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.

Everytime people said I was pretty, I thought of everything ugly swarming beneath my clothes.

My imagination is more tweaked by imagining the lives of the people who were there before us. I don't need to give myself the willies. I'm quite good at that - I can freak myself out wherever I am.

I think there's a sort of satisfaction in defying people's expectations.

It's really nice when life comes full circle and you get to work with people four years down the line.

You've got to get as literal as you can get to convince people sometimes that you can do something.