With People Quotes
Being in a room with other people's energy yields such a different result. I love writing by myself still, but there's something amazing about sharing that experience with someone else.
It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word "human" is "sympathetic." More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
Some people change. Most people don't. Accepting this makes it much harder for them to disappoint you.
I've never understood why people get mad at others for not being interested in them romantically - especially when there are so many reasons to be mad at people that are within their control.
Being attractive, it's not something I do consciously. It's incredibly flattering that people think I appeal to women. But that was a gift from my parents.
When people ask you to do stuff, it's not your idea anymore, so it's tough to get behind it.
I'm someone who can create critiques of individuals based on their economic history. That's one way I look at people in terms of one story that could be told purely in a Marxist construction.
People, for reasons of kind of security, they tend to move towards people like themselves.
I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say 'Wow she looks healthy.'
I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human.
For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.
I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.
... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.
I think philosophy is extremely good training for anyone who wants to do anything. Although that is an idea which people may speak scornfully of now, I think it does teach one to
People love talking about their jobs. Take them out, buy them lunch or take them for a beer and they'll talk about their job, provided they know that you're going to respect their anonymity.
You're never going to get beyond other people's preconceptions of what you are and what you're about.
You have to let people express themselves in the way that they need to express themselves. You have to express yourself in any way possible, provided you're prepared to live with the consequences.
I think there is a natural thing that you feel when you've written something taboo because you just don't want to expose the people you're close to.
I'm not really interested in courting controversy, but I am interested in exploring issues that other people would deem to be controversial.
When I go to places and do book tours, I don't really like doing traditional bookshops. It's nice to walk people through something instead of just standing up in a bookstore.
I think that a lot of people on the left are gonna get tired of fighting gun laws, so they're gonna embrace gun culture. I think when that happens, you've got serious, serious trouble.
When two people were in love you had to leave them to it. Especially when you weren't in love and wished that you were. That could embarrass. That could hurt.
Most middle-class people I know don't really live like me. Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot of nine-to-five stuff.
History shows fans want consolidation; you see it across the web every place. The big players are people like Google, Amazon, eBay, Facebook.
People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.
From the biography of Freud, by Irving Stone, said by Freud's fiance after he teased her for being sweet, "Beware of truly sweet people. They have will of iron.
Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent; reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and sufferings seemed to bury his own failures.
I can't bear to hear a human being spoken of with contempt just because of his group identification...It's these respectable people here who create those hooligans out there.
People used to think of vocal music as boring choir stuff, once you figured out that you can do crazy beat-boxing, awesome bass lines (and) throw everything together, you just have really cool music.
Are my words ever actually audible, or do they just echo in my head while people stare at me, waiting?
All the shitty stuff people do to themselves... it can all be the same thing, you know? Just a way to drown out your own voice. To kill your memories without having to kill yourself.
When people ask, Do you like children? I always say, I like some children, yes. Some children I don't like.
I have travelled all over the world and one thing that amazes me is that I can communicate with people. My story may be different but emotionally we are all the same.
Some people connect with a story and may find between the lines something that might be useful to him or her, but that's not the intention of the author, I think. At least not mine.
A book is not an end in itself; it is only a way to touch someone - a bridge extended across a space of loneliness and obscurity - and sometimes it is a way of winning other people to our causes.
The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.
I am an American citizen and it is my home now. I like the USA, which is not a place too many people have liked since Bush. The US has a young population, and everything can change within a year.