With People Quotes

Sometimes I'll leave the house and go to a delicatessen down the street from me - it's been there a million years - just because I can look at people.

[Raymond] Chandler, I reread him, and there's a lot of bad writing there. I don't think he knew much about people.

I'm grateful for the life I have. I lived bad for many years, and I've got a great life now. I've got the kind of life people only dream about.

I like to have fun out there. I work hard, and then I get to cut loose and go out and tour, and I enjoy it. I like to go out and meet the people. I love to sell books.

Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers.

The German people were not denied, however, the possibility of improving their lot by hard work over the years. Industrial growth and progress were not denied them.

Humor is a bit like Mary Poppins' sugar-it helps the medicine go down. A little bit of humor allows people to think about very difficult subjects.

A rigid America is also weak and vulnerable, because it sacrifices its unique strength: the energy of people who think they can always make something new of their lives.

Societies are healthiest when their radius of trust is broad and when people feel they can influence their own fate.

For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.

I seem to be one of the few people in journalism who never worked or wrote for the 'Boston Phoenix.' I certainly read and admired it, and feel the same general malaise at news that it is gone.

It seems to be the case that for the people who actually are all in with Donald Trump - which is who knows: 35, 38, 40 per cent of the electorate - apparently nothing can dissuade them.

Originally consists in thinking for yourself, and not in thinking unlike other people.

There's often an assumption you're more privileged if you belong to a family with people who have made a success.

I only work with people I trust and respect.

There's this phenomenon where people do like to announce movies that they think I'm doing that I'm not.

A director on a film really sets the tone of how people go about things, so everybody is happy to be at work and everybody does their best.

We did what our people do all the time, we told ourselves something we did was right and we found a way to justify it, even though we knew it was wrong.

But that's part of faith. Believing and knowing despite what other people say, and despite what the world might think of your beliefs.

The promise of eternal life makes people forsake the life they're given.

Every year, at 8:00 PM on the second Saturday of July, hundreds of people gather along a section of Los Angeles rail track to drop their pants and moon passing passenger trains.

The past doesn't matter. People cling to it because it allows them to ignore the present.

And even though people try to pretend that pain doesn't do anything to them, none of us can really handle it. Everything bad we do in our life is because of pain of some kind.

I regretted making a comment about Dave Eggers. I’ve never said anything about McSweeneys except that I admire what it is, and I think it’s great that they keep people interested in literature.

People call me all sorts of things. I don't even care what they call me.

I don't care what people come at me with. People have come at me with everything you could imagine. I could care less about that.

I love doing theaters, cracking people up, hearing them physically roll in the aisles. But we need to get serious. These are serious times. No joke. No joke.

The Internet is like a town that leaves its streets unmarked on the principle that people who don't already know don't belong

I'm not big on reading business books. I get copies of all of them, because people want me to put a comment on the jacket. Every once in a while, I'll get interested and read one all the way through.

In general, markets know more than the people who write about them.

You should just write the movie based on people you actually know and then just see who wants to play it. Cast the net.

I've heard what people are saying, and it's a very weird thing. They're going into a realm where it's somethign that's almost ugly, rather than something that can be so beautiful.

I worry about the many things that could happen to the people I love.

We'd record a song that people liked and wanted to hear on the radio, and the radio wouldn't play it because it was too long. Or they wanted to edit it, which we wouldn't allow.

People used to trust their doctor. They went to an expert. Now people have new ideas and are thinking for themselves. That's a very important change in our collective psychology.

In a small cathedral town where changes are few, there are always people who remember who used to live in a particular house, what happened to them there and afterwards, and so on.

As an actor, demonstrating your feelings in front of people is not what you're supposed to be doing. You're supposed to hold your emotions and control them, and not show them all over the place.

My beef with the alt-fuel people is not the renewable or alt-fuel ideas themselves. Sooner or later, there's no question we're going to have to rely on them. For me, it's an issue of scale.

People don't like railroad tracks near them? We'll see how they feel when the percentage of U.S. citizens who can afford to drive a car goes way down, as it will.

So does being cool mean you get to go around calling other people names?

Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.

There are people who don't say a thing and sound magnificent!

It's when you are trying to make something that is "authentic" as opposed to real - people who appreciate music for the wrong reasons tend to compartmentalize stuff.

Yeah, I'm sure there are stereotypes of Asian people.

It's much easier to work on other people's music and play in other people's bands as a guitar player instead of being the main songwriter and singer. That's a really big job to do that.

The only decent people I ever saw at the racecourse were horses.

When I hear [about a housing bubble] I get the sense that people aren't connecting the dots.

To see Good Tennis! What divine joy Can fill our leisure, or our minds employ? Let other people play at other things; The King of Games is still the Game of Kings.

Expect the best and people will rise to the occasion.

You don't have Republicans and Democrats behind closed doors. We have people passionate about national security behind closed doors. And I think that's the way that it should be.