With People Quotes

In the late nineties, Katy Grannan began making haunting photographs of people who had extraordinary inner yens to be seen by strangers.

Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they are. In a gallery, works of art need only one person who wants to pay for them.

Now people look at 'The Scream' or Van Gogh's 'Irises' or a Picasso and see its new content: money. Auction houses inherently equate capital with value.

Biennial culture is already almost irrelevant, because so many more people are providing so many better opportunities for artists to exhibit their work.

I hate when dealers talk to me. I love dealers - they're some of our favorite people in the art world. But I hate if they do a sales pitch on me. I can't stand it.

If you go to shows today, you have 16 celebrities sitting there, all these people who have nothing to do with fashion.

There's no downside to fame and people who whine about it make me sick. It's the greatest thing in the world.

I'll tell you what I like about Chinese people: they're hanging in there with the chop sticks, aren't they? You know they've seen the fork. They're staying with the sticks.

I wonder is illiterate people know the full meaning of alphabet soup?

People on dates shouldn't even be allowed out in public.

When you interrupt, you've stopped listening. People need to be heard.

Most people, you do a TV series, it ends three, four, five years later; it's a relic.

I love meeting Israeli people. They look at me like a son

The only way a show works is you find people who you think are qualified and talented and you give them a chance to do what they do.

For people on my side of the cubicle, the goal is always creativity. Spending your time overcoming corporate resistance to creativity - I just don't want to do that.

I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be the way I'm best equipped to do that.

Star people are rare.

I'm a happy guy, but if I'm in a rare dark mood, I won't go out because I don't want to be horrible to people.

When I was first on 'Dancing With The Stars,' people were really shocked and surprised.

I can't imagine anybody who has spoken to more, or presented more non-famous people on television in the history of the world.

I think there's a phenomenon of people who want to be around something that seems "dangerous." It makes them feel more real.

This is, I believe, what happens when people take their own lives. They're not killing themselves, they're killing the world. Either to spare it pain or to cause it some, depending.

Things are picking up...It's not going to make this thing go away... don't think you're going to find anybody deterred...There's a lot of people willing to die for the cause.

I know everybody. I make friends easily. I'm a gregarious guy, I'm open, I'm easy to get to know - I don't lock myself in an ivory tower. So I like people; I enjoy people.

Talented people have to do what they do. Someone can criticize but you do what you do.

I do characters. I believe in that. I think people are interesting. Now, everybody that you meet in New York City thinks that their life is a movie.

When you are nice to people, they bring their A-game.

That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal.

People are sheep. TV is the shepherd.

The laws governed people's happiness. To be lawless was to be happy.

If money's the god people worship, I'd rather go worship the devil instead.

The gestures and the swagger and the attitude of black men is imitated everywhere in American culture, but people still find black men intolerable.

Only when you leave do you appreciate what binds American people and our cultural experience together.

There is something very quiet and reserved and pessimistic about Obama's temperament that is deeply un-American. There are those people who claim, "Oh, he wasn't born here" - all that is nonsense.

I had observed people whose identity crises around race seemed analogous to other people's identity crises around gender.

I was relatively isolated from people of color. My parents are too old to be Baby Boomers; they had me later in life. So we didn't listen to any black music at all in the house, not even Ben E. King.

I never really had novel-writing instruction like people do in MFA programs.

He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.

If you're having a bad day already and everybody is just asking you petty questions, it drives people to the edge, or something really small will have a really large effect.

Talk to people who know more than you. I feel like we're in this stupid sea of opinion, like "My opinion is valid because it's mine and I have it."

There's this resistance to actually talking to people who are smarter than you about things and I don't know why that is.

I don't behave the way people necessarily want me to, but I tried behaving that other way for a short period of time and it didn't take.

Just send the emails and talk to people. Spend all your money on nail polish and opera tickets.

The conversation of two people remembering, if the memory is enjoyable to both, rocks on like music or lovemaking. There is a rhythm and a predictability to it that each anticipates and relishes.

Some people are always thirsting for water from other people's wells.

As far as ideas about book design: I have plenty. But I also try and let people do their jobs.

Mother Teresa was asked what was the meaning of life, and she said to help other people, and I thought, 'What a strange thing to say' - but maybe it's the right thing to say.

I think I prioritize other people's opinions of me very highly, which is not necessarily a good thing - it's a thing that causes a lot of anxiety.

In New York, everybody is their own celebrity, so they're not so interested in other people.

I find people who want to help other people to be the most interesting. I come from a family of teachers, and my friends are teachers, often times in very difficult school situations.