With People Quotes

We're just musically and rhythmically retarded. We play so hard that we can't tune our guitars fast enough. People can relate to that.

I don't know: Why aren't people fascinated by air traffic controllers?

Why focus on what somebody might think? Nobody talks [on TV] like people really talk most of the time.

And you can't really cover people critically that you're friends with.

So, yeah, I think it had a major effect. I think in franchising younger people, it was just an idea that's never been trotted out before, but it makes perfectly good sense.

And I always tried to be not a star. To be someone who people like to talk to.

I can go in front of an orchestra. I can go in front of an audience. But if you see me walking through an audience in the reception or through a lot of people, I'm still shy.

A nation that encourages its people to spend more and save less promotes economic backwardness, social decay and its own financial doom.

Human beings, from their own point of view, are very different than what people see.

I've learned in most areas of my life, to bounce heated choices off other people. Co-workers, my agent, my wife, a sponsor, etc. A majority of the time, that keeps me on the right side of things.

I just know that there are plenty of people who are in terrible trouble and can't get out. And so I'm impatient with those who think that it's easy for people to get out of trouble.

That's what is was to be young - to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do.

Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard evidence could never be.

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.

Thanks to their decreased brainpower, people aren't diverted from the main business of life by the hobgoblins of opinion anymore.

Take life seriously but none of the people in it.

After that demonstration everybody was thinking, what's going to happen to these wonderful men who have been so useful to us? We have to give people something to do with life.

It's an astonishing skill that people can read, and read well. Very few people can read well. For instance, I have to be very careful with irony, saying something while meaning the exact opposite.

Only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president.

Why throw money at problems? That is what money is for. Should the nation's wealth be redistributed? It has been and continues to be redistributed to a few people in a manner strikingly unhelpful.

I love cell phones. I see people so happy and proud, walking around. Gesturing, you know. I'm like Karl Marx, I'm up for anything that makes people happy.

. . . but the Universe is an awfully big place. There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree.

People who are wary of what they might find in a book if they opened one are right to be.

A lot of people were opposed to it. A lot of people were for it. I myself think about it as little as possible.

The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.

People would be surprised if they knew how much in this world was due to prayers.

All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again.

Novelists are people who have discovered that they can dampen their neuroses by writing make-believe. We will keep on doing that no matter what, while offering loftier explanations.

People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write.

Now, the engineers and managers believe with all their hearts the glorious things their forebears hired people to say about them. Yesterday's snow job becomes today's sermon.

I wasn't aware of Ku Klux Klan as I was aware of the widespread assumption that African-Americans were dumber than white people. I think my father believed that. I think everybody white did.

Everybody knows that the dumbest people in any American university are in the education department, and English after that.

I know of very few people who are dreaming of a world for their grandchildren.

Oh, God — the lives people try to lead. Oh, God — what a world they try to lead them in.

Take care of the people, and God Almighty will take care of Himself.

You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.

For some people, getting pregnant is as easy as catching cold." And there certainly was an analogy there: Colds and babies were both caused by germs which loved nothing so much as a mucous membrane.

What do men want? They want a lot of pals, and they wish that people wouldn't get so mad at them.

People hate it when they're tickled because laughter is not pleasant, if it goes on too long. I think it's a desperate sort of convulsion in desperate circumstances, which helps a little.

[People] want to feel superior, so they imagine we're Bible thumpers and uneducated and all that.

People who were so good. There were angels.

Social class means a hell of a lot and upper class people - no matter how well [Franklin ] Roosevelt did - it was stylish to hate him.

I learned how to make jokes because I wanted to give people as much fun as they did, and I guess I did, too.

That's the job of the entertainer, to entertain, not to motivate or inspire people to get violent!

When people open up and share their stories, you have a responsibility to tell these truths truthfully and with the same quest for grace and beauty that you see in them.

I like to edit; I like to work with other people, and that's something stand-up doesn't really have.

The film world is a crazy place to be. You sit around all day waiting for the phone to ring. Are people talking about you or aren't they?

I can understand why people would want to stay on the road because you create your own bubble. You almost don't live in the real world. Just to have the things that are with you is fine.

I wrote lyrics that were intensely personal to me a few years ago. Maybe people know me better now.