With People Quotes

I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.

I like being a Baha'i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine.

A lot of my humor centers on the act of telling jokes and I think this can prevent certain audiences from suspending their feeling of disbelief. It might piss a few people off, but I can't help it.

We know we must win the war on terror to protect innocent people and the freedoms that define our way of life.

If we stick together as an American people we can bring down the war criminals that are running our country right now.

When people have a willpower failure, it's because they haven't anticipated a situation that's going to come along.

That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.

Yeah, I love doing ensemble pieces. You get to meet so many new people and make new friends.

If two very different people pool their DNA, they'll create more genetic variety, and their young will come to the job of parenting with a wider array of skills.

If your album sells, that's cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we're really about-which is a live rock and roll band.

The term 'geek' for me is like you having a passion, interest in something that is unabashed and you don't care if people think it's not cool. You think it's cool and that's your thing.

I think I'm so old I'm in. We call it the 'Tony Bennett Syndrome.' For some reason, young people think I'm cool.

There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.

People in this world of superficial communication find themselves isolated and lonely and have difficult in talking about personal things that really matter to them.

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

People recognize certain things, like 'D' means 'this dialogue stinks.' We're dealing with shows that are written here, shot in New York and posted back here. Accurate communication is a necessity.

People seem to see no difference between an intimate conversation and a conversation at the water cooler.

I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.

The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.

I hate to let people down. I was like that in sports and I was like that in comedy. I was like that at work. When I worked General Motors and stuff like that, when I say something, I mean it.

I think everybody has something that takes them away or makes them happier. To some people it's baseball or sports or knitting or the movies.

Cyberspace can't compensate for real space. We benefit from chatting to people face to face.

How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?

By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.

Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer.

Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.

There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album.

So many people release albums before Christmas and they get lost in the Christmas rush.

Growth and profit are a product of how people work together.

People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.

There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famous people that don't do anything. They don't create anything.

I think there are a lot of people who really want to be famous, they really do. I don't. It sort of gets in the way of the everyday things that I do.

I'm willing to make compromises based on someone I think is the one, but I think it's psychologically important to people when they're famous to be the only famous person they know.

I just wanted to be an actress. It never occurred to me that I could become famous, because I'm not one of those people who's automatically going to be the lead. I always saw myself as the mate.

I can't tell you how many people say they were turned off from science because of a science teacher that completely sucked out all the inspiration and enthusiasm they had for the course.

We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom.

My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting.

Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.

Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?

It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people.

I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.

My whole thing is not just to play music for people, but to make them part of the evening.

Music has to be written while people are still excited about a particular melodic or rhythmic sequence. The idea doesn't come out the same if we're not really excited about it.

In an age of specialization people are proud to be able to do one thing well, but if that is all they know about, they are missing out on much else life has to offer.

Everyday interactions we have with other people are definitely contagious, in terms of happiness.

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.

I come from a very working-class background, so my family would have been downstairs in the past, as opposed to upstairs. People are often quite surprised to hear that, that I'm not actually posh.

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

When you have rules to abide by, does that curtail you as a designer, or set you free? People think of classical architecture visually, but I think the brilliant part of it is actually spatial.

I think that there is a relatively small number of people who are pushing for independence in Taiwan.