With People Quotes

He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval between dinner and supper.

It's always interesting to play characters who are vulnerable and how you display that vulnerability and what it's going to mean to people who watch it.

A lot of people tend to think I'm a dogmatic ideologue, which I'm not.

Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.

People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.

People want to be famous, they want to be loved, they want to be accepted. They want to push aside their past and the things that have been embarrassing to them.

When people pay to see you live, they connect with you on a much deeper level than people who just buy your records.

I think people are a little bit intimidated by me. You know, I'm not exactly a wilting flower, so I think they're a little bit scared of me sometimes.

I just want people to admit that there's no one way to live your life.

I can't stand it when people say, "If you're writing a novel, you should read this and that." Because it's like giving someone another person's prescription. How do you know that's what they need?

A lot of people at Shearson ended up making a lot of money because they had stock or stock options. Their kids were able to go to college, and it changed a lot of people's lives.

I didn't know people had that much water in them!

The word 'Spanx' was funny. It made people laugh. No one ever forgot it.

But I just wonder what it would be like to be able to go places without people recognizing me.

If I were elected President, the first thing I would do would be to set up a Department of Restoring the Bill of Rights. I would have 10,000 people working there.

One of the blessings of becoming an adult is finally seeing my mom and dad as people, not just parents.

A powerful connection between two people is a potent psychic factor that exists regardless of either person's opinion about the relationship.

We have to be innovative, we have to be fresh, we have to be new. People are counting on that.

Once in a while, when everything is just right, there is a moment of magic. People can live on moments of magic.

Pieces and parts were always easier to process. The full picture, the entire story, was another thing entirely. But you just never knew. Sometimes, people could surprise you.

The people you love are just weapons that will be used against you.

When oil and gas prices went up dramatically and filled up the state treasury, I sent a large share of that revenue back where it belonged - directly to the people of Alaska.

Washington has got to, across the board, lower taxes for small businesses so that our mom and pops can reinvest and hire people, so that our businesses can thrive.

I was a victim of what most people are a victim of, which is really, really just gulping down what was being fed to me by the media.

Jared glared. Some people, Kami knew, had bedroom eyes. She was saddened to have to admit that Jared had filthy alleyway eyes.

Alan: Conning people out of their savings. Forgery. Blackmail. Selling real estate on Mars. We could have it all. You with me, Bambi?" Sin: "Clive, I was with you from 'I'm a social worker.

People say I'm a nice girl saying terrible things. I tend to say the opposite of what I think. You hope that the absolute power of that transcends, and reaches the audience.

You want to make people laugh and by virtue of that please them, but when you're instructed to make people laugh and please them, you're too resentful to do it.

Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death.

Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don't sound professional; we sound like people you would know.

Why is it we can never love the people we ought to?

I think people enjoy a series. When you like a story, many readers want more of the same, which is dandy, if the author and the characters have more to say.

I take every opportunity to tell people how happy my mother is to be dead.

I find it vulgar that people are so fascinated by natural disasters, and we allow footage of young people that are looting because they have no choice because of natural disaster.

People say "I want peace." If you remove I (ego), and your want (desire), you are left with peace.

The only ache people have nowadays is ache in the stomach due to over eating and lack of exercise!

It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to your people. In that event you are not even a failure. You're just not there.

The truth is our country, our people, our liberties, and our way of life are under attack by radical Islamic terrorists who kill and destroy in the name of religion.

Saddam Hussein has openly admitted to the rest of the world that he had weapons of mass destruction. He used those weapons to kill his own people.

To book commercials, you do something to get to a callback, and once you get to the callback, you've got three minutes to get the people to want to hang out with you for a day.

Good advertising can make people buy your product even if it sucks ... A dollar spent on brainwashing is more cost-effective than a dollar spent on product improvement.

Ideally, people find mates with whom they can express both their masculine and feminine sides.

People tell me this is obvious. But it's ok to be obvious. Knowing and doing are different. Many people know many obvious things they completely fail to do, despite their knowledge.

I want to create a little chaos and make people's heads turn.

Even the once simple home mortgage now has so many flavors and styles and variations that it is difficult for people to make a decision.

Today more people believe in UFOs than believe that Social Security will take care of their retirement.

I just try to touch people's hearts in a way through skating, so they're not just witnessing a performance, they're feeling a performance and they're a part of it.