With People Quotes

I don't enjoy other people's dramas, and I don't enjoy mine.

People tell me that I am well-grounded. I am sane in the New England sense of the word.

I think we live in a time where people are just insane on the subject of how they look.

The basic idea of a hero rising up to represent an oppressed or disenfranchised group of people is as true to hip-hop as it is comic book lore.

I love being on movie sets. It's a very particular setting. And not all of the time, most of the time, there's always people you don't like, and you have to see them every day.

Throughout my life, there are four people I've met who were truly original people. The other three were Groucho Marx, Jim Morrison and Pablo Picasso.

Please clean your plate dear, the Lord above can see ya. Don't you know people are starving in Korea.

People that haven't seen us yet are shocked because they think that Alice Cooper must be a female folksinger. They don't expect the whole thing.

To me, if you are in the same building with Peter Sellers or John Cleese, or any of those guys and holding your own making other people laugh, that's a compliment.

Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.

People are going so far as to kill themselves over the things that happen online.

I can't say that I know the lexicon as intimately as a lot of people, so I may be unworthy of being called a Trekkie. That would be doing a disservice to the people who really are Trekkies.

It seems a strange fact that it is almost more important for us to be happy ourselves than to try to make other people happy. By being happy we confer untold benefits upon our fellow men.

My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women enter the same garden.

She liked to disappear, even when she was in the same room as other people. It was a talent, as it was a curse.

Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside?

He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.

What you dream, you can grow. Someone told me that, but I didn't believe it. I said I had nothing and that people with nothing are unable to dream. But I was wrong.

Young people believe that regret is something you will never feel if you simply do as you please, but sometimes it is a matter of degree.

What people read revealed so much about them that she considered our card catalog a treasure house of privileged secrets; each card contained the map of an individual’s soul.

Let everyone see the blood,' he said. 'Don't clean it up. That's the only way people remember.'... I could see the blood inside my head. It was with me forever, whether or not I wanted to forget.

He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted.

I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a novel first to see whether she wanted to read it. It was a strange reading habit.

Most people know that Ray Bradbury is one of my favorite authors.

Ah! Those strange people who have the courage to be unhappy! Are they unhappy, by the way?

We always wanted to make a comedy that was a little bit more than that, which had tragic elements to it... that people engaged with - an intelligent comedy essentially.

I think what's difficult is proving to people that a script actually does work and sometimes the laughter might not be on the page, it might be between the lines.

It's nice to think people might be talking about it after they've seen it. With some comedies it's a bit 'wham bam thank you ma'am', and then you just go for a pizza.

I think people feel for a long time that they ought to know how to write a novel in two drafts.

We still have so many cultures in which people are imprisoned and whipped and killed for writing what they think.

You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it.

I love it when people can help me with my work, so I do show it.

I don't really like to tell people to get out drugs.

I'm very secretive. I'll write a whole novel and revise it, which might take me two years or more, and the people I know best don't know what I'm writing about.

There seems to be a tremendous desire among many people now to know authors and how they work, to know what's autobiographical and what isn't.

Sometimes it's interesting to see what people who have too much control need to do to write freely.

I don't think a white person can write accurately and convincingly about what black people experience of oppression.

Being part of a community of writers is huge. I really think that's why people go to MFA programs.

There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all.

Lovers. Not a soft word, as people thought, but cruel and tearing.

I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people.

There were people whom you positively ached to please. If you failed with such people they would put you into a category in their minds where they could kee you and have contempt for you forever.

She keeps on hoping from a word from Penelope, but not in any strenuous way. She hopes as people who know better hope for undeserved blessings, spontaneous remissions, things of that sort.

I have always felt extremely weird. But I am very happy with my weirdnesses, and I want other people to be very happy with theirs.

I would do exactly what you are doing: I would talk to everyone I needed to, I would not tell too many people his name. When I was sure," she said, "I would find a quiet way, and I would kill him.

The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her; she had noted in her journal: "booze affects material as it does people.

People grow up by living.

How much ... did the volume of disease in a nation account for its spirit? If so, the eradication of sickness, as far as it was possible, was a responsibility a democracy must assume for its people.

we've got to find a better way to handle the expense of disease. Odd as it may seem, the more efficient we become in eliminating disease, the more our services are out of reach of the people.

You don't really stay attached to things. Life goes on, so you don't really sit around and think about how they are relevant to other people. You hope that whatever you create will be [relevant].