With People Quotes

People know me for up-tempo songs because of my hits.

Some people are widely read. I'm thinly read.

If you're a performer, people tend to be quite positive about you or they have no opinion.

Cos people think I'm on drugs and I'm not. I'm really quite... Just a bit of coffee. When I take drugs I start going, Oh, would you like insurance?

If you get too well-known in comedy, I do believe it blocks people from taking you in drama.

San Francisco! City of dreaming spires, people live here... Golden Gate Bridge, ahh the Romans came here.

People still talk about a British sense of humour, or French slapstick or how the Germans have no sense of humour - and it's just rubbish. I do strongly feel that we are all the bloody same.

I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.

Yesterday people were going past my window in t shirts and dresses. But that's the men at the BBC for you.

Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of different races forever. Different class? That was much harder.

You know you can't just run and shoot people in the knee-caps with double barreled shotgun 'cause you're pissed at them.

This is a regional fair that attracts people from the surrounding counties and from further distances. The fair draws people from as far away as Albert Lea, Owatonna and the Twin Cities.

Just six days after its release on iTunes, a record-breaking 33 million people have already listened to the album.

That's the main thing. People have to feel it's real. If they feel there's something commercial or some fake thing behind it, then the feeling is definitely different.

That has always been my biggest ambition. To bring people together. To achieve a family spirit. Because then, you can actually do anything, because people are open to what they feel is real.

I guess that my activities inspire people and that I offer opportunities without realising what is going to happen next.

In the daytime, you act the way you should act because that is what people pay you for, or want from you.

People are receptive in the best way when they are together enjoying themselves in a club; with others who are on the same wavelength. Then the experience becomes a very creative and spiritual thing.

Fun is the main thing. Because fun helps you transmit your message. You can only do that - transmit - when people are receptive.

Even nowadays some people see me as a "vreemde eend in de bijt" [translated literally as the strange duck in the pond. In other words, an outsider].

Most of this innovative new music doesn't make money so it's regarded as uninteresting for the business people and considered as "underground".

Do portraits of people in familiar and typical attitudes, above all give to their face the same choice of expression that one gives to their body.

Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.

It is idle to talk of civil liberties to adults who were systematically taught in adolescence that they had none; and it is sheer hypocrisy to call such people freedom loving.

Adolescents tend to be passionate people, and passion is no less real because it is directed toward a hot-rod, a commercialized popular singer, or the leader of a black-jacketed gang.

I take simple everyday things that happen to me and I figure it happens to a lot of other people and I make simple rhymes out of them.

The Israeli mentality was totally different to mine. They just didn't understand people like me. They couldn't understand why I had been in a ghetto. We were totally different.

In Germany people want to make up to the Jews for what happened by idealizing them.

The earth keeps some vibration going There in your heart, and that is you. And if the people find you can fiddle, why fiddle you must, for all your life.

Another way to think of this is there are now 6.8 billion people on this planet, and half of them weren't even born when we went to the moon, and so they don't have the perspective.

I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people like that with more of a tendency toward jazz.

I'm a fighter for love. I guess it's just that thing of standing up for what you believe in and what and who you love. And any opportunity to avoid people fighting about things the better, really.

Actresses are such very dull people off the stage. We are only delightful and brilliant when we are doing what we are told to do. Off stage we are awful chumps.

There is no better indication of what the people of any period are like than the plays they go to see.

Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics--reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us feel like the happiest people in the world.

When people insist on perfection or nothing, they get nothing.

People struggled on for years with 'troubles,' but they almost always succumbed to 'complications.

[I]t's safer to be fond of dangerous people.

And all the while, I suppose," he thought, "real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them.

No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.

The people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

The question is not whether you have a right to render people miserable, but whether it is not in your best interest to make them happy.

The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them.

A poet must sing for his own people.

Lo, as I gaze, the statured man, Built up from you large hand appears: A type that nature wills to plan But once in all a people's years.

I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason.

We shared a philosophy together [with June Hillary]. We believed very strongly in the welfare of helping other people, particularly the Third World people.

God let it be known that it is better to give than to receive, but a lot of people failed to get the message.