With People Quotes

They were simple, earnest people, those early Victorians, and had not yet learnt the trick of avoiding disturbing thoughts and sights.

In every project, I always look for the depth of humanity inside of it. I'm just trying to say if we can help in some way heal the equation with [Afro-Americans] what's going on with us as people.

In my career, I've had people talking about different things many times, but then not get nominated.

I want to make sure the people we elect to office believe in America.

When I saw a phone on a plane for the first time, I panicked ... I thought people were going to call me.

Communists all seem to wear small caps, a look I consider better suited to tubes of toothpaste than to people.

I'm not a nervous person. I'm not afraid to be on TV. I'm only afraid when I write. When I'm at my desk I feel like most people would feel if they went on TV.

When people say, 'Doesn't Gloria [Vanderbilt] look great? She's 85.' I say, 'Yes, she was a raving beauty when she was 20,' that's the key. Very helpful.

Luckily when you drive a cab there are two things: You don't have a boss in the cab with you, and you are not facing the people that you are making money from.

When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I thought that God wrote books. I thought a book was a manifestation of nature, like a tree.

Because I was young, I had this long hair, and people used to try to tip me with joints.

In New York we have zillions of different kinds of people, many of them hate each other, but violence based on that hatred is really uncommon here.

Forcing people into a situation where they're supposed to adore each other is probably bad. But letting people get on and off the 6 train without stabbing each other, that's good.

Commercials and sometimes other guests - it's the down side of TV. Other people - it's the downside of life in general.

It's a lonesome walk to the sidelines, especially when thousands of people are cheering your replacement.

Political leaders will only undertake bold climate initiatives if they know the American people want it.

There is no reason why good books should be lowered or lessened being rewritten to meet the demands of people who are not ready or interested enough to make the effort to read.

That satisfied me until I began to figure that if God loved all his children equally, why did he bother about my red hat and let other people lose their fathers and mothers for always?

If you want someone to tell you what to think..." "You will never be short of people willing to do so.

Things happen to people by accident.

Perhaps to be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people...Lots of clever people have done harm and have been wicked.

People never like me and I never like people

Yes," answered Sara, nodding. "Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are.

People never like me and I never like people," she thought. "And I never can talk as the Crawford children could. They were always talking and laughing and making noises.

What has impressed me the most about the Italians whose tables we've sat at is that they are traditional cooks but also outrageously innovative. These people are wild improvisers.

It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.

That's what happened when my own life crumbled. The people who came into my life bolstered me to take more risks, to be even more true to myself.

No society has fulfilled its democratic promise if people go hungry... If some go without food they have surely been deprived of all power. The existence of hunger belies the existence of democracy.

I come from a huge family. I am used to taking orders and being told what to do and not having an opinion, but I think that what I've gone through made me really sensitive to other people.

I hope that I'm able to help people when they're going through things, even if it's just to listen.

A business is good if it gives a decent day's reward for a decent day's work, treats people decently, and gives them a voice at the top.

You just wish sometimes that people would treat you like a human being rather than seeing your gender first and who you are second.

It seems hardly fair to quarrel with a place because its staple commodity is not pretty, but I am sure I should have liked Cincinnati much better if the people had not dealt so very largely in hogs.

I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.

If people think I look good, it's the make-up.

We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.

Truly charismatic people, in my experience, dont come along very often.

I've never been too afraid of what other people have said, especially when I was younger, but I suppose that was the arrogance of youth.

I don't want three million people digesting my private life over their cornflakes.

Casting is very instinctual. I really like to meet people. To me, it's about their essence more than their audition.

If you're gonna take people on a journey that deals with some pretty heavy themes, I think you best have a sense of humor, here and there.

A lot of photography is making records of people, as objects, friends. It's like organizing a wardrobe - in terms of size etc.

As to why people like Joseph Lelyveld are writing memoirs, I think they're just catching on the coattails of the trend.

I didn't find this memoir of these two eccentric people so different from doing my memoirs of De Sade or Simone Weil. My parents in their own way are as odd as Sade.

The people with the most fear have the greatest opportunity to be brave.

The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come!

Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.

Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people's plates.

If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma.

The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.