George Borrow Quotes

I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.

George Borrow

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• People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • Heart
  • Love

• People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.

  

  Ralph Allen
  • People
  • Feel
  • Presence

• Gentrification always makes me laugh. People complain about traffic. Live in Atlanta! You can't have it both ways; you can't live in an incredible city and not expect it to get congested.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Live
  • City

• As a hip-hop artist who likes fashion, who can't help but notice people like Kanye West, Tiger, Big Sean and definitely T.I.P. These guys really understand how to be progressive and fashion forward.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • People
  • Help
  • Fashion

• We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • People
  • Up
  • History

• T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Today
  • Fashion
  • More

• 'Jaws' was the ultimate man vs. nature movie, and it was a movie that was basically three people against the elements, so that was the biggest influence on 'Frozen.'

  

  Adam Green
  • People
  • Movie
  • Nature

• People know not to mess with my friends or my family because it's not going to work out well for you.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • People
  • Work
  • Family

• I've always loved fashion and, of course, enjoyed my experiences walking on runways, but I love watching the shows as well! Now I understand more why it's such a big deal for the industry and why people work so hard before and during fashion weeks. It's interesting to see the same things from a different angle.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • People
  • Work
  • Fashion

• The genuine truth, and I do think about this a lot, is that I'm one of the least competitive people you'll ever meet. Except with myself.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Truth
  • Myself

• Everyone knows almost everything about me. I make it very clear that I'm cool with people knowing all my personal life through my songs.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • People
  • Life
  • Cool

• I only realised why I keep living in Shepperton when I returned to China. All the people who moved there had come from places just like Shepperton, and so they built and lived in houses exactly like these. I now know I was drawn here because, on an unconscious level, Shepperton reminds me of Shanghai.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Why
  • Know

• I will never be an insider. I want to be the champion of people who don't have insiders and lobbyists supporting them.

  

  Pat Quinn
  • People
  • Want
  • Champion

• There's a lot of people out now around America who depend on checks from their fellow taxpayers being in the mailbox every day.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • People
  • America
  • Day

• Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • People
  • Good
  • Man

• You have to lead people to get excited and be passionate and be activated by what you do.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • You
  • Lead

• When people say this isn't the America they grew up in, they're right. Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Up
  • America

• Having traveled to parts of the world where war has done its usual nasty work on people's lives, I have come to develop a particular hatred for the shape, the look, the sound of the AK-47.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• People miss those who they love. It brings tears to my eyes to see the longing for me. But it's my decision to do fewer films and more protagonist-based roles. For me to take up something, it has to make a lot of sense to me.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • People
  • Love
  • Decision

• When we set out to land people on the surface of Mars, I think we should as a nation, as a world, commit ourselves to supporting a growing settlement and colonization there. To visit a few times and then withdraw would be an unforgivable waste of resources.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • People
  • World
  • Growing

• I've written enough books with real celebrities, such as Walter Payton and Hank Aaron and Billy Graham, to know that fame looks good only to people who don't have it.

  

  Jerry B. Jenkins
  • People
  • Good
  • Real

• I don't take part in it the way I used to-the bimbos, the free beers, free drugs, all that. That's still there if you want it, but I don't really seek that out any more.

  

  Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains
  • Want
  • Way
  • Drug

• I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.

  

  George Borrow
  • People
  • Sleep