Rich Mullins (Richard Wayne Mullins) Quotes

Ain't it funny what people say? Ain't it funny what people write?

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• All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Writing
  • Storytelling

• When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Great
  • Truth

• The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • People
  • Experience
  • Fight

• My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Want
  • Audience

• Most people seem unaware that corporate influence and wealth has taken over public policy, such that government policy now favors the wealthy few at the expense of the people.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • People
  • Government
  • Taken

• Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me to write a song is to visualise the story in my head, and I start humming a melody, and before you know it, a song is born.

  

  Nadia Ali
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Best

• One of the biggest mistakes people make when they cook for other people is to think that it has to be fancy and elaborate. This results in enormous expense and nine days of labor, plus you end up trying to assemble a croquembouche in front of your guests and everyone's experiencing flop sweat.

  

  Ted Allen
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• There are no 'political prisoners' as such in Bahrain. People are not arrested because they express their views, we only have criminals.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • People
  • Political
  • Express

• I really admire people who have a natural sense of style. They have a super power.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Power
  • Style

• I think it's important for all culturally literate people to understand the technological substrate of new developments.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • People
  • Important
  • Think

• The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • People
  • Fall
  • Humility

• Once the Afghan people vote and they choose their President with direct, secret ballot from all over the country, there will be a lot of difference in this country and a lot of legitimate power to flow with implementation.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Country
  • Power

• It doesn't matter how good or bad the product is; the fact is that people don't read anymore.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• People ask me what the definition of perfection, I said it's none: there is no definition of perfection.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Perfection
  • Definition

• Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • People
  • Up
  • Art

• I know that any group of people can become a team if they do the right things, but I came to realize over time that if you acquire or develop the right kind of people, that process of building a team is going to be much more effective and easier.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Time
  • Team

• Detroit in its heyday - let's say, 1920s to the '60s - was never a huge downtown-living thing. People lived in the neighborhoods.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Never
  • Say

• I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Poetry

• It is hard and perhaps impossible for many people to recognize the difference between innocence and naiveté.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • People
  • Differences
  • Innocence

• What vexes me most is, that my female friends, who could bear me very well a dozen years ago, have now forsaken me, although I am not so old in proportion to them as I formerly was: which I can prove by arithmetic, for then I was double their age, which now I am not. Letter to Alexander Pope. 7 Feb. 1736.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Friends
  • Age
  • Prove

• How the false truths of the years of youth have passed! Have passed at full speed like trains which never stopped There where I stood and waited, hardly aware, How little I knew, or which of them was the one To mount and ride to hope or where true hope arrives.

  

  Delmore Schwartz
  • True
  • Hope

• All I wanted was for my mom to say, 'I love you, and I'm here for you.' I never got that.

  

  Kendra Wilkinson
  • Mom

• Ain't it funny what people say? Ain't it funny what people write?

  

  Rich Mullins
  • People
  • Writing