Person Quotes
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A work of visionary art can shock a person out of their normal thinking patterns and help them to see the world in a new way, helping them to transfigure their perception of reality. Obviously, it's only one of many potential catalysts to healing and transformation, but I think it can be a significant one.
Alex Grey -
When I started out as an actor, I thought, Here's what I have to say; how shall I say it? I began to understand that what I do in the scene is not as important as what happens between me and the other person. And listening is what lets it happen. It's almost always the other person who causes you to say what you say next. You don't have to figure out how you'll say it. You have to listen so simply, so innocently, that the other person brings about a change in you that makes you say it and informs the way you say it.
Alan Alda
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One must repay good and ill; but why just to the person who did us good or ill?
Friedrich Nietzsche -
If you want to be the person you ought to be, you've got to welcome competition.
Bob Richards -
If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you'll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.
Maya Angelou -
I hated high school. It was a prison.
Alan Alda -
I was a good student. I was lame. I was into school and didn't really go out much, so I guess I wasn't the coolest person on the planet.
Rita Volk -
A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.
Idries Shah
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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat.
Napoleon Hill -
If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune.
Count Basie -
When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.'
Maya Angelou -
It will always be a fact that the woman is the person one idealizes, also the person who wishes his idealization.
Gaston Bachelard -
Behind the debris of these self-styled, sullen supermen and imperial diplomatists, there stands the gigantic figure of one person, because of whom, by whom, in whom, and through whom alone mankind might still have hope. The person of Jesus Christ.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.
Idries Shah
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I am a firm believer in eating a full plant-based, whole food diet that can expand your life length and make you an all-around happier person. It is tricky dining out, but I just stick to what I know - veggies, fruit and salad - then when I get home I'll have something else.
Ariana Grande -
My father really was not the dominant person who raised the family, it was my mother who raised the family.
Stevie Wonder -
No, this is not what a fair God would do. And why does it not say anywhere in the Bible that slavery is wrong? It only says that you should treat your slaves well. Well, I don't care if you treat them well. How is it possible that it is not immoral to own another person? Why isn't that one of the Ten Commandments? 'Thou shalt not own another person.' You want to sit here and tell me that fornication is worse than owning someone?
Mira Sorvino -
I think that when a person is insecure about who they are or who they want to be, then it translates on screen, and the choices they make are all about perception.
Mila Kunis -
I actually made an effort to reject acting, to shove it out of my body, because I didn't want my kids to have an actress as a mother-to have, like, a silly person.
Lisa Kudrow -
I never intended to become a run-of-the-mill person.
Barbara Jordan
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Whoever you are, be that person with all your might. Time goes by faster than we thought. It is a thief so quiet. You must let yourself be loved and you must love, parts of you that never loved must open and love. You must announce yourself in all particulars so you can have yourself.
Barry Hannah -
I tend to be not a person who does everything right all the time.
Brian May Queen -
As a creative person you just get an idea in your head, and sometimes you just can't shake it off.
Mike Shinoda Linkin Park -
When a person has an accent, it means he can speak one more language than you.
Fernando Lamas