Person Quotes

• Marriage is when two people are joined together to become one desperately boring person.

  

  Ardal O'Hanlon
  • Marriage
  • Person
  • Joined

• I was amazed by the way all of that played out in the media. To me, a musician going to rehab is like a normal person going to get his teeth cleaned. Don't these people ever watch ""Behind the Music""? It's a cliche. If I had known that the story was going to be reported in the way that it was, I would have considered not going at all.

  

  Billy Joel
  • People
  • Music
  • Media

• When asked "If you could meet any famous person living or dead," I always ask whether the dead person would be alive again when I meet them.

  

  Ashish Chauhan
  • Dead
  • Alive
  • Meet

• It is a principle of law, that a person intends to do that which is the natural effect of what he does.

  

  Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough
  • Law
  • Principles
  • Naturally

• Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Person
  • Blood
  • Written

• If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Up
  • Dead
  • Hotel

• A person is so much more than the name of a diagnosis on a chart.

  

  Sharon Draper
  • Person
  • Name
  • Chart

• I have my own spiritual guru, and I'm so happy, and I feel so satisfied that I might appreciate many other famous gurus, but, you know, I am not attracted that way because I have found the person.

  

  Ravi Shankar
  • Because
  • Satisfied
  • Attracted

• I really, really love music. I'm affected by it and uplifted by it, and made to laugh and cry, and almost fall in love with the person who has made me feel so brilliant and communicated so profoundly to me.

  

  Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey Bananarama
  • Music
  • Person
  • Feel

• I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.

  

  Mariah Carey
  • Proud
  • Person

• When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.

  

  Aimee Friedman
  • Person
  • New
  • Vacation

• For most companies, the hard thing is making the product work well enough to convince a single person at a time to switch to it.

  

  Stewart Butterfield
  • Person
  • Product
  • Switch

• I guess I just process death differently than some folks. Realizing you're not going to see that person again is always the most difficult part about it. But that feeling settles, and then you are glad you had that person in your life, and then the happiness and the sadness get all swirled up inside you.

  

  John Prine
  • Life
  • Death
  • Happiness

• But relying on one person for your every need is so dangerous. One set of hands isn't enough to keep you from falling.

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • Person
  • Dangerous
  • Falling

• We may compare the Bible to the Old Testament Tabernacle in the wilderness with its three courts. The outer court is the letter of the Scriptures; the inner court, or holy place, is the truth of the Scriptures; the holiest place of all is the person of Jesus Christ; and only when we pass the inmost veil do we come to Him.

  

  Arthur Tappan Pierson
  • Person
  • Bible
  • Scriptures

• I have been diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). It's a terminal disease with an average lifespan of two to five years post-diagnosis, and scientists don't know what causes it. ALS prevents your brain from talking to your muscles. As a result, muscles die. As a result, every 90 minutes people die. I am a person.

  

  Steve Gleason
  • Brain
  • Muscles
  • Diagnosis

• My own take on the word "transgender" is that it's an umbrella term for anyone who breaks any rules, laws, guidelines or protocol of gender. So, to really be an ally, it's important that you recognize and embrace your own transgender nature. Really, I haven't met a single person who doesn't break some rule of gender. In other words, we will assimilate you. Resistance is futile.

  

  Kate Bornstein
  • Important
  • Term
  • Embrace

• Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Up
  • Powerful
  • Rebel

• Being a bigger person, whether you're male or female, in entertainment, it can hurt your chances. Because people look to you to be a so-called superstar. Perfect body, perfect figure, good looking, and smart. And larger people, we have to fit in anywhere we can and the best way we can, so to speak. The way the world looks at you at being perfect, and nobody's perfect.

  

  Bruce Bruce
  • Female
  • Entertainment
  • Chances

• I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Person
  • Literature
  • Compact

• If one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Person
  • Gains

• Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Attention
  • Person

• It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Job
  • Person
  • First Class

• I think nobody is in a position to react to these big macro-issues. Where is the dollar going to be or what is G.D.P. growth going to be in China? For every smart person on one side of the question, there is another smart person on the other side.

  

  David F. Swensen
  • Question
  • Growth
  • Smart

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