Person Quotes
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They say that I'm very calculated and not very sensitive - that a regular, average person, there are many things that bother them, and I don't see or feel it.
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I spent more time playing a person I was not than the person I am.
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It is incumbent upon every person of every description to contribute to his country's welfare.
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The intelligent person is not one who merely knows what is good and what is bad. The intelligent person is one who, when he sees what is good, follows it, and when he sees evil, shuns it.
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There is nothing more boring than a bored person.
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To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.
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Surely I'm not the only person to ask the obvious question: How different, really, is Mr. Madoff's tale from the story of the investment industry as a whole?
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'Envy the Night' was my first stand alone, the first book I'd written in the third person and I loved the feel of that, and it was different but it was also the same. 'So Cold the River,' I knew, was going to be really different, and that's why I thought about doing it as a novella under a pseudonym, because I didn't want to damage my career.
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A person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful.
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If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call.
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If we had one person who could perfectly read minds we could solve a lot of problems in the world in a very short period of time.
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A creative person has to believe in the unseen and the untouched.
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Every one of us every day has choices to make about the kind of person we are and what we wish to become. You can decide to be someone who brings people together, or you can fall prey to those who wish to divide us. You can be someone who educates yourself, or you can believe that being negative is clever and being cynical is fashionable. You have a choice.
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It is harder, usually, to find a person who wants to walk the streets of me, to taste the teas of my country, to... immigrate, you could say.
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I'm a fighter through and through. I don't fear any person and to go inside that ring with a feared mentality, why even go inside the ring?
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When you trust your readers, you're hoping they will see what you see. Not every book is for every person.
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After a while, the person who knows the character best is you, the actor.
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I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.
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I worked really hard in college, and I came out a completely different person and performer than when I went in. I did the work, and I found a craft.
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Try to be a whole person. Not just a night person, or a day person. Be the kind of person who can live in both.
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“Thinking matters through before we act is always difficult and often consumes a lot of our time. But it is simply not possible to be a person of integrity without doing it.”
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Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person.
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When two people meet, as long as there is any form of rapport maintained, the person with the most certainty will eventually influence ther other person.
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The clearest way to know whether you are with a poor person in America is not by the logo on the clothes, because we all wear pretty much the same anymore. It's by looking into their eyes and seeing whether they look into yours, and seeing what kind of teeth they have.
