Persons Quotes

• If not just the brain but the quirks that made the individual were composed of recycled matter only, it was hard to be sure where the edges of one such being ended and another person began.

  

  Sebastian Faulks
  • Brain
  • Matter
  • Made

• I think there's a shamanic temperament, which is a person who craves knowledge, knowledge in the Greek sense of gnosis. In other words, knowledge not of the sort where you subscribe to Scientific American, and it validates what you believe, but cosmologies constructed out of immediate experiences that are found to be always applicable.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Found
  • Greek
  • Temperament

• When you're on a staff, it's not your job to write what you think is funny. It's your job to write what the person who created the show thinks is funny.

  

  Billy Lawrence
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Jobs

• Experiencing flow helps a person remember that they are unique. ... Just like everyone else.

  

  Warren Miller
  • Remember
  • Unique
  • Helping

• A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • People
  • Mind
  • May

• Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.

  

  Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Imagination
  • Ordinary
  • Miles

• I'm a very positive person. My grandmother taught me that happiness is both a skill and a decision, and you are responsible for the outcome.

  

  Helen McCrory
  • Decision
  • Grandmother
  • Responsible

• It's just cheaper to be White in America than it is to be Black, because of educational advances, because of the police incidents, because of the poverty we grow up in as African-Americans. So, it's just cheaper in this country if you're born a Caucasian than being born a Black person.

  

  Warren Ballentine
  • American
  • Police
  • Educational

• People would go anywhere to see a famous person in the flesh, no matter what they do.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • People
  • Matter
  • Flesh

• No two journeys are alike. Nobody can pretend to know the journey another person takes to achieve his dreams.

  

  Georges St-Pierre
  • Dream
  • Journey
  • Achieve

• All I can say to the kids is if you've a problem in fishing or life, if you talk to an older person, you're gonna end up alright, because nine times out of 10, they've been through the same thing.

  

  Rex Hunt
  • Problem
  • Persons
  • Alright

• The first person besides my mother who believed in me was a man whose last name I never knew. He was my boss, the manager of Swenson's Ice Cream shop.

  

  Mona Simpson
  • Mother
  • Persons
  • Cream

• But Barack Obama is not a person who would defend the rights and heritage of the European-American people.

  

  David Duke
  • Rights
  • Heritage
  • Barack

• As I am generous towards others ... As I see a person in need and don't just say, 'God bless you.' I am proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

  

  Kay Arthur
  • Needs
  • Generous
  • Bless

• Does it matter, when you read, if the person who wrote still lives?

  

  Michael Gruber
  • Matter
  • Persons
  • Stills

• If you are sitting on the title of any block of land in New South Wales you can bet an Aboriginal person at some stage was dispossessed of it.

  

  Paul Keating
  • Stage
  • Land
  • Block

• Think of one structural change in 11 years he made, other than being just doling out money in the annual Budget? And don't say the GST because Howard did that and it wasn't a structural change anyway, just a change in the tax system. This is a low flying person.

  

  Paul Keating
  • Persons
  • Flying
  • Lows

• I think anyone who has, you know, is in any sort of artistic pursuit, kind of goes up and down with the way they feel about their work. And I, for the most part, am pretty happy person. But, yeah. I go through definite periods of time where I'm not funny. I'm not good. I'm - I don't feel original.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • Way
  • Periods
  • Pursuit

• Do not trust the person of spite; though you have loved and tamed them, the snake will bite.

  

  Morgan Brittany
  • Persons
  • Bullying
  • Tamed

• I don't think I'm a political songwriter as much as I am just a political person. I think it's in my fabric.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Political
  • Songwriters
  • Fabric

• I think any person who goes to Rikers is criminalized, even just for visiting. I go back every week to see my friends in there. When you go to see a criminal, you are by relation a criminal and subject to be treated like one.

  

  Cecily McMillan
  • Week
  • Relation
  • Subjects

• I'm a really trusting person and I always have been. I just think I've cultivated a very keen skill of recognising someone I shouldn't trust, pretty readily. A person has about 15 to 27 seconds before I'm pretty sure whether or not I can trust them or not.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Thinking
  • Pretty
  • Trust

• You gotta know who you are, I think, as a person, I'm a laidback guy. I'm very simple. It's simplicity with me. Everything else, having the 10 cars or the 20 cars is ludicrous.

  

  Darrelle Revis
  • Thinking
  • Guy
  • Simple

• When a person has access to both the intuitive, creative and visual right brain, and the analytical, logical, verbal left brain, then the whole brain is working...And this tool is best suited to the reality of what life is, because life is not just logical-it is also emotional.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Reality
  • Brain
  • Emotional

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