People Quotes
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When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.
Oscar Wilde
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I believe unconditionally in the ability of people to respond when they are told the truth. We need to be taught to study rather than believe, to inquire rather than to affirm.
Septima Poinsette Clark
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Particularly when you're young, you're terribly flattered by people who like you, so you think you love them.
Clare Balding
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Writers who aren't from rural states in the Midwest or the West often treat such people as if they were the Waltons or the Beverly Hillbillies.
Kent Haruf
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Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
Francis Bacon
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There aren't a lot of female story artists, and it's baffling to me. There are a lot of kids in school that are female and I wonder, 'Where did they all go?' People have brought it up, asking me, 'What did you do?' I don't really know. I puttered along, did my thing and gender has really never been an issue.
Jennifer Yuh Nelson
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I can tell you that going to the Oscars is not as exciting as people think, at least for me.
Emmanuel Lubezki
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I think people are just thrilled that the beatings have stopped, ... is not at all an indication of a resurgence of demand.
J. M. Roberts
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People put stock in someone being in a 'girl group,' but we don't say that a band is a 'man group.'
Emily Robison
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I'm not in the business to make people aware of me, and publicists are very expensive - they're $3,500 a month! I don't want to spend that kind of money so I can get a stupid article in 'Interview' magazine.
Debi Mazar
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AIDS does not inevitably lead to death, especially if you suppress the co-factors that support the disease. It is very important to tell this to people who are infected.
Luc Montagnier
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Some people think I've had a nose job. I've never had anything like that done, but I have no judgement of anyone that does.
Jessica Chastain
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Sometimes you dont even want to think aout what people are doing with their groceries.
Sarah Dessen
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The unknown makes people uncomfortable. And even living in a city that's as cosmopolitan as New York City is, there's so many things I don't know about other cultures, even though I encounter other cultures - maybe even 18 or 19 of them - when I get on a subway car every day.
Holly Hunter
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Going to New York to do whatever - show business - it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the big city and meet all kinds of different people and maybe be famous. It was just exciting. So I wasn't scared.
January Jones
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If my performance touches someone or helps someone understand themselves a little better or gives them a laugh, I feel like I gave them something. I want to touch people's lives and bring them along with me.
Adelaide Kane
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Wherever you go - in every country, or in every continent, people yearn and hunger for only one thing, to love and be loved. Love transcends international boundaries and heals the wounds of hatred, racial, prejudice, bigotry and ignorance. It is the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.
Michael Jackson
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I used to make fun of young people when I was 17 - the angst, the insecurities, all those tattoos.
Craig Kilborn
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If you think about making a city that is much more porous, many accessible spaces, that is a political position, because you don't fortify, you open it up so that many people can use it.
Zaha Hadid
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People who make babies surrender their right to behave like them.
Carolyn Hax
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I'm more convinced than when I accepted this job that we can create a viable Ford Motor Co. that makes cars and trucks that people really do prefer. And we can make them using minimum resources and minimum time and be competitive with our competition.
Alan Mulally
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Often, people who want to make interesting films simply don't have the money to do it.
Emily Browning
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I like to write pop songs and the stuff I write is fairly poppy, so I thought maybe my lot in life was to write pop songs for people. It never felt right writing songs for other people to sing, though.
Aaron Bruno
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As a keen political observer, I've noticed that most people do not really vote for someone for the Presidency as much as they vote against the other candidate. And I think President Johnston's sic decision was unfair to these people.
Pat Paulsen