People Quotes
-
Once you get older, people stop listening to what you say. It's very agreeable once you get used to it.
A. S. Byatt
-
Where I grew up in Dallas, things might be a little more traditional. People have the same things in mind. They're supposed to grow up, go to college, get a job, get married, and have children, grandchildren. That's the world I grew up in.
Lisa Loeb
-
Rappers should just be able to perform what they create and satisfy the people that like and love them.
Chuck D
-
People call me Benny. And as long as they put Benedict on my paycheck, I don't care.
Benedict Wong
-
There's no unicorns that pop out the ceiling and no glitter that pops out of my pocket. It's just regular people in the studio doing what we do.
BJ the Chicago Kid
-
My creative side is identifying all these great entrepreneurial creative people that come up with great ideas, whether they are in fashion or technology or a new tool to improve ourselves.
Carmen Busquets
-
People often ask why comedy is harder for women, and the reason is because a tampon will sometimes fall out when you're on stage. Blokes don't have that worry.
Jenny Eclair
-
Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the deeds of the thug to be broadcast to a million people each day.
Lewis Mumford
-
I always define egotistical thoughts as the thoughts I think other people have of me.
Eddie Marsan
-
Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would not matter. What is bad (this is my comment again) is that I dare say people will be thankful for the gold pins then.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
-
I always wanted to be an actor. It's something I always secretly wanted. You know, I had the experience of being picked on as a child, and I would tell people, 'You're gonna be sorry when I'm famous!' And then I learned after they kicked the stuffing out me that you don't say that out loud.
DJ Qualls
-
I appeal to people all across the political spectrum.
Paul Broun
-
I come from a working-class family. They're the people I know and the people I love, I guess. I do not write about them for political reasons, but because, as I see it, most interesting things - social, political, emotional - take place there. It's a bottomless well for an author like me.
Per Petterson
-
We can wash people in the water all we want, but we can never wash their parents out of their hearts.
Orson Scott Card
-
Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.
Idries Shah
-
The one thing that has helped sustain my career as an actress and a comedian is that people generally view me as fundamentally stupid.
Jennifer Coolidge
-
I have a problem with cabinets being messy and people just shoving things in and closing the door. I will lie in bed and not be able to sleep because I'll say to myself: 'I think I saw something in that cabinet that just shouldn't be there.'
Charlize Theron
-
The one thing I try and do, when people say, 'What kind of movies do you guys look for,' the one thing I look for is 'different.' And I think that's very antithetical to Hollywood.
Jason Blum
-
I take what isn't mine and I covet other people's lives.
Chris Killip
-
It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.
Bruce Beresford
-
I want to entertain people, whether it be with a comedy, a drama or a movie. An idea's an idea.
Bruce Nash
-
Look: You're not gonna become a millionaire doing this, but that was never the point. And I think a lot of people in the indie film business kind of took their eye off of that.
Edward Burns
-
Snow White talking to herself '... No wonder we who are twenty-two don’t trust anybody over twelve. That is where you find people who know the score, under twelve. I think I will go out and speak to some eleven-year-olds, now, to refresh myself. Now or soon.'
Donald Barthelme
-
Some people think there's a woman to blame, but I know - it's my own damn fault
Jimmy Buffett