People Quotes

• One Dilbert Blog reader noted that current research shows that happiness causes success more than success causes happiness. That makes sense to me. There's plenty of research about people having a baseline of happiness that doesn't vary much with circumstances. And given that happy people are typically optimistic, energetic, and fun to work with, I can see how happiness would lead to success.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Fun
  • Happiness
  • Optimistic

• If I go to places where other people are playing, I often get up and play myself. I just enjoy the sound and feel of playing.

  

  Brian May Queen
  • People
  • Play
  • Sound

• I don't think people are going to come down to Texas and see every person riding in a candy car or every person sipping syrup. But, for the most part, people got a lot of the stuff right, talking about the screwed music scene.

  

  Hakeem Seriki
  • People
  • Texas
  • Music Scene

• People talk to pass the time, share information, and entertain each other.

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • People
  • Time

• Sometimes people don't answer because they didn't hear you, Other times it's because they don't want to hear you!

  

  Cynthia Lord
  • Want
  • Answer
  • Hear

• I'm not raging drunk when I play. I just like to relax. Sometimes I stop and I tell people "I'm sorry, I'm really nervous".

  

  Charles Henry Mosley III Bad Brains
  • Sorry
  • Relax
  • Drunk

• The world of maps is nice and flat and simple. It has areas for people and areas for monsters. What a shock it is to discover the world is round and the areas merge and nothing separates the monsters and ourselves; that we are all whirling around in space together and there isn't even a graceful way of falling off.

  

  Margaret Millar
  • World
  • Together
  • Way

• Very few people know that my department is responsible for 1.2 million home loans since I have been secretary. That's 1.2 million families that are living in homes in rural America that would never have homeownership, but for the United States Department of Agriculture's programs. We have to do more of educating people about the partnership that does exist between rural America and their government.

  

  Tom Vilsack
  • Home
  • Responsible
  • Partnership

• Hang (hang without fail, so the people see) no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, rich men, bloodsuckers.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Men
  • Rich
  • Failing

• You nearly killed eight people!" I managed to gasp out loud. "My count was closer to twelve," returned Havisham as she opened the door. "And anyhow, you can't nearly kill someone. Either they are dead or they are not.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • People
  • Killed
  • Eight

• Of course New York is the Mecca of style in America, but don't knock Phoenix - it's not as big, but there are lots of people with style there.

  

  Amar'e Stoudemire
  • America
  • Style
  • Phoenix

• An illustration I use to get people to understand it is this: I'll ask major corporate audiences: Why don't you just take all your traditional beliefs about organizations, and apply them to the neurons in your brain?

  

  Dee Hock
  • People
  • Why
  • Brain

• The German people were not denied, however, the possibility of improving their lot by hard work over the years. Industrial growth and progress were not denied them.

  

  James F. Byrnes
  • Work
  • Growth
  • Progress

• I'm not sure I believe in the whole 'ghost-afterlife' thing, but I think places are marked by people who have been there.

  

  Joanne Harris
  • People
  • Believe

• I just have one of those faces. People come up to me and say, 'What's wrong?' Nothing. 'Well, it takes more energy to frown than it does to smile.' Yeah, you know it takes more energy to point that out than it does to leave me alone?

  

  Bill Hicks
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Alone

• I never did like Cleveland. Don't know why. Didn't like the town. Now, the people are all right, but I just didn't like the town.

  

  Stan Coveleski
  • People
  • Like
  • Cleveland

• People who are interested in the arts and theater are such a minority.

  

  Carol Kane
  • People

• If youre gonna put your faith in something, then it better shape who you are and what people see in you.

  

  Hayley Williams Paramore
  • People
  • Faith
  • Shape

• The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases, to read and write, it is assumed that they have ideas in their heads, and an appetite for more. This assumption is a folly.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • Mistake
  • Assumption

• It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the Berlin wall? It was all the people in the streets. The specialists didn't have a clue the day before.

  

  Luc Besson
  • Change
  • Things
  • Berlin Wall

• Back in the 1700s, the people of Tennessee wanted to become a state, but there was not a lot of action or movement in the bullpen so that Tennessee could transition as a state.

  

  Ricardo Rossello
  • Movement
  • Transition
  • Bullpen

• All I want is for people, when they read my books, to feel companioned, to feel they're not alone in the world.

  

  Deborah Moggach
  • People
  • World
  • Alone

• People recognize actors that they see regularly, like people they see on the television every week.

  

  Ben Barnes
  • People

• The cultural center of Asia Minor, Pergamon boasted a vast library of 200,000 scrolls, a spectacular 10,000-seat theater, and a monumental Great Altar decorated with sculptures of the Olympian gods defeating the Giants. People came from all around the Mediterranean seeking cures at the famous Temple of Asclepius, god of medicine.

  

  Adrienne Mayor
  • Great
  • God
  • Famous

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