People Quotes
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One very important aspect of art is that it makes people aware of what they know and don’t know they know... Once the breakthrough is made, there is a permanent expansion of awareness. But there is always a reaction of rage, of outrage, at the first breakthrough... So the artist, then, expands awareness. And once the breakthrough is made, this becomes part of the general awareness.
William S. Burroughs
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People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true. You're always better off living.
Dashiell Hammett
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Advertisers don't want to put their ads next to the investigative story; it's extremely difficult to do that. And very few people today actually read those serious news stories on the Web now.
Pierre Omidyar
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Facebook succeeded because it was about real people having a presence on the Internet. There were all these other social networking sites people had, but they were all about fictional people.
Peter Thiel
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The ability to portray people in still life and in motion requires the highest measure of intuition and talent.
Albert Einstein
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People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.
Donald Miller
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I have always been more interested in persons than in people.
Lewis Hamilton
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I don't think there's any harm at all in allowing a kid to fantasize. In fact, I think to stop people from fantasizing is a very destructive thing indeed.
Joanne Rowling
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I can't advocate people not liking each other. But... I'd prefer it.
John McEnroe
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I used to hang out with Salvador Dali a lot. He was such a nice man. I really liked his wife Gala, too. People say that she was tricky, but she was never difficult with me.
Jerry Hall
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I have been a fan of Versace for so long, watching people like Biggie, Puff, Jay-Z.
Karim Kharbouch
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When taxes are too high, people go hungry.
Lao Tzu
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I think that if something's really good, and it touches that part of their heart that has been untouched, or maybe it has been touched but they never wanted to admit it, I think that when they get back to that, I think that we are still in a place that people enjoy it the way it's supposed to be enjoyed.
Andrae Crouch
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I was so afraid of upsetting people, and not being liked for saying something that was not to everyone's taste.
Geri Halliwell Spice Girls
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I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.
Steven Spielberg
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I'm signing the letter that says, let's be quiet when he gets his award and just sit there. I think it's very sad that this man is being honored and the people he destroyed are never going to have a chance to be honored.
Carl Reiner
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There will always be people like me, who believe that to ripple the pages of a printed book is a special experience, one that through the centuries has taken millions from the darkness into the light.
Quintin Jardine
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I've got a million people telling me why I can't do it. You know, that I'm not a real designer, that I'm not this. I'm not a real rapper, either!
Kanye West
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Because of Twitter, I think people know most every single thing about me. I don't know if there's anything that would surprise people about me.
Blake Shelton
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I can't stand it when people say, "If you're writing a novel, you should read this and that." Because it's like giving someone another person's prescription. How do you know that's what they need?
Sandra Cisneros
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When people slave over those scripts and pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for them, they don't usually want you to add farts.
Jennifer Coolidge
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It is not... That some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them, But the tragic fate is to reach, after patient search, a condition of mind-blindness, in which. The truth is not recognized, though it stares you in the face.
William Osler
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The most expensive care we can give, we're giving those Americans without insurance. It's kind of stupid that we're fighting the notion that we want to quit paying a hidden tax and be up front about covering people in a way that is cost-effective.
Barack Obama
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I think I'm very much an entrepreneur, but I know I have the ability to start a company in a lot of ways than other people who are more qualified because I have this existing brand as an actress.
Blake Lively