People Quotes
-
If there were a billion people living on the planet, we could do whatever we please. But there are nearly seven billion. At this scale, life as we know it today is not sustainable.
-
It's not hard for me to be funny in front of people, but most of that is just horrified nerves taking the form of what makes people laugh, and afterwards I'd always feel dreadfully depressed, kind of self-induced bi-polar disorder.
-
There are many people who think I'm actually a gangster or a mafioso, largely because of 'Goodfella.'
-
You can start any 'Monty Python' routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand.
-
People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
-
There are many people who say, 'I write for myself.' I think that if you write and publish, then you write for your readers, not just for yourself. Many writers say that they write to be loved. I place myself among those writers.
-
Purposefully exposing young people to increased risks of major brain problems - even death - for sport is surely even more ethically complicated than sending young people into this same neurological danger zone as soldiers.
-
I should be in an old people's home now, counting the roses in the wallpaper. It's a good life, isn't it?
-
The cool thing is that now that people have made this evolution where cooking is cool, people are doing it on weekends, they're doing their own challenges. It's back to cooking. And it's real cooking.
-
People are talking about sex. They're talking about sex with their husbands. They're talking about sex with their girlfriends. They're talking about sex with their partners. And because of all of this communication, women are having much more intimate relationships, which is fantastic.
-
Aren't we supposed to believe that if you are an elected official, if you serve in Congress, you are representing all the people of your district not just the people who voted for you, not just the people who you agree with?
-
The more I read about the rules the great orators used, the more I realised, of course, this is how you stir people's hearts, and you persuade and cajole and move people out of fixed positions. The techniques are quite menacingly easy.
-
I feel that too much singing annoys people.
-
When we started out doing YouTube videos, I think we were very, very early on in terms of people doing a behind-the-scenes component.
-
I knew people want most what they pretend to hate, that it takes courage to say what you really want.
-
The wonderful thing about delivering sports commentary on NPR was that because it has such a broad audience, I was able to reach people who otherwise had little or no interest in sport - especially as an important part of our human culture.
-
People call me a socialist sometimes. But, no, you gotta meet real socialists. You'll have a sense of what a socialist is.
-
It isn't enough to love people because they're good to you, or because in some way or other you're going to get something by it. We have to love because we love loving.
-
Likewise, there is no evidence that texting teaches people to spell badly: rather, research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely to be the most literate and the best spellers, because you have to know how to manipulate language.
-
I just make it my business to get along with people so I can have fun. It's that simple.
-
People keep asking me whether I'm going to vote for Obama or McCain in the election. But I'm like, why bother? There will never be another leader as good as he was.
-
If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people.
-
It's important to make sure that governments have some checks on what they do, that people can oversee what's being done so the government doesn't abuse it.
-
I think people in Great Britain are a bit jaded sometimes.
