People Quotes
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You can see over time whether people are prepared to differ or not.
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That's a spiritual lifestyle, being willing to admit that you don't know everything and that you were wrong about some things. It's about making a list of all the people you've harmed, either emotionally or physically or financially, and going back and making amends. That's a spiritual lifestyle. It's not a fluffy ethereal concept.
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We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.
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A lot of people think, 'I'll give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesn't work out I'll go get a law degree, do something else that's more practical.' For me I went the reverse way. I lived the back-up plan.
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Male? Female? It's not always relevant to some people. They are who they are - they might not fit into a specific box.
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If you snap off people's heads and get on to a kind of a pedestal, it's more difficult for people to approach you. It's much easier if you are down there with them. They will talk to you.
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All people - white, black, whatever - are tribal in the sense that we relate to that which is familiar to us.
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The people may be put into the way they should go, though they may not be put into the way of understanding it.
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Often, when people ask me what I read as a young girl, I lie. Or, I should say, I lie by omission. I tell them about my brilliant fourth-grade teacher, Miss Artis, who assigned us 'Johnny Tremain' and 'Where the Red Fern Grows' and 'Tuck Everlasting,' all books that made an impression on me. And people nod in approval.
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People like Beck and Shawn Colvin are some of the people I listen to lately.
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That is the thing I want to tell girls, to stop criticising yourselves and to stop comparing yourself to other people.
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A lot of people have a dissatisfaction or an anger in them, so as soon as something goes awry, they flip out.
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I was recording my audiobook, and it's so weird. You write things, but then to have to say them out loud in front of people feels so different. So when I was recording my audiobook, I was telling an embarrassing story in front of, like, a room full of audio-tech people that I don't know, and I was like 'Oh my God, this is so cringe.'
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I would like to live longer, and I would like other people to live longer.
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I came to hate the complainers, with their dry and crumbly lipsticks and their wrinkled rage and their stupid, flaccid, old-people sun hats with brims the breadth of Saturn's rings.
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If people know we expect good things from them, they will in most cases go to great lengths to live up to our expectations.
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I think participating in "Gishwhes" is a crash course in facing our fears: people go to crowded shopping malls wearing scuba gear, order from a fast food restaurant in Shakespearean verse or jump out of airplanes among many other tasks.
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Some people prefer a world where we're all equally talented in everything. Whether you prefer that world or not, I don't think that world exists.
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We're dumber and less cognitively nimble if we're not around other people - and, now, other machines.
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I find my husband's family history fascinating, as they can trace the family lineage back to ancestors who fought, and died, in the first battle of the Revolution, as well as to many other interesting people.
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No matter who it is, I hate to see people losing their jobs. I really do.
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People see my photos and think I labor over my image and I'm this cool, brooding artist. But I'm just having fun with it.
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We don't want two-tier people in America. Those who are legal but not citizens, and citizens.
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There's a kind of radar that you get, after years of being talked about and made fun of by other people. You can almost smell it when it's about to happen, can recognize instantly the sound of a hushed voice, lowered just enough to make whatever is said okay. I had only been in Colby for a few weeks. But I had not forgotten.
