People Quotes

• It shouldn't be so difficult to determine what a planet is. When you're watching a science fiction show like 'Star Trek' and they show up at some object in space and turn on the viewfinder, the audience and the people in the show know immediately whether it's a planet or a star or a comet or an asteroid.

  

  Alan Stern
  • Up
  • Science
  • Space

• It's not terrible, people telling you you're great; what's terrible is when you start believing it.

  

  Woody Harrelson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Terrible

• The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Thinking
  • Silent
  • Esteem

• I'm all in favor of people - myself included - going into the same territory if there's something that can be done with it. But if somebody says, 'Make a sequel to 'Heathers',' I feel like, no, someone should make a good movie that's a dark, satirical comedy that has that sensibility.

  

  Michael Lehmann
  • Good
  • Dark
  • Something

• A watch shows how you want to look - or how you want people to look at you.

  

  J Balvin
  • People

• I have friends with post-traumatic stress - friends with post-traumatic stress who are, you know, highly successful, capable people.

  

  Phil Klay
  • People
  • Friends
  • Stress

• I love playing with my dog and just sitting on the patio with people I don't get to see very often anymore. I'm a pretty simple gal.

  

  Maren Morris
  • Pretty
  • Simple
  • Dog

• I think people can find a breath and listen sometimes.

  

  Sarah Jessica Parker
  • People
  • Listen
  • Breath

• I grew up down in the hills of Virginia. I can be in Kentucky in 20 minutes, Tennessee in 20 minutes or in the state of West Virginia in 20 minutes. And it's down in the Appalachian Mountains, down there. And it's sort of a poorer country. Most of the livelihood is coal mining and logging, working in the woods and things like that. Most people has a hard life down that way.

  

  Ralph Stanley
  • People
  • Life
  • Grew Up

• People fall in love and swear they are so sure, then they turn around and say it's over. I never trusted love to come any closer till the moment you were mine.

  

  Beth Nielsen Chapman
  • Love
  • Moment
  • Turn

• People can live without a Facebook account: my 13-year-old daughter has cancelled her account because it's not cool anymore.

  

  Michael Birch
  • People
  • Daughter
  • Accounts

• It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.

  

  Jean Giraudoux
  • People
  • Waiting

• I have been sitting around waiting for an opportunity to get to do something that matters for so long. Not just that matters in the world, which I think that season, in particular, had a very important meaning for a lot of people, but for me, as an actress.

  

  Sarah Paulson
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Important

• My experience with casting children is that... the whole movie is going to rest on their shoulders, so you have to set aside time and wait for the perfect people to appear.

  

  Wes Anderson
  • Children
  • Perfect
  • Waiting

• A lot of people seem nice when you first meet them. Then later you find out that they are evil villains who plan to take over the world.

  

  Dan Gutman
  • Find
  • Plan
  • Meet

• What Democrats call 'nuanced,' most people refer to as 'stupidity.'

  

  Evan Sayet
  • People
  • Stupidity
  • Democrat

• Computers are so deeply stupid. What bother me most when they talk about technology is they don't realize how much more exciting their minds are. That machine is stupid. And boring. It does just a few things and then it'll crash. People think, 'I am on the Net, I am in touch with the world'. Wrong! The point is how we work, not how machines work.

  

  Laurie Anderson
  • Technology
  • Stupid
  • Computers

• If a columnist writes that something happened on a certain date, or that the government spent a certain amount of money on something, or that a specific number of people have died in the war in Iraq, to pick a few examples, it is his or her responsibility to make certain that information is correct.

  

  Andrew Rosenthal
  • Money
  • War
  • Responsibility

• Aunts offer kids an opportunity to try out ideas that don't chime with their parents and they also demonstrate that people can get on, love each other and live together without necessarily being carbon copies.

  

  Sara Sheridan
  • Kids
  • Opportunity
  • Parent

• Don't get caught up in other people's expectations. Don't take anything for granted, either.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • People
  • Expectations
  • Granted

• HBO exists because people must have a place to say "f***" on television as many times as they can.

  

  Tom Snyder
  • People
  • Television
  • Exists

• For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.

  

  Alexei Sayle
  • People

• Positive and powerful: Sometimes people won't like me, and it's okay. Positive and powerful: I like me, and that's all that matters. Positive and powerful: It's more important what I think of me than what someone else thinks of me.

  

  Beverly Engel
  • People
  • Positive
  • Thinks

• Trans people are not a monolith.

  

  Janet Mock
  • People

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