People Quotes
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People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach.
Carrie Fisher
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People praise us behind our backs, but we hear them not; few before our faces, and who is not suspicious of the truth of such praise?
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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It's weird, I love acting and stand-up is a very unique, solitary thing where you are the writer, performer and director. But acting is incredibly rewarding, working and interacting with people to create funny moments. I can't imagine not doing acting or stand-up, I really enjoy both of them that much.
Jim Gaffigan
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When you follow your heart, you're never supposed to do things because of what you think people might say. You do it for the opposite reasons.
will.i.am
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What makes people laugh? . . . It's a happy marriage between a person who needs to laugh and someone who's got one to give.
Erma Bombeck
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Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty.
George Will
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One of the chief goals of design ought to be protecting people from unnecessary tension, friction, and mental labor.
Brian Christian
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I love how art brings people from all different walks of life together in that way.
Grace Weber
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"I don't know," I said. "What else did you do for your first eighteen years?" "Like I said," he said as I unlocked the car, "I'm not so sure that you should go by my example." "Why not?" "Because I have my regrets," he said. "Also, I'm a guy. And guys do different stuff." "Like ride bikes?" I said. "No," he replied. "Like have food fights. And break stuff. And set off firecrackers on people's front porches. And..." "Girls can't set off firecrackers on people's front porches?" "They can," he said... "But they're smart enough not to. That's the difference."
Sarah Dessen
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Marketing is the way your people answer the phone, the typesetting on your bills and your return policy.
Seth Godin
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I tend to stare at people and memorize what they're saying and how they say it.
Cecily von Ziegesar
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...Politics is not about facts. It is about what politicians can get people to believe.
Thomas Sowell
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We should not let our response to the people who disagree with us be dictated by what they say about us or even how they treat people we care for. There has to be a chance that we can find love.
Bill Clinton
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I'm sorry that it was all so successful. I honestly didn't mean it to happen like that. It's hardly surprising that people grew to hate me.
Phil Collins
Genesis
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For people like me, I think it is more about, 'When do people give you an opportunity?' rather than you deciding about when you want to make a debut. If I had a chance, I would have come as a child artist in this industry.
Harshvardhan Rane
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There are people who try to figure things out. Often, magic is presented in a way that sets up a challenge that I actually find kind of appalling. You know, "I'm clever, I can do something, and you don't know what it is." And that instills in the audience the idea that, "Yes, I do. You're not that clever."
Ricky Jay
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I'm there to make people laugh. I'm not trying to come across as sexy.
Jim Gaffigan
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Some people can work amid chaos or conversations, and some can't - and while there's no doubt an element of brain wiring to it, there's also the possibility of acquiring skills that improve your focus.
Carolyn Hax
