People Quotes

"Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

"There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television"

Jack Nicholson, Actor

"I'd like to get four people who do cart wheels very good, and make a cart"

Mitch Hedberg, Comedian

"You now have to decide what 'image' you want for your brand. Image means personality. Products, like people, have personalities, and they can make or break them in the market place"

David Ogilvy, Businessman

"On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar"

David Ogilvy, Businessman

"I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

"If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel"

Jim Morrison, Musician

"I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable"

Jim Morrison, Musician

"I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something"

Jim Morrison, Musician

"Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors"

Jim Morrison, Musician

"I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor"

Jack Nicholson, Actor

"I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation"

Jack Nicholson, Actor

"Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor"

Jack Nicholson, Actor

"A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear"

Jack Nicholson, Actor

"If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants"

David Ogilvy, Businessman

"I don't know the rules of grammar... If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular"

David Ogilvy, Businessman

"Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine"

David Ogilvy, Businessman

"Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals"

David Ogilvy, Businessman

"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

"The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

"No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

"I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled"

Jack Nicholson, Actor

"It's weird... people say they're not like apes. Now how do you explain football then?"

Mitch Hedberg, Comedian

"It's very dangerous to wave to people you don't know because what if they don't have hands? They'll think you're cocky"

Mitch Hedberg, Comedian

"People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend"

Jim Morrison, Musician

"Many people - and I think I am one of them - are more productive when they've had a little to drink. I find if I drink two or three brandies, I'm far better able to write"

David Ogilvy, Businessman

"Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

"Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it"

Ernest Dimnet, Priest

"A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things"

Twyla Tharp, Dancer

"I'm quite modest. I don't want to tell people I'm a leader"

Pol Pot, Criminal

"Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians"

Fletcher Knebel, Author

"The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

"In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry"

Twyla Tharp, Dancer

"Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of the twenty-four I spent at home, or with relatives of the people at home, none of whom were known to anybody at school"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

"The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us"

Quentin Crisp, Writer

"The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

"Tough times never last, but tough people do"

Robert H. Schuller, Clergyman

"That's what people respect, the fact that I wasn't a chump that laid on his back and gave up"

Mike Tyson, Athlete

"We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

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