People Quotes

"Gods always love the people who make em"

"Gods always behave like the people who make them"

"There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best"

Pope John Paul II, Clergyman

"Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform we use, or a priest. You know, anywhere you lecture and pontificate to people"

Rowan Atkinson, Comedian

"Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful"

Martin Yan, Celebrity

"A lot of people don't enjoy their job, they may even hate it, but I am lucky enough to be able to make a living through my passion"

Martin Yan, Celebrity

"Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it"

William F. Buckley, Jr., Journalist

"I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University"

William F. Buckley, Jr., Journalist

"Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could"

William F. Buckley, Jr., Journalist

"Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich"

William F. Buckley, Jr., Journalist

"Conquered people tend to be witty"

Saul Bellow, Novelist

"The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish"

Pope John Paul II, Clergyman

"I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing"

Pope John Paul II, Clergyman

"Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song"

Pope John Paul II, Clergyman

"I hope to bring people to God with my songs"

Mahalia Jackson, Musician

"It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

"If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

"Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

"People like controversy because that's what sells"

Miley Cyrus, Musician

"People are impressed with me - because I can sleep for just 45 minutes - I'm used to it"

Miley Cyrus, Musician

"God wants my life to be about being successful and being happy and blessing other people and being blessed"

Miley Cyrus, Musician

"It's a real gift to be able to have the works of brilliant, great people to learn from and build from. It gives you so much more to draw on, and then you don't have to be all about three-chord pop songs. I don't really like that kind of writing"

Regina Spektor, Musician

"I write a tiny fraction of what I used to write. My only job used to be to just write songs, and that was a really nice job to have, but only a tiny amount of people heard those songs, and I didn't make a living from it, and eventually I begged my parents to let me move back into my room"

Regina Spektor, Musician

"I'm not an Adonis, that's for damn sure. I've never really thought of myself that way, and it doesn't matter to me. My favorite actors aren't Adonises. Dustin Hoffman is a flawed-looking man; he's amazing to me. Tom Hanks is flawed-looking; people love him. Same with Gene Hackman"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people"

Maynard James Keenan, Musician

"Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it"

Ray Bradbury, Writer

"I'm from there. You know, when you grow up with these people and see them every day and then you look at the numbers it was easy; it was a no-brainer. And when Sony took a look, it was a no-brainer to them, too"

Magic Johnson, Athlete

"My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people"

John Philip Sousa, Musician

"I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?"

Rebecca West, Author

"Well, I just said that Jesus and I were both Jewish and that neither of us ever had a job, we never had a home, we never married and we traveled around the countryside irritating people"

Kinky Friedman, Musician

"It is time this Congress listened to the American people and minimum-wage workers, and it is time that we act"

Russ Carnahan, Politician

"God often gives nuts to toothless people"

Matt Groening, Cartoonist

"There is nothing like the high of being on stage and reaping applause, especially for emotionally needy people like me!"

Douglas Wood, Writer

"Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them"

Maynard James Keenan, Musician

"And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment"

Jason Statham, Actor

"Our people were very restive, saying that they could not sit under that notice, and that if the National Board did not call them out soon they would go out of themselves"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true"

William J. Clinton, President

"Young people are the key to this election"

Kinky Friedman, Musician

"The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect"

Carl Sandburg, Poet

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