People Quotes

"We thought everybody read comics. We didn't know we were weird. We didn't know people that collected comics were strange. It was as normal as listening to rock music on the radio"

Gilbert Hernandez, Artist

"White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus"

Nikki Giovanni, Poet

"A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die"

Nikki Giovanni, Poet

"Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased exposure to the Internet and Internet gambling - grew by an alarming 20 percent between 2004 and 2005 alone"

Spencer Bachus, Politician

"People do not win people fights. Lawyers do"

Norman Ralph Augustine, Author

"America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people"

John Philip Sousa, Musician

"Living creatively is really important to maintain throughout your life. And living creatively doesn't mean only artistic creativity, although that's part of it. It means being yourself, not just complying with the wishes of other people"

Matt Groening, Cartoonist

"Everybody doesn't have to get every joke. People really appreciate not being condescended to"

Matt Groening, Cartoonist

"Saddam Hussein didn't kill 3,100 people on Sept. 11. Osama bin Laden did, and as far as we know he's still alive"

William J. Clinton, President

"Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds"

John Philip Sousa, Musician

"The truth is, this being errand boy to one hundred and fifty thousand people tires me so by night I am ready for bed instead of soirees"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again"

Norman Ralph Augustine, Author

"I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do"

Maynard James Keenan, Musician

"It's street theater. You have to make it entertaining so people don't get bored and walk away"

Jason Statham, Actor

"It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear...'"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"I am fully committed to Hannah Montana. It's what gave me this amazing opportunity to reach out to so many people. I'm really excited about our new season. We are making great new episodes that I can't wait for our fans to see and I'm looking forward to the "Hannah Montana" movie that will be out in the spring"

Miley Cyrus, Musician

"Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons' subversive story telling, but there's another message in there, which is a celebration of making wild, funny stories"

Matt Groening, Cartoonist

"I know a lot of people in the business recommend the many Story Structure seminars being offered here, but I point to them as the single biggest contributor to lousy scripts"

Douglas Wood, Writer

"One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them"

Ray Bradbury, Writer

"If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you"

Ray Bradbury, Writer

"It is remarkable that this people, though unarmed, dares attack an armed foe; the infantry defy the cavalry, and by their activity and courage generally prove victors"

Giraldus Cambrensis, Clergyman

"Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains"

John Philip Sousa, Musician

"I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat"

Rebecca West, Author

"Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree"

William J. Clinton, President

"When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

"I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute"

Rebecca West, Author

"Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs"

Rebecca West, Author

"Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves"

Rebecca West, Author

"I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago"

Carl Sandburg, Poet

"Most people spend their whole lives looking for the right job. There are others who never get an opportunity to do work that fulfils them"

Zhang Ziyi, Actress

"We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born"

Robert Benchley, Comedian

"The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

"No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

"There's nothing more fun than being out on stage and getting the vibe from the crowd. There's nothing like being on a set where you are there to make other people happy and to make them laugh. That's the best job in the world"

Miley Cyrus, Musician

"The best part of my carreer is getting to meet so many different people, because I learn so much from everyone"

Miley Cyrus, Musician

"People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute"

Rebecca West, Author

"That said, I should also add that I learned a great deal from being allowed in these privileged circles and am grateful for the opportunity to have worked closely with some of the most powerful and successful people in the business including Steven Spielberg and Ted Turner"

Douglas Wood, Writer

"Yes, across the board, these gentlemen understand they have the power to make a difference and even educate people to injustices that are occurring in their worlds"

Alexis Arguello, Athlete

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