People Quotes

"We have tried you good people of the public and we have found you wanting"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"People always ask me, "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?" Well, I don't have an alibi"

Emo Philips, Comedian

"The only people that you really have, that I learned, are your family, because they love you no matter what"

Miley Cyrus, Musician

"There are more people living in Lower Manhattan now than before the terrorist attacks. That's faith for you. There's such a strong spirit here"

Daniel Libeskind, Architect

"When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better"

Zhang Ziyi, Actress

"People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm"

Denis Diderot, Editor

"As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious"

Nicolas Cage, Actor

"Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony"

Robert Benchley, Comedian

"My own perception of that is somewhat colored by where people ask my advice, which is still, of course, about changes to Python internals or at least standard libraries"

Guido van Rossum, Scientist

"Well, I think that a lot of times when you're working on a film, there aren't really opportunities to get to know all the people you have to work with"

Alexis Bledel, Actress

"Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word "census," and people fall asleep"

Aaron Sorkin, Producer

"The German experience, as you can see, did move me very much. Seeing that terrible destruction and seeing the miserable state of the people, how they had been beaten down by the war through no fault of their own probably"

James Laughlin, Poet

"I think most people read and re-read the things that they have liked. That's certainly true in my case. I re-read Pound a great deal, I re-read Williams, I re-read Thomas, I re-read the people whom I cam to love when I was at what you might call a formative stage"

James Laughlin, Poet

"Well, I didn't want to have the reminder sort of in the sky, so that people would forever look at it. I wanted to have - really to create a city from the bottom up. From that foundation, which held, from the democratic power of what the site really is"

Daniel Libeskind, Architect

"There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent"

Zhang Ziyi, Actress

"A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated"

Robert Benchley, Comedian

"The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

"I wonder if those people shown protesting the deployment of nuclear weapons to western Europe during the Reagan era are feeling appropriately stupid today. 'Please don't take away our precious Soviet Union! - We demand the annihilation of all life on Earth!'"

Craig Bruce

"We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will develop into somebody important and someone good"

James Laughlin, Poet

"Therefore, when we arrive in a place and talk to new people about a new image, it is very hard for them to visualize it. That's where the drawings are very important, because at least we can show a projection of what we believe it will look like"

Christo, Artist

"I've done a lot of things and I've been a lot of people, but now I've come to realize who I am"

Bobby Darin, Musician

"If a catastrophic event wipes out a large portion of House members, America needs to know this body, elected by the people, will be quickly and legally reconstituted and will continue to function"

Charles W. Pickering, Judge

"The only people I've ever heard saying that disagreeing with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld is un-American or treasonous are people who disagree with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld"

Craig Bruce

"If I gave a damn what other people think of me, I would be more like other people"

Craig Bruce

"I refuse to be held responsible for bringing back a wave of pasty-faced people into the world"

Brian Molko, Musician

"People think our work is monumental because it's art, but human beings do much bigger things: they build giant airports, highways for thousands of miles, much, much bigger than what we create"

Christo, Artist

"People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses"

Dennis Potter, Dramatist

"Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people"

Bill Moyers, Journalist

"When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep"

Billy Sunday, Clergyman

"My mouth has a tendency to get me into trouble, but because I'm so small and I take on people who are lager than me. If someone punched me, I'd get my drummer beat them up"

Brian Molko, Musician

"I'd be interested in finding out if there is a light you walk into, and if you do meet people from your life and walk hand in hand with Jesus. I would hate for my death to be tragic: I'd like to be old when it happens. But hopefully a young death is unlikely"

Brian Molko, Musician

"America does not want vulgarity and sexual exploitation to be our values and we do not want the world to think those are our standards. We want to be a better nation and a better people, with better standards"

Charles W. Pickering, Judge

"Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression"

Antonio Tabucchi, Writer

"When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to"

Helen Rowland, Journalist

"The people in East Germany have lived through so many changes in the last 15 years like never before in the country, and they did this often with great enthusiasm. But in the West we also have a high degree of transformations"

Angela Merkel, Statesman

"People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly"

Andy Warhol, Artist

"I never think that people die. They just go to department stores"

Andy Warhol, Artist

"Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself"

Alexis Carrel, Scientist

"All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people"

Alexis Carrel, Scientist

"The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior"

Abraham Maslow, Psychologist

Page 65 of 387