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People Quotes
"When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh."
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"If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving from one place to another."
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"Our thoughts are unseen hands shaping the people we meet. Whatever we truly think them to be, that's what they'll become for us."
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"Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them."
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"Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances."
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"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."
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"When people stop dying, they want to create wealth."
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"Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble."
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"Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie."
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"What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity."
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"The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion."
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"People can look to me as a teacher, but I consider myself a student of hip-hop."
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"Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people."
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"One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph."
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"There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking."
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"People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom."
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"There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may."
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"Mine has been a concern for the people, a concern to maintain stability, a concern to get people working together racially, ethnically, rich and poor - all segments of the city."
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"People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors."
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"I don't know why people are so surprised by my live performances. My approach is so simple; every song I sing, every story I tell, every move I make, must move the audience to laughter, tears or inspiration. Otherwise, why should I do it?"
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"People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide."
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"When people say to me don't the years go fast I have to be honest and say that whereas I don't realise where they go in the long term, I pack so much into a year it seems to take forever."
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"It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it."
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"Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves."
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"Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters."
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"I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Congress of Scientists."
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"I've made a lot of stupid action films. But when we made The Matrix, we saw that people wanted more than that."
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them."
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"These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all they do."
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