People Quotes · Page 1,307

It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.

— Jim Gilmore

In a competitive society, the thing people fear the most is love.

— James Purdy

A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.

— Sitting Bull

People think I'm nuts because I can sit in a room and be happy by myself.

— Tori Amos

It doesn't matter if your ignorant so long as you can find people to know stuff for you.

— K.J. Parker

Enthusiasm is the way you trigger other people's emotions so they instinctively help and support you..

— Paul Meyer

I'm not wild about accepting responsibility without authority. Why should my people be?

— Wilbur L. Creech

You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.

— J. Cole

Canada was for me very much Sweden, you know? Very much open people, that they read books, they go see films. I…

— Michael Nyqvist

I find that using real people as models keeps me from getting too formulaic in the designs of characters.

— George Perez

Something I learned early on in my career is there's no use trying to fool anybody about what you want to do…

— Jon Watts

I came from a background where access to museum culture was rarely granted, and, when you got it, people wondered what the…

— Kehinde Wiley

There are more than a few messages from lonely people wondering why they never find themselves described...I illustrated one, "How come no…

— Sophie Blackall

“You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. In the meantime, the truth will just piss…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Airbrushing has sold such a false idea of what a body looks like to the point where people can't tell what's real…

— Barbie Ferreira

Most people like to think they are discovering a new talent. If you ask, then it makes them feel as though they…

— K Callan

These things are happening in large measure because of us. We in this country burn 25 percent of the world's fossil fuel,…

— Bill McKibben

Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the…

— Nancy Gibbs

Whenever I enter a position, I have a predetermined stop. That is the only way I can sleep. I know where I'm…

— Bruce Kovner

Look at what you want to change, gather a few people who believe in it like you do, and start moving forward.…

— Debby Ryan

I've been kinda fascinated by misfits, outcasts, and downtrodden people. I've identified with them. 'Blade Runner' probably got me more work than…

— William Sanderson

When I was asked: "Will shame do it?" Meaning: Will welfare people be shamed into getting respectable work? And I said that…

— Studs Terkel

I don't seem to get solemn about it, and some people might not understand. That's why I never talk about it. I…

— Carole Lombard

Determination and persistence are melded together. Their basis comes from people who stay hungry and don't allow themselves to get too comfortable.…

— Tony Robbins

Some people get nervous when I run because quarterbacks, they gotta go down and stay healthy.

— Mitchell Trubisky

If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.

— Marquis de Lafayette

People who become important activists, they also struggle with the process of discovery.

— Vijay Prashad

That is exactly how people beat Chinese handcuffs. They turn into iguanas.

— Rick Riordan

Every time you walk down the street people are screaming, 'You're fired!'

— Donald Trump

As a very small girl, I listened to Charlie Parker and loved him and Max Roach and people like that.

— Aretha Franklin

Golf is the most fascinating game, but other people's game is the most boring thing.

— Ronnie Corbett

People are bound to get excited when they see a ten-million-ton starship trying to fly down the street.

— Terry Pratchett

I know that you cannot hate other people without hating yourself.

— Oprah Winfrey

There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons.

— Fred Saberhagen

I have heard a lot of people talk about this grind of series television. I have not seen it yet.

— Laurence Fishburne

I want people to know that I want to be a part of a championship team, be a part of a big…

— Greg Hardy

I think people in the gay and straight worlds can get a sense of what it means to be an artist.

— Jill Eikenberry

When I see a large group of people, I wonder how many of them will eventually require autopsies.

— George Carlin

Everything I had seen of Christianity was just used to judge people and to be holier-than-thou.

— Lacey Sturm

Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.

— Theodor Adorno