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People Quotes by Lynne Truss
- The advent of the mobile phone was a disaster. We are forced to listen, open-mouthed, to other people's intimate conversations. Increasingly, we are all in…
- Do you lend books and DVDs to people? If so, don't you always regret it? All my life I have forced books on to people…
- I do needlepoint from kits. I give them as gifts to people in the form of cushion covers and they are often speechless with horror.
- I hate to be treated as if I'm invisible. I get incensed when people talk across me or refuse to catch my eye in a…
- To some people, the fact that I am not married, or don't have children, would be the reason I have written a book on punctuation.
- What I have always liked about Brighton is its impersonality. Since the 18th century, people have come, used the place and gone home again.
- All writers learn this, in time: don't show your work to other people until it's safely finished. Even discussing your unborn book in quite general…
- I used to help my dad with a stall selling eggs when I was about 12. People were so hard up they would ask for…
- In my worst moments, I think the biggest effect of 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves' was to kill the happiness of people who had previously skipped…
- The idea of withholding a massive secret is obviously quite exciting to some people. It is also the basis of much classic drama, of course,…
- No one else understands us 7th sense people. They regard us as freaks. When we point out illiterate mistakes, we are often aggressively instructed to…
- Many aspects of our screen-bound lives are bad for our social skills simply because we get accustomed to controlling the information that comes in, managing…
- The problem is that it has become politically awkward to draw attention to absolutes of bad and good. In place of manners, we now have…
- There are people who embrace the Oxford comma and those who don't, and I'll just say this: never get between these people when drink has…
- It used to be just CIA agents with ear-pieces who walked round with preoccupied, faraway expressions, and consequently regarded all the little people as irrelevant…
- If we looked inside ourselves and remembered how insignificant we are, just for a couple of minutes a day, respect for other people would be…
More People Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle