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People Quotes by Tom Wolfe
- There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first…
- Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page.
- My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me.
- I was sitting in my office when someone called to tell me two light planes had collided with the World Trade Centre. I turned on…
- People complain about my exclamation points, but I honestly think that's the way people think. I don't think people think in essays; it's one exclamation…
- So many people in this country have a dual loyalty. They have loyalty to America, but they also are determined to have their parade up…
- There was a time in the 1930s when magazine writers could actually make a good living. 'The Saturday Evening Post' and 'Collier's' both had three…
- You can be denounced from the heavens, and it only makes people interested.
- Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most people don’t know…
- And - of course! - the Non-people. The whole freaking world was full of people who were bound to tell you they weren't qualified to…
- In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, old people in America had prayed, "Please God, don't let me look poor." In the year 2000,…
- They were...well, Beautiful People! - not 'students', 'clerks', 'salesgirls', 'executive trainees' - Christ, don't give me your occupation-game labels! We are Beautiful People, ascendant from…
- I went to see the Beatles last month... And I heard 20,000 girls screaming together at the Beatles... and I couldn't hear what they were…
- Dear Mother, I meant to write you before this and I hope you haven't been worried.... I have met some Beautiful People and...
- I would vote for Bush if for no other reason than to be at the airport waving off all the people who say they are…
- In the 1930s, all the novelists had seemed to be people who came blazing up into stardom from out of total obscurity. That seemed to…
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