Quotes about people
people definitions defining
My experience is that I find myself having to constantly define myself to others, day-in, day-out. The quote that's helped me the most through that is from Toni Morrison's “Beloved” where she says, “Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined” - so I find myself defining myself for other people lest I be defined by others and stuck into some box where I don't particularly belong Wentworth Miller
people justice criminals
Of course, as a German, I wouldn't like to tell the American people how to handle their criminal justice. Werner Herzog
people film construction
The deal was we had to have people accompanying us and they would ask us not to film something [in North Korea]. For example, we wanted to film at a certain place and there happened to be a building under construction and it didn't look as fancy as the other buildings, so they wanted us to shoot where everything looked finished and made a good impression of the cityscape.
people silence scream
Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.
people way filmmaker
In a way, I managed to get the deepest things, the best things out of people. That's why I'm a filmmaker. If you don't have it in you, you'd better do something else.
people waiting want
People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film. Weegee
people copying painting
If I don't have anything better to do that day, I'll copy paintings, generally by people who have some relationship to the work of the moment. Wayne Thiebaud
people hollywood expensive
People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them. Wayne Rogers
people conservative chill
I am a conservative type of person, so sometimes when I'm chilling with myself, people always come ask me, 'What's wrong with you? What are you wondering about? Wayne Wonder
people trance performing
I have some sort of performing gene that's just there and I cannot explain it but I want to connect with people through a camera or on a stage. I just can do it. I just have an intuitive sense of it. So I love doing that, I love going into that trance. Wayne White
people dramatic
I am very suspicious of cameras and dramatic interpretations and the whole Hollywood myth-making process. I don't trust it. I've seen it affect people in bad ways.
people trying pressure
There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down Wayne Rooney
people talk-to-me
When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.
people want albums
I want people to be like, 'Your album's just as good as Kendrick [Lamar]'s or Esperanza Spalding or Beck. I work just as hard as them. Wale
people awkward style
My style as a human being is to indulge people who need to escape, yet I insist on confronting them as a playwright. It's quite embarrassing, it's quite unpleasant, it's quite awkward. Wallace Shawn
people would-be reason
For some reason, people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it.
people suffering despair
As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair. Walker Percy
people steps roles
It makes people nervous for one to step out of one's role.
people doubt growing
For some time now the impression has been growing upon me that everyone is dead. It happens when I speak to people. In the middle of a sentence it will come over me: yes, beyond a doubt this is death. There is little to do but groan and make an excuse and slip away as quickly as one can.
people united-states balls
Free people have a serious problem with place, being in a place, using up a place, deciding which new place to rotate to. Americans ricochet around the United States like billiard balls.
people hatred friendly
Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive.
people way twenties
When I was twenty I was in love with words, a wordsmith. I didn't know enough to know when people were letting words get in their way. Now I like the words to disappear, like a transparent curtain. Wallace Stegner
people peculiar gracious
God is gracious to some very peculiar people. Wallace Stevens
people ignorant noble
The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly. Samuel Smiles
people excellence capacity
The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object.
people true-beauty puff
Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up; for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make the true beauty. Samuel Richardson
people hatred understanding
People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.
people world busy
Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.
people twists medical
Mark Twain didn't psychoanalyze Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer. Dickens didn't put Oliver Twist on the couch because he was hungry! Good copy comes out of people, Johnny, not out of a lot of explanatory medical terms. Samuel Fuller
people scratches dignity
We got a right to climb out of the sewer and live like other people. We could start from scratch. Make every minute count twice for the one we lost.
people vision good-company
People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy. Samuel Butler
people genius degrees
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
people criticism talent
Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.