People Quotes

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it-ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.

I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.

Well, you know, when people say stuff about you, it's always really flattering. But does it mean anything to me? It's not really real to me; there's no reality to it.

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.

I've done my share of period stuff. I'm not sure why, but people say I have a period face. The bread and butter of British TV is Jane Austen adaptations and bridges and bonnets and boats and horses.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

Fanatic is often the name given to people of action by people who are lazy.

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

People say you have to work on your resentments. Yeah, no, I'm gonna hang onto them and they're gonna fuel my attack.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.

It's funny, in some of the interviews I've seen that were done for the film, some people say things like, 'Oh, I was never a very big Jim Woodring fan. I've never thought his work was that great.'

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.

Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.

A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.

When people say, 'Nothing's coming to me,' they usually don't like what's coming to them.

It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

My kids started school, so having a strong base in Melbourne has been a key priority. I'm not daunted by the travel. People say, 'It's so far to Australia,' and I say, 'You get on the plane, you eat well, you sleep, you wake up - and you're there.'