Quotes on People

When it comes to landing a good job, many people focus on the role. Although finding the right title, position, and salary is important, there's another consideration that matters just as much: culture.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

I want my legacy to be about the soccer, and if I can help people be happier in life in any capacity, awesome.

Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.

I feel blessed and humbled that people have loved my music. Nothing would be possible without their acceptance.

My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong.

People collect boredom, they hoard it, they wallow in it, hoping that one day it'll be of interest and become an effete ennui. Let me tell you, it doesn't.

The part that makes you unique is the bit people will like or fear, fall in love with, or try to avoid.

It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement -- that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did.

People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want.

Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.

What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.

The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.

Touched by her fingers, the two surviving chocolate people copulate desperately, losing themselves in a melting frenzy of lust, spending the last of their brief borrowed lives in a spasm of raspberry cream and fear.

All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.

People don't remember me. Really. It's not a paranoid thing; I just have this habit of slipping through memories. It doesn't bother me all that much, except I guess that's a lie; it does. For some reason, I test very high on forgettability.

This is a people shooting hat," I said. "I shoot people in this hat.

Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing.