Quotes About Person

She took care of evyone with the same no-nonsense air of friendliness and good cheer that made her seem so paradoxically wholesome, as if she were convinced that being a slut and being a really nice person were just two things that naturally went together.

the city one knew and recognized, lived in and loved the way you love a person.

The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. You get to take yourself oh so very seriously.

You know what it's like—you see someone on the train screaming awful, racist things and think, 'How can I protect this person's right to free speech?

Remember, feedback is meant to address the problem, not the person.

He had known that emotions could change a person's perception of facts, but he had never imagined them capable of such slyness. It was important to keep an eye on them--to remain alert to their secret workings.

It seems to me that there is always something luminous in the face of a person in the act of reading.

A divided kingdom cannot defend itself from its adversaries. A divided person cannot face life in a dignified way.

Bigot: A person who wins an argument with a liberal.

You never win an argument until they attack your person.

A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and the shape of things, and it's not just Ihe shape of any one thing, but the shape of any thing and everything.

Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent.

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

If a woman decides she likes me, it would behoove her to take into consideration that my art has had a strong influence on the type of person I am.

Angela King is a lovely person with a tremendous sense of art.

If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.

Just because people can express themselves through their art doesn't mean they are great communicators in person.

Attitude is the reflection of a person, and our world mirrors our attitude.

I'm an easy person to get along with. Even when I struggle, I have the same attitude.

flustered by what she'd heard. And she had to be a strong person to survive what she did. She knew the story, better than he did. He hadn't told her anything she didn't know. "Don't be sorry. I knew what the interview was about.

AS A PROFESSIONAL HUMORIST, I OFTEN GET LETTERS from readers who are interested in the basic nature of humor. "What kind of a sick, perverted, disgusting person are you," these letters typically ask, "that you make jokes about setting fire to a goat?

As we walked down the boardwalk at the beach, I asked Jordan about his uptick in personal style. It turns out it was one of his 12 Rules for Life that didn't make the final edit. "Dress like the person you want to be," he told me. "I took it from Nietzsche. He once said 'every great man is an actor of his own ideal,' which means you have to act out whatever you want to be, then you'll become it.

Hell no. Anybody sues me I ain't got no money. See, that's the poor person's best insurance policy: no assets.

As each person's sandal hits the pier, a sociolinguistic transformation from cruiser to tourist is effected.