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Quotes About People

What it comes down to is, Kiss has always been a beast that has this tendency to run wild, and it needs attention and nurturing. If people are always running off and doing other projects, which has been the case, somebody has to be there for stability.
~ Paul Stanley
I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild.
~ Tina Weymouth
People actually perceived me with being this cat from the Bronx because I'm one of a handful of folks that was actually acting in 'Wild Style'.
~ Fab Five Freddy
Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even under the worst excesses of Stalinism or consumerism, the human spirit will still express itself.
~ Jay Griffiths
New York had this wild beat that anybody could dance to. It was very nurturing to young people.
~ Mary Steenburgen
I meet people at book signings. My record now, for signing, is ten and a half hours in one sitting.
~ David Sedaris
'Ten Years Later' is about the journey six extraordinary people take with time. Each has experienced a game-changing event - perhaps a life-threatening illness or a catastrophic personal loss.
~ Hoda Kotb
Micronutrient deficiency in the soil results in micronutrient malnutrition in people, since crops grown on such soils tend to be deficient in the nutrients needed to fight hidden hunger.
~ M. S. Swaminathan
The climate-studies people who work with models always tend to overestimate their models. They come to believe models are real and forget they are only models.
~ Freeman Dyson
I do feel like, because my podcast is so specific, I've been really fortunate in that the kind of people it attracts tend to have interests that run with mine.
~ Janet Varney
I don't tend to write straight dramas where real life just impinges. But because I don't, when I do, it is very interesting to slap people in the face with just an absolute of life.
~ Joss Whedon
I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character.
~ Jane Haddam
Look, we are a rock group. But you should see all those things in perspective. People tend to blow up everything into ridiculous proportions. And then the fun is gone real soon.
~ Donnie Wahlberg
I love period drama as much as the next person, but there's a tendency to let all of the costume get in the way of the people.
~ Alex Lawther
I'm not very sympathetic to the tendency to bring art to the people.
~ Gian Carlo Menotti
I think the Baby Boom does have a tendency to get its nose in everything. The Greatest Generation had a better tendency to leave people alone. Of course, they also had a better tendency to hate everybody's guts.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
I've always had a tendency to be much more optimistic about people than I should be. I'd like to be a little shrewder.
~ Evan Williams
I think in our culture there's been a tendency for people to blame the audience. There is a tendency in our industry to say, 'The audience has left the building. People don't want culture anymore.'
~ Diane Paulus
I think a novelist must be more tender with living or 'real' people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their story looms before you every day, in every sentence.
~ Rick Bass
In 'We Were the Mulvaneys,' animals are almost as important as people. I wanted to show the tenderness in our relationships with cats, dogs, and horses. Especially cats.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.
~ Robyn Hitchcock
I really do like the independent way of working. You don't get much studio intrusion compared to when you're working on a big Hollywood film where there tends to always be loads of people interfering. The only problem, though, with independent features is that they are hard to sell.
~ Steven Bauer
We kind of forget because what television tends to do with these professions like lawyers and doctors and police officers, we create them on such a heroic level that you kind of forget that these are really people.
~ Rocky Carroll
Lots of stand-up showcases on TV are made by production companies that also represent acts as clients, so there tends to be a demonstrable bias towards a certain group of people.
~ Stewart Lee