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Quotes About People

People do give me a hard time about my hair because it's orange and it's big.
~ Carrot Top
Drinking coffee is kinda my major hobby... the great benefit of being an actor is you have all this spare time. My ideal is just hanging out with people - I think I am innately lazy.
~ Craig Parker
Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas, which, given enough time, turns into people.
~ Edward Robert Harrison
An unfamiliar city is a fine thing. That's the time and place when you can suppose that all the people you meet are nice. It's dream time.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.
~ William Faulkner
When I entertain at home, I take time and pleasure in the small details that make all the difference. Entertaining is about giving to people and sharing with them.
~ Valentino Garavani
Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I'm interested in reality, and I'm interested in survival. I'm interested in people who aren't the lucky ones, who maybe have a tougher time surviving, and telling their story.
~ Mary Ellen Mark
I believe that summer is our time, a time for the people, and that no politician should be allowed to speak to us during the summer. They can start talking again after Labor Day.
~ Lewis Black
The time for the destruction of the world and its people hath arrived.
~ Shoghi Effendi
If you're lonely, bored, or unhappy, remember you are mad young. There is so much time to meet new people and go to new places.
~ Ezra Koenig
I came into the Agency with a set of ideas and attitudes that were quite typical of people coming into the Agency at that time. You could call it liberal anti-communism.
~ Aldrich Ames
Stories are amazing and powerful because they can resonate with people depending on their needs and experiences and speak truths we need to hear in that moment in time.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
My people are Americans. My time is today.
~ George Gershwin
The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
~ Charles de Gaulle
What are our priorities? First, the welfare, the survival of the people. Then, democratic norms and processes which from time to time we have to suspend.
~ Lee Kuan Yew
Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.
~ John Cheever
I used to spend most of my time straining to be a nice guy so people would like me.
~ Elia Kazan
I wanted to paint pictures of people. I thought, "Why bother doing anything else. Everything else is a waste of time. I want to tell stories about people and their feelings and emotions."
~ Lisa Yuskavage
It's fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats as I am most of the time — for jittery people.
~ William Styron
The Constitution which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People is sacredly obligatory upon all.
~ George Washington
One third of the people of the world are asleep at any given moment. The other two thirds are awake and probably stirring up trouble somewhere.
~ Dean Rusk
Beautiful objects, ideas, even beautiful people all share the power to lift the spirits and motivate creativity while at the same time soothing the soul.
~ Thomas Kinkade
Most of the time, I'm not even working; I'm just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.
~ Jackie Chan