Quotes About People

One thing I think is least realistic is that there were five people that made decisions in the fictional 'West Wing.' In real life, there are about five million people that weigh in.

Many people ask me what I have learned from all of the experiences in my life, and I say unhesitatingly: People are wonderful. It is true. People really are wonderful.

I don't want to change too much. I've had a wonderful life and wonderful success. I want to make this a great success for the American people.

These are matters of life and death for our country and its people, and we deserve answers from Hillary Clinton.

I have such respect for women. My mother was one of the great people I've of known in my life.

The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty.

In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation for their dimness in life.

The earth keeps some vibration going There in your heart, and that is you. And if the people find you can fiddle, why fiddle you must, for all your life.

I have a lot of people in my life who are truly ridiculous characters, and they're very, very funny people, but they don't really try to be. They're not cracking jokes.

People are terrified. A lot of them are in relationships that aren't satisfying, and if you tell them they can change their life, they get really scared.

I'm not saying that I don't experience people in life as evil, but writing is not a place of alienation; writing is the place where we can try to be human.

I know I want to help people and inspire people. That's my purpose in life.

No art can develop until it penetrates deeply into the life of the people.

It's so strange how my life's changed; I know nothing about the people that I touch.

We referenced fictional characters as if they were people to learn from. As if real-life people were too nebulous, too private and unreal for us to understand.

I do not understand those who spend hours at the theater watching scenes between people whom they would not listen to for five minutes in real life.

Here you go, she said. I don't need it anymore. I'm very grateful. I think it may have saved my life, saved some other people's death.

When I'm walking around, I'm sometimes just perplexed at people who seem like everyday people, people who are on juries, who are in the police force, who are in control of my life in many ways.

I'm really blessed with the people in my life who keep me on track and keep pushing me forward.

He has learned that God uses solitude to teach us how to live with other people.

The Road to Santiago is the road of ordinary people.

Mostly in life people are trying not to have emotions.

Fashion people think that the careful Nice companies are boring beyond measure. (Nice people think fashionistas look silly and should Get A Life).

And as he spoke, I was thinking, 'the kind of stories that people turn life into, the kind of lives people turn stories into.