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Quotes About People

No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There's TV. There's a lot of things.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
I've always been drawn to the extremes of human behavior, and crime fiction is a great way to explore the lives and stories of fascinating people.
~ Nick Petrie
I am grateful that as a reporter and as an anchor, people have allowed me to share their stories.
~ Tamron Hall
I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.
~ Ira Glass
I paint American people, and I tell American stories through the paintings I create.
~ Amy Sherald
Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.
~ Bernie Siegel
Roger Miller opened a lot of people's eyes to the possibilities of country music, and it's making more impact now because it's earthy material: stories and things that happen to everyday people. I call it 'people music.'
~ Glen Campbell
Narratively speaking, innocent misunderstandings are disappointing. Arbitrary events are also disappointing. The stories that really grab our attention involve not accidents but people doing things on purpose - to get things they desperately want.
~ Celeste Ng
I don't like it when religions take it to the point where they discredit all other religions, because how could one sector of people have figured it out and know that that's it? But I do think that there's so much beauty in a lot of the stories or scriptures.
~ Adrianne Lenker
I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories about character and love.'
~ Cameron Crowe
Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
~ Adam Cohen
The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.
~ Louise Brown
I don't set out to write female lead shows, necessarily. I like deeply flawed characters. When they come to me, or when I'm introduced to them, I follow the stories and the people, rather than setting out to do a female lead thing.
~ Jenji Kohan
The pain that all people experience in life and the light that helps them champion through it all - it's their lives and their stories and their love and will to keep living that moves me to write.
~ Rupi Kaur
Films really can change a conversation and change someone's thinking and perception, especially with people of color at the center. It rarely happens. I think it's important for both the community but also the world to see people of color in all genres, especially love stories.
~ Gina Prince-Bythewood
In times of crisis, different people react in different ways. Some might try to escape. Others might attempt to batten down the hatches and ride out the storm in a safe haven.
~ Cullen Bunn
There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
~ Stephen Hawking
Those who love desire to share with the beloved. They want to be one with the beloved, and Sacred Scripture shows us the great love story of God for his people which culminated in Jesus Christ.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
Journalism and the news has become not only a means to debate but also to judge and deconstruct celebrity, the news story, and the emotional lives of political people.
~ Abi Morgan
I think 'We the People' is an example of why pro wrestling is so cool because it was a storyline that started out very political and very controversial and very nasty. It really evolved into a movement of the people, not just American people, but people everywhere.
~ Jake Hager
It's very dangerous for a storyteller to walk into a situation with a political agenda because you end up telling a story about issues instead of telling a story about people.
~ Peter Landesman
I want to be a storyteller - not only of the Latin experience but of people who want to be inspired.
~ Nicholas Gonzalez
From the beginning of time, we've told stories, Shamans and Medicine People, and not to be pompous about it, but I feel like that is the lineage I take down and where I come from. There is magic to storytelling.
~ Lynn Collins
I need people - theatrics and schmoozing and storytelling are part of my talent.
~ Joel Salatin