People Quotes - Page 1159

Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns.

People like Mr. Hitchens are ready to fight to the last drop of other people's blood, and it's utterly and completely contemptible.

I think the lesson that I learnt very early on was to listen to people you work with, because you're all in it together.

It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine--something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.

Blameless people are always the most exasperating.

We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.

I'll bet there aren't too many people hooked on crack who can play the bagpipes.

How come when it's us, it's an abortion, and when it's a chicken, it's an omelette? Are we so much better than chickens all of a sudden? When did this happen; that we passed chickens in goodness? Name six ways we're better than chickens. See, nobody can do it! You know why? 'Cause chickens are decent people.

Whoever coined the term "Buyer Beware" was probably bleeding from the asshole.

Most people are not particularly good at anything.

Avoid people with gold teeth who want to play cards

We are a water-drinking people, and we are allowing every brook to be defiled.

It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.

Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does.

The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.

Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.

The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people.

Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.

There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.

The computer is designed to mimic reality. And in an animated world, in my perspective, that's the worst thing to do. I want people to walk into a movie theater and be transported to a different world.

And if you worry that not finishing the food on your plate is a slap in the face of all the hungry people everywhere, you are not living in reality. The truth is that you either throw the food out or you throw it in, but either way it turns to waste. World hunger will not be solved by finishing the garlic mashed potatoes on your plate.

Most people are so busy living they neglect to take the time to ask why.

You always start off with passion and the people that have it.

My caddie 'Stovepipe' tried to talk me into hitting a 3-wood. But I took out the turf rider (4-wood) instead. The moment I hit it, I felt something in my bones. Walter Hagen was playing with me and Bobby Jones was on the green. 21 people were behind the green. The sun was going down. I wasn't sure it had gone in the hole until I saw all 21 people jumping up and down.