People Quotes - Page 1215

People come up to me in supermarkets and demand humour. And the less amusing I am, the more they piss themselves. So I say, "I'm doing my shopping, mate, OK?" and the guy will be on the floor in hysterics. Quite odd. Eventually I do have to say something funny so I usually go for something pathetic like, "It's a nice place to shop but I wouldn't like to live here!" and they roar again. Wet themselves. I'm lucky though that I am not massively famous, I can get the Tube without much bother. Must be awful being the Beckhams.

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.

Yes. It is true. I, Michael Scott, am signing up with an online dating service. Thousands of people have done it, and I am going to do it. I need a username, and I have a great one. 'Little Kid Lover.' That way people will know exactly where my priorities are at.

Instead of telling our young people to plan ahead, we should tell them to plan to be surprised.

I could never have imagined the films I've done and the people I've worked with when I was starting out; I certainly did not have a career path.

You meet new people. We just spent two hours with people we didn't know before, just talking about the Badgers.

There is not the slightest question but that the God of the Old Testament is a jealous, vengeful God, inflicting not only on the sinful pagans but even on his Chosen People fire, lighting, hideous plagues and diseases, brimstone, and other curses.

Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with

Broad-streeted Richmond . . . The trees in the streets are old trees used to living with people, Family trees that remember your grandfather's name.

I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.

I know that people think of my work from the '70s as American, but I've been going to other places for a long time.

I know the world doesn't need maybe another of [a particular type of song] - the same thing again - but you can't help yourself. And some people like it, but you kind of know in your heart that it's a lesser version of what you've done before. But maybe it has a good tempo, or it feels fresh, but it's still not.

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

He did it (listened) as the world's most charming and magnetic people do, always asking the right question at the right time, never fidgeting or taking his eyes from the speaker's face, making the other guy feel like the most knowledgeable, brilliant, and intellectually savvy person on the planet.

My view is that organized religion is a very dangerous tool that's been misused by a lot of people.

I think when ordinary working people come home, turn on the TV and see a gala of a bunch of people at, you know, a rich gala all subsidized by taxpayers claiming their subsidies aren't high enough, when they know those subsidies have actually gone up - I'm not sure that's something that resonates with ordinary people.

I like people who are as unlike me as possible, which is not an expression of self disgust or self hatred, but it's just that you know you obviously particularly admire things that you recognize yourself as not having.

Young people's reading choices are influenced by their peers.

Kitchen is the place where we have our best and worst conversations. It's such a dying thing, people sitting around the table and enjoying dinner together in their home. My mission is to keep that alive.

People don't listen to understand. They listen to reply. The collective monologue is everyone talking and no one listening.

The more people train their counsciousness, the more sensitivie they are to it. It's like you had your own voice coming to you.

Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.

Involve people in the problem and work out the solution together.

Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.

If poor people want food stamps, they should become massive corporations.