People Quotes - Page 617

But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not. Some of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 20th century came out of people dropping things.

The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others.

Everyone is interested in what‘s new. Few people are interested in what‘s better.

The attacks inside Israel are operations we carry out in response to Israeli crimes against our people.

When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!

I'm trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.

I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure - stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.

The thing about the state of hip-hop is that people are too concerned. I don't think that there's a problem with being too concerned about videogames, especially for me, because I'm not in the industry. I'm just a consumer. But hip-hop is constantly like, "What are you doing for the scene?"

A church is an incubator, a nursery, a grade school. You start where people are and move them to where they need to be.

The Jew has always been a people with definite racial characteristics and never a religion.

It seems like people my age are over-protected today, even to the point where a lot of parents refuse to put their kids in the position to make important decisions, to aspire to great things, because they don't want to put them in a position to fail.

She often spoke to falling seeds and said, "Ah hope you fall on soft ground," because she had heard seeds saying that to each other as they passed. The familiar people and things had failed her so she hung over the gate and looked up the road towards way off. She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman.

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

Fake people talk about other people being fake. Real people worry about their business, and no one else's.

When we were on 'The X Factor,' we didn't realize how overnight the fame thing was. We didn't really understand it until we went on a shopping trip. It was like Week 7 or 8 of the show. We went with a few other contestants and there were loads of people, packed.

The world is looking more and more segmented, the difference between people is becoming greater.

People don't know my real self, and they're not about to find out.

Don't worry about what the people say. Sometimes they'll praise you. Sometimes they'll condemn you. All these things all fade away. And in the end, Allah takes care of everything. Perfectly.

I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.

You can reach a situation where things of intelligence and refinement and culture can be considered elite, and things that are crass and ignorant can be considered to be real and of the people. And when you begin to have the mass of populus striving for something that's not worth striving for, then tremendous amounts of energy go into...the maintenance of that which is worthless.

Do you know why some people feel jealousy from me? Because I don't like to comment back on their stupid remarks.

I have never accepted what many people have kindly said - namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.

Most of the world's work is done by people who don't feel very well.

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.

It's fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats as I am most of the time — for jittery people.