Quotes about people page 53
“People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring.”
Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore
Source: Kafka on the Shore (2002), Chapter 13
Haruki Murakami book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Cheryl Strayed book Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
“Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?”
Wallace Stegner book Crossing to Safety
Source: Crossing to Safety
“I think the busiest people are often the loneliest.”
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Smooth Talking Stranger
“People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.”
Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
Wall and Piece (2005)
Source: Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall
Dave Barry (1947) American writer
Source: Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, But Some Actual Journalism!
Sherry Argov (1977) American writer
Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
Bill Hicks (1961–1994) American comedian
Sane Man (1989)
Context: Rick Astley? Have you seen this banal incubus at work? Boy, if this guy isn't heralding Satan's imminent approach to Earth, huh. "Don't ever wanna make you cry, never wanna make you sigh … never gonna break your heart" … oh, I wouldn't worry about that without a dick, buddy. You got a corn nut! You got a clit! You're not even a guy! You're an AIDS germ that got off a slide! They're puttin' music to AIDS germs, they're puttin' a drum machine behind them in a metronome beat and Ted Turner's colorizing 'em, God damn it! These aren't even people man! It's a CIA plot to make you think malls are good!! Don't ya see? (Imitates stereotypical American in a robotic manner) "But Bill, malls are good! Malls allow us to shop 365 days of the year at a 72 degree heat. That must be good."
“We're not the same people we were then. We've changed, we've grown.”
Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook
Source: The Notebook
Lucy R. Lippard (1937) American art curator
Source: WhiteWalls, Vol. 36-38 (1995), p 45; Cited in: Timothy Oakes, Patricia L. Price (2008). The Cultural Geography Reader. p. 343.
Source: On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art, and Place
“When you can't be honest with people, you can't ever relax with them.”
Dorothy Koomson book My Best Friend's Girl
Source: My Best Friend's Girl
Chelsea Handler book Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea (2008)
Source: Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
“Succes is a lousy teacher. It makes smart people think they can't lose.”
Bill Gates book The Road Ahead
The Road Ahead (1995)
Variant: Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
“People are too complicated to have simple labels.”
Philip Pullman book The Amber Spyglass
Source: The Amber Spyglass
“My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
“I can't help it when people are frightened," says Merricat. "I always want to frighten them more.”
Shirley Jackson book We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Source: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
“Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive.”
Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) Catholic bishop and television presenter
As quoted in Seven Words to the Cross (1979) by Ellsworth Kalas, page 93
Context: Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded when they are so broadminded they can never make up their minds about anything.
Jared Diamond book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Cited by Tim Flannery, "Learning from the past to change our future" http://science.sciencemag.org/content/307/5706/45.full, Science, volume 307, 7 January 2005, page 45. <br class="br">Source: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (2005)
“People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
“Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?”
David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary
Variant: obstinate, adj.
Sometimes it becomes a contest: Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?
Source: The Lover's Dictionary
“All people are the same; only their habits differ.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress
Source: Seriously... I'm Kidding
“Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.”
Angela Carter book Wise Children
Source: Wise Children (1991), ch. 5 (p.213).
“Different time, different place,” I said. “Things can change. People can change.”
Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily
Source: The Golden Lily
“You can't ever tell what's going to hurt people.”
Evelyn Waugh book A Handful of Dust
Source: A Handful of Dust
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
“Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.”
Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist
John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author
Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings
“I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. It exists when people liberate themselves.”
Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary
Statement in Mexico (1958); as quoted in Kaplan AP World History 2005 (2004) edited by the Kaplan staff, p. 240
George Eliot book Middlemarch
Source: Middlemarch (1871), Chapter 1 (misprinted as "Some people did" in some editions, such as Penguin Signet Classics).
Jon Kabat-Zinn (1944) American academic
Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are - Mindfulness Meditation In Everyday Life
“Sometimes you dont even want to think aout what people are doing with their groceries.”
Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer
Source: Someone Like You
“What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
Variant: What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.
“Geniuses are not always pleasant people.”
Karen Armstrong (1944) author and comparative religion scholar from Great Britain
“the tired sunsets and the tired
people -
it takes a lifetime to die and
no time at
all.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
“A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.”
Andrei Tarkovsky book Sculpting in Time
Source: Sculpting in Time (1986), p. 177
“Behaviour that's admired
is the path to power among people everywhere.”
Seamus Heaney (1939–2013) Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer
Source: Beowulf
Edward de Bono (1933) Maltese physician
Source: I Am Right You Are Wrong: From This to the New Renaissance: From Rock Logic to Water Logic
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Gifts
“It's not the place, I think. It's the people. We'd have all been the same anywhere else.”
Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author
Source: I Am the Messenger
“We're all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us.”
Liam Callanan American writer
Source: The Cloud Atlas
“A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul
“My mother always said 'Don't bother other people.' I think that's good advice.”
Amy Sedaris (1961) American comedian
Source: I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence
“Many people think that happiness comes from having more power or more money.”
François Lelord book Hector and the Search for Happiness
Source: Hector and the Search for Happiness
Charles Platt (1945) Author, journalist and computer programmer
Patrick Süskind (1949) German writer and screenwriter
Source: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
