“Seem like a lot of people wear shoes they can't walk in.”
Alex Flinn (1966) American children's writer
Source: Cloaked
Quotes about people page 75
“The people on the train with me don't know it, but in my head I'm dancing.”
Wendy Mass Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
Source: Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
“People can cry much easier than they can change.”
James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States
Malcolm Gladwell (1963) journalist and science writer
Source: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Cassandra Clare The Mortal Instruments
Clary and Jace, pg. 44
The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)
Source: City of Bones / City of Ashes / City of Glass / City of Fallen Angels / City of Lost Souls
Context: "Do you want to tell me what this is about, or should I just call the police?"
"And tell them what?" Jace said witheringly. "That invisible people are bothering you? Trust me, little girl, the police aren't going to arrest someone they can't see."
Alexandre Dumas book The Three Musketeers
Variant: As a general rule... people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.
Source: The Three Musketeers
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party
Source: The speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939
“People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles.”
Bret Easton Ellis book Less Than Zero
Source: Less Than Zero (1985)
“loving people live in a loving world. hostile people live in a hostile world. same world.”
Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer
“I think sometimes people think cheerful is a synonym for dumb, so no one is ever cheerful.”
Mindy Kaling book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Slays
“Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don`t fit into boxes.”
Tori Amos (1963) American singer
“All the people like us are we, and everyone else is they.”
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist
Other works
Variant: Father, Mother, and Me,
Sister and Auntie say
All the people like us are We,
And every one else is They.
“I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book Flappers and Philosophers
Source: Flappers and Philosophers
“Fairy's side note: Even people who don't believe in magic really do.”
Janette Rallison (1966) American writer
Source: My Fair Godmother
Haruki Murakami book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
“People!" she screamed. "There are people here! New people!”
Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer
Source: Kingdom of the Wicked
Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary
Source: The Motorcycle Diaries: A Journey Around South America
Scott Adams (1957) cartoonist, writer
Source: Dilbert's Guide to the Rest of Your Life: Dispatches from Cubicleland
Warren Ellis (1968) English comics and fiction writer
Source: Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street
“Boredom is what happens to people who have no control over their minds.”
Rebecca Stead book Liar & Spy
Source: Liar & Spy
“There is no equality. The only thing people all have in common is that they are all going to die.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
“Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.”
Dallas Willard (1935–2013) American philosopher
Source: Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God
“People would rather live in homes regardless of its grayness. There is no place like home.”
L. Frank Baum book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Source: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Blue-Eyed Devil
Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host
As quoted in The Making of Kubrick's 2001 (1970) by Jerome Agel, p. 300
1970s
Context: One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of mind. Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. Two-thirds of 2001 is realistic — hardware and technology — to establish background for the metaphysical, philosophical, and religious meanings later.
“People are never able to outperform their self-image.”
John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
Source: The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential
“People like you are the reason
People like me need medication.”
Cheyenne McCray (1965) writer
Source: Demons Not Included
“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
John Steinbeck book The Grapes of Wrath
Source: The Grapes of Wrath
“People around the world were moving from one place to another. No one was staying.”
Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Saul D. Alinsky (1909–1972) American community organizer and writer
Source: Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
“People are locked up in all sorts of ways.”
Emma Donoghue (1969) Irish novelist, playwright, short-story writer and historian
“Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.”
Barbara Kingsolver (1955) American author, poet and essayist
“Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.”
Werner Herzog (1942) German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Knocked Out Loaded (1986), Brownsville Girl (with Sam Shepard)
“the only perfect people are dead people, because their the only ones who can't make mistakes!”
Eric Jerome Dickey (1961) American author
Source: Liar's Game
Louise Rennison (1951–2016) British writer
Source: Stop in the Name of Pants!
“You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.”
Robert Henri (1865–1929) American painter
Source: The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Art
“And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.”
Mark Haddon book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
“AMANDA: I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives.”
Noel Coward (1899–1973) English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer
Source: Private Lives an Intimate Comedy in Three Acts
“People who have to announce that they are trustworthy deserve to be lied to.”
Laurie Halse Anderson (1961) American children's writer
Source: The Impossible Knife of Memory
“That's what people do. Kill the things they're afraid of.”
Michael Thomas Ford (1968) American writer
Source: Suicide Notes
“But things don't just fall apart. People break them.”
Robin Wasserman (1978) American writer of speculative fiction for young people
Source: The Book of Blood and Shadow
“Some people never say the words ‘I love you’, for like a child they’re longing to be told.”
Paul Simon (1941) American musician, songwriter and producer
Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film
"This explains Joss perfectly." at Whedonesque.com (15 February 2006)
“I almost never shoot people.”
Janet Evanovich (1943) Novelist
Variant: Stephanie Plum,"I almost never shoot anyone.
“Drowning people
Sometimes die
Fighting their rescuers.”
Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006) American science fiction writer
“You've no right to walk into people's castles and take their guitars.”
Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle
Source: Howl's Moving Castle
