People Quotes - Page 163

Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.

Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

Heaven is not for good people, it's for forgiven people.

I had to prove myself to a lot of different people.

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.

If you have one person you’re influenced by, everyone will say you’re the next whoever. But if you rip off a hundred people, everyone will say you’re so original!

And be silent for the most part, or else make only the most necessary remarks, and express these in few words. But rarely, and when occasion requires you to talk, talk, indeed, but about no ordinary topics. Do not talk about gladiators, or horseraces, or athletes, or things to eat or drink - topics that arise on all occasions; but above all, do not talk about people, either blaming, or praising, or comparing them.

Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people-- people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

I'd like to go on a hardcore safari in Africa, something off the beaten track with anti-poaching people and camping out in the savannah.

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.

People will say, 'There are a million ways to shoot a scene,' but I don't think so. I think there are two, maybe. And the other one is wrong.

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.

One popular new plastic surgery technique is called lip grafting, or 'fat recycling,' wherein fat cells are removed from one part of your body that is too large, such as your buttocks, and injected into your lips. People will then be literally kissing ass.

If people are taking pictures of me at Starbucks, it's not the end of the world. It's cool, it's fun, it's exciting.

Race, gender, religion, sexuality, we are all people and that's it. We're all people. We're all equal.

All people are the same; only their habits differ.

The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and I'm not denying they exist. But it's a far more philistine country than people think.

I’m not fascinated by people who smile all the time. What I find interesting is the way people look when they are lost in thought, when their face becomes angry or serious, when they bite their lip, the way they glance, the way they look down when they walk, when they are alone and smoking a cigarette, when they smirk, the way they half smile, the way they try and hold back tears, the way when their face says they want to say something but can’t, the way they look at someone they want or love… I love the way people look when they do these things. It’s… beautiful.

I wanted to create something that people could relate to without having read a book about it beforehand.

I've always found that beauty and confidence are synonymous. If you feel confident, that's what people see.

Passwords are like underwear: you don’t let people see it, you should change it very often, and you shouldn’t share it with strangers.

Some people are into bondage... and some people are into crossdressing.. . and some people are into Coldplay. It's okay, I don't mind being a fetish.

writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers.

I think it bothers people to see people that are happy and successful. So they try to find what's wrong with them.