People Quotes

I always imagined myself somehow as an electron around some atom, and you're just, like, bouncing around and spinning. There was a never-ending supply of places to go, people to see, things to do, and fitting it all in became kind of an art.

~ Tom Freston

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

~ Fran Lebowitz

I don't feel I'm trying to make art. I'm trying to make interesting things. People can relate to that.

~ Thomas Heatherwick

There is so much art can do to enlighten people, no matter what their views might be. If art can't go there or doesn't elevate the social consciousness in some way, then we are in peril.

~ Octavia Spencer

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.

~ Jim Morrison

If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens.

~ Grandma Moses

Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible.

~ Bell Hooks

I'm just really impressed by oil paintings - I don't see how people do it! That's the style I like: classic oil paintings. Abstract art just isn't my thing.

~ Brittany Howard

People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical.

~ Keith Haring

Great artists suffer for the people.

~ Marvin Gaye

Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

~ Edgard Varèse

Art is anything people do with distinction.

~ Louis Dudek

It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

~ Alfred Eisenstaedt

Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible to as many people as possible is a benefactor of humanity.

~ Zoltan Kodaly

I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.

~ T. D. Jakes

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

~ Joseph Stalin

People say satire is dead. It's not dead it's alive and living in the White House.

~ Robin Williams

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.

~ William E. Simon

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.

~ John Stuart Mill

The unique thing about our country is that we have Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Parsis, and people of all other religions. We have temples and mosques, gurdwaras and churches. But we do not bring all this into politics... This is the difference between India and Pakistan.

~ Lal Bahadur Shastri

The fact that people die because of an AK-47 is not because of the designer, but because of politics.

~ Mikhail Kalashnikov

First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.

~ Nate Silver

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.

~ Roger Nash Baldwin

The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception.

~ Peter Singer

I do think the public want to see politicians acting in a different way. What's brought young people into our campaign is that they were written off by political parties but they had never written off politics, and what we have is a huge number of young people, very enthusiastic and brimming with ideas. Those ideas have got to be heard.

~ Jeremy Corbyn

It's not okay to lie about people and particularly not okay to hurl the worst imaginable names at people just because you think you might not like their politics.

~ Milo Yiannopoulos

The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.

~ Fidel Castro

All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.

~ Groucho Marx

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

~ Harry S Truman

There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a trade union, they've never been in a political party, they've never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency.

~ Susan George

No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better, not pull them apart.

~ Thomas Friedman

It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the honesty to say to people, 'There are no easy solutions here.'

~ Malcolm Turnbull

I truly believe that people like myself, who are in a position of entertainers in the limelight, should keep their mouth shut on politics.

~ Kid Rock

A lot of people feel that the realm of poetry and the realm of the lyric is personal feeling and should rise above politics, which, in fact, good poetry has never done.

~ Claudia Rankine

The polarization of Congress; the decline of civility; and the rise of attack politics in the 1980s, the 1990s, and the early years of the new century are a blot on our political system and a disservice to the American people.

~ Edward Brooke

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

~ Orson Welles

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty.

~ Edgar Mitchell

In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.

~ Narendra Modi

Culture is about humanizing people. You look at the African-American civil rights movement, you look at the LGBT rights movement - the culture changed before the politics did.

~ Jose Antonio Vargas