People Quotes

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.

~ Wilson Mizner

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

~ John C. Maxwell

We do not judge the people we love.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.

~ Thomas Sowell

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive.

~ Karl Pilkington

Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas.

~ Stephen Graham Jones

Christmas and the holidays are the season of giving. It's a time when people are more kind and open-hearted.

~ Gisele Bundchen

Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.

~ Victor Borge

For more than a decade, I led an organization that put on an elaborate Christmas program each December. It was a big production, with over 250 people participating in more than 20 performances. By the end of the season, everyone who participated was exhausted.

~ John C. Maxwell

Comic-Con is nerd Christmas. People go wanting to have fun.

~ Chris Hardwick

I do get approached every day by people who say, 'Why don't you make more movies?' I don't really miss it when I get to go and watch my daughter in the Christmas pageant.

~ Nia Vardalos

I like indoor Christmas trees. And I like people who decorate their homes with lights and all that crap. I think it's a healthy outlet for them. If they weren't covering their lawns with twinkling lights, they'd be doing something that was really, really creepy.

~ Lewis Black

The term 'natural resources' confuses people. 'Natural resources' are not like a finite number of gifts under the Christmas tree. Nature is given, but resources are created.

~ Alex Tabarrok

We're raising our girls to understand the real meaning of Christmas, and to know that it's most important to have Christmas in your heart. We go to our local mall and donate toys, and we say prayers for all the people in the world who might not be as lucky as we are.

~ Faith Hill

It kills me when people talk about California hedonism. Anybody who talks about California hedonism has never spent a Christmas in Sacramento.

~ Joan Didion

I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.

~ Bill Gates

I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you're told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things.

~ Richard Dawkins

Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.

~ Annie Lennox

You can't allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, 'Merry Christmas?' Give me a break. If people don't like it, yeah, they can go do something else.

~ Ben Carson

Amy Poehler and I once ambushed people and made them sing Christmas carols with us.

~ Billy Eichner

I always felt like what I was doing wasn't selling toys; I was making a happy sound at Christmas. When people hear something so familiar, it brings them back to a special place, and that's been meaningful for me.

~ Johnny Mathis

It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it.

~ Ben Stein

There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album.

~ Isaac Hanson

I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.

~ Jonathan Kozol

I am one of those people who is not very patient in the makeup chair. I have been offered movies like 'Planet of the Apes' and stuff like 'The Grinch Who Stole Christmas' and I turned them down.

~ John C. Reilly

I've got a quad copter on my Christmas list, as I suspect quite a few people do.

~ Blake Farenthold

We no longer sing and dance. We don't know how to. Instead, we watch other people sing and dance on the television screen. Christmas, which was once a festival of active enjoyment, has turned into a binge of purely passive pleasures.

~ Tom Hodgkinson

When I was really young, I loved the movie 'White Christmas' - I still do - and I thought Rosemary Clooney was so pretty. When I was, like, nine, I would tell people, 'You know who I kind of look like? Rosemary Clooney.'

~ Tina Fey

So many people release albums before Christmas and they get lost in the Christmas rush.

~ Bonnie Tyler

I used to sing in church, too. Not like in the choir or anything, but for people around the church... on the church bus going home and Christmas plays.

~ Bryson Tiller

Like my dad, I have a Christmas party most years. I like to celebrate and see as many people as possible.

~ Lauren Graham

One of my first favorite books was 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would just go up to people and say, 'I can sing 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would make them sit through me reciting it, and I'd go all the way, each time. I've always hooked into lyrics.

~ Lin-Manuel Miranda

And of course there's so much music in and around our family. I had a piano during Christmas because it's obviously useful through the season. There are so many people, songwriters, who are around.

~ Ashley Judd

It's easy to write a short story and frighten people for five pages, but to work at length, when you do it as in 'The Turn Of The Screw' or 'A Christmas Carol,' it's different; you have to build it and build it.

~ Susan Hill

I think the people who are making Christmas-themed movies today feel that people are more cynical about Christmas. There's more of an edge.

~ Leonard Maltin

People have nannies and big cars, and they want to go to Maui for Christmas. When there are those kind of stakes involved, people get ruthless.

~ Amy Sherman-Palladino

'Bond' was like Christmas: can't wait for it to come around. Being in the films brought me to a global audience, and I have had the opportunity to meet incredible people.

~ Colin Salmon

In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the 8 hours when we stop killing each other and gratutious over eating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die!

~ Lloyd Kaufman

In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the eight hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous overeating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die!

~ Lloyd Kaufman