People Quotes

The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who, in the name of science, think they can explain everything in terms of our early hominid ancestors or our genes, with their combination of high-handed tone and disregard for history. Such reductive speculation encourages a really empty scientism.

~ Bernard Williams

We want to demystify the rocket science and break it down for people so they can understand what is really going on and what the real opportunities are.

~ Chad Anderson

People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.

~ Frederik Pohl

The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking.

~ Paul Krugman

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

~ Andy Rooney

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

~ Warren Buffett

My view, as one who taught it, is that the whole purpose of a literary education should be to tell people that these things exist. I don't think any teacher should try to 'teach an author,' but rather simply describe what the author has written. And this is what I tried to do.

~ Guy Davenport

My first plays were amazingly bad, but I had a teacher who thought I had promise, and he kept working with me. I finally went to a summer workshop before my senior year with people like Sam Shepard and Maria Irene Fornes who encouraged me to write from my subconscious, and suddenly all this material about culture clash came out.

~ David Henry Hwang

People go into cartooning because they're shy and they're angry. That's when you're sitting in the back of a classroom drawing the teacher.

~ Matt Groening

Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.

~ Yoko Ono

My acting teacher used to say that people reveal themselves in their opposites.

~ Kristin Bauer Van Straten

I think everyone should take an acting class. It's like therapy because you get to learn a lot about yourself if it's the right teacher. You're putting yourself up there in front of people, and it takes a lot of the intimidation of everyday away.

~ Joelle Carter

Jesus isn't lettin' you off the hook. The Scriptures don't let you off the hook so easily... When people say, you know, 'Good teacher', 'Prophet', 'Really nice guy' ... this is not how Jesus thought of Himself.

~ Bono

You can choose your family sometimes. You can choose people, it could be a teacher, it could be a professor, it could be someone you work with that actually genuinely cares about you and wants you to succeed.

~ Nicolas Cage

I can't tell you how many people say they were turned off from science because of a science teacher that completely sucked out all the inspiration and enthusiasm they had for the course.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

I thought, well of course, Kinsey absolutely adored teaching. He was a wonderful teacher. So these kids really inspired me. So that was a clue I hung onto. He loved young people, he absolutely loved them. And he loved teaching them and trying to help them.

~ Liam Neeson

Sometimes people go to a yoga class and think it's not for them, but it might just not be the right studio or teacher - try a new one!

~ Payal Kadakia

I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.

~ Talib Kweli

As a teacher, I've never seen anything like 'Harry Potter.' That's why I smart when people talk about the 'next' 'Harry Potter.' There is no 'next' 'Harry Potter.'

~ Rick Riordan

When people think of the word 'drive,' they often think you have it or you don't, and that's where we're wrong. Drive is something that can be encouraged by a wonderful teacher, by a terrific classroom environment, by an awesome soccer team that you are on, and it can be squashed as well.

~ Angela Duckworth

I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it.

~ Anna Deavere Smith

No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.

~ Renée Fleming

In the playground, I always made people laugh; I used to charge them three pence for an impression of a teacher. It kept me in toffees.

~ Sue Townsend

People who study the way religions develop have shown that if you have a charismatic teacher, and you don't have an institution develop around that teacher within about a generation to transmit succession within the group, the movement just dies.

~ Elaine Pagels

I study religion because I find it fascinating and problematic. But I struggle with the idea of what religion is, what being religious means. A lot of people assume that if you write about early Christianity, you must be some kind of Sunday-school teacher.

~ Elaine Pagels

When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.

~ Xun Kuang

I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, 'Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?' But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed.

~ Paul Merton

We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom.

~ Major Owens

I want to be involved with young people in some way. Teenagers. Because that's the most vulnerable time. I have a fantasy of becoming a teacher one day.

~ Elisabeth Shue

You know, a lot of those angry sort of Southern man characters that I've been doing are based on different people I might've had as, like, a soccer coach or as a teacher.

~ Danny Mcbride

My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting.

~ Laura Carmichael

People can look to me as a teacher, but I consider myself a student of hip-hop.

~ Doug E. Fresh

I didn't go to university, and so, every time that I work, I'm looking for a teacher in a way. I'm looking for people that I can learn from and to have the chance to work with people that I admire.

~ Diego Luna

Part of the healing process is sharing with other people who care.

~ Jerry Cantrell

Transformation in the world happens when people are healed and start investing in other people.

~ Michael W. Smith

A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I'm sure that's true, but they aren't willing to make healing a high priority. They aren't willing to look inside to see the source of their pain in order to deal with it.

~ Lindsay Wagner

If it were the Clinton people, they'd be sitting around figuring out how to pull themselves out. Instead the president is continuing to go around the country and peddling Social Security, which the needle is not moving on.

~ Gwen Ifill

I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.

~ Robert Wyatt

We are also fortunate in being in quite a sheltered environment, in terms of people moving on to do other things, because there are relatively few companies in Scotland that are looking for the skill set that we've developed.

~ David Milne

The strength of brand loyalty begins with how your product makes people feel.

~ Jay Samit