People Quotes

Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.

~ Victoria Wood

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

~ George Gershwin

People gossip. People are insecure, so they talk about other people so that they won't be talked about. They point out flaws in other people to make them feel good about themselves. I think at any age or any social class, that's present.

~ Blake Lively

Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it's so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them.

~ Ariana Grande

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

~ George Burns

In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.

~ Brooks Atkinson

People say women shouldn't have long hair over a certain age, but I've never done what everyone says.

~ Jane Seymour

The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.

~ Princess Diana

The thing I love most about my job is watching people age backward, becoming more lively and energetic as they free themselves from situations that are toxic to their essential selves.

~ Martha Beck

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

~ James A. Michener

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

~ Helen Hayes

I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back.

~ Lindsay Lohan

When at a young age you learn to face your fears, that makes the difference between people being champions and people not being champions.

~ Evander Holyfield

With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.

~ Vin Diesel

Being nice to everybody, saying hello to everyone in the room, signing every autograph; it was instilled in me at a very young age that this was what I was suppose to do. But I don't think it helps at all. I see more people who are rude or arrogant being rewarded - but, this way, I can put my head on the pillow at night.

~ Brooke Shields

Some people survived the neolithic age by being brave, others by being cowardly and smart.

~ Phil Lord

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

~ Ogden Nash

The number of people my age, younger now, a whole generation younger, who are fiercely bright, over-educated, under-employed and who are politicised and purposeless really upsets me. It's soul-destroying.

~ Benedict Cumberbatch

I don't care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

~ Chinua Achebe

The name 'Wiz' comes from me being the youngest dude in my age group of people that I hung out with. I was pretty good at anything I tried to do, so they would call me a young wiz.

~ Wiz Khalifa

When our son's autism was diagnosed at the age of 2, there was no clear prognosis. We didn't even know if he'd ever learn to talk. But we found talented people to work with him and he improved, slowly at first and then more rapidly.

~ Claire Scovell Lazebnik

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

~ Logan Pearsall Smith

When I came to Los Angeles, it was the first time that I ever felt like I belong somewhere. Not because it was wacky, but because people here understood what I felt like to perform, and there were other kids my age who wanted to do it. I didn't get looked at as God, you freak.

~ Jennifer Love Hewitt

It is people's hearts that move the age.

~ Herbie Hancock

I ask myself why I do it. Maybe it's to prove I'm still around. It takes a lot out of my body. I'm not an NBA player anymore. At my age, very few people can handle it.

~ Jerry Stiller

Around age 40 I put on twenty pounds. I had always had a perfect metabolism. But, my metabolism betrayed me as it does most people, except a very rare few who will always be thin.

~ Suzanne Somers

People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.

~ Daniel Goleman

I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.

~ Wislawa Szymborska

I was never really sure what I wanted to do - I'm in awe of these people who knew at age 10 or 12 they wanted to be a brain surgeon, and they did it, and they still are.

~ Jerry Doyle

I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a lot of kids know the music, and if anything is left, we have left really good music, and that's the important part, not the mop-tops or whatever.

~ Ringo Starr

I wear clothes that most people in the Midwest would probably deem inappropriate at my age. And I rock a bikini all summer long. I know that it's not normal, but I just don't care. I live once.

~ Liz Phair

To write a story about New York that only deals with people in your age and socioeconomic bracket, that feels dishonest to me. So much of New York comes from everyone bumping into each other.

~ Josh Radnor

I think people under age 55 come to Vegas with a certain sense of irony.

~ Penn Jillette

I did telemarketing for years, starting at the age of 16, just selling steak knives to old people. Old people go through a weird amount of steak knives. I also sold straight meat over the telephone.

~ Adam Devine

I don't like it when people who are young act like they're 40. That's taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you're so mature or whatever - I don't try to act mature. Some people might say I'm mature for my age, but it's not something I'm trying to do, you know? I'm just me.

~ Taylor Swift

People forget how dominant Public Enemy became in the mid '80s. No one talks about how transformative they were. And then that led to the '90s and the sort of East Coast v. West Coast stuff, which is kinda when I came of age.

~ Marco Rubio

I don't find the technology threatening. A lot of people my age, my generation, find it difficult to immerse themselves. But I would never preclude the idea of using any technology if I thought it suited the end result.

~ Robert Smith

I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.

~ Jewel

The most important thing to do as you age is to stay physically active. Lots of people just throw in the towel if they can't do what they used to do, and that's terrible.

~ Jane Fonda

Of course, you see your body changing as you age, but it's more important to live than be too preoccupied with that sort of thing. I think ultimately what people care about in other people is the energy, the spirit.

~ Jacqueline Bisset