Home / Topics / People Quotes

People Quotes

Browse 144274 quotes about People.

People Quotes

“The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.”

People World Want Needs Art States House Comfort Draws Art Is Responsible Works Of Art Requirements

Author:Adolf Loos

“When I walk down the boardwalk,people stop me and say, 'Oh, your house is the one that glows.”

People House Walks Boardwalks Boardwalk Empire

Author:Mary Matalin

“If you're setting a game during the Cuban Missile Crisis, look through a library. find out what people were wearing, what other issues were in the news, how houses were furnished, what cars were being driven. Especially include things which now seem foreign.”

People Ifs Looks Seems Games House Issues Car News Crisis Library Driven Setting Settings Missiles Cuban Cuban Missile Crisis

Author:Graham Nelson

“In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were more likely to be asked, 'Where were you when you first read 'The Catcher In The Rye?”

People Firsts Age America Certain Asks House Shots Catchers

Author:Marisha Pessl

“I took time off from school and traveled to Italy when I was 19, living with my extended family members. I must have slept in 30 different houses those months, taken in by people who'd never even met me.”

People Different School House Taken Months Mets Members Traveled Family Members Time Off Extended Family

Author:Christina Perri

“If a catastrophic event wipes out a large portion of House members, America needs to know this body, elected by the people, will be quickly and legally reconstituted and will continue to function.”

People Ifs Knows Needs Body America House Events Members Function Portions Wipe

Author:Charles W. Pickering

“The House is rooted in the principle of direct elections and is unique among all branches and bodies of the federal government as without exception, the people's voice.”

People Body Government House Voice Principles Unique Direct Election Branches Exception Rooted Federal Government

Author:Charles W. Pickering

“Now, the president would like to do tax reform, which would obviously lower rates for most people in America and make the tax code fair and get rid of loopholes and special treatment. But absent tax reform, the president believes the right way to get our fiscal house in order is ask the wealthy to pay their fair share.”

People Way Believe America Order Asks House President Pay Share Special Taxes Fairs Rate Reform Code Treatment Wealthy Right Way Absent Loopholes Fair Share Tax Reform Special Treatment

Author:David Plouffe

“If you ask the people who are professional political analysts, they would say that the way redistricting has worked, that the Republicans have something of a lock on the House until a redistricting occurs after 2010, particularly as a result of what DeLay did in Texas.”

People Ifs Way Political Asks House Results Republican Texas Locks Delay Analysts Redistricting

Author:John Podesta

“In the theater, as an actor, you're welcoming people into your house.”

People Actors House Theater Welcome

Author:Martha Plimpton

“Even Colin Powell who was everywhere before he became secretary of state, just stopped going out. I think part of it was he didn't want to be viewed suspiciously by the other people in the White House who rarely go anywhere.”

People Thinking Want States House White White House Going Out Secretary

Author:Sally Quinn

“Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.”

People House Events Position Charity Various Administration Seats Invites Protocol Position Of Power

Author:Sally Quinn

“I'm trying to buy a house and set some sense of roots because otherwise you're constantly chasing one job after another, and you look back and you've had all these very extraordinary experiences with extraordinary people, but there's not a line of continuity to it.”

People Trying Looks Jobs House Lines Roots Extraordinary Chasing Ordinary People Continuity

Author:Eddie Redmayne

“If I could throw my phone away, I would probably do it. It's always on silent, and I don't like when it rings and people are calling. We could live without those things in the past when we just had a phone on the street somewhere, on the corner or at the house. I have no interest in telling all the people what I do every day and where I am.”

People Ifs Past House Interest Streets Calling Silent Phones Corners Rings If I Could

Author:Kimi Raikkonen

“Having people wait outside of my house sort of gives me a panic attack. I'm a believer in the concept that people should not be followed and photographed everywhere.”

People Giving Should House Waiting Concepts Give Me Believer Panic Panic Attacks

Author:Nikki Reed

“I grew up poor and used to look at people in big houses and thought they had everything. Then later on I looked at models in magazines and thought they had it all.”

People Looks Bigs Used House Poor Grew Grew Up Models Magazines Big Houses

Author:Alana Stewart

“Now ballads, I can mess around and get up on somebody on a ballad. People ain't seen it yet, but I can mess around and get up in there. I've had Ruben Studdard up in my house, Brian McKnight, Tank. Every once in a while I throw down with them.”

People I Can House Get Up Mess Tanks Brian Ballads Rubens

Author:Jamie Foxx

“Most incredible, however, are the times we know Christ is with us in the midst of our daily, routine lives. In the middle of cleaning the house or driving somewhere in the pick-up, He stops us. . . in our tracks and makes His presence known. Often it's in the middle of the most mundane task that He lets us know He is there with us. We realize, then, that there can be no "ordinary" moments for people who live their lives with Jesus.”

“If you look at the publishers I've worked with, generally, they're a great bunch. Creation is unlike any other publishing house you can think of. The people I've worked with have integrity and intelligence and, almost always, less money than ideas.”

People Ifs Thinking Looks Ideas House Creation Integrity Bunch Publishing Publishers Publishing House

Author:Peter Sotos

“People think top singers are overpaid, but opera houses have a top fee, which is a good thing. Of course concerts are different- everyone wants to make as much money as possible.”

People Thinking Want Different Courses House Good Things Singers Concerts Opera Fees Opera House

Author:Bryn Terfel

“The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.”

People Firsts Matter House Position Building Habit Taste Chosen Holland Building Houses

Book:Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern

Source: Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern

“I grew up in an eclectic house where people were listening to all types of different music. I also think being educated, eloquent and knowing how to talk for yourself in the industry makes you go a long way.”

People Thinking Way Long Different House Knowing Listening Grew Type Industry Grew Up Educated Long Way Eloquent Eclectic Different Music

Author:Tinie Tempah

“I love to cook and really enjoy cleaning my house. People always tease me about getting a maid. My girlfriend tells me that they are only $40 and will do everything. But that is my time to unwind, put my hair in a ponytail, throw on sweats, and be myself.”

People House Enjoy Hair Cooks Girlfriend My Time Sweat Cleaning My Girlfriend Maids Tease Unwind Ponytails Tease Me

Author:Amy Weber

“I have some pretty wonderful friendships, so that's been really good for me. In the past year, I've really worked on that. I think when I was married, I let my friendships go. I think people thought, "Oh, because she's married now, she's so happy all the time." But I really was just isolated in my house.”

People Thinking Years Past House Wonderful Married Isolated My Friendship Wonderful Friendship

Author:Jen Kirkman