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These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they...

Quote by Ansel Adams about opinion, old, olderness, people

Oh, yeah, I see the world differently now. Actually, when I first had the baby, I was breast-feeding him for two years straight. So we were together for two years of his life, every single day, all hours of the day. So I was two people, and I...

Quote by Erykah Badu about day, world, life, people

What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.

Quote by Erykah Badu about gifts, society, talent, people, being, work, good, good luck

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Quote by Douglas Adams about stupidity, mistake, common sense, people

What singing means to me, I never did consider myself a singer, I just let people watch me feel music and how it comes through me. I've worked on it and practiced a lot. I mean, music, I dance to it, and singing is just one way of getting it out...

Quote by Erykah Badu about music, dance, people

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about pleasure, life, people, contentment

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about meetings, nothing, people

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Quote by Douglas Adams about beginning, bad luck, bad, people

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Quote by Douglas Adams about rules, people

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about man, people, mind, nothing

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about poverty, wealth, people

The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven t. This is to avoid the ghastly embarrassment of having to continue recognizing each other the whole...

Quote by Douglas Adams about end, haven, moment, people

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about pleasure, life, people, contentment

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about habits, common sense, people

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about books, reason, good, good luck, people

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about books, reason, good, good luck, people

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

Quote by Franklin P. Adams about nation, elections, man, people

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

Quote by Pearl Bailey about violence, good, good luck, people

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

Quote by Franklin P. Adams about problems, experience, country, faith, time, people, contentment

People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.

Quote by Pearl Bailey about god, day, people