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Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding...

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about conscience, opinion, virtue, light, public, being, good, good luck, people

I am extremely shy. I am not happy in crowds of people.

Quote by Glenn Close about nation, happiness, people

It's not good to be in a situation where people don't want to direct you or don't want to question something.

Quote by Glenn Close about question, good, good luck, people, contentment

I have always been a sucker for ballads, but you have to be careful these days, you can't overload people.

Quote by Joe Cocker about day, contentment, people

I have sung to large crowds since then, and there is a feeling that once you get over 100,000 people, you kind of lose the control element, you don't know if you are really getting through or not.

Quote by Joe Cocker about nation, contentment, people

Once you get into entertaining a quarter of a million people, it's a very weird place to be.

Quote by Joe Cocker about nation, people, contentment

Some of the songs I do once in a while that I kinda... my set list is basically like my hits, there is a good reason why they are there; people really like them.

Quote by Joe Cocker about reason, good, good luck, people

Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence.

Quote by William Falconer about consequences, perfection, mind, people

Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society.

Quote by William Falconer about people, vice, society, life

The diet of persons who live in the country is, I think, in general more wholesome than that of those who inhabit towns.

Quote by William Falconer about diets, people, country

The morning air, on the contrary, so celebrated both by poets and philosophers for its benign and cheering effects upon the mind and body, is enjoyed in high perfection by persons of this way of life; and the advantages they derive from thence in...

Quote by William Falconer about poets, people, perfection, air, body, mind, life

I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.

Quote by Jackie Collins about sex, talking, woman, man, people

I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.

Quote by Jackie Collins about love, books, writing, people

I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

Quote by Jackie Collins about truth, real estate, people

I write for myself, but I also write for my fans. I love hearing that people enjoy my books; I can never hear enough of that!

Quote by Jackie Collins about books, love, people

People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.

Quote by Jackie Collins about fame, wealth, power, people, contentment

The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

Quote by Jackie Collins about books, people

When I am writing it's a very lonely life, and I love getting onto my website and reading the letters from people.

Quote by Jackie Collins about writing, love, life, people

I moved out of Britain in 1975. I must have rubbed up the wrong way quite a lot of people.

Quote by Sean Connery about bad, people

There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic.

Quote by Sean Connery about bad, people