Quotes about People, page 10

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

Quote by Ansel Adams about people

It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us.

Quote by Erykah Badu about people

It's not wrong for us to be together, it's wrong for us to put down each other and depreciate each other's values. Black people have been depreciated a lot here in America; that's a true thing.

Quote by Erykah Badu about people

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 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 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 people

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 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 people

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

Quote by Walter Bagehot about people

Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.

Quote by Douglas Adams about 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 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 people

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

Quote by Walter Bagehot about people

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 people

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about 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 people

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

Quote by Walter Bagehot about people

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 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 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 people