“If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad.”
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People Quotes — page 569 of 5018
“People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.”
“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.”
“The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.”
“Hooray for most things!”
“In most polls there are always about 5 percent of the people who 'don't know.' What isn't generally understood is that it's the same people in every poll.”
“If people stand in a circle long enough, they'll eventually begin to dance.”
“You get to play with people's little danger zones.”
“That invisible hand of Adam Smith seems to offer an extended middle finger to an awful lot of people.”
“I don't like the phrase shock value. Surprise is essential in comedy, and if people are shocked by what I consider merely surprising, then that's their shock. But there is no joke without surprise.”
“And now, in the interest of equal time, here is a message from the National”
“Cigarette companies market heavily to young people. They need young customers because their product kills the older ones. It is the only product that, if used as intended, kills the consumer.”
“Do you think Sammy Davis ate Junior Mints?”
“The Christians are coming to get you, and they are not pleasant people.”
“Beethoven was so hard of hearing, he thought he was a painter.”
“People say life begins at conception, I say life began about a billion years ago and it's a continuous process.”
“These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions; and it is these people-amongst whom your life is passed-that it is needful you should tolerate, pity, and love: it is these more or less ugly, stupid, inconsistent people whose movements of goodness you should be able to admire-for whom you should cherish all possible hopes, all possible patience.”
“Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.”
“As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it.”
“People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.”