“You know, you’re a little complicated after all.” “Oh no,” she assured him hastily. “No, I’m not really - I’m just a - I’m just a whole lot of different simple people.”
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People Quotes — page 969 of 5018
“Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.”
“I want to just be lazy and I want some of the people around me to be doing things, because that makes me feel comfortable and safe - and I want some of them to be doing nothing at all, because they can be graceful and companionable for me.”
“There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.”
“he wanted people to like his mind again-after awhile it might be such a nice place in which to live.”
“The extraordinary thing is not that people in a lifetime turn out worse or better than we had prophesied; particularly in America that is to be expected. The extraordinary thing is how people keep their levels, fulfill their promises, seem actually buoyed up by an inevitable destiny.”
“...for a moment people set down their glasses in county clubs and speak-easies and thought of their old best dreams.”
“It is difficult for young people to live things down. We will tolerate vice, grand larceny and the quieter forms of murder in our contemporaries... but our children's friends must show a blank service record.”
“It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven."”
“People living alone get used to loneliness.”
“It was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry with him the egos of certain people, early met and early loved, and to be only as complete as they were complete themselves. There was some element of loneliness involved--so easy to be loved--so hard to love.”
“Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.”
“When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.”
“I certainly went to New York because I was searching. Most people who go to New York are searching.”
“I think that when people download the record they're kind of missing out on part of the experience, because it's really meant to be an immersive experience.”
“I went with Beach Fossils and we played 40 shows because we wanted people to see us.”
“Music journalists are some of the lazy, most uninspired, dull people I've ever met...”
“I don't know if there's anything that would surprise people, because I don't think that anybody knows anything about me at all. There's not much out there. I think I'm going to come out with a pretty dark and troubled record, and it might upset some people.”
“Generally, I think people are just going through the motions now. There's so much stuff that people are doing today that has already been done. I kind of like that new Savages record, but I don't know why they take themselves so seriously.”
“People are going to be way more patient listening to what I have to say now. I don't have five seconds to get their attention, I have five minutes. That's a huge window.”