People Of The River

Life is brief, art is long. - Hippocrates

Art is a revolt against fate. - Andre Malraux

I'd rather write about polar bears than people. - Mary Oliver

You want people to think you live in a pig's eye? - Archie Bunker

Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough. - Groucho Marx

If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers. - Charles Dickens

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. - Doug Larson

The positive side to memory loss: you meet new people every day. - Unknown

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. - Agatha Christie

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. - Frederico Fellini

Whomever you spend time with you become. So spend time with great people. - Nido Qubein

People cannot be managed. Inventories can be managed, but people must be led. - H Ross Perot

I think my music is like anchovies - some people like it, some people get nauseous. - Barry Manilow

People don't trust private health insurance companies for all the right reasons. - Bernie Sanders

If you want to be successful, just meditate, man. God will tell you what people need. - Carlos Santana

You don't have to teach people to be funny, you only have to give them permission. - Harvey Mindess

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Kierkegaard

Every time you walk down the street people are screaming, "You're fired!" - Donald Trump

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say. - Rene Descartes

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature but beautiful old people are works of art. - Unknown

A great many people seem to end up over the hill without ever having actually climbed it. - Unknown

I love to sing, and I love to drink scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink scotch. - George Burns

People tend to mistake Groundhog Day. It's not important. It's just important fun. - Mike Johnston

I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor. - Jack Nicholson

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. - Ernest Hemingway

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. - Salvador Dali

Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair. - George Burns

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. - George Orwell

The problem with people who have no vices is that they're pretty sure to have some annoying virtues. - Elizabeth Taylor

I tend to play mostly villains and twisted people. Unsavory guys. I think it's my face, the way I look. - Christopher Walken

I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is a flower. God put it here. - Willie Nelson

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. - Terry Pratchett

I find that the nicest and best people generally profess no religion at all, but are ready to like the best men of all religions. - Samuel Butler

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. - Bertrand Russell

Waiting to develop courage is just another form of procrastination. The most successful people take action while they’re afraid! - Unknown

I'm one of those people who's not really turned on by baseball. My idea of a relief pitcher is one that's filled with martinis. - Dean Martin

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. - Maya Angelou

Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn't happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones? - Elizabeth Scott

If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe