Person Quotes

It's not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the link one immediately thinks in terms of a socialist alternative.

I feel like the only person in the world who sees David Beckham modelling his swimming pants on the cover of Elle magazine and thinks - oh, how much better a handsome guy like you would look, David, without all those dumb ink stains stitched into your skin.

Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know?

You should learn to be happy with what you have. Besides, the fact that I'm not a huge star has allowed me to pick and choose the roles I want to do, not the ones some person sitting in a studio office thinks I should do.

If you are interested in ideas, radio is way more pure than television. You're not distracted by somebody's nose or hair or posture. You can really see how someone thinks and penetrate to the essence of who that person is.

If the prime minister really believes it, he must be the only person left who thinks that the recent bombs in London had no connection at all with his policy in Iraq.

And when you're on your own there is that terrifying possibility that you may be the only person on the planet who thinks it's funny - and you have no way of finding out.

A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.

I'm still the same person, thinking the same way, so it's possible I will invent something.

I started crying the other day just thinking that the baby is going to leave me soon! You have this relationship with this person in your belly and it's really amazing.

No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.

Without accepting the other person's thinking, you cannot further your own interest. You need the other's help to get results.

Music tells you about the artist and what they were thinking about at the time, because the person has to think about it to sing it.

You can change a person's life in an instant; put him in a movie, and you start thinking differently, you want to be in another movie. It's like an addiction almost.

If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy.

It takes me time to realize things; I'm a speedy person but a slow thinker.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.

Being a Southern person and a blonde, it's not a good combination. Immediately, when people meet you, they think of you as not being smart.

I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.

The only person who had any control was Jonathan Harris. His character was so flamboyant that he was able to make things happen. My character was fairly one-dimensional, so I had my relationship with Dr. Smith and with the family.

To me, the whole idea of fame and I think it can be a real test of somebody, of who they are. You know, 'cause some strange things happen. I've seen some peculiar things as far as a person just living their life.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

Because I'm just an ordinary person that did some extraordinary things.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

There are some things that, if you say them out loud, will hurt the other person's feelings. I tend to say them anyway. It's better to be honest.

You don't have to be a "person of influence" to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.

The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.