- Clever
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
People Quotes
Quotes about people, privacy, and human nature.
This page collects quotes touching on people in different senses - novelists describing how characters take on independent vitality, and technologists warning how easily people's movements and data can be tracked. It's a broader mix than a single theme, much like Like Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- More
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
People are very frightened in publishing at the moment. Nobody knows what sells. More so now because the market's changing so fundamentally because of Kindle and electronic publishing. It's a fundamental shift in the way stories are put out into the world.
- More
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I think the class divide is going to change. I think a lot more working class people are going to get published. It is really class ridden, literature.
- Crime Fiction
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.
- Art History
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
In the 'Garnethill' trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O'Donnell's dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and her brother did law, but no-one ever thinks they're middle-class - they're just working class because they speak with accents.
- Down
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always represented as a bit of a class warrior - a bit Down With Men and Down With Middle-Class People. Whereas I'm actually very fond of men and am middle-class. I even went to boarding school in Perthshire.
- Family
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
We don't really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. It's a cultural thing, so maybe we don't need to have them to clear the air. Also, traditional family food isn't as nice here so there's no payoff for traveling hundreds of miles.
- Power
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential.
- Healing
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
It also called upon traditional people in the Four Directions to strengthen the healing ceremonies and asked people to heed the warnings of Mother Earth.
- Nov 07, 2020
Many young Japanese were hearing for the first time the words of Native people from the West.
- Look
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Even the people who come our way look upon us in amazement, that we run only for the healing of Mother Earth.
- Moral
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing.
- Look
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
It feels like now I - you know, I'm almost 80 years old - I can sit back and retire, you know, and say, 'Look, our young people are taking over.' And that's great. That's what I'd like to see.
- American People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
An awareness reached across America that if Native American people had to resort to arms at Wounded Knee, there must really be something wrong.
- Love
- |
- Nov 07, 2020