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Great People Quotes (page 6)

People love to be frightened. The great princes, fed up with the sweets of life, wished to have their blood stirred again. The honest ladies, to whom nothing ever happened, longed to tremble in their beds just for once. The dancers were inspired to a lighter pace by tales of flight and pursuit. Isak Dinesen
Eleanor Roosevelt quote: "Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss activities;..."
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss activities; Small minds discuss people. Eleanor Roosevelt
Anne Rice quote: "People swindle themselves out of Salvation with great regularity."
People swindle themselves out of Salvation with great regularity. Anne Rice
People didn't realize it, but they needed myths to survive, just as much now as when their forebears were alive. Perhaps more. Mythology embodied the world's dreams, helped to make sense of the great human problems. Just as the dreams of individuals exist to give subconscious support to their conscious lives, so do myths serve as society's dreams. They uncover the dark, hidden places where mysteries dwell and can turn to nightmare if left untended. They make sense of injustice in archetypal... Charles de Lint
Great talk among people how some of the Fanatiques do say that the end of the world is at hand, and that next Tuesday is to be the day. Against which, whenever it shall be, good God fit us all! Samuel Pepys
People always try to separate the good from the bad in Clinton and say that, if he had not done certain things, he would have been a great president. But you can't do that. Those were his major characteristics. David Moranis
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language. Marshall McLuhan
Marvin Gaye quote: "Great artists suffer for the people."
Great artists suffer for the people. Marvin Gaye
Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike. Margot Fonteyn
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and..."
People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never. Ralph Waldo Emerson
People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say that's completely opposite of the truth. Ann Druyan
People go 'You look a lot like Minnie Driver.' Once I said, 'Thanks, Minnie is a great actress.' But, it blew up in my face. This person said, 'Nah, didn't like the last movie she did.' Minnie Driver
People are always talking about the old days. They say that the old movies were better, that the old actors were so great. But I don't think so. All I can say about the old days is that they have passed. Kirk Douglas
Richard Donner quote: "People say, You paid your dues, but I never paid any dues...."
People say, You paid your dues, but I never paid any dues. It's always been a great trip. Richard Donner
People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work. Whitfield Diffie

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