Pastoral Resources

People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.

I think people have surgery for psychological reasons more than because of their looks.

If people think I look good, it's the make-up.

I don't buy the tabloids, but you're surrounded by it all and people tell you things they've read. I'd be sitting on a train looking over someone's shoulder and thinking: That's familiar... oh my God, it's me.

I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.

People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.

People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.

If you let other people do it for you, they will do it to you.

Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.

I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.

I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation.

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.

I believe that you should put the right people around you, people that will not let anything go wrong.

As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns.

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.

Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance.

Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast.