#people

History is the essence of innumerable biographies. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#genealogy #history #people #biography

But he doesn't love her. I invented that. It is a plot if you imagine people in love--the lazy looping criss crosses of love, blows, stares, tears. No. It doesn't happen. No love. People meet, touch, stare into one another's faces, shake their heads clear, move on, forget. It doesn't happen. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#people #plot #imagination

Hey, check this weirdo out." Hi was inspecting a bust on the mantel. "This face is ninety percent eyebrow. What do you want to bet he owned slaves?" Scowling to match the carving's expression, Hi spoke in a gravelly voice. "In my day, we ate the poor people. We had a giant outdoor grill, and we cooked up peasant steaks every Sunday." ↗

— Kathy Reichs

#funny #hi #humor #kathy-reichs #poor-people

The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bore #boredom #boring #contagious #cynic

People try to say suicide is the most cowardly act a man could ever commit. I don't think that's true at all. What's cowardly is treating a man so badly that he wants to commit suicide. ↗

— Tommy Tran

#depression #mean-people #suicide #bullying

Do I have to talk to insane people?" "You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory. ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#librarians #librarians

Love may be harder to find in some people, but when they do love you know it must be something marvelous. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bitterness #cold #coldness #difficulties #discernment

What I'm making music for now is more similar to what I was doing in the beginning. In those days it was all about doing music so when people heard it in a club it would take their minds of their worries. I got more artistic but now I've gone back to basics. ↗

— Curtis Jones

#artistic #back #basics #beginning #club

People always expect you to be jumping out of a Rolls Royce and being in the papers for drunk and disorderly or sleeping around. ↗

— Davy Jones

#around #being #disorderly #drunk #expect

I feel very fortunate to have been associated with people such as Rodgers and Hammerstein. I think they were geniuses of their time. ↗

— Shirley Jones

#been #feel #fortunate #geniuses #hammerstein