Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist. – Jose Ortega y Gasset
The whole notion of owning a person is so ludicrous, there’s plenty of room to make fun. – James McBride
Jesus remains the most influential person in history, one who has inspired untold followers for millennia. – Jay Parini
You come to realize that only one person can tell you what’s expected of you, and that’s you. – Jason Mraz
Over the years, I’ve learned that a confident person doesn’t concentrate or focus on their weaknesses – they maximize their strengths. – Joyce Meyer
It is almost a rule that the more complex a man is, the simpler his billing. A person with a retrospective ability gone rampant often would be called an historian. Similarly, one to whom reality doesn’t seem to make sense gets dubbed a philosopher. – Joseph Brodsky
I was noticed by a person from a local model agency, and he proposed that I participate in a beauty contest Miss Chelyabinsk. – Irina Shayk
If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. – John Stuart Mill
I’ve always been the person at the table who is like, ‘I have this weird rash. Anybody else have this?’ – Isabel Gillies
It’s a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you’re being autobiographical. – James Taylor
Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship – it’s all one person speaking. – Junot Diaz
I mean, I try to say the right things and give the right advice. But still, I’m only a person. – Jonathan Brandis
My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world. – Jimmy Wales
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. – Jean Paul
Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House. – John F. Kennedy
In families there is always the mythology. My father died when my kids were quite young still, and yet they still tell his stories. That is how a person lives on. – Jessica Lange
I am neither a writer nor a theorist. For a person who creates things to utter too many words means to regulate himself – a frightening prospect. – Issey Miyake
I’m the sort of person who doesn’t write in ink. I only write in pencil, so it can be rubbed out. – Ian Mckellen
I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe