People
- Bethany (given name), a female given name
- Bethany Beardslee, American soprano
- Bethany Dillon, Christian soft rock artist
- Bethany Hamilton, American Surfer who got her arm bitten off by a shark while surfing
- Bethany Joy Lenz, American singer and actress
- Bethanie Mattek-Sands, American tennis player
- Bethany McLean, American editor, business writer, and author
- Bethany Cabe, fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe
- Bethany Platt, fictional character on Coronation Street
- Bethany Sloane, fictional the main character in the Kevin Smith film Dogma
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Famous quotes containing the word people:
“There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)
“It is not a piece of fine feminine Spitalfields silk—but is of the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships’ cables & hausers. A Polar wind blows through it, & birds of prey hover over it. Warn all gentle fastidious people from so much as peeping into the book—on risk of a lumbago & sciatics.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“...I didn’t consider intellectuals intelligent, I never liked them or their thoughts about life. I defined them as people who care nothing for argument, who are interested only in information; or as people who have a preference for learning things rather than experiencing them. They have opinions but no point of view.... Their talk is the gloomiest type of human discourse I know.... This is a red flag to my nature. Intellectuals, to me have no natures ...”
—Margaret Anderson (1886–1973)