Casey - People and Fictional Characters

Famous quotes containing the words people and, people, fictional and/or characters:

“New York is more now than the sum of its people and buildings. It makes sense only as a mechanical intelligence, a transporter system for the daily absorbing and nightly redeploying of the human multitudes whose services it requires.”
—Peter Conrad (b. 1948)

“Some people are addicts. If they don’t act, they don’t exist.”
—Jeanne Moreau (b. 1928)

“One of the proud joys of the man of letters—if that man of letters is an artist—is to feel within himself the power to immortalize at will anything he chooses to immortalize. Insignificant though he may be, he is conscious of possessing a creative divinity. God creates lives; the man of imagination creates fictional lives which may make a profound and as it were more living impression on the world’s memory.”
—Edmond De Goncourt (1822–1896)

“There are as many characters in men
As there are shapes in nature.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)