Moby Quotes

People are people, and they want to know about their own experiences.

Do not be the judge of people; do not make assumptions about others. A person is destroyed by holding judgments about others.

I don't find it easy dealing with people with drug problems. It helps if you're all taking drugs, all the same drugs.

When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.

I don't drink because I have problems or I want to escape. I just love drinking and being drunk.

I'm happy when people come up and say how they feel about what your character went through, you know, I went through and it's helping me deal with it. I get to see the movie through the audience's eyes and that's really gratifying.

I have all the defects of other people yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable.

If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you'll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others.

You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.

I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I'm home drunk again.

Look, people get drunk ... People chase girls. And the point is, it's a hell of a lot better for them to get drunk than to take drugs. It's better to chase girls than boys.

I love Austin, but last time I was in town for twelve hours. I was exhausted, drunk and miserable. But none of that was Austin's fault.

I can't - and won't - impose my beliefs on others, either verbally or otherwise. I'm not going to judge people.

I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless.

I met so many young girls and even older women who had literally been through so much that I couldn't even imagine. I was maybe a little more closed-minded, and I learned from them never to judge anyone.

I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.

Well, it's my age group, anywhere from, I'd say 30 to 70. The biggest comment I get about the book is how honest it is and that people can relate to my circumstances going across the line. Anybody could learn and deal with this book from reading it.

I used to lay drunk in alleys and I probably will again.Bukowski, who is he? I read about Bukowski and it doesn't seem like anything to do with me.

I thought everyone would be familiar with this figure: if I'd studied a thing in school I assumed it was general knowledge. I hadn't yet discovered that I lived in a sort of transparent balloon, drifting over the world without making much contact with it, and that the people I knew appeared to me at a different angle from the one at which they appeared to themselves; and that the reverse was also true. I was smaller to others, up there in my balloon, than I was to myself. I was also blurrier.

Believe the best about people. Pray for their short comings. You are not the standard. We all need grace.

Important people are much more interesting when they are drunk and seem much more like human beings.

Most people don't relate to and can't generate concern for something they don't encounter personally or feel personally affected by. People have to have the palpable negatives in their lives dissected for them in ways that let them understand the root causes of unhealthy, unhappy conditions in their lives and then be allowed to really see and feel the positive alternatives.

I had been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who got drunk - and I would have liked to have the boozing scholars of the Universities wheeled into line and properly chastised for their squalid misuse of what I must ever regard as a gift of the gods.

I would hope that people, no matter what age, would find something to identify with in my books, pick one up and experience a personal sense of discovery. That's great. But for them, not for me.

Too often we judge people based on our own backgrounds and experiences, but when you understand people's stories, it's easier to understand their demeanor.