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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to 'principles,' and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
I think nowadays people are so used taking the camera to the family picnic - so people are less surprised by films made of them, like home movies.
I think if you're doing alcohol and drugs, the chances of you surviving this kind of a pace are next to nothing. I live an extremely healthy life.
There are repercussions to everything, even advancement and success. And I think that the repercussions to my success was the loss of my marriage.
I think life is short, and you can't spend time doing things just to be on set to reassure yourself that people are not going to forget about you.
Why is it you think you'll live forever and why do you want to, I'd like to know, when you deny yourselves so many of the basic pleasures in life?
I never worked with Marilyn Monroe, but if she'd lived, I think she would have been all right. She would have been President of the United States.
They are all alike you know. They hold their tongues for years and you think you're safe, but when the opportunity comes they remember everything.
When I need to push myself, I think of all those nicely polished trophies waiting to be lifted up by the winner - and how that winner might be me.
I've noticed a funny thing about people who are over-weight. They spend all their time thinking about food -except when they're actually eating it
And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.
Stressful energy arises when you think some future moment is more important than the present moment, and the doing becomes only a means to an end.
We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness fail.
I never think of things rationally or intellectually. I swear, every single decision I make is just instinct and my instincts tend to be accurate.
I don’t understand why everybody thinks that dressing casually is so much more comfortable. I’m as comfortable in a suit as I am in anything else.
I think the women - Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu - are doing new conceptual things and using their voices to create new American music.
I think Psycho Sam is closer to the real me in some ways which is frightening to admit, but I guess... I mean, I'm definitely into the paranormal.
In New Zealand I think we often take ourselves too seriously, and being able to laugh at yourself is necessary in life without being too precious.
Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone.
A whole other generation is coming up to me now - anywhere from 8 to 22 years old - wanting me to sign autographs. They think Journey was awesome.
I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great. I think that is a good thing and that people need to stand up, voice their opinions, and be heard.
A film should be somewhat personal. I think that whatever you create you have to be true to yourself and create something that feels right to you.
No matter who you are, no matter what you're doing, no matter how focus you are, no matter how ready you think you? are, you're not gonna catch me
I actually felt calmer and more serene when we got up to the tower that I think I ever have. We had literally done everything we could to prepare.
I don't think I have nerves of steel, far from it, but I can certainly stand up to things. I am not afraid to look suffering straight in the eyes.
I think people use temp music quite a bit, but the people who write the temp music don't ever really learn that their music was inspiring a movie.
Actors think they're far more important than they are, and that can only lead to hurt. People with colossal self-importance have very far to fall.
I was going through a period where I was just trying not to write songs and was thinking maybe I wouldn't play in a band and make records anymore.
You read stuff about yourself and you think, My God, where are these people coming up with these things? Why am I the one that they're picking on?
The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.
Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.
As I've said, freedom is really an illusion. Anytime we think we have a real choice, it just means we haven't seen the shotgun aimed at our navel.
I really love Alexa Chung's style. I really think she gets it right all the time. I've never seen a picture of her where I didn't love the outfit.
I think I dreamed about competing at the Olympics, maybe hoping to win a gold medal. Not that I ever thought that I would, but I dreamed about it.
I think a lot, so I don't spend a lot of time actually writing - I do that part very quickly. That helps, for me. To keep track of the characters.
Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.
I always want to do something groundbreaking, something different. I think that's what it's always about. If you have the means to do it, why not?
Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
I don't like those men who claim that their wife is their best friend. . . . I think spouses should tolerate each other and occasionally have sex.
Personally I think we're over-specialized. Why it's getting so we have experts who concentrate only on the lower section of a specimen's left ear.
I think one thing writers can do is point out that you don't have to say openly racist things, like [Donald] Trump, to be a racist or a xenophobe.
I have climbed Everest from the Nepal route and the China route. The other routes are too hard for me. So I don't think I can climb Everest again.
Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: 'What are you on? You just turn it off. You are at work and then you go home.'
As convenient as that would be to make it easier to communicate with more prolific musicians, I don't want to think of music like a math equation.
I think escape is sort of like coming to a show with ten thousand other people and responding to that moment. Sharing that moment - that's escape.
I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, Oh my god, you're awesome, and then we start dating.
I think a lot of fans immediately go, 'ugggh' when they hear that someone is doing a prequel or a remake, they sort of assume the worst sometimes.
I've always just wanted to tell stories, and create stuff, and I think "Creator" or "Director" would probably be the two words that I go to first.
And that is how I employ my time in cinema, saying things about people who I think have touched us in terms of our value judgement and by example.
You cant not be changed by the experience of seeing extreme poverty. You start to want to think about ways in which you can make the world better.