Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Wan

We think craft is important, and the irony has always been that horror may be disregarded by critics, but often they are the best-made movies you're going to find in terms of craft. You can't scare people if they see the seams.

James Van Der Beek

You get a script and you love it. You find a director that you trust, and it becomes all about how do I commit to this as fully as possible? And the last thing you can afford to have in your mind is what are other people going to think of this?

James Van Der Beek

You start thinking the world is a certain way and forgetting that there's another world outside of the campus boundaries that has nothing to do with what is your world at the time.

James Van Der Beek

I think anybody with an insecurity, which is everyone, appreciates the fact that it's much easier to be a predator than it is to be prey.

James Van Allen

I think we need someone in a responsible political position to have the courage to say, 'Let's terminate human spaceflight.'

James Weldon Johnson

There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.

Benjamin Franklin

Common sense is something that everyone needs, few have, and none think they lack.

Antonio Tabucchi

But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.

Antony Gormley

I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves.

Antony Gormley

Well, I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves. Judgment is very easy, but I think, on the whole, professional critics maybe see too much, and compare too much, and forget the joy of actually looking and contemplating for its own sake.

Antony Garrett Lisi

You cannot think when you're ecstatic.

David Rockefeller

I think I am basically a happy person.

Frederic Bastiat

There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a more alarming situation.

Frederic Bastiat

Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough.

Diablo Cody

I've been an avid consumer of young adult literature since I was one, and I think some people leave that stuff behind when they become old adults, but I never did. I was always interested in the fantasy world created in those novels.

Diablo Cody

I think when you take people who are damaged and you give them money and freedom, it can be a toxic cocktail.

Diablo Cody

I think sometimes people really require the satisfaction of closure.

Diablo Cody

I am a karaoke purist and I don't like that. I don't think it's enough for you to just be there with your friends singing. I think you need to be in front of a crowd of hostile strangers for it to truly count.

Diablo Cody

I don't think coolness used to be such a commodity among adults. And now it is.

Diablo Cody

I think it's great when writers get recognition; it doesn't happen very often. I just don't want that writer to be me. Let it be Aaron Sorkin or, you know, somebody good.

Diablo Cody

I'm a pessimist by nature. I don't think things are ever going to work out, I'm not particularly ambitious.

Diablo Cody

I do not quote my own movies. I think I would be pretty insufferable if I did.

Diablo Cody

I want Maggie Gyllenhaal. I don't know why. I don't think she necessarily looks like me or acts like me, I just think she's a cool actress and she could play me, so there you go.

Diablo Cody

And I think I'm an adrenaline junkie, and there's nothing that will spike your adrenaline more than sitting in a theater and listen to an audience react to something you've written.

Diablo Cody

I think it's pretty obvious that women's stories are not necessarily being told in Hollywood and women are not necessarily being put in the leadership positions they deserve in mainstream film.

Diablo Cody

You make a first impression and people never forget it. If people want to think of me as the wacky 'Juno' lady forever, I could think of worse ways to be labeled.

Derek Bailey

I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me.

Derek Bailey

In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.

Derek Bailey

I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people.

Derek Bailey

I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing.

Derek Bailey

I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics.

Derek Bok

I think the minority students that we admit to Harvard are every bit as meritorious as the white students that we admit.

Derek Bok

Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging students to apply what they have learned to new questions.