Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Wooden

When everyone is thinking the same, no one is thinking.

Michael Barrett

Whenever we lose, he thinks he's going to have cardiac arrest.

Agnes Obel

On the last album, I didn't want to disturb the melody with too many stories. This time, I wanted to know if I was able to create images with words, with the sound of words.(...) I think that’s a good thing when the one who is listening, is feeling it in a different way that the one who creates. We are all listening with different perspectives.(...) I don’t want to impose my subjectivity to the listener.

Agnetha Faltskog

I am uninterested in appearing in newspapers and on television. Many people think I am striking a pose - that I want to create a sense of shyness. But it's just not something I want to do. I overdosed.

Agnetha Faltskog

The press has always written that I am a recluse and a mysterious woman, but I am more down-to-earth than they think.

Agnes de Mille

We can't stand the silence because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.

Agnes Martin

I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.

Agnes Martin

I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it's a very mysterious thing, isn't it? I think it's a response in our minds to perfection. It's too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.

Agnes Martin

I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.

Agnes Martin

The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself,

Agnes Martin

When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.

Agnes Varda

I think I did fifteen long features and fifteen documentaries, or something like this, which is very little when you think of people making a film every year. Some people have done fifty or sixty films.

Agnes Varda

I had a world. I don't think I had a career. I made films.

Agnes Varda

I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.

Agnes Varda

If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that's the way I felt when I was young.

Agnes Varda

I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.

Agnes Varda

I think people should be different. I love people who don't go by the rule that you have to be careful because you're old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.

Agnes Repplier

The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.

Agnes Repplier

It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.

Agnes Repplier

The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.

Agnes Repplier

Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word 'million' is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.

James Patterson

Better readers are better thinkers.

Cathy Guisewite

Small wastebasket liners, $1.17 ... tall wastebasket liners, $2.29 ... garbage can liners, $3.98 ... I think I just spent $7.44 buying something I'm going to throw away.

Cathy Guisewite

Cartooning is a wonderful career, and I'd like more women to get to have it. I can't think of any reason why we won't see more syndicated female cartoonists in the future.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

When I first met Sean Connery he was as charming and wonderful as I first anticipated. I left Rome thinking: even if I don't do this, at least I have had a day with Sean.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

It's true, I don't like the whole cutoff-shorts-and-T-shirt look, but I think you can look fantastic in casual clothes.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

I may be the first actress to admit that beauty doesn't hold you back. I think beauty is a gift that you have to make the most of. I've worked hard at trying to look my best.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

I didn't even think about movies where I came from. I wanted to be on the stage.

Catherynne M. Valente

..what came before has dissolved from me, lost like milk teeth. But I think, rather, that it has always been as it is, and there was never a beforethis nor will there be an afternow. I am accepting. This is not a thing to be solved, or conquered, or destroyed. It is. I am. We are. We conjugate together in darkness, plotting against each other, the Labyrinth to eat me and I to eat it, each to swallow the hard, black opium of the other. We hold orange petals beneath our tongues and seethe. It has always been so. It grinds against me and I bite into its skin..

Catherynne M. Valente

The smell of loving is a difficult one to describe, but if you think of the times when someone has held you close and made you safe, you will remember how it smells just as well as I do.

Catherynne M. Valente

I have made calculations that would beggar your soul. What is it that villains always say at the end of stories? You and I are more alike than you think? Well,” the Marquess took September’s hand in hers and very gently kissed it. “We are. Oh, how alike we are! I feel very warmly towards you, and I only want to protect you, as I wish someone had protected me. Come, September, look out the window with me. It’s not a difficult thing. A show of faith, let’s call it.

Catherynne M. Valente

And if they thought her aimless, if they thought her a bit mad, let them. It meant they left her alone. Marya was not aimless, anyway. She was thinking.

Catherynne M. Valente

Temptation likes best those who think they have a natural immunity, for it may laugh all the harder when they succumb.