Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Benjamin

The usual way the people are taught to think in amerika is that each subject is in a little compartment and has no relation to any other subject. For the most part, we receive fragments of unrelated knowledge, and our education follows no logical format or pattern. It is exactly this kind of education that produces people who don’t have the ability to think for themselves and who are easily manipulated.

Walter Benjamin

People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.

Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)

I can't think of a more potent combination than God and a good lawyer.

Christopher Nolan

The film that really struck me was Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. That was a film I watched many, many times and found endlessly fascinating in it's density. I think the density of that film is primarily visual density, atmospheric, sound density, moreso than narrative density.

Christopher Nolan

I will miss the Batman. I like to think that he'll miss me, but he's never been particularly sentimental.

Steven Morrissey

I think I'm a realist. Which people who don't like me consider to be pessimism. It isn't pessimism at all. If I was a pessimist I wouldn't get up, I wouldn't shave, I wouldn't watch Batman at 7:30 a.m. Pessimists just don't do that sort of thing.

Barack Obama

I think a basic principle of our Constitution is nobody above the law

Banksy

People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.

Banksy

I don't think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it,

Bram Stoker

Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh. I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.

Aesop

Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find-nothing.

Samuel Butler

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

Samuel Butler

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

Samuel Butler

Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.

Samuel Butler

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Christina Ricci

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

Alan Cohen

The cause of poverty is not scarcity. It is fear and small thinking.

Alan Cohen

The thoughts you think when you are happiest are the closest to the truth.

Alan Cohen

To think you know what is best for another person is an industrial-strength ego trip.

Alan Cohen

Whatever you think and talk about paves the runway for what you will create.

Walter Lippmann

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I think the gap between rich and poor is an extremely dangerous phenomenon and needs the immediate attention of the state.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Yes, you live with your feet in the mud and there's no time to be thinking about how you got in or how you're going to get out.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I respect BMW for not interfering in these projects. They're just trying to support short films with their brand, which I think is great.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I always think politicians and even my dentist have more egos than actors.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I think movies in general should have more respect for the audience than they do. Too many films are afraid to confuse people, so all the information is given to them right away, and there's nothing left for the film to do. It ruins many stories, because everything becomes obvious and predictable. I want my films to engage people more and make them more actively involved in the story.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

As a sensitive filmmaker, I think you have to really be careful in how you explore it. Not that you can't tell any story you want - I'm not calling for censorship or anything. But if you're going to have violence, I think it's important to deal with the consequences of that on a human level, not just to make people laugh.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

When I was a young person I went to the university and I learned a rational language, to think with the left side of the brain. But in the right side of the brain you have intuition and imagination. Words are not the truth; they indicate the way to go, but you need to go alone, in silence. Symbols have a language that kills the words.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.

Aleister Crowley

Don't talk for five minutes, there's a good chap! I've a strange feeling come over me--almost as if I were going to think!

Alberto Moravia

You can't think on purpose about somebody or something. Either you think about them naturally or you don't think at all.