Famous Quotes & Sayings

Baz Luhrmann

You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.

Edward Taylor

It may be that Emerson is going to hell, but of one thing I am certain; he will change the climate there, and emigration will set that way.

Jane Wagner

To think we have the garment industry instead of nature to thank for the zipper concept when it would have come in so handy for childbirth.

William Shakespeare

There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions.

William Shakespeare

Nay, do not think I flatter. For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flattered?

William Shakespeare

He is a heavy eater of beef. Me thinks it doth harm to his wit.

William Shakespeare

This is the very coinage of your brain: this bodiless creation ecstasy.

We haven't had much time to think about what we wanted to do. Just thinking about getting that ticket turned in.

Nobody's really thinking about hockey. We're thinking about the guys.

Ben Wallace

Right now, I'm not really thinking about any of that. I'm just out here trying to have fun, play basketball.

E. F. Schumacher

Anyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist.

Dogen

If we look at the world with a deluded body and mind, we will think that our self is permanent. But if we practice correctly and return to our true self, we will realize that nothing is permanent

William Shakespeare

Say as you think and speak it from your souls.

William Shakespeare

Words spoken can not be recalled so think twice before you speak.

Jerome Bettis

We're not thinking about Detroit. We're thinking about Denver.

Shane Warne

I think everyone out there thinks that there's been hundreds and hundreds and thousands of women. That is not actually the case.

Alice Walker

The earth is for joy, and dancing is a big part of that. And you dance with nature. Nature is always dancing. If you're not harassing it and killing it and mutilating it, nature is dancing. That's what the leaves are doing when the wind blows through them. We live in a magical wonderful universe. And just spoil it while thinking we can at some point go to heaven or some other planet.

Alice Walker

Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.

Alice Walker

Decide that you know what you think is good for you and go ahead and do it.

Alice Lowe

I always think it's just best to just make stuff and to carry on making stuff, even if it's not off your own back, because that's the only way... especially as a comedy writer, I make short films and then show them to live audience, so if they're laughing you know you're doing something right.

Alice Lowe

I think it's very easy to get discouraged early on.

Alice Lowe

I think both of us [ with Steve Oram], once we decided to do comedy, knew that we would have to come to London to do that.

Alice Munro

You think that would have changed things? The answer is of course, and for a while, and never.

Alice Munro

Now that I think of it, she looked splendid. I wish I had met her somewhere else. I wish I had appreciated her as she deserved. I wish that everything had gone differently.

Alice Munro

When I told him on the phone that after all you and I would not be getting married, he said "Oh-oh. Do you think you'll ever manage to get another one?" If I'd objected to his saying that he would naturally have said it was a joke. And it was a joke. I have not managed to get another one but perhaps have not been in the best condition to try.

Alice Munro

That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.

Alice Hoffman

Some things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part of you when you remember them.

Alice Hoffman

The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.

Alice Hoffman

Sally...can no longer think of love as a reality, or even as a possibility, however remote.

Alice Hoffman

I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came to her and admitted to doing horrible things and she said, 'More than you know.'.

Alice Hoffman

Do what you want, do what you will, do what you have to, do what you think you cannot.

Alice Hoffman

Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.

Alice Childress

Where did we get the idea of insultin' folks by pointin' out their age? ... It seems that we think youth is some special accomplishment brought about by the individual himself!