Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ayn Rand

Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time is that none of us has ever been permitted to think he is born a d'Anconia. We are expected to become one.

Ayn Rand

But I don't think of you. - Howard Roark

Ayn Rand

What do I "think" of President Reagan? The best answer to give would be: I don't think of him. And the more I see, the less I think.

Charles Evers

I'd rather be dead and in heaven than afraid to do what I think is right.

Charles Fillmore

All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it

Charles Fort

I think, therefore I'm going to have breakfast.

Charles Fort

My liveliest interest is not so much in things, as in relations of things. I have spent much time thinking about the alleged pseudo-relations that are called coincidences. What if some of them should not be coincidences?

Charles Bukowski

I can't think of any poet-recluses outside of one dead Jeffers. [Robinson Jeffers] The rest of them want to slobber over each other and hug each other. It appears to me that I am the last of the poet-recluses.

Charles Bukowski

How are his poems?" "He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way.

Charles Bukowski

i dunno," i said, "but i have an idea that people who don't think too much tend to look younger longer

Charles Bukowski

It seemed better to delay thinking.

Charles Bukowski

young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.

Charles Bukowski

To me, nudity is a joke. I don't think nude people are very attractive at all. I like my women fully clothed. I like to imagine what might be under there. It might not be the standard thing. Imagine, stripping a woman down, and she has a body like a little submarine. With periscope, propellers, torpedoes. That would be the one for me. I'd marry her right off and be faithful to the end.

Charles Bukowski

There's a small balcony here, the door is open and I can see the lights of the cars on the Harbor Freeway south, they never stop, that roll of lights, on and on. All those people. What are they doing? What are they thinking? We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't.

Charles Bukowski

human relationships simply aren't durable. I think back to the women in my life. they seem non-existent.

Charles Bukowski

I felt I had to win. It seemed very important. I didn't know why it was important and I kept thinking, why do I think this is so important? And another part of me answered, just because it is.

Charles Bukowski

mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything about mercy?

Charles Bukowski

I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.

Scott Fujita

Jesus Christ to me, is probably the most compassionate and revolutionary thinker of all time.

Edward Abbey

The basic science is not physics or mathematics but biology -- the study of life. We must learn to think both logically and bio-logically.

Edward Abbey

The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it.

Edward Abbey

Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.

Edward Abbey

Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.

Eddie Obeng

If you haven't understood the world you're living in, it's impossible to think that the solution you're coming up with fits.

Eddie Sutton

I think there's a vast difference between the Big12 and some of the other major conferences. I think it is tougher to score in this conference, just because of the emphasis on defense.

I think I'm going to have a lot of trouble.

Eddie Rickenbacker

When I look up and see the sun shining on the patch of white clouds up in the blue, I begin to think how it would feel to be up somewhere above it winging swiftly through the clean air, watching the earth below.

Eddie Redmayne

I think all actors have a similar deal. You want some people who understand. Although it looks great - and is great - there are also shoddy moments when you feel really rotten, and when it's going well, you're not allowed to complain.

Eddie Redmayne

I always think of comedy as being spontaneous, and yet everything about filmmaking is not spontaneous.

Eddie Redmayne

A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true.

Eddie Van Halen

I think Clapton is brilliant. He's the only one who moved me. The only one who made me want to play the guitar.

Auberon Waugh

In their quest for power and self-importance, to compensate for whatever feelings of social inadequacy or sexual insecurity, they (Politicians)are prepared to perpetrate something which is hard to distinguish from mass murder if they think they can get away with it...

Atom Egoyan

Sometimes you think you want to know something, but it's actually more exciting and more resonant when you have to try [and figure it out].