Famous Quotes & Sayings

Douglas Adams

I think we have different value systems." —Arthur "Well mine's better." —Ford

Douglas Adams

Despite the fact that an Indonesian island chicken has probably had a much more natural life than one raised on a battery farm in England, people who wouldn't think twice about buying something oven-ready become much more upset about a chicken that they've been on a boat with, so there is probably buried in the Western psyche a deep taboo about eating anything you've been introduced to socially.

Douglas Adams

I think a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. And a computer nerd therefore is somebody who uses a computer in order to use a computer.

Douglas Adams

I say what it occurs to me to say when I think I hear people say things. More I cannot say.

Douglas Adams

One always overcompensates for disabilities. I'm thinking of having my entire body surgically removed.

Douglas Adams

You can't possibly be a scientist if you mind people thinking that you're a fool.

Douglas Adams

Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does.

Douglas Adams

When people you greatly admire appear to be thinking deep thoughts, they probably are thinking about lunch.

Douglas Adams

I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is.

Douglas Adams

There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.

Doris Roberts

I think women are taught to ask permission about everything. We don't realize that we are entitled and we do have a say in our lives.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

I still think about that one Jamiroquai video a lot.

Dorothy Allison

And while it is true that I got the best woman in the world, I don't think love saves you.

Dorothy Allison

I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement.

Doris Lessing

I don't think San Francisco needs defending. I never meet anyone who doesn't love the place, Americans or others.

Doris Lessing

People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.

Doris Lessing

When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.

Doris Lessing

I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.

Doris Lessing

Sometimes I dislike women, I dislike us all, because of our capacity for not-thinking when it suits us; we choose not to think when we are reaching our for happiness.

Doris Lessing

They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now before I popped off.

Doris Lessing

I think novelists perform many useful tasks for their fellow citizens, but one of the most valuable is this: to enable us to see ourselves as others see us.

Doris Lessing

Once I read autobiography as what the writer thought about his or her life. Now I think, 'This is what they thought at that time'. An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.

Doris Lessing

I think I am at the end of a certain phase of my life. What I'm on the lookout for now is the unexpected, for things that come from outside and that I never thought might happen. Sometimes you have to watch for them so you don't automatically say no to the new, simply because you're in the habit of saying no to everything that comes along.

Doris Lessing

I don't think that Women's Liberation will change much though -- not because there is anything wrong with their aims, but because it is already clear that the whole world is being shaken into a new pattern by the cataclysms we are living through: probably by the time we are through, if we do get through at all, the aims of Women's Liberation will look very small and quaint.

Doris Lessing

[Some people think] that storytelling is telling jokes. So they have to be discouraged! Then others think that storytelling-is like an encounter group . . .

Doris Lessing

If what we think now is different from what we thought then, we can take it for granted that what we think in a year will be different again.

Doris Lessing

If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.

Donna Summer

I don't keep a press agent because I think people need to have a break from you.

Donna Summer

I don't really try to predict what can and will happen with things. Sometimes you think something's gonna be a huge success, and it isn't. And sometimes you pay no attention to something whatsoever, and God just makes it into everything.

Donna Murphy

I think all villains have something in common: they have something that they need or want very, very badly. The stakes are very high and they are not bound by moral codes or being ethical, so they can do anything and will do anything to get what they want.

Donna Mills

Scarlett O'Hara didn't think she was manipulating. That's just the way she got what she wanted.

Donna Shalala

I think anyone that thought that we were coming in as a bunch of liberal Democrats to deliver more large-scale social programs was nuts. I sure didn't expect it.

Donnie Wahlberg

I would like to meet Mikhail Gorbachev. I think it would be great to sit in a room with him...and try to make peace.