Famous Quotes & Sayings

I don't care what anybody else is wearing. I feel like they're all waiting to see what I have on. If you really want to know the truth, that's what I think. They're waiting to see what I'mma do next.

As I said, I spent most of my adult life thinking I didn't have a vote, and therefore that what I thought didn't matter.

I used to love jungle. I still think it's the ultimate genre, really, because the people making it weren't musicians.

In Britain, it's good for me to be anonymous, because they just think it's a nobody. "Who is this guy?"

The holy grail for a music fan, I think, is to hear music from another planet, which has not been influenced by us whatsoever.

The greatest of fools is he who imposes on himself, and in his greatest concern thinks certainly he knows that which he has least studied, and of which he is most profoundly ignorant.

I think, collectively, we should be paying more attention to what is going on around us in the world among people who dont have the advantages that we have.

Anton LaVey

We are so inculcated with guilt that we think that weakness is a sin or that it is some crime against nature to be submissive.

Anton LaVey

You cannot love everyone; it is ridiculous to think you can.

We look at each other wondering what the other is thinking but we never say a thing.

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

If we started thinking like that, we wouldn't have won the game.

Meryl Streep

Sometimes you look out the window and you look at all the windows, and think inside very single one of them is somebody with some huge, weird, terrible problem, some great jokes.

Meryl Streep

I have a lot to say about the world, clearly. I can't put together a clear sentence about it all, but through the work I can say what I think.

Meryl Streep

I do think sometimes when scrolling through the TV and there's something on and I look at it and I think oh, my god. I thought I was fat? What is my problem?

Meryl Streep

That's my way in the very beginning - how to enter it [a role]. Very quickly in the process, I don't think about voice being separate from the way you hold your head or the way you sit or the way you put on lipstick. It's all a piece of a person, and it's all driven by conviction.

Meryl Streep

There are some days when I, myself , think I'm overrated

Meryl Streep

If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes.

Meryl Streep

Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference.

Ned Vizzini

I've started to think it must just be chemistry, in which case we're looking for the Shift and we haven't found it yet.

Bjork

I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace.

Bjork

I don't expect people to get me. That would be quite arrogant. I think there are a lot of people out there in the world that nobody gets.

Bjork

I learned what a lot of women have to do is make the guys in the room think it was their idea, and then you back them up.

Bjork

I'm not that keen on fierce dictatorship. I think that sort of the point of working with somebody is them coming up with stuff and feeling free to do that.

Dogen

Just practice good, do good for others, without thinking of making yourself known so that you may gain reward. Really bring benefit to others, gaining nothing for yourself. This is the primary requisite for breaking free of attachments to the Self.

Dogen

What you think in your own mind to be good, or what people of the world think is good, is not necessarily good.

Dogen

Students, when you want to say something, think about it three times before you say it. Speak only if your words will benefit yourselves and others. Do not speak if it brings no benefit.

Stephen Jay Gould

But our ways of learning about the world are strongly influenced by the social preconceptions and biased modes of thinking that each scientist must apply to any problem. The stereotype of a fully rational and objective scientific method, with individual scientists as logical (and interchangeable) robots, is self-serving mythology.

Stephen Jay Gould

Phony psychics like Uri Geller have had particular success in bamboozling scientists with ordinary stage magic, because only scientists are arrogant enough to think that they always observe with rigorous and objective scrutiny, and therefore could never be so fooled while ordinary mortals know perfectly well that good performers can always find a way to trick people.

A. S. Byatt

Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.

Steve Smith

We're thinking of Hawaii. You just can't look ahead.

We're thinking it's from the World War II era.