Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oliver Stone

I think a lot of people misunderstand what I'm doing, because my films are not easy sometimes. They do deserve a second viewing. I think they get misunderstood easily.

Oliver Stone

I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?

Oliver Stone

I think there's a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.

Oliver Stone

I think any filmmaker will tell you when they wandered from theater to theater to watch their prints, it was disheartening to see the poor levels of light and the disrespect for films that existed in certain theater chains. It was always inconsistent. And in the lab, too, the photochemical process was very difficult to watch, because sometimes they were shipping prints that you didn't even know were two points off or three points off. We suffered greatly to make these films, and they'd be out-of-focus, with the sound too low.

Oliver Stone

[Nixon] reduced the meaning of his life to nothing but power. In the film, we gave this sad figure consciousness of what he was. We weren't right to do that - I don't think he did have that consciousness. But we did it for movie reasons - to create empathy.

Oliver Stone

I don't think most people in the US realize how important WikiLeaks is and why Julian's case needs support.

Oliver Stone

I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.

Oliver Sacks

The same areas which are active in listening to music are also active when you imagine music, and this includes the motor areas, too. That explains why earlier, even though I was only thinking of the mazurka, I was thinking in terms of movement.

Oliver Sacks

I think there's probably always been visions and voices, and these were variously ascribed to the divine or demonic or the muses. I think many poets still feel they depend on an inner voice, or a voice which tells them what to do.

Oliver Sacks

I think there is no culture in which music is not very important and central. That's why I think of us as a sort of musical species.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The history of intellectual growth and discovery clearly demonstrates the need for unfettered freedom, the right to think the unthinkable, discuss the unmentionable, and challenge the unchallengeable. To curtail free expression strikes twice at intellectual freedom, for whoever deprives another of the right to state unpopular views necessarily also deprives others of the right to listen to those views.

Olafur Eliasson

It would be wrong to say that the city of Berlin is not regulated. What I think is more interesting is to what extent a city creates a sort of safe haven for its users, so that people feel confident that the city works on their behalf.

Olafur Eliasson

I think an artist has the potential to investigate both form and content within one activity, to show that there can be coherence between form and values in our society, as in thinking about a city and building one.

Olafur Eliasson

Artists are valuable to public discussion: They show the correlation between doing and thinking.

Olga Kurylenko

We were born and we die. In between, I think we try to live as best we can.

Olga Kurylenko

I don't like the mentality that comes with rich Russian men. Because they have money, they think they can buy a woman - and they do.

Olive Schreiner

the brain works better if the hand works too.

Olive Schreiner

We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.

Obie Trice

I think it need realness, you should speak on thing that you know about, that you being from, that you experienced or that you been around, you know. I think you need a good hook, good beats and good lyrics.

O. J. Simpson

I think I've been a great citizen.

Octavia Spencer

I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse.

Octavia Spencer

I think if I weren't so squeamish, I would have been some sort of forensic analyst. And I can't do anything with a microscope, because then I start thinking about the world of germs around us.

Octavia Spencer

I was starstruck and sweat a lot when I met Oprah Winfrey and tried to hug her. Because when you think you know people when you see them from your couch.

Octavia Butler

A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think you're communicating. It's so easy as a young writer to think you're been very clear when in fact you haven't.

Octavia Butler

I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you,

Octavia Butler

Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.

Octavio Paz

Light is time thinking about itself.

Nuno Bettencourt

I think I'm a music fan before anything else.

Nuno Bettencourt

I am affected by what is around. I don't think many people would admit that.

Nuno Bettencourt

Even with Extreme, I don't think you have a choice but to sort of have somewhat of an influence of the times.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

A man learns all his life, and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything.