Famous Quotes & Sayings

Helen Thomas

I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate.

Helen Thomas

I think that presidents deserve to be questioned. Maybe irreverently, most of the time. Bring 'em down a size. You see a president, ask a question. You have one chance in the barrel. Don't blow it.

Helen Thomas

I don't think there are any rude questions.

Helen Thomas

Every president thinks that all information that comes to the White House is their private preserve after they all promise an open administration on the campaign trail, but some are more secretive than others. Some want to lock down everything.

Helen Thomas

I don't think a tough question is disrespectful.

Helena Bonham Carter

To understand how you live, to live. Do not think about it and live with it.

Helena Bonham Carter

I was weird right from the start. It's just that you can't ever expect people to get you. And I do think that really did mess with my head, being well-known young, when you really don't know who you are.

Helena Bonham Carter

I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be restricted by corsets and covered in lace, then I still wind up wearing an ape-mask over my face. I do wonder how I get myself in these situations!

Helena Bonham Carter

I think smells, like sounds, can be so much immediately affecting.

Helena Bonham Carter

I’ve aged, but I don’t think I’ve grown up.

Helena Bonham Carter

I do think imperfection's underrated.

Helena Bonham Carter

I think my mouth just opens and I spontaneously say things that occur to me.

Helen Clark

I think the issue of North Korea is one where the international community as a whole has to work to resolve the crisis.

Helen Clark

I think that generally New Zealand is respected for the positions it takes because it thinks them through.

Helen Clark

In terms of having views and being prepared to express them, yes, I think New Zealand's had a leadership role in a lot of things.

Helen Fielding

9p.m. My flat. Feel very strange and empty. Is all very well thinking everything is going to be different when you come back but then it is all the same. Suppose I have to make it different. But what am I going to do with my life? I know. Will eat some cheese.

Helen Fielding

No one is thinking about you. They're thinking about themselves, just like you.

Helen Fielding

Nobody wants to be racist and I think that most people aren't.

John Krasinski

I think there's a part of us that would like to use the fact that we're married, but you don't want the idea that we're married to overshadow the project itself.We're just looking for something that's so specific and good that it becomes a part of the story of why we did it rather than when we go to do press it's, 'Oh, my God, you're married and that's the only thing we want to talk about.' If we can merge both, that could be great.

John Krasinski

I've always loved those movies where somebody thinks they want something, and then they realize that the thing they really want is right in front of them.

John Krasinski

I think it's a big chance to take to make a movie that's about as something as pure and honest and something people can relate to everyday.

John Krasinski

My name was originally John Collins, but I just didn't think it had the flair I needed. I found out the poet laureate of Poland was named Krasinski and so it seemed like a shoe-in for show business.

John Krasinski

I know I'm guilty of and I think a lot of people are guilty of sort of getting starry-eyed with love and sort of looking over the bad things and keep going and you don't really prepare for how much work marriage really is.

John Krasinski

I think we owe absolutely everything to the fans.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

The correct relationship between the higher and lower classes, the appropriate mutual interaction between the two is, as such, the true underlying support on which the improvement of the human species rests. The higher classes constitute the mind of the single large whole of humanity; the lower classes constitute its limbs; the former are the thinking and designing [ Entwerfende ] part, the latter the executive part.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that the world, if it must alter, will only have to spoil it; we have then nothing to do but unite the severed, to recollect and restore the dismembered.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We're only really thinking when we can't think out fully what we are really thinking about!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The thinking person has the strange characteristic to like to create a fantasy in the place of the unsolved problem, a fantasy that stays with the person even when the problem has been solved and truth made its appearance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is nothing worth thinking but it has been thought before; we must only try to think it again.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome.