Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aziz Ansari

Everyone steals. My favorite movie is Love Don't Cost a Thing with Nick Cannon. Which is based on Can't Buy Me Love, which is based on Kramer vs. Kramer, or something, which I think was Shakespeare.

Aziz Ansari

It can take a few months to get a new 10 minutes. Usually it takes like 10 times of repeatedly trying different variations of a joke until I land on one I think is really good.

Aziz Ansari

I think absurdist humor is funny...

Aziz Ansari

I just think it's sad that the main places in our culture that we designate to meet new people are bars and nightclubs..

Aziz Ansari

I went to a place recently I think is one of the most f**ked up places I've ever been to. I'm convinced this place is the epitome of American excess, of American greed. I'm talking about a place called Cold Stone Creamery. Whoa. If you have not been there, the basic gist of Cold Stone is that they take ice cream and then they just go ape sh*t with it.

Ayelet Waldman

Most writers spend their lives standing a little apart from the crowd, watching and listening and hoping to catch that tiny hint of despair, that sliver of malice, that makes them think, 'Aha, here is the story.'

Ayn Rand

People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty. So they'll bless and follow anyone who gives them a justification for not thinking. Anyone who makes a virtue - a highly intellectual virtue - out of what they know to be their sin, their weakness and their guilt.

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.

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.