Thinking Quotes · Page 87

Playing on turf affects everything, you know, it affects the way the ball rolls, it affects the way the ball bounces, it…

— Abby Wambach

Essentially I feel like all of that pressure when you're making the first of a franchise of [movies based on] books that…

— Jamie Dornan

So, the point I'm making is, we are not going to cut spending in Washington if we think it's the job of…

— Jim DeMint

I think it's important to remember that music supervision is not just about a fantastic record collection or knowledge of music, although…

— Alexandra Patsavas

[On her seven-month-old son:] When people see me carrying him in the street they think I'm being attacked by a short, bald…

— Elizabeth Hurley

I dipped into his brain. He wasn't happy that I wasn't wearing a bra, because my boobs distracted him. He was thinking…

— Charlaine Harris

I think I am less of a prankster and more of a jokester.

— Taye Diggs

To think is an act. To feel is a fact.

— Clarice Lispector

It is the history of our kindnesses that alone make this world tolerable. If it were not for that, for the effect…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Prisons where people can't even work is the worst punishment you can think of. And I don't think we should put all…

— Vladimir Putin

I didn't want to believe that killing was deep inside of me. I didn't want to think about the part of me…

— Jim Butcher

I measure success in terms of the connection with the audience, which we've been able to do in spades. I mean, it's…

— Tom Freston

I was never really that worried about being a member of the Sopranos crew. I think it looks kind of fun to…

— Matthew Weiner

Whenever you are immersed in compulsive thinking, you are avoiding what is. You don't want to be where you are. Here, Now.

— Eckhart Tolle

Stem cells are probably going to be extremely useful. But it isn't a given, and even if it were, I don't think…

— Joseph Murray

Most of the times that I think about my relationship to Judaism, I not only accuse myself of a shallowness, but I…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I think just letting go is a really good thing to do in many areas of your life, songwriting included.

— Ingrid Michaelson

People think I am America's party girl, which is just stupid. I have done 24 movies and I am creating my own…

— Tara Reid

I do think it's true that a huge amount of the oversight that the White House engages in with respect to the…

— Donald Verrilli Jr

Muslim women must stand up and speak out about who we are, what we believe and where we are going. I think…

— Queen Rania of Jordan

I really think the key to a film is the chemistry of people.

— Kirsten Dunst

I feel like I'm in a weird state, and I wake up in Hollywood, and I've got a couple of studio movies…

— David Slade

It is a catastrophe, all of this virtual being together. I think there are people who get hooked on the internet. If…

— Ruth Westheimer

[Washington, DC] feels like you're watching performance art. A lot of the time. I don't believe them, I don't believe what they…

— Kevin Spacey

I think that the principle of the Conservative Party is jealousy of liberty and of the people , only qualified by fear…

— William E. Gladstone

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

— Peter Berg

I think I made good movies.

— Jane Campion

Can we come to the point where we can accept the impossible strivings that we have, the utter inability to ever fulfill…

— Francis Levy

Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in…

— M. Scott Peck

Some people do not like to hear much of repentance; but I think it is so necessary that if I should die…

— Matthew Henry

As you get older and you realize you really don't know as much as you think you know, you listen more. Because…

— Phil Keoghan

I despise the proper constructions and cases, because I think it very unfitting that the words of the celestial oracle should be…

— Pope Gregory I

Whereas, if you have a longer scene, then you have momentum to build it up. I thought I sucked, but Chris Weitz…

— Tinsel Korey

What are you afraid of then? Not Being able to see, I think not seeing because your obsessed by something that blots…

— Eva Ibbotson

When your characters are not white hats or black hats but something in between, you do have to be very careful about…

— Victor Levin

I always think of comedy as being spontaneous, and yet everything about filmmaking is not spontaneous.

— Eddie Redmayne

Meditation is a sort of prayer and prayer is meditation. The highest meditation is to think of nothing. If you can remain…

— Swami Vivekananda

“... No.' She had said the word very faintly, but I heard it clearly. She had wilfully lied to me. I didn't…

— Yukito Ayatsuji

You know what an effective deterrent to crime is? Jail! And do you know what kind of criminal penalty actually makes people…

— Matt Taibbi

I don't think it's a matter of, do you win the game or not, it's how gracefully do you play it.

— Ted Danson