Then Quotes

If I kind of like a guy, then I'm a fantastic flirt. But with a guy I truly like, I get painfully shy.

Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.

I don't spend a lot of time thinking of what they'll do musically, I try to imagine being locked into a windowless room with this person for twelve hours at a time. If you can look at that and think it might be fun then maybe you've got the right musician.

My boyfriend keeps telling me I've got to own things. So, first I bought this car. And then he told me I oughta get a house. 'Why a house?' 'Well, you gotta have a place to park the car.'

For Sunday breakfast, I make orange and ricotta pancakes, crepes and eggs. You know men, we usually go for breakfast because it's the easiest thing to cook and then we try to make it seem fancy.

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

I always thought the saddest feeling in life is when you're dancing in a really joyful way and then you hit your head on something.

Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying then without money?

I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days.

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

I got politics and economics moving and then others took over.

I am like a TV antenna. I catch everything that is in the air, and then I do it my way.

People say, 'Just say who you're dating. Then people will stop being so ravenous about it.' It's like, No they won't! They'll ask for specifics.

I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a "learning experience." Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a "learning experience." It makes me feel less stupid.

When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't go to university. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't train. Then it gets tiring. And you do get bored of it.

If you want to save a species, simply decide to eat it. Then it will be managed - like chickens, like turkeys, like deer, like Canadian geese.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

I always find that when I do something that I like, from my heart, then it works.

I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

When I was 15, I had a crush on this guy who was really good at magic, and so I learned to juggle, thinking it would impress him. I spent hours and hours practicing, planning to show him. And then I never even saw him again. But at least I learned how to juggle.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

If you can't laugh at yourself, then how can you laugh at anybody else? I think people see the human side of you when you do that.

I hole up now and then and do nothing for days but read.

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.