Thinks Quotes

It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but it actually was.

A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.

Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.

When you make the right decision, it doesn't really matter what anyone else thinks.

What is a sophisticate? He is a man who thinks he can swim better than he can and sometimes he drowns.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.

A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal.

Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

People are really sick of seeing the winner not win and what the public thinks should happen.

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.

Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

I don't care what a man is as long as he treats me right. He can be a gambler, a hustler, someone everybody else thinks is obnoxious, I don't care so long as he's straight with me and our dealings are fair.

You know what? I never really factor Hollywood into anything. I'm a black actor, so I can't really control what Hollywood thinks. I gotta go do my thing, and my jokes have got to be funny. Whatever I do has got to be great.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.

Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopping describing the sky, simply listing what they see.

The only time a man thinks is when he's alone.

Every kid coming out of Harvard, every kid coming out of school now thinks he can be the next Mark Zuckerberg, and with these new technologies like cloud computing, he actually has a shot.

The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.

Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.

No one sits in front of a drum set and thinks they invented it all out of whole cloth. The fact that the set is there means that you've got some dues to pay to Baby Dodds.

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.

You can walk through life believing in the goodness of the world, or walk through life afraid of anyone who thinks different than you and trying to convert them to your way of thinking.

For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts.

And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought.