Thinks Quotes

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

I'm one of those people who thinks you can have a happy life and still be an artist.

Between you and me, I think that may be one of the things that will help with the collaboration, because there are things Eric thinks I'm moving too quickly on, and there are things I think he's dragging out. When it gets to the editor they can arbitrate.

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is the sense of sight, that sees colors and forms as living reality in the picture.

What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope... It is not a reflection of all religious people.

Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's a spontaneity-killer.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story?

However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - in other words, not a thing, but a think.

So they ended up turning this little twenty eight page book into the movie. And it's all about this stinky, smelly ogre who doesn't care what anybody thinks of him.

Jon Stewart hires people that he thinks are funny. That's it. That's the only requirement.

At the end of the day, we need a leader who thinks with his head but leads with his heart.

Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality.

I think the most important thing for an artist is to not worry about what anybody else thinks. You just have to do what comes from your heart and your being and put it out there-that's true in any of the arts.

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

I think sometimes Richmond, especially the House of Delegates, thinks too small... Richmond is not doing what needs to be done, forward thinking, big bold ideas.

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Who thinks seriously that if we sit on another hilltop, on another hundred meters, that this is what will make the difference for the state of Israel's basic security?

They're sheep. They like Bush enough to credit him with saving the nation after 9/11. Three thousand people get killed, and everybody thinks they're next on the list. The president comes along, and he's got his six-guns strapped on, and people think he's going to save them.

I don't think there's anybody in America who thinks my personality is best suited to being Number Two.

Your immune cells are like a circulating nervous system. Your nervous system in fact is a circulating nervous system. It thinks. It's conscious.

I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not.

If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible "lifestyles" turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.

It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.

Every man thinks god is on his side.

Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.

A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes.

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.