Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Woolf

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

Virginia Woolf

The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme -- thinking too much.

Virginia Woolf

But I think I’m coloured by my own wishes, & experimental mood.

William Blake

The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert, that God spoke to them; and whether they did not think at the time, that they would be misunderstood, & so be the cause of imposition. Isaiah answer'd, I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical perception; but my senses discover'd the infinite in every thing, and as I was then persuaded, & remain confirm'd; that the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences but wrote.

William Blake

One thought fills immensity.

Werner Heisenberg

If nature leads us to mathematical forms of great simplicity and beauty—by forms, I am referring to coherent systems of hypotheses, axioms, etc.—to forms that no one has previously encountered, we cannot help thinking that they are “true,” that they reveal a genuine feature of nature…. You must have felt this too: the almost frightening simplicity and wholeness of the relationships which nature suddenly spreads out before us and for which none of us was in the least prepared.

Werner Heisenberg

I think that the discovery of antimatter was perhaps the biggest jump of all the big jumps in physics in our century.

Wentworth Miller

I think that's the beauty of the current setup, is that Legends is meant to be a bit of a revolving door.

Werner Erhard

Most of our notions about the world come from a set of assumptions which we take for granted, and which, for the most part, we don't examine or question. We bring these assumptions to the table with us as a given. They are so much a part of who we are that it is difficult for us to separate ourselves from them enough to be able to talk about them. We do not think these assumptions, we think from them.

Werner Herzog

I think a state should not be in the capacity of killing anyone with the exception of warfare.

Werner Herzog

I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie.

Werner Herzog

I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie. They were fairly weak, the last half-dozen of villains in James Bond movies were not that convincing.

Werner Herzog

I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.

Werner Herzog

I think I'm a prudent filmmaker.

Werner Herzog

I have never been one of those who cares about happiness. Happiness is a strange notion. I am just not made for it. It has never been a goal of mine; I do not think in those terms.

Werner Herzog

I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever since I was able to think independently.

Wayne Thiebaud

My subject matter was a genuine sort of experience that came out of my life, particularly the American world in which I was privileged to be . . . . I would really think of the bakery counters, of the way the counter was lit, where the pies were placed, but I wanted just a piece of the experience. From when I worked in restaurants . . . [it was] always poetic to me.

Wayne Thiebaud

I think of myself as a beginner. Sometimes that's the whole joy. If you could just do it, there'd be no point in doing it.

Wayne Rogers

Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful actress.

Wayne Rogers

I'm one of those actors who likes to do it wrong nine ways before I come to the tenth way, which is the way I think it should be.

Wayne White

I become exaggerated, and loud, and obnoxious, and full of the spirit of improvisation. That's one of the weird things about performing, I think that any performer will say the same thing when you're on stage in front of a crowd there's a certain moment when you kind of click into a trance-like state and you just kind of go with it. I love getting into that mode. It's transcendental.

Wayne White

I had to learn to do stuff only for myself, and stop thinking about pleasing some imaginary client or boss. It's a habit that many artists get into that have worked in commercial ventures.

Wayne Rooney

I'd have to say Thierry Henry. From the ages of ten to 16, watching him in the Premier League was amazing and he scored all different types of goals - free-kicks, volleys, left foot, right foot. He was entertaining. He's probably the best centre-forward, I think, to play in the Premier League.

Wayne Rooney

I think the fans are going to expect a lot from me, as they should.

Wayne Rooney

I don't think I look up to any players. Obviously you respect everyone.

Wayne Rooney

I've trained all my life. I've always been one who enjoys training so it's not something that I think I can just stop doing. It might not be as regular but I want to keep training.

Walid Muallem

I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.

Wallis Simpson

I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the wrong light to the entire world because they will say that I could have prevented it.

Wale

I hope everybody thinks they've got the best album. I wouldn't have put mine out if I didn't think it was the best.

Wallace Shawn

I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.

Wallace Shawn

I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.

Wallace Shawn

I never grew up thinking, 'One day I will play so and so' because I wasn't expecting to be an actor at all.

Wallace Shawn

And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in a musical once, but it was never performed.