Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cormac McCarthy

People think they know what they want but they generally don't. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways.

Cormac McCarthy

I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its knees what you would probably come up with is narcotics.

Colm Toibin

I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.

Common

I think Lil Wayne is definitely a dope rapper.

Common

Me being able to be acting and doing other things has opened me as an artist, and I think even more from a visual standpoint.

Colum McCann

We stumble on, thinks Jaslyn, bring a little noise into the silence, find in others the ongoing of ourselves. It is almost enough.

Colum McCann

And I suddenly think, as I look across the table at him, that these are the days as they will be. This is the future as we see it. The swerve and the static. The confidence and the doubt.

Colum McCann

There are rocks deep enough in this earth that no matter what the rupture, they will never see the surface. There is, I think, a fear of love. There is a fear of love.

Colum McCann

You cannot read any image of the World Trade Center without thinking of 9/11.

Colum McCann

I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.

Colum McCann

People think they know the mystery of living in your skin. They don't. There's no one who knows except the person who carts it around her own self.

Colum McCann

There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.

Colum McCann

The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last.

Clifford D. Simak

It seems to me, thinking of it, that there must be some universal plan which set in motion the orbiting of the electrons about the nucleus and the slower, more majestic orbit of the galaxies about one another to the very edge of space

Clifford D. Simak

There is a plan, it seems to me, that reaches out of the electron to the rim of the universe and what this plan may be or how it came about is beyond my feeble intellect. But if we are looking for something on which to pin our faith- and, indeed, our hope- the plan might well be it. I think we have thought too small and have been too afraid.

Clifford D. Simak

When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth and of the life which must exist upon other planets throughout the universe.

Cliff Martinez

I think there is quite a continuity over my 25 years of doing music, and I'm always trying to break away from it.

Cliff Martinez

I've never tried to work chronologically. I don't think I have the discipline to do that.

Cliff Martinez

I don't want to be typecast as the 'ambient guy' or someone who only does electronic scores. I think most of the work that comes my way is because people feel they know me musically.

Clifford Stoll

Minds think with ideas, not information No amount of data, bandwidth, or processing power can substitute for inspired thought.

Cliff Richard

Financial support is one thing, but I always think what becomes really sacrificial is your time.

Clifford Geertz

I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now

Clifford Geertz

I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything

Clifford Geertz

I think what's known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain

Clifford Geertz

I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world

Clifford Geertz

I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology

Clifford Geertz

I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false

Clifford Geertz

We don't know what we think until we see what we say.

Clifford Geertz

Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue

Conan O'Brien

NBC is making a movie about Martha Stewart that will cover the recent stock scandal. They are thinking of calling it 'The Road To Extradition.'

Conan O'Brien

President Obama has appointed a transgender woman to a position in the Department of Commerce. You know, in this era of partisan bickering, President Obama deserves a lot of credit for taking a chance on Ann Coulter, I think.

Conan O'Brien

Over-thinking in your brain is anathema to the process of thinking on your feet.

Conan O'Brien

After Donald Trump's derogatory comments about immigrants, NBC has officially cancelled Celebrity Apprentice. Think about it: Donald Trump isn't even president yet, and he's already made America a better place!