Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amy Carmichael

Those who think too much of themselves don't think enough.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Whatsoever stirs the stagnant currents, setting these flowing in wholesome directions, promotes brisk spirits and productive thinking. The less of routine, the more of life.

Alvin Lee

I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don't take the time to learn the basics.

Alvin Lee

I think I'll continue to work as a solo artist.

Alveda King

Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.

Ally Condie

Do you think you could let someone go if you thought it was best for them?

Ally Condie

Remembering is part of thinking, but not all of it.

Ally Condie

I think of how perhaps the best way to fly would be with hands full of earth, so you always remember where you came from.

Ally Condie

And I laugh at myself for thinking I could touch the sky.

Allyson Felix

There are moments that aren't great. And I think it's amazing for people to be able to have some insight, to be able to see the support system and what really happens.

Allyson Felix

I don't feel that Shaunae Miller cheated me because she didn't break any rules or anything like that, but I do feel like it's a very difficult way to lose. Having worked so hard and I know that that was such a close race, it just kind of made it even harder to deal with defeat just because of how it was done. But I don't think that she had any ill intention by it or did it on purpose. I think it just kind of happened.

Allyson Felix

The pressure is hard. You get - the world is only watching every four years, and I think lots of people feel like they have to win in that time frame.

Allyson Felix

I think every genius person has a bit of insanity.

Anthony Geary

People say 'Why would you learn Dutch? Nobody speaks it. Why not French?' Even the Dutch say that to me! I say because I want to live here, I think it's only common courtesy that I speak the language.

Anne Tyler

But I don't think people take bad advice. They've got intuition too, you know. In fact I'd be surprised if they take any advice at all.

Anna Louise Strong

They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the pyramids for the Pharaohs and we're building for them yet.

Angela Lansbury

I have never directed. But I think I could. I have thought about it. I'm a bit long in the tooth to start.

Angela Davis

I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.

Anne Rivers Siddons

I think we all get too caught up in doing instead of just being sometimes.

Anne Roiphe

I've told the same story twelve different ways, but I think that's just part of what writers do. Once may not be enough.

Anne Rice

It was over now, and the meaningless world was tolerable and need not be explained. And never would it be, and how foolish I had ever been to think so.

Anna Howard Shaw

Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.

Anna Deavere Smith

I think we can learn a lot about a person in the very moment that language fails them. In the very moment they they have to be more creative than they would have imagined in order to communicate. It's the very moment that they have to dig deeper than the surface to find words, and at the same time, it's a moment when they want to communicate very badly. They're digging deep and projecting out at the same time.

Andrew Sullivan

I think a blog to live really has to be probably four or five times a day.

Andrew Solomon

I think you can't deny that because the cochlear implant exists, the signing world is shrinking.

Claire Danes

I think people who make movies and have invested a lot of money in them, get frightened that if they challenge an audience they are going to repel them. And I think the opposite it's really true. It takes confidence and courage to know that and then commit to it.

Daniel Keyes

People think it's funny when a dumb person can't do things the same way they can.

Daniel Kahneman

Except for some effects that I attribute mostly to age, my intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and the planning fallacy as it was before I made a study of these issues.

Conrad Aiken

I think we've come to a kind of splinter period in poetry. These tiny little bright fragments of observation - and not produced under sufficient pressure - some of it's very skillful, but I don't think there's anywhere a discernible major poet in the process of emerging; or if he is, I ain't seen him.

Conrad Aiken

I think there's an enormous lot of talent around, and somewhere amongst these I'm sure that something will emerge, given time.

Conrad Aiken

Whitman had a profound influence on me. That was during my sophomore year when I came down with a bad attack of Whitmanitis. But he did me a lot of good, and I think the influence is discoverable.

Conor Oberst

People resist change; if they like something, then they want you to keep doing it over and over - but I think if you like what a particular band or artist does, then you should want to see what they're going to do next.

Conor Oberst

I think it is more like a ghost that has been following us both. Something vague that we're not seeing, something more like a feeling.