Quotes About Think Tank

#1. I can think of nothing worse than a think-tank where everybody agreed.

Geoff Mulgan

#2. The Heritage Foundation is the premier think tank, research organization. The premier idea group for the conservative movement.

Jim DeMint

#3. In 2003 ... the White House conspired with an oil-company funded think tank to block a major government scientific report that sought to spell out the dangers of climate change to Americans.

Joseph J. Romm

#4. It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institution, not the country.

Jon Meacham

#5. The basic idea for what became 'Epic Mickey' began at the Disney Think Tank.

Warren Spector

#6. If you are wealthy enough, use part or all of your Social Security proceeds to invest in a favorite cause or two. Invest 10 percent or 100 percent of your monthly Social Security check in your favorite charity, foundation, think tank, church or synagogue, or other good cause.

Mark Skousen

#7. It's just this little comedy about this group of guys, and their local hangout is a pool hall, and it's starting to get taken over by this big corporate, evil kind of guy. And it's just about them trying to save the day and their little pool hall in the process of it all. It's called 'Think Tank.'

Aaron Ruell

#8. After I finished my master's degree, I moved to a company called Aerospace Corporation, a big think tank for the U.S. Air Force and the National Reconnaissance Office.

Gwynne Shotwell

#9. There is no right to work in a think tank, and these are very privileged positions.

David Frum

#10. Indeed, a convent was a kind of early think tank for women, since it was the preferred choice of intellectuals wanting to escape marriage.

Magnus Flyte

#11. You can argue whether it's right or wrong,' says Halfon about the scrapping of Connexions, 'and yes I believe we should be balancing the economy, but nevertheless the think-tank people never consider how it actually impacts on the front, although they do create an intellectual framework.

Owen Jones

#12. PISA was developed by a kind of think tank for the developed world, called the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, and the scientist at the center of the experiment was Andreas Schleicher.

Amanda Ripley

#13. Former President George W. Bush has hired a man to lead his presidential think tank in Dallas. The man was hired because he was the only candidate who could say the words, 'George W. Bush think tank' with a straight face.

Conan O'Brien

#14. Think Tank, noun: The shower.

Craig Bruce

#15. Solitude is the "think tank" of the soul.

Ted Agon

#16. I had a breakthrough, I think my life just became calmer, I gave up drinking. My priorities changed as I had a young daughter. The group didn't want me to record for the Think Tank album ... so I took it as a sign to leave.

Graham Coxon

#17. Photography has clarity in the same way that language has. A word is precise, but its meaning can change based on the words around it: think tank, tank top.

Jason Fulford

#18. The classic think-tank is supposed to be sitting in an attic thinking up grand ideas.

Geoff Mulgan

#19. If some modern-day David Brock wanted to defect from the conservative movement and write a tell-all focused solely on the financial chicanery of the entire right-wing nonprofit/think tank/publishing sphere, I would read the absolute heck out of it.

Alex Pareene

#20. Street-casting - people like Katie Jarvis in 'Fish Tank,' spotted having a row with her boyfriend on a railway platform - has helped make actors raise their game. They have to.

Joe Dempsie

#21. The NRA made an ad saying that Obama is elitist because his kids have armed guards. Yeah, that crazy Obama thinking his kids need special protection. I love the NRA accusing anyone of being paranoid. It's like a septic tank saying, 'You need a mint.'

Bill Maher

#22. My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#23. The Hollywood image of the movie business is all about ambition and high achievers like James Cameron. But the British film industry is much more about men who wear cravats and work with model trains and hope another series of 'Thomas the Tank Engine' will be commissioned.

Peter Capaldi

#24. The engine of the tank is a weapon just as the main-gun.

Heinz Guderian

#25. Beating people up is a positive thing.

Tank Abbott

#26. She wore leather pants, a long-sleeved shirt open over a tank top, and enough guns and knives to make her look like a pissed-off Ninja Turtle.

S.M. Reine

#27. The first thing that makes you a tough fighter is in your head and in your heart, then your tools. It has nothing to do with someone teaching you how to be tough.

Tank Abbott

#28. Simon: 'You know men. We have delicate egos.'
Clary: 'I wouldn't describe Jace's ego as delicate.'
Simon: 'No, Jace's is sort of the antiaircraft artillery tank of male egos.

Cassandra Clare

#29. One of the unique things is that whether we were out at sea or in the middle of the water tank, a lot of times you just couldn't leave. Especially when we were out at sea.

John C. Reilly

#30. I don't think much of Tito Ortiz. He needs to grow balls and sign to fight Chuck Liddell.

Tank Abbott

#31. Its 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, its dark, and we're wearing sunglasses.....hit it...

John A. Saunders

#32. I'm a mom, so I have to be comfortable. Jeans are a staple - I have way too many in my closet! It's warm in Florida, so I wear jeans and a tank top every day. I love my True Religions, my Rich and Skinny, and Citizens of Humanity. But I also love getting dressed up!

Candace Cameron Bure

#33. It's daytime. A wall of billowing orange flame grows up silently from the tank farm a mile away, like a time-lapse chrysanthemum. It is so vast and complicated in its blooming, uncontrolled growth that Rife stops halfway up the stairs to watch.

Neal Stephenson

#34. I disconnected and made a mental note not to call Tank unless I was bleeding profusely, and he was the only other person on earth.

Janet Evanovich

#35. I like a quiet evening with family or friends over, great food and great discussion and a lot of laughter. That's really what I think fills my tank.

Anna Eshoo

#36. A boxer is like a lion, the greatest predator on land, but you throw him in the shark tank and he's just another meal.

Renzo Gracie

#37. I've still got a lot left in the tank. I think people are starting to see I've got a lot left in the tank.

LaDainian Tomlinson

#38. I don't need a tank top to be a wife beater

Eminem

#39. I watch 'Shark Tank,' of course. It's very entertaining. I think it's actually good to help people think about the business they might start, and sometimes you get encouraged by looking at someone going into business and saying, 'Hey, I could do that.'

Fred DeLuca

#40. I don't think it's good to run on anger, but it's really great when that's the first couple of gallons in your tank - when you've had enough, and you're just pissed off enough to go for it. In a lot of ways, that sort of environment can be a catapult for a great situation.

Josh Homme

#41. Do you think the lobsters in the tank try to help the other lobsters? Is that why they pile up like that? Or is it just for company, because they know they're all doomed? Better

Francesca Zappia

#42. I've talked to so many people, men and women alike, that get overweight and their self-esteem just goes in the tank. They think they're judged. They think they're unattractive.

Phil McGraw

#43. Dont be kind person ,because kind people are losers and they think they doing it right.
I love riches because they destroy kind people like tank and they built their fortune. believing good or bad is just for weak people because strong people create them own role.

K Ibeyk

#44. Of course I grew it in a fucking tank! What do you think I am, a farmer?

Charles Stross

#45. Whatever you believe to be true, whether it is true or not; if you believe it, then to you it becomes the truth.

Stella Payton

#46. Tortoise steps, slow steps, four steps like a tank with a tail dragging in the sand.
Tortoise steps, land based, land locked, dusty like the desert tortoise herself, fenced in, a prisoner on her own reservation
teaching us the slow art of revolutionary patience.

Terry Tempest Williams

#47. In order to win, you must be fully charged. To be fully charged, you must have gas in your tank.

John Addison

#48. The armored vehicle manufacturing base is not a light switch that can be turned on and off at will. If we mothball production of systems like the Abrams tank, it will take time and money to get this capability back.

Sander Levin

#49. We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on fire. A line of monks link arms in a human chain. Crowds surge, soldiers fire, gusts of rage pull down the monuments of tyrants, and maybe, sometimes, justice rises from the flames.

Nancy Gibbs

#50. Lake Powell: storage pond, silt trap, evaporation tank and garbage dispose-all, a 180-mile-long incipient sewage lagoon.

Edward Abbey

#51. My grandfather and dad worked at General American Transportation Corp. in Chicago, a company that made tank cars and freight cars. We had a pragmatic, Republican, manufacturing, Illinois consciousness as far as employment went.

Bill Moseley

#52. By then it was more of an observation than a decision; it was less a matter of abandoning the faith than waking up to the fact that it had disappeared, quietly leaked away, as if there had been a small hole in my tank all along.

Philip Stewart

#53. All sorts of artillery installations, rockets and tank units that are firing on civilians in Kosovo should be neutralized. If that means air strikes, then NATO should carry out air strikes.

Fatos Nano

#54. They say practice mindfulness, practice meditation, practice kindness, practice breathing. I found no answers and wanted to practice driving a tank through a department store.

Jon Konrath

#55. I don't know how to fix a car. If the car breaks down, and the gas tank does not say "E", I'm screwed. But if the gas tank says "E", I get all cocky - "I've got this one, don't worry." So I get out the toolbox AKA wallet.

Mitch Hedberg

#56. As for my personal style, I like comfort a lot, like jeans and T-shirts. Having been a trainer for so long, I spend a lot of my days in tank tops, shorts, and T-shirts. Still, I do like the occasions where I get to wear suits and make that a thing.

Matt McGorry

#57. A tank full of life and a running tap.

Saleem Sharma

#58. Strong could be dealt with - but crazy? Oh no. You never knew what the crazy were going to do.

Andrea Speed

#59. I am actually very well-organized. All I need to do is open my closet and just choose. But, you see, although I carry many different choices with me, I always end up wearing a tank top, jeans and sneakers.

Kristen Stewart

#60. I watch a TV show called 'Shark Tank.' It's one of my favorite TV shows. It's basically self-made millionaires who have either come up with their own business or clothing ... I came up with the idea of designing clothes.

Jacob Dalton

#61. You know, the market was down yesterday ... my first thought when I heard-just on a personal basis, when I heard there had been this attack and I saw the futures this morning, which were really in the tank, I thought, Time to buy.

Brit Hume

#62. Would you pour sand into the gas tank of your car? Of course not, your car was meant to run on good gasoline. Well, your body works the same way. Your body was meant to run on good food: fruits, vegetables, lean protein, and lots of water. Eat good food!

Tom Giaquinto

#63. Have you ever felt like you could walk through Hell and not get burned, or jump in a shark tank, causing the Great Whites to walk on land?... That's how I feel...like the baddest motherfucker that ever wore human skin." --Charlie Higgins 'Irish Demon

Jason E. Felts

#64. Again, with two small children it's incredibly hard to commit yourself to anything because you're just getting interested in it and someone comes along and goes I want Thomas The Tank Engine on, and screams the place down until you put it on.

Jo Brand

#65. The man was watching the nearby fish tank, which stood beneath a depiction of Tindwyl, Mother of Terris, perched on the walls during her last stand against the darkness. In the tank, tiny octopuses moved across the glass.

Brandon Sanderson

#66. Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment.

Patrick Stewart

#67. That's one way to overcome criticism: tank so hard that failing becomes glorious and meaningless.

Greg Walloch

#68. You might be a redneck if when you run out of gas, you put gin in the gas tank.

Jeff Foxworthy

#69. Robots are emotionless, so they don't get upset if their buddy is killed, they don't commit crimes of rage and revenge. But ... they see an 80-year-old grandmother in a wheelchair the same way they see a T80 tank; they're both just a series of zeros and ones.

P. W. Singer

#70. Rawls, the back-up running back (Tank wrenched his leg out of socket, which I didn't know was possible).

Alan Janney

#71. A feeling erupted in my stomach, like nothing would ever be the same again. Like good karma was catching up with me. Like someone had opened up the lid to my lobster tank and I was finally breathing in the shockingly fresh air.

Francesca Zappia

#72. The closet was also not cleaned during the journey and there was no water in the water tank.

Mahatma Gandhi

#73. No toys in the fish tank

Cynthia Lord

#74. If it tastes good, spit it out. All those cakes and pies and candy and ice cream
all that terrible fast food stuff! I just bought a new corvette sports car ... would I put oil in the gas tank? Would I?

Jack LaLanne

#75. like a tank following a sports car through a slalom course.

Jeremy Robinson

#76. Like a car idling, I gave of my energy until there was nothing more in my tank to give... all the while going nowhere.

Kate McGahan

#77. I'm not exaggerating when I say that the 761st was Patton's best tank unit and nobody knew about it.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#78. I still can't unsee Tommy's outfit: nighttime sunglasses, a dark blazer as loose and baggy as rain gear, sand-colored cargo pants with pockets filled to capacity (was he smuggling potatoes?), a white tank top, clunky Frankenstein combat boots, and two belts. Yes, two belts.

Greg Sestero

#79. Barbara began to imagine the pretty girls working in Derry and Toms as beautiful tropical fish in a tank, swimming up and down, up and down, in serene disappointment, with nowhere to go and nothing to see that they hadn't seen a million times before.

Nick Hornby

#80. I just like The Little Mermaid cartoon. Say what you want. I have a fish tank, it's a long story. I have a fascination with the ocean, and you put a hot chick in there, it just adds more to it! I liked The Little Mermaid. It's a cool movie. It's one of those I watch over and over again.

Gabriel Iglesias

#81. I hadn't just backed up the toilet; I'd made the septic tank flood the house.

Mariana Zapata

#82. The clerk in the Tank involuntarily applauded. Becoming immediately sensible of the impropriety, he poked the fire, and extinguished the last frail spark for ever.

Charles Dickens

#83. A thirty-two-ounce soda and a tank of gas is America distilled to its seminal fluids.

Richard Manning

#84. Tim Howard is as sharp as a tank.

Andy Townsend

#85. Officers looked at the antique once-animals that eyed them back, at the no giant tank, at the nowhere anything so big and missing as Architeuthis could be.

China Mieville

#86. When you play the bars, you pay your dues. It does matter that you know those things [songs]. And the great thing for me, too, is that I draw on that stuff as influences. It's also stuff that you put in the tank that you pull from to make records.

Eric Church

#87. I give [Barack Obama] a 10 [on a scale of 1 to 10] because he's not God, and he inherited a couple of wars, and a financial mess.I want to see him curse somebody out on TV. You can't finesse a bull. He's gotta throw down. He's in the shark tank.

Tracy Morgan

#88. Two fish in a tank, one says to the other - you drive I'll man the guns.

Tommy Cooper