Think They Quotes

#1. People who publish poetry today do it from a sense that poetry needs to be published, not because they think they are going to make money.

Campbell McGrath

#2. Sisters are a trial," he said. "And it doesn't matter if they're Elder or humani. Sometimes I think they exist solely to upset and annoy their brothers.

Michael Scott

#3. The fact that fashion goes out of fashion and then comes back into fashion based solely on what a few people somewhere think they can sell, well to me, that's insanity.

Randy Pausch

#4. There's something about witnessing something in the sky that makes people think they're seeing something unique or special. I don't really understand the psychology of it, to be honest.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#5. So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.

Warren Zevon

#6. I know very few Americans, though I like the way they think. They think big.

Brigitte Bardot

#7. Most people who think they're happy are really just stupid.

Tom Kitt

#8. The trick is, when you try a good pair of jeans on, you may not think they're that great, but you wear them two months, and they become your favorite jeans. They're tricky. You gotta let them live.

Chris Evans

#9. Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future.

Jaron Lanier

#10. Some people asked me if it was going to be a downer to come back and play on a college team after playing on a world championship team, and I don't think they understand what it is like to play here.

Lorrie Fair

#11. Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.

Desmond Tutu

#12. It's all well and good to say that Germans were all responsible for the concentration camps, but I don't think they were. I think that was the work of a small group of fiends.

James Laughlin

#13. The people at the top of the league think they need to rein me in so I don't become another Michael Jordan, somebody they aren't able to mold and shape and make their puppet.

Dennis Rodman

#14. Maurice watched them argue again. Humans, eh? Think they're lords of creation. Not like us cats. We know we are. Ever see a cat feed a human? Case proven.

Terry Pratchett

#15. Football players are misunderstood. They aren't the dumb jocks people think they are.

Simone Elkeles

#16. The political and substantive reality is that the agenda has to change. I don't think they have any choice.

Leon Panetta

#17. Give the people what they think they want.

George Ade

#18. I am single for two reasons. First, I don't date girls who watch Real World because they already think they know me. Second, a lot of girls look at me as the slutty seven.

Steven Hill

#19. It's perfectly clear that the millions of babies, who are crying at this very moment, want unanimously to be next to a live body. Do you really think they're all wrong? Theirs is the voice of nature. This is the clear, pure voice of nature, without intellectual interference.

Jean Liedloff

#20. I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#21. I brought my personality and sense of wonder and I think they wrote as much of my personality as they could. I do not go around kicking butt and saving the universe all the time but they tried to capture me as best as they could in the character.

Gil Gerard

#22. Nothing can be perfect... even the analysis of the human behavior. - If you think they can be perfect and 100% Accurate...

Deyth Banger

#23. Sometimes they do things to make me do the opposite of what they think, I think, they think, I am going to do.

James Dashner

#24. I think they should rename the place Unnecessary Violent Overreaction. In

Tui T. Sutherland

#25. I think most people's view is that selfies are just vanity and stupid, but I think they're really great.

Hannah Gadsby

#26. We do not attend to the advice of the sage and experienced because we think they are old, forgetting that they once were young and placed in the same situations as ourselves.

William Hazlitt

#27. In fact, because people are religious, they think they can do bad things.

Bill Maher

#28. I'd make banks more accountable. I think they should separate totally the personal banking arm with whatever else they are playing around with.

Anne Robinson

#29. Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing. Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.

Ramakrishna

#30. What has gone wrong with the men who are ruling I'd like to know who they think they are fooling They told us that torture was over and gone but everyone knows the same torture goes on

Peter Weiss

#31. We carry them with us ... We breathe for them, sing for them soak up stories that they cannot hear. We think they would have loved this ...
And we smile for them, on their behalf.

Susan Fletcher

#32. We're getting rid of the D [in PTSD]. PTS is an injury; it's not a disorder. The problem is when you call it a disorder, [veterans] don't think they can be treated. An employer says, 'I don't want to hire somebody with a disorder.

George W. Bush

#33. Lacan is a tyrant who must be driven from our shores. Narrowly trained English professors who know nothing of art history or popular culture think they can just wade in with Lacan and trash everything in sight.

Camille Paglia

#34. They say that the Dead die not, but remain Near to the rich heirs of their grief and mirth. I think they ride the calm mid-heaven, as these, In wise majestic melancholy train, And watch the moon, and the still-raging seas, And men, coming and going on the earth.

Rupert Brooke

#35. The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

Paulo Coelho

#36. Men think they like wide-eyed innocence until someone like you swallows their cock down like she can't get enough of it.

Kit Rocha

#37. Well it is certainly the case that the poems - which were in fact published during Shakespeare's lifetime - are weird if they began or originated in this form, as I think they did, because the poems get out of control.

Stephen Greenblatt

#38. As a rule people don't think other people on drugs are funny. They think they are tragic. They have a point, but I still had the funny.

Natasha Lyonne

#39. I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.

Augusten Burroughs

#40. If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.

Steve Chabot

#41. Think; they are not to be communicated. I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the footsteps

Charles Dickens

#42. She's always loved writers, even more than the books I think. They're like personal friends to her.

Josephine Hart

#43. Your ups and downs in sports, I think they are as normal as daily life: One day you wake up and feel great, the next day you wake up and feel maybe less great.

Michael Schumacher

#44. Born on third base, my daddy always said of the well off, and they think they hit a home run.

Mary Karr

#45. [Unbelievers] think they have made great efforts to get at the truth when they have spent a few hours in reading some book out of Holy Scripture, and have questioned some cleric about the truths of the faith. After that, they boast that they have searched in books and among men in vain.

Blaise Pascal

#46. Dublin people think they are the center of the world and the center of Ireland. And they don't realize that people have to leave Ireland to get work, and they look down on people who do.

Martin McDonagh

#47. No other organism on Earth does that. Yes, yes, I understand that dolphins are very smart, but I don't think they build libraries or even contemplate such a project.

Bill Nye

#48. All descriptions of reality are limited expressions of the world of emptiness. Yet we attach to the descriptions and think they are reality. That is a mistake.

Shunryu Suzuki

#49. A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes us think they would obey any new laws?

J. D. Hayworth

#50. I am perfectly sane. But then again, 94% of psychotics think they are perfectly sane. So we have to ask ourselves, what is sane?

Castiel

#51. People who try to boss themselves always want (however kindly) to boss other people. They always think they know best and are so stern and resolute about it they are not very open to new and better ideas.

Brenda Ueland

#52. Why would they follow me?" I asked Swedish. "It doesn't make sense."
"They're made of trash and Fog," he said. "You think they make sense?

Joel N. Ross

#53. A lot of gay men are in delusion if they think they're super macho.

Scott Thompson

#54. Do you honestly think Lenin is any different from J.P. Morgan? That you, if you were given absolute power, would behave any differently? Do you know the primary difference between men and gods? ... Gods don't think they can become men.

Dennis Lehane

#55. Children are more than we think they are; they can do more than we think they can do. All they need is a vote of confidence from grownups, whom they will ultimately replace anyway. Their dream today will become the realities of tomorrow.

Wess Stafford

#56. I think it's been a little difficult at times for the audience, because they've told me they see me as a family member. So to see your little sister sing about sex ... I think they are pretty used to it now.

Janet Jackson

#57. You'd think they would train these SOE girls better, it's just sloppy.' Hans sipped his cognac. 'She looked the wrong way crossing the road, silly girl.

Kate Lord Brown

#58. It is quite possible that someone is insane and they think they have a chance. Not insane in the clinical sense, but they may have such a strong political ambition that they blind themselves to reality.

Davy Crockett

#59. The Japanese tend to communicate via nuance and euphemism, often leaving important things unsaid; whereas Americans tend to think they're being subtle when they refrain from grabbing the listener by the shirt.

Dave Barry

#60. If the British think they can simply detach from the continent and sail towards the USA or China, then they are mistaken.

Yanis Varoufakis

#61. People are very hungry for something new. I think they are interested in being called to be a part of something larger than the sort of small, petty, slash-and-burn politics that we have been seeing over the last several years.

Barack Obama

#62. If we cannot fully understand the acts of other people, until we know what they think they know, then in order to do justice we have to appraise not only the information which has been at their disposal, but the minds though which they have filtered it.

Walter Lippmann

#63. I really hate it when people want to kill me. It makes me think they don't want to be friends. - Raven from Blood of Prey

R.J. Dennis

#64. If you asked everybody in a quiet room what they think, they'd say, 'What does the NCAA do really well? We run championships really well.' And yet we have this thing we don't get involved in.

Christopher R. Hill

#65. Sometimes you think they must have come out of the chimp cages at the Bronx zoo.

Gerry Cheevers

#66. What they [Jim deMint and the oil lobby] do care about is the precedent. If they open up ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge), they'll think they can do anything to the environment - anything at all. Drilling in Yosemite? In the Grand Canyon? What's next?

Barbara Boxer

#67. Life meant reducing expectations and making-do with what one had. What was the point of boo-hooing, as she saw it, when "no man is a prince, except in the imagination"? It was the same thing Marcy had said: "No one is as good as you think they are.

Paula Marantz Cohen

#68. I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig.

John McCain

#69. Maybe things don't really happen for a reason," Kenneth said. "Or maybe they do. But I think it doesn't matter either way. Because we can only experience those things as humans. And because we're humans, we're going to think they mean one thing, even if they mean another.

Rose Christo

#70. I lived in England for a long time, and even the English didn't think me as one of theirs. In America I'm not really accepted. In New Zealand now, I don't think they even think of me as a New Zealander.

Andrew Niccol

#71. The public are always right ... but I think they've got it wrong tonight

Pete Waterman

#72. The worst of all hobbies are those that people think they can get money at. They shoot their money down like corn out of a sack then.

George Eliot

#73. Auditions are so much fun. A lot of people dread auditions; they think they have to do it in order to get the job. I don't really mind if I don't get the job, as long as I get to do something interesting in the audition. It makes me feel more creative as a person.

Chris Geere

#74. Anybody who writes a book is an optimist. First of all, they think they're going to finish it. Second, they think somebody's going to publish it. Third, they think somebody's going to read it. Fourth, they think somebody's going to like it. How optimistic is that?

Margaret Atwood

#75. Madame Arnauld made a little face. 'I did not think they were so aristocratic,' she said, 'even if they come from Boston, which is supposed to be the most refined place in America.

Edward Fenton

#76. I do not understand what makes mothers think they are walking-talking thermometers.But I think somewhere during the process of giving birth and changing diapers, they actually begin to belive they have this supernatural sense.

Melody Carlson

#77. Men think they like to be challenged. The truth is, they only like to be challenged if they win.

Karen Hawkins

#78. But people normally marry, and then they want that locked in time, so they think they're not going to change. We're going to change. Everybody's going to change. So accepting that changes are part of our lives makes marriage a blessing and not a curse, because love is stronger than anything else.

Paulo Coelho

#79. I would never want to discourage anyone from listening to the news, heaven forfend. But I thought, you know, when I'm recommending music to people I like to recommend stuff that I think they'll like.

Stephen W. Thompson

#80. Have a hand in your own treatment. I have nothing but praise for our doctors, but I think they could help us better, and we can help them if we work together.

Mary Ann Mobley

#81. People tend to become what the most important people in their lives think they will become.

John C. Maxwell

#82. This is our lance. See, you're making me laugh about this now, because there have been a few jokes on the set about what they actually look like. But, see, I personally think they'd be a great toy. So ... just batteries aren't included.

Kevin Sorbo

#83. Politicians ... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics.

Paul Lynde

#84. Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts.

David Mitchell

#85. When I see friends from school I think they've all grown old and I've stayed the same.

Steve Coogan

#86. Every once in while, a person will do something obvious and direct that is no more than it appears to be. I think they do it to throw you off.

Steven Brust

#87. People can change ... no matter where they come from, no matter where they think they ought to go, people can make their own way.

Rochelle Maya Callen

#88. When people kill themselves, they think they're ending the pain, but all they're doing is passing it on to those they leave behind.

Jeannette Walls

#89. I've always used black girls on the runway, because I think they're beautiful. I don't need people to tell me, 'You need to use black girls.' I did for 20 years; it's not a new thing for me.

Carine Roitfeld

#90. Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they're not teaching because of the financial rewards.

John Engler

#91. I'd rather be surround by people who make mistakes and have no problem admitting to them and learning from them than be surrounded by people who think they make none.

Tanya Masse

#92. Just goes to show, everyone really does have a story to tell. And most people, at least in my experience, are a little more noble than they think they are.

R.J. Palacio

#93. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor brought critical qualities to the high court that not everybody thinks are qualities - I happen to think they are - her pragmatism and her state craft.

Joe Biden

#94. I admire Kings of Leon. I think their records are amazing. Just from hanging out with them, I can say they're good guys. It's cool to see that they get to do what they love. But I think they clearly have an appreciation for where they came from, and it has shaped who they are.

Nick Jonas

#95. Cosmetic surgery is terrifying. It never looks good. Those women look weird. They look in the mirror and think they look great, but they don't see what we see. I think it's hideous. They scare small children.

Jerry Hall

#96. The public loves to create a hero ... Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down from the highest peak. Like a child who builds a house of blocks and then destroys it with one vicious kick.

Grace Metalious

#97. I think they'd rather us follow our hearts and I hope that's what some people will understand.

Fred Durst

#98. I not only think that they (U.S. leaders) are misguided, but I think they know exactly what they are doing and I think that they are men who are possessed of evil.

Harry Belafonte

#99. Well, I think Hollywood, to be quite honest, I think they've run out of material.

Mike Epps

#100. I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.

Elia Kazan