“We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company.”
Quote collection
Thinking Quotes — page 935 of 4756
“What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.”
“Politeness of mind consists in thinking chaste and refined thoughts.”
“It is as commendable to think well of oneself when alone, as it is ridiculous to speak well of oneself among others.”
“One is never as happy or as unhappy as one thinks.”
“To think to be wise alone is a very great folly.”
“We are much mistaken if we think that men are always brave from a principle of valor, or women chaste from a principle of modesty.”
“No one thinks fortune so blind as those she has been least kind to.”
“A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love.”
“We are deceived if we think that mind and judgment are two different matters: judgment is but the extent of the light of the mind. This light penetrates to the bottom of matters; it remarks all that can be remarked, and perceives what appears imperceptible. Therefore we must agree that it is the extent of the light in the mind that produces all the effects which we attribute to judgment.”
“Eight years ago, I was a waiter, and I didn't have a pot to piss in. And now...? It's like I said to my wife: I love the fact that, if I was in a restaurant and Steven Spielberg walked in, I could go up to him and say, 'Hey, mate, how are you?' I think that's pretty amazing, actually.”
“The Omen is one of my favorites. Even though I'm an atheist now, I was brought up Catholic and can remember thinking that it could actually be real! The first Dawn of the Dead is a great one. We had a TV serial in Britain called Day of the Triffids and that was always really terrifying for me as well.”
“I like to think I'm some savage realist.”
“I fall in love with every film while I'm doing it. I fall in love with the directors, I fall in love with the process. I don't think I could do it otherwise.”
“I was an amazing bartender and a great waiter. I think, in a way, that was my acting school.”
“If you think about America, it is about getting your backpack on and heading out.”
“Why onions? Because they're cheap, last a long time, can be lit any number of ways and force me to think about what happens when the form turns away from the light.”
“I think perhaps we manage our revolutions much more quietly in this country.”
“For Dicey, writing in 1885, and for me reading him some seventy years later, the rule of law still had a very English, or at least Anglo-Saxon, feel to it. It was later, through Hayek's masterpieces "The Constitution of Liberty" and "Law, Legislation and Liberty" that I really came to think this principle as having wider application.”
“This business of the working class is on its way out I think. After all, aren't I working class? I work jolly hard, I can tell you.”