Make You Think Quotes - Page 6

• People are so afraid to say the word "comic". It makes you think of a grown man with pimples, a ponytail and a big belly. Change it to "graphic novel" and that disappears.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Men, Thinking, People

  "How to film a graphic novel". June 16, 2011.

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• Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Success, Stress, Ignorance

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• When you have been close to death it makes you think about life.

  Patrick Dixon

  Thinking, Close To Death, Has Beens

  Patrick Dixon (2005). “Building a Better Business: The Key to Future Marketing, Management and Motivation”, p.14, Profile Books

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• One of the nice things about having a lover, it makes you think about everything anew. The rest of your life becomes a kind of movie, flat and even rather funny.

  John Updike

  Love, Nice, Thinking

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit Redux”, p.51, Random House

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• You don't want to be the smartest person in the room; you want to be the dumbest in the room. You want to be surrounded by other thinking people who are going to say something that makes you think, "Oh, my God, that's an amazing idea. Why didn't I think of that."

  Madonna Ciccone

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Certification from one source or another seems to be the most important thing to people all over the world. A piece of paper from a school that says you're smart, a pat on the head from your parents that says you're good or some reinforcement from your peers that makes you think what you're doing is worthwhile. People are just waiting around to get certified.

  Frank Zappa

  Smart, School, Thinking

  Interview with Dave Rothman in Oui Magazine, April 1979.

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• Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He try to make you think he everywhere. Soon as you think he everywhere, you think he God. But he ain't. Whenever you trying to pray, and man plop himself on the other end of it, tell him to git lost, say Shug. Conjure up the flowers, wind, water, a big rock.

  Alice Walker

  Flower, Men, Thinking

  Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.31, Ballantine Books

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• A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.

  Louis L'Amour

  Book, Thinking, Important

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.101, Bantam

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• The rain fluctuates between drizzle and torrential. It messes with your mind. It makes you think things will always be like this, never getting better, always letting you down right when you though the worst was over.

  Susane Colasanti

  Rain, Thinking, Mind

  Susane Colasanti (2009). “Waiting For You”, p.129, Penguin

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• I'm trying to make you think I'm a decent person. Telling you I saw you naked while I was another species does not help my case

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Thinking, Trying, Doe

  Maggie Stiefvater (2009). “Shiver”, p.68, Scholastic Inc.

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• Nothing frustrates me more than someone who reads something of mine or anyone else's and says, angrily, 'I don't buy it.' Why are they angry? Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head—even if in the end you conclude that someone else's head is not a place you'd really like to be.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Writing, Thinking, Giving

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• One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from angles you'd never have thought about before.

  Jo Walton

  Thinking, Looks, Fiction

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.55, Macmillan

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• The VW doesn’t make you think of Hitler and genocide. It’s a breast on wheels, a puffy little dream.

  Rachel Kushner

  Dream, Thinking, Littles

  Rachel Kushner (2013). “The Flamethrowers: A Novel”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• Do you miss being friends with Santangelo?" I ask her after the lights are out and we're almost asleep. "What makes you think were friends?" "Everything." I hear her yawn. "Being enemies with him is better." she tells me. There's a long pause and I think she's going to say something more but she doesn't and it's just silence for a long while.

  Melina Marchetta

  Thinking, Light, Long

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• When you have a good movie, it's hard to categorize it. It's everything. It makes you laugh, makes you cry and makes you think.

  Ice Cube

  Thinking, Laughing, Good Movie

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 18, 2010.

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• While clothes with pictures and/or writing on them are not entirely an invention of the modern age, they are an unpleasant indication of the general state of things. ... I mean, be realistic. If people don't want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater?

  Fran Lebowitz

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.139, Vintage

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• When people are watching you, it makes you think twice about what you do, and the things you say, and the people you hang around with.

  Peyton Manning

  Thinking, Nfl, People

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• I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by.

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Thinking, Gone

  Source: peoplesworld.org

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• Culture shouldn't be a pacifying thing. It shouldn't be something that you just passively accept. I think it should be something that, in some ways, is quite disruptive - makes you think and question things, and actually sparks debate.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Thinking, Culture, Sparks

  Interview with Scott Plagenhoef, pitchfork.com. April 2, 2007.

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• Covers matter. In my experience, a different cover can make you think you're reading an entirely different book.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Source: bookpage.com

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• Because answers are inert things that stop inquiry. They make you think you have finished looking. But you are never finished. There are always discoveries that will turn everything you think you know on its head and that will make you ask all over again: Who are we?

  Marisa Silver

  Thinking, Discovery, Inquiry

  Marisa Silver (2013). “Mary Coin: A Novel”, p.193, Penguin

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• Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.

  Bertrand Russell

  Foolish Man, Wisest Man, Thought Provoking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Everything you see that makes you think about the comics, I think you should read into it.

  Avi Arad

  Thinking, Should

  "Avi Arad & Matt Tolmach interview: Spider-Man, Hulk". Interview with Simon Brew, www.denofgeek.com. April 16, 2014.

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• Virgil is so exact in every word, that none can be changed but for a worse; nor any one removed from its place, but the harmony will be altered. He pretends sometimes to trip; but it is only to make you think him in danger of a fall, when he is most secure.

  John Dryden

  Fall, Thinking, Sometimes

  Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy, Sir Joshua Reynolds, John Dryden, Alexander Pope (1783). “The art of painting of Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy”, p.176

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• If you think you can't, you're right.

  Carol Bartz

  Inspirational, Positive, Smart

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