Make You Think Quotes - Page 7

• Writing down goals makes you think of what is achievable. It really makes you reflect on what you are today.

  Natalia Vodianova

  Writing, Thinking, Goal

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Architecture falls between art and airports. It's pragmatic-it helps you get from point A to point B. But it also works as art. It makes you think twice. It inspires you. It brings you back to yourself.

  Ben van Berkel

  Art, Fall, Thinking

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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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• 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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• If you don't wake up with something in your stomach every day that makes you think, "I want to make this movie," it'll never get made.

  Sherry Lansing

  Perseverance, Thinking, Wake Up

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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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• 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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• 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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• What makes you think that what you know is any different from what I know?
  I had different teachers.

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.

  Teacher, Thinking, Different

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• Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Change, Inspiring, Break Up

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• You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Words make you think a thought.
  Music makes you feel a feeling.
  A song makes you feel a thought.

  Yip Harburg

  Music, Dance, Wisdom

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• Writing is mentally stimulating; it's like a puzzle that makes you think all the time.

  Stephanie Zimbalist

  Time, Writing, Thinking

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• If people don't want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater?

  Fran Lebowitz

  Thinking, Sweaters, People

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

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• I don't want to hear songs about how sunshiny things are. I don't like songs that feel like radio candy I like the ones that make you think, laugh or cry - they pull some kind of emotion out of you.

  Gary Allan

  Song, Thinking, Laughing

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• And it makes you think. Even things that have been the same for years and years can change. Maybe I can change. I can bring my own wall down, and let people in.

  Rae Earl

  Wall, Thinking, Years

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• We have to laugh. Life is hard and the news is often grim - you should be able to turn on NPR's Weekend Edition every week and know that we are going to make you think, make you question - and make you laugh, preferably out loud.

  Rachel Martin

  Thinking, Weekend, Npr

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• The smartphones and the computer separates everybody, makes you think that you don't need nobody else.

  Bootsy Collins

  Thinking, Smartphones, Needs

  "Bootsy Collins Brings Back The Funk". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. May 19, 2011.

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• I think dissonance in music makes you think. It isn't, 'Oh, that's a pretty melody I can whistle.' You have to sit down and listen to tell it apart from other things.

  Eugene Chadbourne

  Thinking, Down And, Dissonance

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• It's 103 comedians, or however many it is, and how would everyone tell it. It's enough people of substance that it makes you think of the people who aren't there that are alive.

  Bob Saget

  Thinking, People, Comedian

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

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• Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course points are made which make you think about things, but ultimately it makes you feel. And that's why people remember more songs that have meant something during their life than films. They start to define periods in your life, and that's kind of the beauty of it.

  Scott Weiland

  Song, Thinking, People

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• You priests. You're all the same. You think fasting helps you think about God, when anyone who can cook would tell you that fasting just makes you think about food.

  Joanne Harris

  Thinking, Fasting, Helping

  Joanne Harris (2012). “Peaches for Monsieur le Curé (Chocolat 3)”, p.447, Random House

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• Edmonton is Canada's answer to Omaha. Solid, unassuming, and surrounded by a whole lot of nothing. It's a place that makes you think of sensible shoes.

  Kathy Reichs

  Thinking, Shoes, Edmonton

  Kathy Reichs (2013). “Bones Are Forever”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• I had to tell Dad, 'It will be okay and be positive; keep praying and have faith'. I have always known about cancer, but to be around someone who has it and to see what it does in such a short space of time was hard. It makes you think about your life, about what is important.

  Jermain Defoe

  Dad, Cancer, Thinking

  "'There's more to life than football': Jermain Defoe bares his soul on matters of life, death and the beautiful game" by Martin Lipton, www.mirror.co.uk. September 4, 2012.

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• My job the same as carpenter. What kind of house you want to build? What kind of food you want to make? You think your ingredients, your structure. Simple.

  Masa Takayama

  Jobs, Simple, Thinking

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