Thinking Quotes - Page 36

• It's fun chasing boys, especially when you're young, but I think it takes time and life experience to notice the other boys.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Fun, Boys, Life Experience

  "Reese Witherspoon Dishes on Her Worst Blind Date". Interview with Crystal Bell, www.seventeen.com. December 17, 2010.

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• People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.

  James Wolcott

  Ambition, People, Special

  "James Wolcott’s Old New York". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 25, 2011.

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• There was a bad patch in the '80s and early '90s when feminist thinking had become sort of a monopoly and had developed a series of litmus tests.

  Naomi Wolf

  Feminist, Tests, Monopoly

  Naomi Wolf answers your questions, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2001.

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• You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence - that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagree.

  Gene Wolfe

  Evil, Conscious, Genuine

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• I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for a rational age.

  Tom Wolfe

  Greek, Age, Evolution

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• Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page.

  Tom Wolfe

  People, Pages, Has Beens

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• Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Sex, Women, Diversity

  A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ch. 4 (1792)

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• I think honestly, some people who think they're gay, they're confused.

  Stevie Wonder

  Confused, Gay, People

  "Stevie Wonder: 'I never thought of being blind and black as a disadvantage'". Interview with Paul Lester, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2012.

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• I remember the beginnings of the Kurzweil reading machine. I was one of the first to meet Ray Kurzweil and purchase the reading machine in Boston. To think that the machine was at least two and a half large suitcases at the time, and now you have a camera and it takes a picture and you have sound.

  Stevie Wonder

  Reading, Boston, Two

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

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• I think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty.

  John Wooden

  Games, Littles, Bits

  "John Wooden On College Basketball's Lost Beauty". "The long view" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. March 30, 2007.

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• I think that in itself, if you're a true golfer, you'll see specific things you need to work on. Much cheaper than private lessons.

  Tiger Woods

  Lessons, Needs, Golfers

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. October 13, 2006.

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• People don't really bother me as much as you might think.

  Tiger Woods

  People, Might, Bother

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• To be able to hold all four majors - the Masters, U.S. Open, British Open, PGA - all concurrently I think is the Grand Slam. But a lot of people have a different opinions on that. People think you have to win it in the same calendar year.

  Tiger Woods

  Winning, Years, People

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• I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.

  Virginia Woolf

  Witty, Jobs, Book

  Virginia Woolf (1975). “The letters of Virginia Woolf”, Harcourt

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• I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Mood

  Virginia Woolf (1980). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1930”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• I think everything I have done in my life, my reasons at the time were right no matter how things worked out.

  Steve Wozniak

  Life, Done, Matter

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• It's just not right that so many things don't work when they should. I don't think that will change for a long time.

  Steve Wozniak

  Change, Long, Economy

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• I feel lucky that I can have people laugh solidly for a whole hour by just saying what I think and getting paid for it.

  Steven Wright

  People, Laughing, Lucky

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• It seems like we wake up and it's a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, 'What the hell am I doing?'

  Steven Wright

  Race, Bed, Wake Up

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• I don't feel that I'm explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I'm not trying to be a mirror, showing them what's really going on the world. All I'm trying to do is think of stuff that's funny, just like when I'm kidding around with my friends.

  Steven Wright

  Teaching, Mirrors, People

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• In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases.

  Ron Wyden

  Country, Drug, Developing Countries

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• I think I've got the best job around.

  Ron Wyden

  Jobs, Best Job

  The RealClearPolitics Interview, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 18, 2009.

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• I think we have to ask this administration, and the President specifically, about using their political capital now to stand up for the American consumer who is getting clobbered by these gasoline and oil prices.

  Ron Wyden

  Oil, Political, President

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• Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage.

  Zakk Wylde

  Dog, Men, Sky

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• I'm good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realise it's not a box to begin with.

  will.i.am

  Boxes, Think Outside The Box, Realising

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