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“I think to close half of Magic Kingdom for the purpose of a White House invitation town hall meeting on a phony main street on behalf of a phony president just strikes me as weird.”

Thinking Purpose House President White Half Magic Streets Towns Meetings Strikes Kingdoms Halls White House Behalf Invitations Phony Main Street Magic Kingdom

Author:Newt Gingrich

“What I really have a sense of dismay about is that there is a center of anything. I think maybe Cleveland can use one. Also possibly Los Angeles needs informed cultural guidance and a place to go get it. But not New York. New York is a center, a world's fair, and a den of thieves, and a house of miracles.”

Thinking World Needs Use House New York Fairs Miracle Guidance Los Angeles Thieves Places To Go Cleveland Dens Dismay

Author:Frank Loesser

“The labouring poor, to use a vulgar expression, seem always to live from hand to mouth. Their present wants employ their whole whole attention, and they seldom think of the future. Even when they have an opportunity of saving they seldom exercise it, but all that is beyond their present neccessities goes, generally speaking, to the ale house.”

Thinking Want Whole Use Hands Seems Opportunity House Poor Attention Expression Exercise Mouths Saving Vulgar Ale

Book:An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

“I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!”

Ifs Thinking Littles House Shoes Mice Old Woman

Book:The Complete Works of Beatrix Potter: 22 Children’s Books with 650+ Original Illustrations in One Volume: The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, The Tale of Two Bad Mice, The Tale of Samuel Whiskers and many more

Source: The Complete Works of Beatrix Potter: 22 Children’s Books with 650+ Original Illustrations in One Volume: The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, The Tale of Two Bad Mice, The Tale of Samuel Whiskers and many more

“global warming. every day i leave my house and think, "was it this hot last year?" the heat this summer here in LA and in most of the US has been unbearable. i can't remember another time when it was 105 degrees fahrenheit out here (40.5 celsius), and that's the kind of weather we've been having pretty much every day.”

Thinking Years Kind Has Beens I Can Lasts Remember House Degrees Summer Hot Weather Heat Global Warming Last Year Unbearable Another Time

Author:Mike Shinoda

“It is far best for the Christian never to see some things, so he will never want them. The old-fashioned Christian who will not have playing cards in his house will never learn to gamble with them. One who never sees, in movies and night clubs or elsewhere, half-clothed girls, drinking, smoking, gambling, petting, making love to many men, is likely to miss being led into that kind of life by these sirens of sin. It is the Devil's game to make people think it necessary for people to "know the ways of the world.”

Source: The Ruin of a Christian

“I own a few thousand snapshots, which is small by the standards of most collectors I know. I generally only buy photos I think I may actually be able to use in a book one day. I need that focus when buying, because without it I'd just buy everything and my house would be overrun with bucket loads of snapshots; there are just too many beautiful images in the world, and I'd need to own them all.”

Thinking Knows World Needs May Book Use Would Be Able Beautiful House Focus One Day Thousand Standards Buying Load Collectors Buckets Snapshots Beautiful Images

Author:Ransom Riggs

“There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies. If it weren't for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family's turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper.”

People Ifs Thinking Might Moving Law Death Dies Turns House Wall Months Smell Fifty Neighborhood Host Clinging Supper Unwritten Potluck

Book:Under the Wolf, Under the Dog

Source: Under the Wolf, Under the Dog

“Indeed, being a beginner is very difficult right now. Book publishers are in a crisis, sales are dwindling, and publishing houses are losing money, doing their best to survive. It's a sign of the times, the emergence of new kinds of entertainment -- there's nothing we can do about it. I don't think books will perish for good. They could become less widespread, though, falling even further behind movies and computer games. But we shouldn't be afraid of this, because books will always remain the entertainment of choice for intelligent people, of whom there are still many in this world.”

“If you put Sen. Kerry in the White House, I think you are going to see that another terrorist attack happen ... and I don't want to see another Sept. 11.”

Ifs Thinking Want Happens House White Terrorist White House Terrorist Attacks Sept 11

Author:Bernard Kerik

“Fame is not just about being able to get out of a limo in Leicester Square, it's about trying to get into your house when there are eight photographers outside. When you think about being famous, you don't think about all that stuff. You think about the glamour.”

Thinking Trying Able House Stuff Fame Photographer Eight Squares Glamour Being Famous Limos Leicester

Author:Rick Astley

“We want players here who are going to be here for the long term. Players who buy houses here, who settle in the area. It's a brilliant club, great supporters but we want players to come here to be part of that community rather than being ships in the night having a last pay day at Ipswich... we want to build for the future rather than do a quick fix because I think it's going to be a long-term job.”

Thinking Want Long Jobs Lasts Night House Term Community Pay Player Areas Clubs Brilliant Ships Settling Long Term Supporter Quick Fixes

Author:Paul Jewell

“Bill Clinton may in fact be moving back into the White House. And coincidentally I'm thinking about moving back into my mother's house.”

Thinking May Facts Moving Mother House White Bills Clinton White House Moving Back

Author:David Letterman

“You are only as powerful as that for which you stand. Do you stand for more money in the bank and a bigger house? Do you stand for an attractive mate? Do you stand for imposing your way of thinking upon others? These are the stands of the personality seeking to satisfy its wants. Do you stand for perfection, for the beauty and compassion of each soul? Do you stand for forgiveness and humbleness? These are the stands of the personality that has aligned itself with its soul. This is the position of a truly powerful Personality.”

Thinking Way Want Inspirational Soul House Powerful Compassion Position Personality Perfection Bigger Seeking Attractive Mates More Money Way Of Thinking Imposing Humbleness

Book:The Seat of the Soul

Source: The Seat of the Soul

“Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them.”

People Thinking Trying I Can Running House Fun Talking Nice Fans Bus Very Nice Nice People

Author:Aaron Spelling

“I told Grant Hill back there – I just got done playing against him – as a second grader I had a Pistons Grant Hill jersey. That was the first time I walked into a gym. That’s when I fell in love with the game. My mom, I think she just wanted to get me and my brothers out of the house for a few hours. When I walked into the gym, I fell in love with the game.”

Thinking Firsts Done Wanted Games House Hours Brother Mom Couple First Time My Mom Hills My Brother Grants Nba Gym Jersey Mvp

Author:Kevin Durant

“The idea of my kids being spoiled, I go to sleep thinking about it. I wake up thinking about. I'm trying to do the right thing. With the amount of money I have, it's difficult to raise children the way I was raised. But I took away the west and north wing of the house for those guys. So, they're not allowed in there.”

Thinking Way Trying Children Ideas Kids Guy House Difficult Sleep Amount Wake Up Raises Wings West Raised Right Thing Going To Sleep Spoiled Being Spoiled

Author:Adam Sandler

“I think when I bought a house, that's when I thought I felt like that's a grown up thing to do.”

Thinking House Felt Things To Do

Author:Adam Sandler

“When you're looking for a house, you're not looking for a house that's perfect. You're looking for that house to have character. And I think it's those little bits of humanity they come from the music. That's what the music brings out when you have that, it brings out the character of a song. You go back and listen to 30, 40 years of music, and all the great, great songs that we've had in our lives, they all have that character. They have that human nudge, they all have that human relation. You can relate to it.”

Thinking Years Humans Littles Character Song Humanity House Bits Perfect Our Lives Little Bit Relation Relate Human Relations Nudge

Author:Corey Taylor

“As people, [my parents were] very colorful, very talkative, passionate, they really loved each other. But that also meant heated, it meant there was a lot of drama in the house. Which is good for a filmmaker, I think.”

People Thinking House Parent Drama Passionate Filmmaker Colorful Talkative

Author:David O. Russell

“Our whole dream for our home was for it to be an artist's haven. So there are paint supplies; there's a piano with a microphone and a recorder right there to capture things right in the second. There's editing equipment. There are cameras. I think the only thing in our house that people would be surprised by is the efficiency.”

People Thinking Whole Home Dream Would Be Artist House Havens Cameras Paint Piano Capture Efficiency Editing Equipment Supplies Microphones Recorders

Author:Will Smith

“If you only think about yourself - how much money can I make, what can I buy, how nice is my house, what kind of fancy car do I have? - over the long term, I think, you get bored. I think your life becomes diminished. The way to live a full life is to think: What can I do for others?”

Ifs Thinking Way Kind Long Life Is House Term Nice Car Bored Long Term Fancy About Yourself Way To Live Full Life Fancy Cars

Author:Barack Obama

“Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They've long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear.”

“There are houses in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspires melancholy, akin to that called forth by sombre cloisters, dreary moorlands, or the desolation of ruins. Within these houses there is, perhaps, the silence of the cloister, the barrenness of moors, the skeleton of ruins; life and movement are so stagnant there that a stranger might think them uninhabited, were it not that he encounters suddenly the pale, cold glance of a motionless person, whose half-monastic face peers beyond the window-casing at the sound of an unaccustomed step.”

Source: Eugenie Grandet

“A Creole woman is like a child, she wants to possess everything immediately; like a child, she would set fire to a house in order to fry an egg. In her languor, she thinks of nothing; when passionately aroused, she thinks of any act possible or impossible.”

Thinking Want Children Order House Women Fire Impossible Eggs Creole

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Remember to think of your departed mother always as living, just away in another room of our Father's house.”

Thinking Remember Death Mother Father House Rooms Our Father Think Of You Departed

Book:Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

“I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.”

Thinking Happens Poetry House Summer Storm Accurate Coincidence

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“for someone such as myself, who is kind of feckless and immature, it's better to have rich friends than to be rich yourself, because then you have wealth without the responsibility. You get to go to their houses, and you get acquainted with a level of furniture that you cannot provide for yourself. Furniture, I think is the most important attribute of rich people.”

People Thinking Kind Important House Wealth Levels Responsibility Rich Friends Attributes Furniture Rich People Immature Feckless

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“As in some Irish houses, where things are so-so, One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show; But, for eating a rasher of what they take pride in, They'd as soon think of eating the pan it is fried in.”

Thinking Shows House Pride Eating Hang Ups

Book:The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith

Source: The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith

“I think the important thing about sisters is that they share the same minute, familiar life-style, the same little sets of rules. Therefore they can keep house with each other late in life, because they share the same bunch of housewifely prejudices. The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason they don't die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups.”

Thinking Men Littles Stills Important Reason Today Dies House Share Minutes Style Late Prejudice Important Things Bunch Familiar Retiring Polish Life Style

Author:Margaret Mead

“Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating.”

Thinking Way House Half Meditation Contemplating Half Way

Book:Practical Mysticism

Source: Practical Mysticism

“For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner. It is not a mechanical routine, but something essential to my daily life. I go to the piano, and play two preludes and fugues of Bach. I cannot think of doing otherwise. It is a sort of benediction on the house. But that is not its only meaning for me. It is a rediscovery of the world of which I have the joy of being a part. It fills me with awareness of the wonder of life, with a feeling of the incredible marvel of being a human being.”

“I would like to see ... an entirely different procedure which is that we vote on the budget and decide how much we are going to spend, first, the way any family does, and then fit our priorities into what we think we have to spend. Instead, what we do, is to do it incrementally, starting at the bottom, adding and adding and adding. ... Until we get the support of all the authorities in this House to decide, first, what we think this country can afford and then decide where the amount is going to be allocated, we will never have common sense in this House.”

Thinking Way Firsts Doe Different Country House Common Support Amount Fit Authority Vote Bottom Starting Priorities Common Sense Budgets Procedures

Author:Millicent Fenwick

“there is a danger, when thinking of the earliest civilized people, of putting too much emphasis on technology. One tends to assume that if you don't have, at least, a lavatory and perhaps something that will take you a lot faster than your own feet, or a certain number of gadgets in the house, then you must be in some way, a bit backward and defective ... the important thing to remember is that technology is not necessarily the same thing as civilization.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Important Remember Certain House Bits Numbers Technology Too Much Feet Danger Civilization Important Things Assuming Faster Civilized Emphasis Gadgets Defective

Author:Jacquetta Hawkes

“Biography is the medium through which the remaining secrets of the famous dead are taken from them and dumped out in full view of the world. The biographer at work, indeed, is like the professional burglar, breaking into a house, rifling through certain drawers that he has good reason to think contain the jewelry and money, and triumphantly bearing his loot away.”

Thinking World Reason Certain House Views Secret Taken Mediums Biographies Jewelry Drawers Dumped Biographers Burglars

Book:Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath And Ted Hughes

Source: Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath And Ted Hughes

“So, think about how you use a disc that you own of an Xbox 360 game. If I buy the disc from a store, I use that disc in my machine, I can give that disc to my son and he can play it on his 360 in his room. We both can't play at the same time, but the disc is the key to playing. I can go round to your house and give you that disc and you can play on that game as well.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Wells I Can Play Use Games House Rooms Son Keys Machines Rounds Stores My Son Discs Xbox

Author:Larry Hryb

“Think of the majesty of that moment in this dying world's history, when Jesus Christ declared that to the Christian death was only a sleep. Outside of that small dwelling in Capernaum, a great race of men rushed and toiled as they harassed continents and seas; mighty events marshaled themselves into annals and pageants. What was inside? In one inconspicuous chamber of a now forgotten house, man's Redeemer, unobserved, martyred man's final enemy. There Immanuel subdued death forever.”

“The house, while sound in wind and limb, was described as being of 'no character.' We didn't think then that it had anything but character, rather sinister perhaps, but definitely character.”

Thinking Character House Sound Wind Limbs Sinister

Book:We Made a Garden

Source: We Made a Garden

“What I try very hard to do is have an hour or so in the morning when I leave the house and don't have my phone with me. I'll go sit in a cafe and read and handwrite in my notebook and not be facing a screen. My head will be clear. I will be able to hear myself think. Because honestly for the rest of the day it's just screens, screens, screens.”

Thinking Trying Hard Able House Hours Morning Clear Phones Screens Honestly Notebook Cafes

Author:Jami Attenberg

“There's a list of foods I can't have in the house. Peanut butter, can't have that in the house. Potato chips, can't have that in the house. Random little small mini candy bars, don't even think about it. I just have to watch everything. I have to stay between 1500 and 1600 calories a day. That's it.”

Thinking Littles I Can House Watches Lists Bars Candy Chips Potatoes Peanuts Calories Peanut Butter Potato Chips Candy Bar

Author:Richard Simmons

“It's more likely in America that your parents will file for bankruptcy than divorce. We think of divorce as so prevalent, but we all know that happens because somebody moves out of the house.”

Thinking Knows Happens America Moving House Parent Divorce Files Bankruptcy

Author:Elizabeth Edwards

“My home is such a powerfully imaginative place that the space is almost irrelevant. I think the house I live at on the Hudson is where I belong because it's the only place where I am that I never think about when I'm leaving.”

Thinking Home House Space Leaving Irrelevant Imaginative

Author:Toni Morrison

“Pain is like a new room in your house that you never knew you had. If you had known, you would have bolted and locked the room past any entering. But truly, it is a room like any other, four glaring white walls and a dark hard floor, and if you don't try to get out, it is possible to remain in it. Once you tried to get out, you ... couldn't ... stand ... it. Don't think of getting out.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Hard Pain Past House Dark White Rooms Known Four Wall Locked Entering White Walls

Book:Seed of Mischief

Source: Seed of Mischief

“A good leader has a plan that consists of changing simple pictures. Just because a group of people has a bunch of boards, hammers, and nails does not mean that they are building a house or even anything recognizable. Sometimes leaders think they are doing their job just because there is a lot of hammering going on. As a society we like the sound of hammering, but we are uncomfortable with the sound of thinking, which is silence.”

Source: Jesus, CEO: using ancient wisdom for visionary leadership

“People make one happy, not houses? I do not think so. Houses are more to be trusted than people.”

People Thinking House Trusted

Book:Mr. Darcy's Daughters: A Novel

Source: Mr. Darcy's Daughters: A Novel

“Armani is a fashion house that I think is iconic and beautiful.”

Thinking Beautiful House Fashion Iconic Armani

Author:Megan Fox

“Sometimes I think, I need to think before I speak. And then other times I think, I shouldn't leave the house or interact with people ever.”

People Thinking Needs Sometimes House Speak

Author:Anna Kendrick

“Life isn't like a Full House episode. There isn't going to be an easy out to every conflict. There is no milkman, paperboy, or evening TV. There are good moments and bad moments and not everything will tie together nicely in the end. But that's life, and I think I'm finally starting to get it.”

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Author:Jodi Sweetin

“I won $100,000 in Vegas, which buys furniture for my beach house. That takes nerves. You can't think if I'm wrong I'll blow $30,000.”

Ifs Thinking House Blow Beach Nerves Furniture Vegas Beach House

Author:Jennifer Tilly

“I think people like to be thrilled and excited. And a scary movie is a safe way to do that because you're not actually doing it. It's entertainment. You know that you're in the confines of this two-hour space of safety in the movie house.”

People Thinking Knows Way Two House Hours Space Safe Safety Entertainment Scary Excited

Author:Keri Russell