“Today, President Obama finally met with BP's CEO, Tony Hayward, but the meeting was only scheduled 20 minutes. Call me crazy, but I think it should take more time to discuss an oil spill than it does to get your oil checked.” ThinkingShouldDoeTodayPresidentCrazyMinutesMetsMeetingsOilCall MeMore TimePresident ObamaCeoSpillsOil SpillCall Me Crazy Author:Jimmy Fallon
“The president met with BP CEO Tony Hayward, and Obama was demanding that BP clean up the Gulf. And I'm thinking, good luck. They can't even clean up their gas station restrooms.” ThinkingPresidentMetsLuckCleanGasStationsCeoGood LuckGas StationsRestroomThinking Good Author:David Letterman
“Along a stream that raced and ran Through tangled trees and over stones, That long had heard the pipes o' Pan And shared the joys that nature owns, I met a fellow fisherman, Who greeted me in cheerful tones. . . . . Foes think the bad in him they've guessed And prate about the wrong they scan; Friends that have seen him at his best Believe they know his every plan; I know him better than the rest, I know him as a fisherman.” ThinkingKnowsBelieveLongJoyPlansHeardTreeMetsStonesFellowsRanToneStreamsFishingCheerfulFoePipeFishermanTangledBest Believe Author:Edgar Guest
“That other saying, I'm a part of all that I have met, I think that would have to begin with my wonderful parents back in Atlanta when I was a youngster five years old I was tongue tied.” ThinkingYearsParentFiveWonderfulMetsTongueFive YearsTiedYoungstersAtlantaFive Year OldsTongue TiedWonderful Parents Book:Tuned to Baseball Source: Tuned to Baseball
“Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs. The heaviest charge we can bring against the general texture of society is that it is commonplace. Our fancied superiority to others is in some one thing which we think most of because we excel in it, or have paid most attention to it; whilst we overlook their superiority to us in something else which they set equal and exclusive store by.” ThinkingMenHardLevelsAttentionWiseImagineOne ThingFoolMetsEqualPaidAbsolutesSurfaceStoresGiantsSuperiorityExclusiveCommonplaceTextureDwarfs Author:William Hazlitt
“Nantucket is a place where some kind of magic happens, it's where I met my husband 32 years ago, and we've been together since the day we met. It's the kind of place that when people come here, they think they'll be happy. I see people falling in love or recovering from some conflict here, and I wanted to capture that.” PeopleThinkingLoveYearsKindHappensWantedTogetherFallMagicMetsHusbandConflictYears AgoFalling In LoveMy HusbandCaptureRecoveringNantucket Author:Nancy Thayer
“I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.” IfsThinkingWorldSportsFansMetsCupsSoccerWorld CupSoccer Fans Author:Landon Donovan
“My life changes dramatically every time I get up out of bed. After my proposal life changed in that I wasn't asked to change. I always thought that marriage meant someone was going to ask you to stop being who you were. And I met someone who not only wants me to be who I am but likes it. So, my life changed in that my views towards marriage stopped being morbid. I found I was ready to be a good partner where I don't think I was a very good partner to people before. I stepped up my game.” PeopleThinkingWantAsksFoundGamesViewsChangedReadyMetsBedVery GoodPartnersLikesWho I AmGet UpLife ChangingWant MeProposalMorbid Author:Sandra Bullock
“The real lesson of 9/11 that I think we have still to learn is that this is a world of interdependence, in which all of the challenges of environment and climate change, of jobs, of disease, of war and terrorism, are cross-border problems that cannot be met one nation at a time.” ThinkingWorldStillsWarRealProblemJobsNationsChallengesEnvironmentLessonsMetsDiseaseCrossesClimateClimate ChangeTerrorismBordersInterdependence Author:Benjamin Barber
“I don't meet many people that are evil. I meet human beings who are flawed, who are mentally ill and have enormous problems, but I don't think I've ever met someone who was a totally dark energy that had no humanity or sense of love or affection for anything in their life. That's very rare.” PeopleThinkingHumansProblemHumanityEvilEnergyDarkHuman BeingsMetsIllAffectionEnormousFlawedMentally IllDark Energy Author:Richard Gere
“I was starstruck and sweat a lot when I met Oprah Winfrey and tried to hug her. Because when you think you know people when you see them from your couch.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMetsSweatHugCouchesYou Think You Know Author:Octavia Spencer
“Well digital media and social media are eliminating the middle man - in the old days, you had to go through the editors. Or the television producer, you know? Now you have people talking directly to each other, globally who have never met. I think you put the "word" in "word of mouth."” PeopleThinkingKnowsMenWellsSocialTalkingMiddleMediaTelevisionMetsMouthsSocial MediaProducersDigitalEditorsOld DaysEliminatingPeople TalkingWord Of MouthDigital Media Author:Kelly Cutrone
“I don't really believe in a creative-writing major as an undergraduate. It's a bad idea, terrible. I've met creative-writing majors from other places and they don't know a goddamn thing. They're the worst students. They just think they're good because they could pass.” ThinkingKnowsWritingBelieveIdeasCreativeWorstStudentsTerribleMetsMajorsCreative WritingBad IdeasUndergraduate Author:Barry Hannah
“It's funny because the most sane women I've ever met are my mom and my grandmothers. I think you have to be incredibly sane and self-aware to function in relatively insane environments.” ThinkingSelfEnvironmentMomMetsFunctionMy MomInsaneGrandmotherSaneMy Grandmother Author:Jenny Lawson
“I never met Publo Picasso. I took pictures at the Festival d'Avignon, but I was too shy to ask to go in his studio. It does not look like me now, but I was very shy, and shy of men also. I think there was a world that frightened me totally.” ThinkingMenWorldLooksDoeAsksMetsStudiosLike MeShyFrightenedFestivals Author:Agnes Varda
“The world is a big place. There are lots of smart people in it. Entrepreneurs are kidding themselves if they think they have any kind of monopoly on knowledge. And, sure as I'm a Macintosh user, on the same day that an entrepreneur tells this lie, the venture capitalist will have met with another company that's doing the same thing.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldKindBigsLyingCompanyMetsSmartEntrepreneurArroganceCapitalistUsersVentureMonopolySmart PeopleMacintoshVenture Capitalists Author:Guy Kawasaki
“It's very difficult to find the time or the money for people to organize rehearsals for some movies. It staggers me how little preparation often goes into these scenes which are difficult and complicated. You think, "God, it's crazy. I've never met this person before and here I am having to work at how to do a whole performance on the set." It was great to have a few days of just talking to Michael [Caine] and Daniel [Barber] and thinking about the characters and the relationship between them before we started shooting.” PeopleThinkingLittlesPersonsWholeCharacterDifficultTalkingCrazyMetsScenePerformancesComplicatedPreparationShootingOrganizeRehearsalHere I AmBarbers Author:Emily Mortimer
“I didn't grow up imagining myself as an opera composer. Only once in my entire adolescence did I attend an opera. I went and saw Aida at the old Met, didn't understand a thing about it, and thought it was pretty awful. But I think I had it in my genes without even realising it.” ThinkingGrowsGrowing UpSawsMetsAwfulRealisingOperaComposerGenesAdolescence Author:John Adams
“What?s wrong about eating cows? What do you think god made them for? Their big, their stupid, their delicious. You want more reasons? I never met an animal more prepared to die than a cow. Next time you go to the farm look at a cow in the eyes, it is begging you for a bullet.” ThinkingWantLooksMadeReasonBigsEyeDiesNextAnimalStupidMetsEatingPreparedFarmsCowsBulletsNext TimeDeliciousBeggingBegging You Author:Paul Rodriguez
“I think every pet lover has an appreciation for nature - I've never met an animal lover who didn't have some kind of connection to the natural world.” ThinkingWorldKindNaturalAnimalLoversMetsConnectionsAppreciationPetNatural WorldAnimal LoveAnimal Lover Author:Glenn Close
“I think all of us struggle with how to keep relationship alive. And yet it can't be static either. It's never going to be how it was when you first met because you're not in that place anymore; you're not necessarily the same people. So, that's the struggle - you're trying to make the relationship move forward with the rest of your life and make it special and meaningful. And I think it's incredibly challenging.” PeopleThinkingTryingFirstsMovingChallengesStruggleAliveSpecialMetsMeaningfulMoving ForwardRest Of Your LifeStatic Author:Julianne Moore
“I've met people who've dismissed me, and then they find out that they like my work, and suddenly their attitude changes toward me. And I think that's very funny and very human. But it's also very unattractive.” PeopleThinkingHumansAttitudeMetsUnattractive Author:Steve Coogan
“When you're dressed up as David Bowie, with your eyebrows completely bleached, and you're doing this kind of strange dance with Paul McCartney while singing "Rebel Rebel" in the middle of the Met ball, and Madonna's looking at you . . . I was just thinking, It's become a bit weird.” ThinkingKindBitsMiddleStrangeMetsSingingBallsRebelEyebrowsDressed UpBowie Author:Florence Welch
“We know about the issue of children being sold and adopted and taken away but what is so extraordinary is how these two people come through something like - how both of them do, in actual fact. I think that she's one of the most considerable people I've ever met, Philomena.” PeopleThinkingKnowsChildrenTwoFactsIssuesTakenMetsExtraordinaryAdopted Author:Judi Dench
“But I've never met a racist yet who thinks he's a racist. That's always the disturbing thing about when we begin to look at ourselves.” ThinkingLooksMetsRacistDisturbingDisturbing Things Author:Norman Jewison
“When I die I want a child that never met me, to hear were I came from and what I accomplished and for him or her to live their life to the fullest and do what they were put on this world to do. No limitations, blowing past everybody's expectations. Screw whatever body thinks!” ThinkingWorldWantChildrenBodyPastDiesThis WorldMetsExpectationsLimitationAccomplishedScrews Author:Richard Cabral
“I think there's a pride of what a real American can be. I mean, I'm a transplant, but I've got American kids and an American wife, and when I go back to England I feel more like an American, the way I look at the world, is more from an American perspective at this point. I've traveled every state 30 or 40 times, and have met an amazing array of people, and I have found Americans to be among the most kind and tolerant people I have ever met.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayFeelsLooksKindMeanRealStatesKidsFoundWifePerspectivePrideMetsEnglandTraveledTransplants Author:Dave Wakeling
“I think people discredit teenagers and how wise they can be. Sometimes I meet teenagers who are much wiser than many adults I've met, because they haven't let any insecurities or doubts about themselves get in the way of their thoughts.” PeopleThinkingWaySometimesDoubtWiseHavensMetsAdultsTeenagerInsecurityWiserDiscredit Author:Amandla Stenberg
“There are three things you need to do as a CEO-founder. Think strategically, drive design, and drive technology. Some people who are really good at one can build a pretty foundational company. Most people who are very successful are good at two. But Jack is the only person in the Valley I've met who's all three. He's a first-rate strategist, a first-rate designer, and a first-rate technologist.” PeopleThinkingNeedsFirstsPersonsTwoThreeCompanyTechnologySuccessfulDesignMetsRateDesignerValleysFoundersCeoThree ThingsStrategist Author:Keith Rabois
“The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it I've met, and think they're incredibly witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry there.” ThinkingFictionClassMiddleFineMetsWittyMiddle ClassWorking Class Author:Martin Amis
“He is a legend and he's going to be remembered for a long time. Just to play alongside him and learn from him has been an absolute pleasure. I think he is a footballer's footballer; he has been at this level for so long. As long as he is part of us we always feel we have a chance. We appreciate the way he goes about his business. I have never met a character like Scholesy, certainly not someone who is that good.” ThinkingWayFeelsLongHas BeensPlayCharacterChancePleasureLevelsMetsLong TimeAppreciateAbsolutesRememberedLegendsFootballerScholes Author:Michael Carrick
“I feel like - and maybe you're going to think I'm crazy for saying this - 'Vampire Diaries' has crazy fans, 'Pretty Little Liars' has crazy fans, but I swear to you, I have never met crazier fans than 'One Tree Hill"s.” ThinkingFeelsLittlesTreeCrazyFansMetsVampireHillsLiarsSwearDiariesTree HillVampire Diaries Author:Torrey DeVitto
“People will like you who never met you, they think you're absolutely wonderful; and then people also will hate you, for reasons that have nothing to do with any real experience with you. People don't want to lose their enemies. We have favorite enemies, people we love to hate and we hate to love. If they do something good, we don't like it. I found myself doing that with Ronald Reagan. He is anathema to me. If he does something that's reasonable, I find my mind trying to find some way to interpret it so that it's not reasonable, so that somewhere it's jingoist extremism.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayWantTryingMindDoeRealReasonHateFoundLosesEnemyWonderfulLike YouMetsReasonableHate YouExtremismLove HateAnathema Author:Marlon Brando
“I love the working class, and everyone from it that I've met, and think they're incredible witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry there. A lot of rough stuff as well. What there is, too, is an awful lot of expressiveness and intelligence and originality down there. And a lot of thwarted intelligence.” ThinkingWellsStuffClassMetsIncrediblesWittyAwfulRoughOriginalityWorking Class Author:Martin Amis
“It would be nice to be a professional pilot. I'm an amateur pilot at the moment. I've got a lot of friends in the RAF and I don't think I've ever met a group of people who love their job as much as they do.” PeopleThinkingMomentsWould BeJobsNiceGroupsMetsPilotsBeing NiceLots Of FriendsRaf Author:Martin Shaw
“We all think were going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectation aren't met, but sometimes our expectations sell us short. Sometimes the expected simply pales in comparison to the Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.” ThinkingFeelsWritingLittlesSometimesSpeakGrowsBitsHeardMetsLittle BitExpectationsUnderstoodSellsExpectedComparisonPale Author:Lawrence Clark Powell
“I think these last 10 years have seen just a huge shift in the psyche of this country as regards gay people. I think AIDS had a lot to do with it. So many families who really believed they'd 'never met one' were suddenly confronted with their sons becoming ill, and friends of sons. I think that brought a lot of it into the open.” PeopleThinkingYearsCountryLastsSonHugeBecomingMetsGayRegardIllAidsGay People Author:Janis Ian
“The BBC sports department when I was there was seriously to the right of Ghengis Khan and if people think I am strange they should have met some of the production staff I worked with. Margaret Thatcher and the Queen were the pin up girls for many of them.” PeopleIfsThinkingShouldGirlSportsStrangeMetsShould HaveProductionsQueensDepartmentStaffPinsPin UpPin Up Girl Author:David Icke
“I think doing a female Elf in the Woodland realm was a bit safer, because we haven't met one of those yet.” ThinkingBitsHavensMetsFemaleRealmsWoodland Author:Evangeline Lilly
“I don't want to make vast generalizations about people who go into legal professions, but there are similarities in the barristers that I met and interacted with, in the sense that they tend to be highly eloquent, highly analytical, thinking people who have a very rapid-fire think-before-they-speak button, as it were.” PeopleThinkingWantSpeakFireMetsProfessionButtonsRapidsSimilarityEloquentGeneralizationLegal ProfessionBarristers Author:Rebecca Hall
“I would have liked to have worked with Carrie Preston. I think Carrie Preston is one of the most talented actresses I've ever met in my entire life.” ThinkingMetsActressesCarrie Author:Robert Kazinsky
“I feel like I learn every day how I can be a better producer or writer or storyteller. The thing that keeps me the most balanced is just going home every day and getting my ass kicked by my kids, and having a wife who is the most wonderfully/brutally honest person I've ever met. I think that that is always the first lens through which I see the world. For everything else, I'm just grateful for the people I work with.” PeopleThinkingWorldFeelsFirstsPersonsI CanHomeKidsWifeHonestMetsGratefulAssProducersBalancedStorytellerLensesGoing HomeHonest PersonBrutally Honest Author:J. J. Abrams
“Arnold Schwarzenegger met with President Bush. It's amazing if you think about it. It was the Terminator and the One-Term-inator.” IfsThinkingPresidentTermMetsPresident BushSchwarzenegger Author:David Letterman
“Since I met him ten years ago there hasn't been a day that I didn't think of George Burns. And I didn't think of him again today.” ThinkingYearsTodayMetsTenYears Ago Author:Joan Rivers
“I met my first midget in Mexico, and he was a waiter with a sombrero on his head, filled with chips and salsa. Like I was gonna let that guy get away - I don't think so.” ThinkingFirstsGuyMetsFilledGet AwayMexicoChipsThat GuyWaiterSalsaMidgetSombrerosChips And Salsa Author:Chelsea Handler
“I've never watched Trainspotting. I just know it's a very critically acclaimed film. In fact, I've never watched any of Danny's movies [means before he met him]. I just worked with him and felt the energy of what he is about initially before I do something. In a way, I think that's why we have discovered each other rather than replicate something else.” ThinkingKnowsWayMeanFactsFilmEnergyFeltMetsReplicateTrainspotting Author:A. R. Rahman
“It's a weird partnership. For me and Patrick, if you've met him, we're not very much alike. But we bring such different tools to the table. He doesn't think like me. I don't think like him. He thinks like an editor. He thinks like a director. He thinks completely outside of the box when it comes to writing and so because of that he leads me down roads that I would've never gone down. And he sucks at grammar. So together we're perfect.” IfsThinkingWritingDifferentTogetherPerfectGoneMetsDirectorsToolsDown AndTablesBoxesLike MeEditorsPartnershipGrammarDown The RoadLeading Me Author:Todd Farmer
“But having said that, regardless to what reviews come out whatever, I like love the movie. I think it's great, and so people can think what they think about it, but I'm very happy with what we did. I'm really proud of whatever all the actors what we all kind of accomplished and so regardless of how well it does or whatever I'm very excited about it and I think we set out to do the thing and accomplished what we wanted to do. Our goal was met, so yeah.” PeopleThinkingWellsKindDoeSaidWantedActorsGoalProudMetsYeahExcitedAll KindsAccomplishedReviewsVery HappyLike Love Author:Nicholas Stoller
“When I first met Lars [Von Trier] he was sat on the sofa wearing socks and sandals. He wanted me to imagine my cat had died. It took me a while to think about it, but then I felt myself physically crumble. I got myself into a state that was actually pretty hard to get out of.” ThinkingFirstsHardStatesWantedFeltImagineMetsCatDiedSatSockSofasSandals Author:Mia Goth