“And also, of course, I knew that the German people, they're one, and would tend to consider themselves as one; and therefore they would consider the Wall as an enforced imprisonment. And I was right in thinking that way.” PeopleThinkingWayCoursesWallImprisonment Author:Stefan Heym
“You have to think before speaking. That's a quality I'm continuously evolving. For some reason, it seems like I'm bumping my head into the wall a little bit too many times.” ThinkingLittlesReasonSeemsBitsQualityWallLittle BitEvolve Author:Joel Kinnaman
“When we talked about a wall, right, to try to keep out this threat. The problem is that these are ideas. And they are filtering throughout the world. And it was naïve, and I think ultimately, the reason why we, as Muslims, stood on Friday and went to the mosque and took the risks on our own lives, is because we've had enough. I think the world has had enough.” ThinkingWorldTryingIdeasReasonEnoughProblemLife IsRiskWallThreatReason WhyFridayHad EnoughMosques Author:Dalia Mogahed
“I thought the Wall Street Journal quote, they got a guy in Iowa to say I think exactly where I think this race is right now for a lot Republicans. He said, "Nobody in Iowa wants [Donald]Trump for president. But everybody in Iowa wants somebody like Trump for president." That's what you need.” ThinkingWantNeedsSaidGuyPresidentRaceStreetsWallTrumpRepublicanRight NowJournalIowaWall Street Journal Author:Dalia Mogahed
“I don't think Wall Street people in general are smart. I think that's one of the biggest myths in American lore. They're tough, aggressive, greedy, quick thinking but I don't think they're particularly smart at all.” PeopleThinkingStreetsWallSmartToughMythAggressiveGreedyQuick Thinking Author:Ben Stein
“I think I was a militant smoker, and I felt hemmed in by a wall of political correctness and I think I purposely and militantly put the smoking scenes in the movies.” ThinkingPoliticalFeltWallSceneSmokingPolitical CorrectnessCorrectnessMilitantSmokers Author:Chris Hayes
“I think you can photograph a certain sliver of human presence in its absence... images taken in the empty rooms, the marks left on the walls, disappearing shadows, etc.” ThinkingHumansCertainLeftRoomsTakenWallShadowEmptyMarkPhotographDisappearAbsenceEtcEmpty Rooms Author:Mona Kuhn
“...I think finding that room to make pictures that don't jump off the wall as, or detonate as dramatic, either in lighting or in form or in composition or in subject matter, but more ordinary, that's the challenge.” ThinkingMatterFormChallengesRoomsSubjectsWallFindingsOrdinaryDramaticCompositionLightingSubject MatterOff The Wall Author:Larry Sultan
“A good rule of thumb is as follows: If the numbers come from somebody wearing a tie (Wall Street economist or analyst, industry public relations department, captive think tank academic and so on), you ought to be very skeptical. By design messages from these people are intended to move markets, move merchandise and/or move public policy and are not a comment on the state of the physical universe.” PeopleIfsThinkingStatesMovingUniverseNumbersStreetsPolicyDesignWallIndustryOughtMessagesRelationTiesDepartmentCommentAcademicEconomistSkepticalTanksThumbsCaptivesPublic RelationsPublic PolicyAnalystsMerchandise Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“We have an incredible audience. I'm as proud of how Fairport relates to its audience as I am of any music we have produced. I think we're a real people's band. Massive popular success has never bothered Fairport. We've never been put in the position of being celebrities. A Fairport concert is like a meeting of friends. There's no big, security wall around us. It's kind of how music should be.” PeopleThinkingShouldKindRealBigsAudienceSecurityPositionWallProudBandMeetingsIncrediblesRelateMassiveConcertsBothered Author:Ric Sanders
“I think graffiti is part of Berlin culture. You think about what the Berlin wall meant and how visible that was in everyone's life. How it was a part of their very identity.” ThinkingCultureIdentityWallVisibleBerlinGraffitiBerlin Wall Author:Ian Bremmer
“I think the nice thing about showing work in New York is that other artists come to see it. When you show work in Switzerland or somewhere else, everywhere else seems to be the provinces in a certain way. You wonder what your paintings are doing on the walls and you wonder who's looking at them.” ThinkingWayShowsSeemsArtistCertainWonderNiceNew YorkPaintingWallSomewhere ElseNice ThingsProvincesSwitzerland Author:Julian Schnabel
“I think there simply comes a point at which you're beating your head against the wall with revision, when you're making something different but not better. For me, revision usually has more to do with making the language prettier, finding clearer images, using more active verbs.” ThinkingDifferentLanguageWallFindingsActiveVerbsRevision Author:Mary J. Miller
“I've had many students over the years, sometimes even very sophisticated students, who will be writing and will hit a wall. Often I find it's because they're working out of sequence. Maybe some people can do that, but I don't think that's how fiction works. It's a discovery.” PeopleThinkingWritingYearsSometimesCan DoFictionStudentsWallDiscoveryWork OutWorking ItSophisticatedSequence Author:T.C. Boyle
“For years I was so busy building walls I did not see I was imprisoning myself behind them, and did not recognize this pattern as being addiction. My addictive thinking and behavior became the bars of my cell. Denying feeling empty inside, I constantly looked for new things to acquire, people to be around, substances to take, and new goals to achieve in order to feel better about myself. Over the last four decades I have focused on healing my addictive mind and helping others do the same.” PeopleThinkingFeelsYearsMindHelpingFeelingsLastsOrderGoalHealingBehindsFourAchieveBuildingWallBehaviorEmptyAddictionBusyPatternsFocusedDecadesHelping OthersBarsCellsSubstanceAcquireNew ThingsFeel BetterNew GoalBuilding WallsFeeling Empty Author:Lee L Jampolsky
“I really like the interplay between thinking of text as ephemeral and thinking of it as a concrete, physical thing. With almost anything that I write, I'll stay completely immersed in the electronic text of it for a period of time and in another period, I'll stay immersed in it as a physical thing that can cut your skin. So with the apocalypses, I had them taped all over the wall and they had codes on them. Sometimes I would color code them in terms of thematic elements, sometimes in terms of voice, sometimes visual forms or images.” ThinkingWritingSometimesFormVoiceTermCuttingColorWallPeriodsElementsSkinsCodeVisualsConcreteApocalypseEphemeralPhysical ThingsThematic Author:Lucy Corin
“I get inspired with passion, I think. I get inspired by people who are just passionate, and it doesn't matter what they do or what they're passionate about. I just think passion is such an embraceable thing, whether it's the guy in the coffee shop who's making the coffee or a bricklayer who loves making walls. I love watching people who love what they do, and I think that's very inspirational.” PeopleThinkingMatterGuyPassionWallInspiredPassionateCoffeeShopsLove MakingCoffee ShopBricklayersVery Inspirational Author:Neil Jackson
“Her mother died at the age of 29, essentially turning her face to the wall and deciding to die. And so we can only imagine the agony she felt. And Eleanor Roosevelt really wanted to make her mother happier, and - and to make her live, you know, make her want to live. And there's something about, you know, when your mother dies, this sense of abandonment. I think Eleanor Roosevelt had a lifelong fear of abandonment and sense of abandonment after her parents' death.” ThinkingKnowsWantAgeWantedFacesMotherDiesFeltParentImagineWallDiedAgonyAbandonmentLifelongEleanorMother Died Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook
“Let's talk about why, in the 1990s, Wall Street got deregulated. Did it have anything to do with the fact that Wall Street provided - spent billions of dollars on lobbying and campaign contributions? Well, some people might think, yeah, that had some influence.” PeopleThinkingWellsFactsMightInfluenceStreetsWallYeahDollarsBillionsCampaignsContributionLobbyingCampaign Contributions Author:Bernie Sanders
“I called for a consumer protection financial bureau before it was created. And I think the best evidence that the Wall Street people at least know where I stand and where I have always stood is because they are trying to beat me in this primary.” PeopleThinkingKnowsTryingStreetsWallBeatsEvidenceFinancialProtectionPrimariesConsumersConsumer Protection Author:Hillary Clinton
“I think it's very important that films like Bad Hurt don't get lost in the mix of the sci-fi-kill-everything-on-the-screen-blood-dripping-down-the-walls sort of the world of the cinema that we live in.” ThinkingWorldImportantFilmLostHurtBloodWallScreensCinemaSci FiDripping Author:Karen Allen
“I think it's a broader target list than just Wall Street, and I believe that we have to be very focused on how we try to take back the power and increase the empowerment of the American people. And, I think I have that kind of experience, maybe because they've beat me up for so many years, and I know exactly how to handle them because I've been in the arena with them time and time again.” PeopleThinkingKnowsTryingYearsBelieveKindI BelieveStreetsWallBeatsEmpowermentIncreaseFocusedListsHandleTargetArena Author:Hillary Clinton
“A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be - and not building bridges - is not Christian.” ThinkingMayPersonsChristianBuildingWallBridgesBuilding BridgesBuilding Walls Author:Pope Francis
“I think we are making progress, but we have long way to go. People also have got to understand the agenda that we are fighting for. This is a senator who has taken on every powerful special interest, whether it's Wall Street, whether it's drug companies who are ripping off the American people, the military industrial complex.” PeopleThinkingWayLongFightingInterestPowerfulCompanyTakenProgressStreetsSpecialMilitaryWallDrugComplexesAgendasSenatorsLong WayVery PowerfulSpecial InterestsMilitary Industrial ComplexLong Way To GoDrug Companies Author:Bernie Sanders
“I think what the secretary Hillary Clinton has recognized is the American people are extremely angry about the power of Wall Street, the greed, the illegal behavior of Wall Street.” PeopleThinkingStreetsWallBehaviorAngryClintonGreedIllegalSecretary Author:Bernie Sanders
“I was telling somebody about in grammar school we used to have the duck-and-cover drills where we'd have to go down to a fallout shelter in the basement. We'd sit on our butts on the ground next to the wall with a textbook over our heads and our knees sort of drawn up to our chest. I don't think they still do that. They're sort of sobering. You leave recess and come in for the apocalypse drill.” ThinkingStillsSchoolUsedNextWallKneesChestsDucksShelterApocalypseGrammarTextbooksBasementsDrillsRecessGrammar SchoolFallouts Author:Adam Reed
“On domestic policy, Donald Trump agreed with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the Wall Street bailout, the TARP bailout of big bank. I think the government ought to be standing with mainstream, with working men and women. And then you put on top of that the ethical issues, whether it is refusing to release his taxes. And that's a real problem.” ThinkingMenRealProblemBigsGovernmentIssuesStreetsPolicyWallOughtTrumpTaxesMen And WomenStandingClintonReleaseBarackEthicalMainstreamReal ProblemsWorking ManBailoutsDomestic PolicyEthical IssuesTarp Author:Ted Cruz
“I call myself good crazy because I am a crazy normal. But who is normal really? Are you normal? Maybe you are, but I don't think a lot of us are normal. I think a lot of us are scared to say that we are a little crazy. I'm a little crazy that is just the way it is. I look in the mirror now and I like who is looking back at me. I am comfortable in my skin for the first time in my life. I have let a wall down.” ThinkingWayFirstsLooksLittlesCrazyWallNormalComfortableFirst TimeSkinsMirrorsScaredLooking Back Author:Shane Bunting
“I had a guitar leaning against the wall and I'd squint at it. It was almost like a dog that had been kicked - I didn't think I had anything to offer it.” ThinkingDogWallOffersGuitar Author:Feist
“I want to be able to write on my walls. I think that's the big thing.” ThinkingWantWritingBigsAbleWallBig Things Author:Justin Vernon
“I've always had an irrational fear - it's really not an irrational fear, I think - whenever I've been standing at a urinal at a bar, or Giants Stadium or Yankee Stadium. You've got a bunch of drunks behind you, often in a hostile, adrenalized environment like a football game. What's to prevent the guy behind me from slamming my head into the porcelain wall in front of me?” ThinkingGuyGamesBehindsEnvironmentFrontsFootballWallStandingBarsBunchGiantsIrrationalHostileYankeesBehind YouStadiumsFootball GamePorcelainYankee StadiumIrrational Fear Author:Steve Rushin
“I think the philosophy will continue to be what it always was; which was, let's keep throwing a bunch of things at the wall, and see what sticks.” ThinkingPhilosophyWallSticksBunchThrowing Author:Tina Fey
“I think changing the Democratic Party platform [at the convention] is a great place to start. It should include expanding Social Security, a $15 minimum wage, and breaking up too-big-to-fail banks on Wall Street - among other Sanders priorities.” ThinkingShouldBigsSocialPartyFailingStreetsSecurityWallDemocraticPrioritiesConventionsPlatformsMinimumSocial SecurityExpandingDemocratic PartyMinimum Wage Author:Ben Wikler
“I think words speak to us even though they may be written on a wall. So we hear them in our mind. We say it to ourselves. But they are also visual things. You draw them. They are designed. They are colored. They have a certain size. I put them in a certain place. So they are objects that have to be - artistic decisions have to be made in terms of the color and the size and the line and whatever.” ThinkingMindMayMadeCertainSpeakTermLinesDecisionWrittenObjectsColorWallDrawsSizeArtisticVisuals Author:Robert Barry
“I think what happened with Brandy [Burre]is what happens with a lot of people. You make these decisions for comfort and stability, and then eventually those same things that are comforting and stable end up putting walls around you that you didn't expect.” PeopleThinkingEndsHappensDecisionHappenedWallComfortStabilityStableComfortingBrandy Author:Robert Greene
“I can definitely tell you what viewers can expect from Season 2 [of 'Zoo']. It picks up right where Season 1 left off - the gang facing this wall of animals charging at a car. And so, it'll be satisfying in that way. The cliffhanger in Season 1 just kind of went to black screen. It picks up right where that left off. And from there on, the stakes just continue to rise in the season, and I think it's really adrenaline-filled.” ThinkingWayKindI CanLeftBlackAnimalCarWallPicksSeasonsFilledScreensSatisfyingStakesViewersGangAdrenalineZoosChargingCliffhanger Author:James Wolk
“I think "God" is an off-putting word. I don't think there's a name for this. I think it's a presence that is best for us, but unfortunately, it can't intervene if we don't ask it, and religion has us talking to the wall because the god that religion is selling isn't the reality.” IfsThinkingRealityAsksNamesTalkingWallSelling Author:Sinead O'Connor
“We're going to build a wall. Donald Trump never said it's going to go from one end of the country, from the Gulf to the Pacific, and he'll use good judgment about that. And there are ways, through tax and regulation policies, that we can - and immigrant fees - that this could be paid for. I have not studied the details of it but, absolutely, I think that is possible.” ThinkingWaySaidEndsCountryUsePolicyWallTrumpTaxesJudgmentPaidDetailsImmigrantsRegulationPacificFeesGood Judgment Author:Jeff Sessions
“I think the elites who have done nothing about it, who don't want a wall and don't care that the border is illegal, they see this as a threat.” ThinkingWantDoneCareWallThreatDon't CareBordersIllegalElites Author:Jeff Sessions
“I am not a theologian, nor am I a priest or a minister, but I think building walls is fundamentally contrary to what made this country what it is. We're a pluralistic society in its functions.” ThinkingMadeCountryBuildingWallFunctionContraryMinistersPriestsTheologianBuilding Walls Author:Joe Biden
“I don't think all the blame lies with Wall Street. I think a lot of the blame lies with the [George W.] Bush administration. They went back to trickle-down economics. They took their eye off the mortgage market, they took their eye off the finance markets, and we ended up in a big mess.” ThinkingBigsEyeLyingStreetsWallEconomicsBlameFinanceMessAdministrationMortgageTrickle DownTrickle Down Economics Author:Hillary Clinton
“I've laid out my economic plans. I want to grow the economy. That's why I have plans for jobs and raising incomes. I do want to go after bad actors on and off Wall Street, because I think companies that take money from federal, state, and local governments and then pick up and move should have to pay that back.” ThinkingWantShouldStatesGovernmentJobsMovingActorsGrowsPayCompanyEconomyPlansEconomicStreetsWallPicksShould HaveIncomeLocalsAnd OffLocal Government Author:Hillary Clinton
“The only thing an artist is useful for, and the only reason why we don't just line 'em up against the wall and shoot them, is because, at their best, they're the reflection of our lives, that most regular people can't even afford to think about.” PeopleThinkingReasonArtistLinesOur LivesWallReflectionReason WhyEms Author:El-P
“I think some industries are so far behind the rest of humanity, in the way they see characters and cast shows. Once those walls get broken down, it changes everything.” ThinkingWayCharacterShowsHumanityBehindsBrokenWallIndustryCastsBroken Down Author:Josh Groban
“Really new trails are rarely blazed in the great academies. The confining walls of conformist dogma are too dominating. To think originally, you must go forth into the wilderness.” ThinkingWallWildernessDogmaTrailsAcademyDominatingConformist Author:Samuel Warren Carey
“I think it was the same thing that really makes the premise of this film [Women of Wall Street] compelling: the idea of a woman negotiating issues around power and money, which are two things that have historically been denied to women. To see a woman operate successfully, but still find those barriers a result of that historical and systemic bias in her pursuit to the top, is a really interesting struggle.” ThinkingStillsTwoIdeasFilmInterestingResultsStruggleIssuesStreetsWallHistoricalPursuitTwo ThingsBarriersDeniedCompellingBiasPremisesReally InterestingNegotiating Author:Meera Menon
“I think, at the L.A. County Museum of Art, I saw my first example of Kerry James Marshall, who had a very sort of heroic, oversized painting of black men in a barbershop. But it was painted on the same level and with the same urgency that you would see in a grand-scale [Anthony] van Dyck or [Diego] Velazquez. The composition was classically informed; the painting technique was masterful. And it was something that really inspired me because, you know, these were images of young, black men in painting on the museum walls of one of the more sanctified and sacred institutions in Los Angeles.” ThinkingKnowsMenFirstsArtYoungBlackLevelsSawsExamplePaintingWallInstitutionsSacredInspiredTechniqueScalesLos AngelesMuseumsHeroicCompositionVansUrgencyCountyBarbershop Author:Kehinde Wiley
“I got into cooking and I went and cooked in Italy. I became a doula for a while. I built stone walls one summer, and I read a lot, and I swam a lot, and I spent a lot of time thinking.” ThinkingWallSummerBuiltStonesCookingStone WallsDoulas Author:Gaby Hoffmann
“You've got to ask yourself, why won't Donald Trump release his tax returns? I think there may be a couple of reasons. First, maybe he's not as rich as he says he is. Second, maybe he's not as charitable as he claims to be. Third, we don't know all of his business dealings, but we have been told through investigative reporting that he owes about $650 million to Wall Street and foreign banks. Or maybe he doesn't want the American people to know that he's paid nothing in federal taxes.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantFirstsMayHas BeensReasonAsksMillionsRichStreetsWallReturnTrumpCoupleTaxesThirdsClaimsPaidReleaseCharitableDealingsTax ReturnsFederal Taxes Author:Hillary Clinton
“I think we are only going to get it by standing up and voting our values, understanding that the lesser evil doesn't solve the problem. It just prolongs the problem and it paves the way to the greater evil. That the policies of the Clintons, the Wall Street deregulation and NAFTA, created the economic misery that becomes very fertile territory for demagogues like Donald Trump.” ThinkingWayProblemValuesEvilUnderstandingGreaterEconomicStreetsPolicyWallTrumpStandingMiseryClintonSolveVotingTerritoryFertileLesser EvilDeregulationNafta Author:Jill Stein