quotes about Make You Think
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If music wakes you up, makes you think, heals you...then, I guess the music is working.
-- A. R. Rahman -
Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
-- Alan Kay -
The important thing isn't the soundness or otherwise of the argument, but for it to make you think.
-- Albert Camus -
I like when something makes you think after you stop watching.
-- Andrew Dice Clay -
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That, dillop brain, is what getting close to the Darke does. It makes you think only of yourself. It takes you away from people you care about. And now you don't have anyone to talk to and it serves you right.
-- Angie SageSource : Angie Sage (2012). “Darke: Septimus Heap”, p.180, A&C Black
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I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.
-- Billy Connolly -
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 -
The smartphones and the computer separates everybody, makes you think that you don't need nobody else.
-- Bootsy CollinsSource : "Bootsy Collins Brings Back The Funk". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. May 19, 2011.
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It doesn’t bother you that your canine brethren are being paraded around show rings like slaves?†“My canine brethren?†I said. “I don’thave any canine brethren.†“How can you say that! You’re a werewolf.†“That’s right. I’m a werewolf, not a poodle. What makes you think I have any kinship with dogs?
-- Carrie Vaughn -
Dreams should make you think, ‘If I had the guts to do it and I didn’t care what anybody thought, this I what I’d really do’.
-- Cecelia Ahern -
It's tough to make a good movie. I think the bigger the movies are, the worse they are. A lot of big movies make a lot of money and you kind of forget about what they are and they don't really make you think.
-- Christian Bale -
What makes you think painting is any less difficult than brain surgery?
-- Christopher Willard -
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Art should make you think and feel. It doesn't have to match your couch.
-- damali ayoSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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There are certain pressures and things that change your life to a degree that, in the cost benefit analysis that constantly goes on, sometimes makes you think, 'Maybe I should just leave.
-- David Schwimmer -
We have to make you think it's an important seat - because you're in it.
-- Don Burr -
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 -
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Can you worship a God who isn't obligated to explain His actions to you? Could it be your arrogance that makes you think God owes you an explanation?
-- Francis Chan -
Sir Beldevere: What makes you think she's a witch? Peasant 3: Well, she turned me into a newt! Sir Beldevere: A newt? Peasant 3: [meekly after a long pause] ... I got better. Crowd: [shouts] Burn her anyway!
-- Graham Chapman -
I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you.
-- Greta Scacchi -
When you have a good movie, it's hard to categorize it. It's everything. It makes you laugh, makes you cry and makes you think.
-- Ice Cube -
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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 CockerSource : Interview with Scott Plagenhoef, pitchfork.com. April 2, 2007.
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I know that look. What are you up to, Gwen?" "What makes you think I'm up to something?" The Valkyrie snorted. "You're breathing, aren't you?
-- Jennifer Estep -
One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from angles you'd never have thought about before.
-- Jo WaltonSource : "All the right moves" by Greg Callaghan, www.theaustralian.com.au. April 21, 2012.
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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 -
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There is a kind of certainty that seems to characterize Jared Smith's best work, an understanding about place and the flow of spirit that makes you think of Thoreau along with a commitment as fierce as that of Pablo Neruda.
-- Joseph Bruchac -
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 -
I've always said music should make you laugh, make you cry or make you think.
-- Kenny RogersSource : FaceBook post by Kenny Rogers from Mar 18, 2014
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I am here to make you think. . . . I am not here to make pretty pictures!
-- Mark Rothko -
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'Paranormal 1' scared me because I didn't know if it was real or what. 'Blair Witch' was kind of scary for the same reason. It takes the voyeur element away and makes you think, 'Oh crap, this could really happen to me.'
-- Marlon WayansSource : Interview with Bobby Blakey, www.axs.com. January 7, 2013.
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Don't let anybody make you think that God chose America as his divine, messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
If literature or music can make you think or become aware, then it's done something. That's what we've always wanted to do, just ignite sparks in people's minds. We can't offer a manifesto of how to make your life better.
-- Nicky Wire -
I think anxiety is dangerous, but it makes you think it's your friend.
-- Noah Baumbach -
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When you have been close to death it makes you think about life.
-- Patrick DixonSource : Patrick Dixon (2005). “Building a Better Business: The Key to Future Marketing, Management and Motivation”, p.14, Profile Books
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I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by.
-- Pete Seeger -
Watch out for music. It should come with a health warning. It can be dangerous. It can make you feel so alive, so connected to the people around you, and connected to what you really are inside. And it can make you think that the world should, and could, be a much better place. And just occasionally, it can make you very, very happy.
-- Peter Gabriel -
You have a conscience, and a conscience is a valuable attribute, but not if it begins to make you think you were to blame for what is far beyond the scope of your responsibility.
-- Philip Roth -
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I don't like the word ['classic']. It makes you think we didn't do any work.
-- Ralph Lauren -
What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all?
-- Richard Dawkins -
I like books that are exciting and that make you think about things, as well. I like things that have a twist - like 'Atonement,' which I haven't read obviously, as I'm a bit young.
-- Saoirse Ronan -
I like books that are exciting and that make you think about things as well.
-- Saoirse Ronan -
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Love thy neighbor as thyself because you are your neighbor. It is illusion that makes you think that your neighbor is someone other than yourself.
-- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan -
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 -
The rain fluctuates between drizzle and torrential. It messes with your mind. It makes you think things will always be like this, never getting better, always letting you down right when you though the worst was over.
-- Susane Colasanti -
Maybe there is no one perfect person and anyone you end up with will eventually make you think there’s someone better out there.
-- Susane Colasanti -
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The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. A great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
-- Theodore Parker -
It's the same with visual arts, you have some really cool, wonderful striking images that make you think and then again you have wonderful striking images that just take you away from the existing world for a second. And I like the latter a bit more
-- Ville Valo -
It is often said that the Church is a crutch. Of course it's a crutch. What makes you think you don't limp?
-- William Sloane Coffin -
What makes you think that nonsense is bad? If they'd nurtured and cared for human nonsense over the ages the way they did intelligence, it might have turned into something of special value.
-- Yevgeny Zamyatin -
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I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.
-- Zaha Hadid -
When you meet someone, a friend, who's living out on the road, or living semi-homeless, or leading their life in a radically different way, it makes you think about your own life in a really critical way and feel completely disoriented.
-- Caroline PolachekSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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A new study has found that watching Fox News can make you more conservative and watching MSNBC can make you more liberal. And watching CNN can make you think that no plane has ever safely reached its destination.
-- Conan O'Brien -
Throughout history people with disabilities have been institutionalized and segregated, which tends to make you think that it's a group in need of charity. It's not about charity, it's about empowerment.
-- Jay Ruderman -
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A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.
-- Louis L'Amour -
A book is valuable not only for what it says but for what it makes you think, or causes you to remember. No matter what you wish to do or become there are books to teach you, help you, guide you.
-- Louis L'Amour -
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 -
Then there was LSD, which was supposed to make you think you could fly. I remember it made you think you couldn't stand up, and mostly it was right.
-- P. J. O'Rourke -
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Let me tell you, that's what taxation is - it's confiscation. It's your money, it's not the government's money. But the government makes you think that it all comes from them.
-- Rafael Cruz -
I'm not going to read reviews like, "I have to do these things." Any good criticism makes you think about your own films and about cinema in general.
-- Ramin Bahrani -
I personally am not a huge fan of really gory, scary movies because I'm a wimp. I really like a suspenseful movies and movies that make you think.
-- A. J. CookSource : Source: www.ign.com
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Travel is something that I like to do because it gives you lots of images, and it also really makes you think about your own place in the world in a very different way.
-- Barbara Hamby -
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My goal in life is to bring to the screen really believable depictions that make you think, "Damn, I have to look within myself."
-- Romany MalcoSource : "Romany Malco Chats w/ S&A About “Think Like A Man,” Picking Projects, Black Cinema & More!". Interview with Vanessa Martinez, www.indiewire.com. May 7, 2012.
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How can you glorify God in your body, when it doesn't function right?....What makes you think the Holy Ghost wants to live inside of a body where He can't see out through the windows, and He can't hear out the ears?
-- Frederick K. C. Price -
Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.
-- Sybil AdelmanSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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My whole life is a contradiction on purpose - to make you think. I think people have forgetten how to have their own opinions. They're always waiting for someone to tell them what to do and what to wear - it's so boring.
-- Jeffree StarSource : Source: substreammagazine.com
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Anytime that I have an impulse to pull out my phone and take a picture, especially of a landscape or something, if the first thing I do is reach for the phone, I actually force myself to sit there and at least wait thirty seconds before I actually grab my phone. I'm, like, "No, sit here for thirty seconds, and just see what you think about. What does this make you think about?"
-- Tyler HoechlinSource : Source: www.empireonline.com
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Where Miles Davis can make you feel things.That's what I'm looking for from young guys. I'm looking for somebody who not just has a command of the instrument, but can actually say something to make you feel something, make you think about something.
-- Marcus MillerSource : Source: www.pbs.org