Famous quotes containing the word thinks:
“You cannot become thorough Americans if you think of yourselves in groups. America does not consist of groups. A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)
“... like a
Wave on a beach, that thinks it’s had this
Tremendous idea, coming to crash on the beach
Like that, and it’s true, it has, yet
Others have gone before, and still others will
Follow.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)