Thinking Quotes

I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think.

If you still think you're a young pup then you are, no matter what the calendar says

People forget that when you’re 16, you’re probably more serious than you’ll ever be again. You think seriously about the big questions.

They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date.

I think, you have to forget about intellect, to a degree. Intuition is very important when you're working with a lens, I believe, for what the lens is doing, too.

I have exactly as much rhythm as you think I have.

There is no harm in anybody thinking that Christ is in bread. The harm is in the expectation of His presence in gunpowder.

Never do something permanently foolish just because you are temporarily upset.

People do what seems easy and convenient, not what is best for them.

Every morning you have a choice. Are you going to be a positive thinker or a negative thinker? Positive thinking will energize you.

But somethings in life are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself.

They always throw around this term 'the liberal elite.' And I kept thinking to myself about the Christian right. What's more elite than believing that only you will go to heaven?

One time I can stand fiddling in front of the mirror for an hour and another time I think: well hack, this is just the best it can get. Only if I have to go to work I really try to look fantastic.

I think every culture is passionate about food; some are just passionate about food and the food is shitty.

I think guitarists are really over-admired and over-revered.

A greater truth that I think we are faced with on a day-to-day basis as minorities is: We are the color of skin first and people second.

There is need for a crusade of manliness and purity to counteract and nullify the savage work of those who think man is a beast. And that crusade is your work.

What will they think of me? Must be put aside for bliss

I think the Montgomery bus boycott initiated an era of self-determination.

Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness....Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency?

I think more people need to make out.

I think people listen to whatever they think is good.

Everyone thinks I'm Jewish. I'm not. Last year I got a call: "Happy Hanukkah." I said "Ma, I'm not Jewish."

I think it's a myth that one cannot leave any organization once you've entered one.

I'm always fearful. … Fear generates in you a huge energy. You can use it. When I feel that mounting fear, I think, 'Oh, yes, there it is!' It's like petrol.

Don't you think that the best things are already in view?

I don't think anyone who genuinely embraced sincerity, charity and modesty could be intolerant or divisive.

I think beauty is a feeling that you get after you've had an experience. It's the way you feel about it that is beautiful.

I don’t usually think about things that are filthy, or unpleasant. I think about the good things, because I know they exist. And I want to believe in those good things.

Sometimes I think I should get another job, and do this only for its own purpose. It's important to separate creative expression from making money.

I try to give everyone options because no matter what you think you're going to wear, what you actually put on depends totally on how you feel.

We tend to tell strangers what we think will make us sound good. I myself, to my utter amazement, informed a telephone pollster that I exercised regularly, a bare-faced lie.

I think between the ages of 15 and 32, don't worry about getting married, don't worry about settling down, don't worry about having a baby. Give birth to yourself.

I think the most beautiful thing is that we're not parting because there were problems. We're parting because we're celebrating each others' growth.

I don't think that there has been a film that I've done that hasn't been influenced by libraries and archives.

It’s funny, but I was just thinking I wouldn’t mind a repeat of that boring evening when we elapsed to 1953,” said Gideon. “Just you and me and Cousin Sofa.

I like how I'm able to be curvy and beautiful and represent that in media, because I don't think it's shown often enough.

You have to pick the stories that you want to be involved with and the end game is you'd like to be a part of a hit. But I think your moral obligation is to follow your own heart.

I think it goes without saying that a lot of big horror fans are just nerds and geeks.

I think that crowdfunding has become such a powerful tool to tell stories that might not find financing otherwise - like a dark comedy about infidelity, for example!

I feel threatened, and sometimes it makes me angry because I can't do anything about that, there's just too many issues. But in a way I think my work is meant to get people out of that.

You shouldn't be playing the game if you don't think that the win will happen.

None of you will ever know what I am thinking.

I'm a libertarian. I think a lot of people are libertarians and are afraid to admit it - or don't know.

Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are.

I think about my family first. I want my family to not want for anything. I would like to make sure they have no worries.

I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you - when life opens that door for you, I should say - I think it's important to be giving, to return the love back.

We must get rid of the habit of classing all women together politically and thinking of the 'woman's vote' as one and indivisible.

Think you can't write women? Don't. Write people and make them women.

I think we're all wounded, but some of us, when we experience the healing of those wounds, that they scar and scab over.