Thinking Quotes

He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.

One of the reasons that millionaires are economically successful is that they think differently.

I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens.

It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with the terrors of death. This is truly creating crimes in order to punish them.

I don't think you could have a 7 with a manual. But I can't see having a BMW sports sedan without a manual.

Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who "speak truth to power" but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power.

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.

When anything huge happens to me, I always think, this isn't my moment, this is a moment.

Dog's listen, or appear to listen. I think they hear blah, blah, blah, FOOD, blah, blah, blah. They appear to be listening to you.

Country radio went through a time where they were trying to pigeonhole everybody, and trying to make the gap really narrow, and I think that they've opened that up a little bit.

I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.

I think for folks of color the key to combatting racism period is a) trusting their instincts and b) solidarity with one another.

Revival occurs as a group of people who, on the whole, think they already know the gospel discover they do not really or fully know it, and by embracing the gospel they cross over into living faith.

I think protest and actions have to be organised against the Israelis and their backers. There needs to be a concerted high profile campaign to raise awareness of the people in this country.

I think for it to be hip to be idealistic is weird, you know? I mean, even all the best rebels to me, had some sense of hope in them.

Film is a truly magical medium. You can create illusions of reality, make people think they've seen things that they really haven't - like blowing a guy's head off with a shotgun.

When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells.

When I think of 'influence', I think of 'influenza', like somebody's picked up a germ.

I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.

I don't think that you should be per­fectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates consider­able personal problems.

I think some bands thrive on the idea of changing instruments. When they're off their real instrument, the ability to go very far from the original idea is reduced.

I think I was brought up in a respectful household.

People complain about my exclamation points, but I honestly think that's the way people think. I don't think people think in essays; it's one exclamation point to another.

But I think, if you're in the spotlight, people are going to say bad things, and that's just the way it is.

I think it's time for the Prime Minister to stop making excuses and to start governing.

I think in all of the arts there are just certain people that have a gift. I think it's a certain spirituality, it's a God-given gift that just certain individuals have.

Don't write about what you know - write about what you're interested in. Don't write about yourself - you aren't as interesting as you think.

I think theres something strangely musical about noise.

To me, rock music was never meant to be safe. I think there needs to be an element of intrigue, mystery, subversiveness. Your parents should hate it.

Something is cool until everyone thinks it's cool.

I think [Pat] Buchanan is far too easily and glibly dismissed.

It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.

I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.

It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.

I can do nothing but think of you... What have you done to me? Can't you remove the spell you have cast over me?

Think your own thoughts.

It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it

I think Steve Jobs is my idol.

I have a lot of friends that I'd like to shout out but I don't think anyone will know who they are.

I'm 21 years old and I think that I've got a lot of perspective in life.

I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.

I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, "This is what I believe. Finished." What I believe is alive ... and open to growth

I think art should be controversial. I think it should make people think.

Effeminate men intrigue me more than anything in the world. I see them as my alter egos. I feel very drawn to them. I think like a guy, but I'm feminine. So I relate to feminine men.

I think they were scared of me because I was different.

I think the climate is too important to say we are going to wait until all our economic woes are over before we act effectively.

It is only the Negro leadership, the bourgeois, hand-picked, handful of Negroes who think that they're going to get some kind of respect, recognition, or protection from the Government.

I think we can leave mullets back in the '80s. I'm really not a big fan of them.

I think directing is part play, part work, not just all work, because I think you always have to play. I think that's ultimately why I got into making movies, is because I love to play.

Chefs today choose to step onto that treadmill where they have to be seen. Every day they have to go to this party, they have to go to that party. But then you think "Who is doing the cooking?".