Thinking Quotes

I think now, more than anytime I can remember, bands are sounding pretty similar whether they're English or American, from Manchester or London... or Leeds or Welsh or Irish.

Many people think I'm a television personality. I never have been! Just someone who acts it.

I wasnt thinking of the longevity of any of my songs, but I am extremely pleased with the lasting effect.

I don't think you should have to try to be nice, I think most people are nice. I think being cheerful and nice is just a politeness.

Well, certainly I think American television is - that's proper TV.

I think that superhero comics in particular are really useful for talking about big emotions and feelings, and personifying and concretizing symbols.

I couldn't think of one clever way to stop this guy, so I just trusted to mindless violence.

Sometimes... sometimes I think the Asylum is a head. We're inside a huge head that dreams us all into being. Perhaps it's your head, Batman. Arkham is a looking glass... and we are you.

It's been a great place to get in touch with what people are really thinking. And to make contact with readers and other writers. Egalitarian, wide open, like the Wild West!

I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway.

As a label, you have to treat every group and every record as a unique entity. I think that that has been our success, rather than relying upon a fan base.

I daydream just like everybody else. I just do it with my body facing the field, so everybody thinks I'm paying attention.

Fear overrides all rational thinking

Sometimes I think of writing as becoming this antenna that picks up the vibrations all around me in order to find out how and where next I'll be steered.

I never do pictures that I've done before - but I really try not to. Whenever I get an assignment I try to think how to shoot this person for this story in this magazine at this point in time.

When a movie succeeds, it takes me to another world where I don't think about it and I'm just immersed.

If you don't think you're close-minded for not believing in Zeus, then please don't accuse atheists of being close-minded for not believing in your god.

I don't think I would have been such a good runner if I hadn't enjoyed it.

I think it's very boring for a director to always do the same kind of movies.

I think all writing is done through memory

I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England

I think when you get all the money and all the freedom, rarely do you get a good movie out of it or a movie that you're proud of.

I think when the joke comes from the situation in a horror film, it's really great. I don't like jokey horror films like where people are cracking a joke or being post-modern about it.

You must dare to do the thing you think cannot be done... as this is the only way to discover that there's nothing you can't do.

If you're an entrepreneur and you think that the president makes a difference to your business, you should stay at your current job.

I think when people are repressing things, or burying things, that can manifest in all sorts of ways.

You're always tellin' me to go out more, Go ahead, get out and see the world, But then I think, why should I? I'd rather stay home and cry.

When I think of a legacy, I think of the legacy of being a mom.

I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella. It would be totally messed up!

I don't want people running around saying Gwen Brooks's work is intellectual. That makes people think instantly about obscurity. It shouldn't have to mean that, but it often seems to.

I really don't like drunk women; I think it is such a bad look. I think it's very inappropriate and I don't like it. I don't really have drunk friends.

I think a composer is always interested in his last work.

You are not mechanics, you are warriors. You have been trained, not to think, but to do.

Men who think in lifetimes are of little use to statesmanship.

I often think we do not take this business of photography in a sufficiently serious spirit. Issuing a photograph is like marriage: you can only undo the mischief with infinite woe.

Pay as much attention to the things that are working positively in your life as you do to the things that give you trouble.

I think the Negro people should feel secure enough by now to face a reasonable ridicule without terror. I am unalterably opposed to all efforts to put down free speech, whatever the excuse.

The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think.

If a train stops at a train station, what do you think happens at a work station?

I didn't think it was possible at my age, honestly. They call it a geriatric pregnancy.

You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.

It is doing some service to humanity, to amuse innocently. They know but little of society who think we can bear to be always employed, either in duties or meditation, without relaxation.

Well, we think the broadcasts did have some effect, because we see the antiwar movement in the U.S. building up, growing and so we think that our broadcast is a support to this antiwar movement.

A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!

I like working with family and friends and people I admire. All my movies are filled with family members of some capacity. I think it means more when you have a personal relationship with someone.

I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.

I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history of influence.

Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die than here.

I think a lot of newspapers have lost touch with that sense of community, which so impressed me as a teenager when I had to knock on people's doors.

I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.