Thinking Quotes

I'd make banks more accountable. I think they should separate totally the personal banking arm with whatever else they are playing around with.

I've had a lot of dates, but I don't think there's been anyone that special or important.

I think our material is our lives. That's part of being a modern writer, and we have to use it.

Dead drunk is the term I think of, insensible, neither cool nor warm, without a head or a foot. To be drunk is to be intimate with a fool.

There is no word for time. Today we will not think to number another summer or watch its white bird into the ground.

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

democracy is dying. We are ruled by faceless bureaucrats and lecherous puritans. ... You think about it. 'All right for me but not for you' is their philosophy.

The best thing to do if you start thinking such things (falling in love) is to lie down and wait for it to pass. It always does.

I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.

I see a lot of women of every age trying to be something else. I see them trying to imitate behaviors that they think belong to successful people.

You think we're a family,' Cody said, turning back. 'You think we're some jolly, situation-comedy family when we're in particles, torn apart, torn all over the place, and our mother was a witch.

I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at

I think I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much more reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happened in life.

But I don't think people take bad advice. They've got intuition too, you know. In fact I'd be surprised if they take any advice at all.

I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.

Kids can handle a lot more than you think they can. It's when they get to be grown up that you have to start worrying.

I think anything that gets people outside [is good] - I'm a big supporter of public parks and public spaces.

Think of the road as a kind of zone and a site of incredible diversity.

I think the idea of the lone tormented artist - which we can apply to others - I think that it needs to be revisited. Jack Kerouac needs to be seen in the context of a lot of other artistic activity.

I think Visions of Cody is the most radical book in terms of poetic stretch and the way Jack Kerouac is able to incorporate documentation and incorporate the live tape recording of Neal and so on.

I think of the amazing things that were going on. So it's so rich. The doors keep opening.

I think the U.S. is falling behind. There's massive government initiatives going around the world and you see that there's a real enthusiasm for genetics.

You just grow up and learn to think instead of just feel.

I was quite shy. I used to write stories all the time, and I think that was a worry for my parents.

I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in the front room.

Healthy love, I always think, is... wanting the person you love to be more of themselves. And I think for a parent that's a challenge, because you have to let a baby spread its wings.

My husband has spent more time with our children than I have. I don't think they're better or worse off.

I am convinced that this country is ready to have a woman in the White House, but I also think there's still a lot of hidden sexism.

The first rule for speaking well is to think well.

If anything, I was the opposite of most college students who think they can do anything.

I think the dying pray at the last not "please," but "thank you," as a guest thanks his host at the door.

You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page. The page is jealous and tyrannical; the page is made of time and matter; the page always wins.

I write in my own journal when something extraordinary or funny happens. And there's some nice imagery in there. I don't think of what to do with it.

I think anything that you can't poke fun at is a little too precious.

I think one thing people forget is that every technological advance we fetishize had its place in time.

I think cults are probably a little less scary. To me, it's scarier that 25 people would wear robes and jump up and down and try to convert everyone to happiness than a Kool-Aid suicide.

Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter.

I sometimes find the surface interesting. To say that the mark of a good portrait is whether you get them or get the soul - I don't think this is possible all of the time.

I think life on the road really suits very egotistical men. It's set up for kings.

I'd rather support the issues I truly believe in than give my vote to parties that court votes at the time of the election. I like to think that my vote strengthens the green foundation stone.

I don't have any interest to go to Israel. I don't think I'd ever have a cause to go.

I'm not a Christian, but I think the Christian message is a good one.

I wasn't trying to be a role model for anybody. I don't think that you can.

To try to help people have babies in a healthy way and to celebrate the process of delivering a child which will be healthy is, I think, almost the best part of healthcare.

I think history has less of an impact on current times than the stories that we tell ourselves about that history [do].

I love to engage people who think differently than I do.

You have to find ways of integrating what you like into your business life. And it's difficult at times, but I think over time with experience, you learn how to do it.

I do not think there is any question of photography being an art form!

I think photography is being recognized and collected. Its values have certainly gone up and continue to go up.

I think what I really want to do [is] do something charitable.