Thinking Quotes

I do write by hand. I just think - I don't know, it's a physical thing for me. It's a bodily thing. It literally has to earn its way through my hand.

I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.

It’s just that I’m the kind of person,' Rebecca continued, 'that thinks if you took a map of the whole world and put a pin in it for every person, there wouldn’t be a pin for me.

... to work, to work hard, to see work steadily, and see it whole, was the way to be reputable. I think I always respected a goodblacksmith more than a lady of leisure.

I want it all quickly 'cause I don't want God to stop and think and wonder if I'm getting more than my share.

Something always made me save myself. Either the Betty Ford Center or going onstage to perform in the theater when many people didn't think I could do it.

I think there's nothing better in the world than a spirited discussion about the Bible and Jesus and God and the Catholic faith, or the Jewish faith, or the Muslim faith--- any religion.

She made him think of his mother, of his nurse, of all things kind and comforting, besides having the attraction of not being his mother or his nurse.

[My grandkids] are 5, 10, and 15. While they're young and still at home, I think it's all about learning the value of money.

There's a limit here. This is how far we go and we don't go further. And I also think by talking about [gifts] it that way, it avoids the unspoken idea that money is the expression of love.

I sometimes think young people are not given nearly enough credit for their ability to appreciate literary flourish.

I see myself on the cover of a magazine and I don't think that it looks like me at all. My first-ever photo shoot was for the cover of a lads' magazine.

I think we've all got a mirror man in our life - male, female, it's someone who love themselves before they can love anyone else.

Each time that I think you go, I turn around and you're creeping in.

I think a lot of people assume from my music and stuff I'm constantly talking about deep and meaningful things, but then with my friends I'm just a class clown.

I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings.

Distrust that man who tells you to distrust. He takes the measure of his own small soul, and thinks the world no larger.

Hide in your heart a bitter thought, Still it has power to blight; Think Love, although you speak it not It gives the world more light.

I think I never passed so sad an hour, Dear friend, as that one at the church to-night. The edifice from basement to the tower Was one resplendent blaze of coloured light.

Better than glory, or honors, or fame, (Though I am striving for those to-day) To know that some heart will cherish my name, And think of me kindly, with blessings, alway.

I think a lot of people were like, "Oh, you're 13, you're gonna rebel." But I was never in public school and I was never really forced to do much of anything, as a kid.

I think as an artist that's the best thing you can have - a personal stamp on something.

I think I have the best of both worlds because I am a woman, but I'm also a tomboy.

There have been advances in the technology of beauty that I think are great. & you know what? Use it.

I am to a fault an introspective person. But I am not a reflective person - except for a big mistake, and then I really think about it.

I admire people who know they can't sing. There are so many people out there who can't sing, but they think they can, so they sing a lot.

You know that song that asks, "Why do fools fall in love?"? I think the obvious answer is because they're fools.

I think there's too much mult-tasking going on. I think people need to quiet down and focus and be still more.

But seriously, I think overall in the scheme of things winning an Emmy is not important. Let's get our priorities straight. I think we all know what's really important in life - winning an Oscar.

I watch people's behavior and notice things. I think that's why I became a comedian. I notice how stupid the things we do are.

I think furniture is art. I don't think art is just for your walls - I think everything that someone has made is a piece of art.

I think that Van Gogh is really the ultimate crazy artist that we all think of.

It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.

Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.

What fools people are when they think they can make two lives belong together by saying words over them.

But, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad.

There is in every human being, I think, a native country of the mind, where, protected by inaccessible barriers, the sensitive dream life may exist safely.

I think most of us become self-critical as soon as we become self-conscious.

Everyone who deals with teens seems to agree that the most important and toughest job is staying in connection and conversation ... not delivering a lecture but saying what we think.

On television, journalists now routinely appear on talk-shows-with-an-attitude where they are encouraged to say what they think about something they may not have finished thinking about.

Maybe at 20 you can write well, but I don't think you could do what I do. Some things have to happen to you first.

[E]very time you think the entertainment moguls have hit rock bottom, they reach for the jackhammer and rat-a-tat-tat a little deeper.

You believe this is a game, and you may be right. But if you think you can play it better than me, think again.

The more I think about it, the more I believe there has to be a subtle yet satisfying method of revenge.

Heart Breaking, I think that if Dad, staring down the sight of a 10mm, would only tell me he loves me, I could easily change my mind... ...but he won't.

I don't think we'll get caught, but the very possibility is half the fun.

Think of how they must have loved when all they had was each other.

I think it's obvious when you're watching a movie, and there's people fighting or someone's slipping on the side of the building, that it's fake and it really removes you from it.

I don't care if people like my character. I just want them to think about the movie's message.

It's just something we're talking about and thinking about all the time, reflecting on our privilege - the privilege of what it means even be able to travel.