Thinking Quotes

I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist.

Why'd you have to say that there's always someone who can do it better than I can And don't you think that I know that walkin' on water won't make me a miracle man

You think you're alone until you realize you're in it. Now fear is here to stay, love is here for a visit.

I've worked hard, every single day since I left school. I think I have a Protestant work ethic.

I remember thinking, in Kansas my name will be Evett - which is my middle name. I didn't want to explain to anyone how to say Em-a-yat-zee.

I think people don't realize how many hours of practice goes into becoming a musician and getting better.

Clown' was written when I couldn't find anyone who believed in me as an artist. Maybe those labels will think twice next time a young songwriter comes along.

The genres are widening. I don't think that there's as many limitations on the kinds of projects that actors can do as there once was.

What to think of other people? I ask myself this question each time I make a new acquaintance. So strange does it seem to me that we exist, and that we consent to exist.

I think the simpler it is when you have a crazy character to play is almost more creepy and interesting.

I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream.

I think that novels are one of the best means that we have to communicate both with the past and with the future.

Historical fiction is a collaboration between the time in which it's written and the time that it's writing about and the far future, when we don't know what people are going to think about yet.

Nobody thinks that there were never mechanical horses in the world. Everybody knows that there aren't really golems.

If I don't write every day for one week or even, frankly, one year, I don't really think too much about that.

I think that we're all always just working on finding how that balance functions for us, given today's circumstances.

As a Jewish thinker, I don't think of myself in relationship to the dominant culture's religion.

I tend to think of writing as a more collaborative project than I think some people do.

I think that's almost what it is sometimes if you sum up what acting is. It's just the ultimate expression of empathy.

I think for me the job always has to be the right thing at the right time.

I don't think I'm the best singer in the world, for sure, but I loved doing it in 'Into the Woods.' I'll always find it tough, singing in front of people.

When you have a child yourself, you go back and think about how you were parented, how you were mothered and what your parents did for you, and you just want to be able to call and ask them.

I think when you go through something that changes you, it is profound in a way and if somebody is helping you, it brings you closer together.

I think it's important to remember that to exercise you don't have to run a sprint.

In school math and science were my favorite subjects, but I probably in my true self I'm more of a people person. At the same time, I don't think that's how I recharge.

I think Heaven will not be as good as earth, unless it bring with it that sweet power to remember, which is the staple of Heaven here.

It is true that the unknown is the largest need of the intellect, though for it, no one thinks to thank God.

They say that 'home is where the heart is.' I think it is where the house is, and the adjacent buildings.

The Service without Hope Is tenderest, I think-- ... There is no Diligence like that That knows not an Until

When we think of his lone effort to live and its bleak reward, the mind turns to the myth "for His mercy endureth forever," with confiding revulsion.

Then he asks if he can kiss me. It is a question I don’t usually like. Just do it, I always think.

I'm glad you were both here," I finally manage, thinking how strange it is to be standing with the two people who made you, something most kids take for granted every day of their lives.

You don't have to talk to someone to think about them and check up on them now and again.

After all, I think, isn't it always about a boy?

I think the issue of female friendship really resonates well with women, ... So many women have a friend like Darcy or can relate to the feeling of being second-fiddle to a friend.

I'm very open in terms of sharing bits about my life, but I think it's very easy to get a distorted sense of who anyone is through social media.

In my stories, I think, as I've gotten older, the characters have become stronger and more independent, and more capable of making unconventional decisions.

I think that we have to consciously be aware that every moment we're in, every different stage in our lives, we can control.

I'm nostalgic and I do think about a "what if."

I think the most well-adjusted people live in the present with an eye toward the future - I'm not among those.

I think that people are generally really terrible at being ambassadors of their own work.

I don't think being a lawyer is more or less valuable than being a writer.

No human walking the earth thinks of himself as a bullshitter.

I think a sexual energy is a positive energy.

I see how 14-year old girls react to me and I think I'm a good role model. Rockstar maybe not, but I'm willing to play with it for a little while, until my hair gets gray.

I'm an optimist by nature, myself, I think.

I was terribly shy when I was growing up, I really wasn't confident with other people and I think I was always afraid of up or not being this very cool, amazing person that I wanted to be.

I think Georges Feydeau said comedy is just tragedy speeded up.

I don't think of rejection as rejection, just a bad fit. Then I seek out other avenues of acceptance.

I think it's really crucial to leave our American context, not only for a sense of individual freedom, but also to make links to international struggles for civil rights.