Thinking Quotes

Journalists have always written that my mum said that I punched a hole through my cot when I was three years old. I don't remember doing that, and I think it was more that I was very energetic.

I think General Pershing was the most military figure I've ever seen.

I love President Bush. I think it's great we have a president who always looks like he's looking directly into the sun.

I hate Sunday, and I don't think I'll ever get over it. But I'm going to try.

A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal.

I'd like to think that my films are personal enough to exist without hearkening back to their respective novels.

I think once you've finished a movie you really have to detach from it so that you can come back and watch it as an audience member.

I don't think music is an art any more than cooking food is an art.

I just started playing music on the street and walking around with a fiddle, and I think that's kind of when I started being serious - or as serious as it's going to get.

I think people like feeling miserable just as much as they like feeling happy.

I think there is a level of altruism that wants to help fellow human beings.

When you think you know something: that is a most perfect barrier against learning.

What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there’s the real danger.

I never thought it would be easy to serve God," she said. "I just didn't think it would be this hard.

I think when you have spent the money that we have, it's bound to bring it's own pressure. The players have shown that they can handle that though. (on Chelsea)

I think every player enjoys praise and I have to work extremely hard on the training ground to bring my game together.

Actors want to show off and dance in front of you and get your love, because they don't think they're worthy of it in any other way.

The best advertising and the best communication when it comes to business is that which makes you smile, that which makes you think, that which makes you ponder.

I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable.

I think I settled on the title before I ever wrote the book.

Be sure, when you think you are being extremely tactful, that you are not in reality running away from something you ought to face.

Comics are so full of amazing work. And I can’t look at a drawing of a woman without thinking of, for instance, Wallace Wood and his amazing way of capturing beauty.

I think we may very well, in many areas, get likelihood, but not certitude. We don't want certitude anyway, do we?

There are surely many legitimate approaches to Biblical literature, and I think that it depends very much on one's experience and temperament which way one deals primarily with Biblical material.

If you don't appear at all one day they think you're lazy or dead.

I don't think people want to see someone buy a congressional race.

When something really comes from the soul, I think it has a truth that you cannot find in politics.

I expect that [trying to do the best] of my players today and of my kids. My wife says I shouldn't expect that of my children, but I don't think that's asking too much.

I don't think anyone sees truth for a simple reason: we aren't static.

I just think the way (for instance) evangelicals talk about God or Jesus, as in "Jesus says" or "the Bible says" points up a lack of honesty.

I sometimes think of Las Vegas as the Jerusalem of chance. A holy city.

I like projects that are entertaining, where I'm emotionally engaged and there's something to think about afterwards.

If people walk out of the movie and they think about it, then that's quite something.

It sounds corny, but I think people need stories to process the world. That's our business. That's the job we're in. We tell stories.

I don't like television and movies where it's like, "Well, that was entertaining, but when I think back on it, that didn't really make sense and it's empty." That's like junk food, to me.

I think Donald Trump is gonna do great. Because I've worked with him and known him a long time. He's a guy who is not programmed to fail.

My maturity level is rising. I think there are certain situations that I'm handling better than in the past.

I would love to be able to direct episodic television, because it's a great way to make a living, and it's something where I think I could utilize my talents as well as my ability to work fast.

I think the anti-smoking business is a yuppie invention-an extension of the concept that "we'll always be young, rich, and healthy.

I think that people are entitled to be amused, and entertained. If they see deviations from this classical norm, it's probably good for their mental health.

I choose my work very carefully, always for the script and the director, and I don't think that's going to change. My work is like a house. It's built on very strong poles.

I think actors are divided into two groups: one that wants to be an actor to become famous and rich, and the other that wants to be an actor because they have to be. I'm more in the second group.

That should be the anti-speeding advert. It should be footage of Richard Hammond trying to remember his own wedding day.

There has been little or no mention of the vast body of law which contradicts your position. I think you owe it to the people whom you address to explain its existence.

I've fired my last shot. I think I should have another round in my belt.

I fearthat both dictators [Hitler and Mussolini] think their present methods are succeeding because of the gains they have made in Albania, Hungary and Yugoslavia.

I don't want people to think that I'm standing on the steps of the capitals.

We think if the economy remains weak that we could see mortgage rates trail down and we think that we could see rates below seven percent into early next year.

I don't think that comedians have a tradition of trashing the next generation.

Walking back and forth also helps by creating the illusion that you are thinking of the routines on the spot, giving your performance a more spontaneous feeling.