Thinking Quotes

Who said you can not buy happiness, when you are thinking about puppies.

When they do let them sustain on screen from head to toe, though, then you know they must think the person is a good dancer.

I think Twyla [Tharp] has a lot to say. The great thing about Twyla is that she continues to explore.

I think a lot of us go through a period where we feel like outsiders, and deal with that by wishing we were insiders. So that was the emotional core of American Born Chinese.

I think a lot of us who are in books now were nervous children.

To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him to lay it down with a higher ideal of life than he had when he took it up.

Those who think all religions are the same look at the wrappings instead of the content.

I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality.

An editorial writer might consult a reporter to see what she thinks, if it is what she covers. But they are entirely independent.

I think Hillary Clinton will make a fine president, and (most important) I am comfortable with her making gigantic, momentous decisions.

I believe the publisher is a member of the editorial board, and I think his vote would matter.

I don't think the people of Chicago should be robbed of their birthright to be perennial losers.

I think Donald Trump's going to quickly disappear from radar.

I think we are all exhausted by, and sick of, Donald Trump.

All of us... when we think we are talking most intimately to someone else, are actually addressing an image we have of the person to whom we believe we speak.

As soon as I came to L.A., I was told that I was exotic. I'd think, But I'm from Miami! I'm as American as a cheeseburger!

A lot of actors think they can't be happy without the acting... But I think I couldn't be happy with it anymore.

Like most writers I spend a lot of my time sort of thinking, "It's such agony, I can't do it."

It's this thing that's going on all the time - aging. Paul Auster quotes the poet George Opren on growing old: "What a strange thing to happen to a little boy." Which I think is so profound.

I can think of nothing worse than a think-tank where everybody agreed.

I think the one thing that athletics prepared me for thats been more beneficial than anything has been the humbling times.

Don't think you have to be the disrupter to win. A fast-following disruptee will do very well if you can bring your existing customers and ecosystem along with you.

I think that Ionesco's greatest weapon is that he's able to make us laugh at the darkest corners of our souls.

I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans.

I think if you get your fifth script made, that's the fast track. But there's no guarantee any of them will get made.

We need only think of the number of talented men who sooner or later make their apologies and concessions to philistinism, so as to be permitted to exist.

They do not think, therefore they are not.

A man of spirit must not think of the word difficulty as so much as existing. Away with it!

Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think.

I have never yet met anyone who did not think it was an agreeable sensation to cut tinfoil with scissors.

Some people read only because they are too lazy to think.

What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a limited public I write, and what the world ought to know is printed.

The thing itself photographed becomes less interesting when you go back to it years later but I think the photograph becomes more important later when the reality has passed.

Zombies are always moving fast in video games. It makes sense if you think about it. Those games are all about hand-eye coordination and how quickly can you get them before they get you.

I think you're only free if you're working on very low or huge money.

I really believe that you could do horror very inexpensively. I don't think it has anything to do with the effects, the effects are not the most important parts.

Give the people what they think they want.

When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore.

What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.

The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.

Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place.

The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.

You're only a beginner; and what you think is love, and interest, and all that, is not real love at all: three quarters of it is only unsatisfied curiosity.

Marriage is tolerable enough in its way if youre easygoing and dont expect too much from it. But it doesnt bear thinking about.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.

Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.

When we think of the past, we forget the fools and remember the sage. We reverse the process for our own time.

I think it would be frankly a retrograde thing for Pauline Hanson to be elected to the Senate.

I think it displayed what the Australia Council does so well, the awarding of artists who at various steps in their career had been encouraged by the Australia Council.