Thinking Quotes

I'm reading Barnaby Rudge, one of the less well-known Dickens novels. I've been a life-long lover of Charles Dickens ever since I think A Tale of Two Cities was the first Dickens novel I read.

I think the cultural programming on the ABC is one of the glories of the ABC.

I think it's important to have a blend just as we need to have by the way a mix of different opera companies and different arts companies.

In what other business can a guy my age drink martinis, smoke cigars and sing? I think all people who retire ought to go into show business. I've been retired all my life.

I've never owned a telescope, but it's something I'm thinking of looking into.

I have this real moron thing I do? It's called thinking.

I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.

I don't think we really gave barbarism a fair try.

Just think, right now as you read this, some guy somewhere is gettin' ready to hang himself.

I hope we're not just human garbage drifting toward a big sewer. But I think so.

I think it keeps the child alive in me. There's a thrill when you steal something in plain view of other people.

I think the trend to control speech - and therefore thought - continues. Because of the freer flow of information now, there's more on the side of free thought.

If Helen Keller had psychic ability, would you say she had a fourth sense? What year did Jesus think it was?

When I'm not actually doing my work, I'm planning it or thinking about it or reading things that on some level are transformed into performance fantasies. I have no active interests.

I think self-expression is present at all times, and whether or not you're talking about the outside world or your responses to it depends on the moment and the subject.

People are dreaming if they think they have rights. They've never had rights. There's no such thing.

I don't have to tell you it goes without saying there are some things better left unsaid. I think that speaks for itself. The less said about it the better.

I suspect there really was more to my accident than bad luck. I think it was God's way of punishing my nose.

But wait!!! You MAKE it to 60. You didn't think you would!

Everything that you know about yourself comes from thinking back, and I think I saw religion as the first big betrayal of me.

I was trying to get out of the night clubs and was thinking maybe I'll go to the colleges now; that's where you can speak your mind.

I don't tweet, I don't go on Facebook. I think there's too much information about all of us out there. I'm liking the idea of privacy more and more.

If you think back , the Academy was doing a better job. Think about how many more African Americans were nominated.We need to get better at this. We used to be better at it.

I think it's the most responsible thing you can do, to have kids. It's not something to be taken lightly. I don't have that gene that people have to replicate.

I think there are a lot of great journalists out there. I don't find much fault in the journalist in general; I think everybody would like to break a good story.

I don't think that Hollywood will have much to do with changing politics. Hollywood usually reflects things.

The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak; She could not think, but would not cease to speak.

As interesting as that music can occasionally be, I don't think it really replaces the other.

Those who think that in order to dress well it is necessary to dress extravagantly or grandly, make a great mistake. Nothing so well becomes true feminine beauty as simplicity.

I think people would be suprised at how much we curse when we screw up. I'm like somebody with Tourette's Syndrome.

I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.

What faith in man must in our new world beat, Thinking how once he saw before his face The west and all the host of stars retreat Into the silent infinite of space!

A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good.

I always think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about.

Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.

I'd sooner have one real grief on my mind than twenty false. It's better to know one's robbed than to think one's going to be murdered.

I can't bear fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour after hour-or else throwing and throwing, and catching nothing.

It is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive of true moral development and, therefore, positively noxious.

When the soul is just liberated from the wretched giant's bed of dogmas on which it has been racked and stretched ever since it began to think, there is a feeling of exultation and strong hope.

I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself.

You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.

A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it.

What people do who go into politics I can't think; it drives me almost mad to see mismanagement over only a few hundred acres.

Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness heareth innuendos.

I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.

We are apt to think it the finest era of the world when America was beginning to be discovered, when a bold sailor, even if he were wrecked, might alight on a new kingdom.

I think I am quite wicked with roses. I like to gather them, and smell them till they have no scent left.

Do you think a woman's silence can be natural?

I think its so good for boxing when a new guy or new blood as we call it, makes a big statement.