Thinking Quotes

I don't think of myself as a singer really.

I think of someone like Mariah Carey as a singer.

I think with the kids I get to be a little more fun and goofy, which is kinda how I am all the time.

How strange too and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one's presence had once had the power to make a difference between happiness and dullness in another's day.

Movies like 'The Abyss' and 'Jaws' make people think the ocean is threatening. It's not. It's very tranquil.

Christians think a long record of church attendence and Bible reading is equivalent to an advanced degree in science.

I love film and I love the film business. And I don't think there's any better way, with my personality, than being a producer which is a little bit of a control freak.

I think the word is adult!

I think with any songwriter the first 1,000 songs are always terrible.

I think what I like to do is to begin with the ordinary and find the extraordinary in it.

I think the election of Trump was an expression of what happens in ruling powers as they become alarmed.

I do believe that we’re in a true golden era of television, and I think it started with Hill Street.

I'm lucky enough that, in my career, people think that attaching my name to something helps it a little bit.

Over the course of television's history, I think fans have done more to save shows and support them than ruin them.

I can't help but always be thinking about ideas.

I think that the way of bringing realism into fantasy is to treat it as the commonplace.

I love motion capture. I think it's the best thing, ever. It's wonderful. It gives you an incredible freedom to just play things out.

Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.

Metaphor is one of a group of problem-solving medicines known as figures of speech which are normally used to treat literal thinking and other diseases.

I think any writer coming on to Batman should at least attempt to do their own definitive version. What it means to them. Whatever they think that symbol or character can say.

I don't like to think of my readership as "fans," a word which has always suggested a kind of power relationship I'm uncomfortable with.

The big problem is time. I don't have enough of it to do all the things I think about doing.

On some level, I think everyone felt like a dork in high school.

I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery.

Memory is often - perhaps usually - a distorting lens: what we think we remember isn't the way it was at all. It's what we'd like to remember.

People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people.

I think the movie business is in trouble. It's all movies that you've seen before. Everything's a remake; they want things that are familiar rather than things that surprise you.

I don't think you can be a credible, modern candidate for president without making the environment a major part of your platform.

I think if people really want music they'll search it out.

I think that banning sanctuary cities should be upheld in court.

You can look at the state of California, which is on a pathway to destruction because they expanded government too much, thinking that there would always be someone to pay for it.

I always tell people it's funny that they think I'm a relationship expert because my two books are about getting out of relationships.

How many presidents, do you think, ever said to another guy: 'I can't believe we're doing this in the White House'?

I think the Internet has real potential for building community. People all around the world talking to each other can't be a bad thing.

I don't think that good politics ever excuse a bad song.

It's impossible for me to think of music as a contest. All of the awards ceremonies, I mean I'm sure they're fun for people, but they have no meaning to me.

The violence is the violence. I understand that we're sometimes squeamish about it, but I think that strength needs to be called on once in awhile, and sometimes that's the only thing that will work.

I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published.

I didn't have a lot of overtly political songs. I think it was more the actions of the group that were threatening to the authorities, and also our political philosophies apart from the music.

Christine Todd Whitman had to resign as the head of the EPA. You know, when the governor of New Jersey decides the environment is hopeless, you gotta really think that one through.

I usually am thinking about my next book the second I put the last dot on the previous one that I turn in.

One thing I noticed when I was young was I was impatient for success. I think everybody is impatient for success. It will come. But don't - you shouldn't let that impatience drive you crazy.

I agree and I disagree in the sense that I think that he [Donald Trump] has a fondness for autocrats, but at the same time, isn't he talking about like perception of defending your country.

It's not enough to be right because he [Rick Perry] is right, you got to be persuasively right, got to be intellectually agile, and I think he can do it.

I'm thinking about American votes and American - all Americans, black or white have to be concerned about what's happening in the world.

Job creation is important I think, but it's not the critical issue for Republicans.

There's an argument that celebrities stop growing mentally the moment they reach stardom and then they just - everything goes away. I think that's true.

I think the reason why 'Red Eye' is popular is because we question the common assumptions that you find elsewhere.

We all have to lead double lives, not just celebrities. The face we put on publicly with our jobs and certain situations. I think that's part of the human condition.

Sometimes I look back and think, 'Good. I'd love to go in and bang out a good episode of 'Talk Soup' today.'