Thinking Quotes

When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.

The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.

I think the great unspoken theme in noir fiction is male self-pity. It pervades noir movies.

I don't think I will write anything that could be even remotely considered a genre novel from this point on. I think I've graduated.

Joe Wambaugh's a friend. I know him only casually, but I like him a lot. I think he likes my books.

I don't think I came out of anybody. I think I developed out of the influences I described in My Dark Places. American history, L.A. of the 1950s. I'm comfortable with that.

[Raymond] Chandler, I reread him, and there's a lot of bad writing there. I don't think he knew much about people.

It is seldom men think of death in the pride of their health and strength.

New York is essentially national in interest, position, pursuits. No one thinks of the place as belonging to a particular state, but to the United States.

Humor is a bit like Mary Poppins' sugar-it helps the medicine go down. A little bit of humor allows people to think about very difficult subjects.

A rigid America is also weak and vulnerable, because it sacrifices its unique strength: the energy of people who think they can always make something new of their lives.

Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries.

I don't think anybody who is already with Donald Trump is going to be peeled off by his not knowing about NATO or why Japan does not have nuclear weapons, or things of that sort.

Never think oldish thoughts. It's oldish thoughts that make a person old.

Originally consists in thinking for yourself, and not in thinking unlike other people.

A liberal conservative is a man who thinks things ought to progress but would rather they remained as they are.

Acting isn't something that I think about very consciously, somehow that just doesn't work for me. I just kind of feel my way into it.

I still work really hard, but I like to think I'm a little smarter about at least the type of movie I'm getting into.

I think it helps the writers to sell their books, if they announce my attachment, but it doesn't mean that I'm going to make the movies in the next year, or two, or three.

There's this phenomenon where people do like to announce movies that they think I'm doing that I'm not.

A politician thinks about the next elections - the statesman thinks about the next generations.

I've always said I'm more influenced in what I do by artists, and how they work, how they think, and the freedom they're given to work and think, than I really am by other writers.

I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work.

But that's part of faith. Believing and knowing despite what other people say, and despite what the world might think of your beliefs.

I go to my Room and I drink and I smoke some cigarettes and I think about her. I drink and I smoke and I think about her and at a certain point blackness comes and my memory fails me.

I think men who can cry are strong men

I regretted making a comment about Dave Eggers. I’ve never said anything about McSweeneys except that I admire what it is, and I think it’s great that they keep people interested in literature.

I try to write books that are different from the books I've already written. I think one of the thing I really try to do is reinvent how a novel can be written.

I'm writing books. They're still a mix of fact and fiction and will continue to be. I think it's an interesting place to work.

I just think its the changes that age brings. You slow down a little bit ... the writers are smart enough to write all those changes that life gives you.

You know, all writers are vampires and they'll look around and they watch you when you're not even thinking they're watching you and they'll slip stuff in.

Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us - poets and non-poets alike - to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual ways.

We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we exist.

I've never really thought of myself as an entrepreneur. I think of an entrepreneur as someone who wants to make a lot of money. That has never been at the top of my list.

I don't really think in terms of competing with myself.

I always like to think that I make movies that are like Nirvana songs. They have a slow verse and then they pop into high gear and then they go back into slow and then they pop into high gear again.

I think we have a very brief window of opportunity to deal with climate change. No longer than a decade at most.

I'm not into high literature, but I think all my books are literate.

I believe in treating others as I want to be treated--but I certainly don't believe in turning the other cheek and the truth is that I never knew any Christians who did either.

I think it's very cool for the drummer to be set free from having to worry about holding down the beat every once in a while, though it's a little constricting.

In the past, friendship was a huge thing. But it's hard for us to think of friendship as a calling, because it's not a vocation.

People used to trust their doctor. They went to an expert. Now people have new ideas and are thinking for themselves. That's a very important change in our collective psychology.

I don't think you can revive traditions on purpose.

I think the deeper truth is that the Kyoto Protocols will not be followed by anyone really and that, in effect, nothing will be done to reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse emissions.

I'm not against Kyoto. I just think it's a fantasy, especially considering China's energy predicament and their coal supplies.

I think we'll see a leveling off and then a contraction of population, not a continued upward trend.

In our current frame of mind, or paradigm, or whatever you want to call it, we like to think that marshalling government policy is the way to get things done.

I think if you're able to make the music you want and you can do it in the right kind of context, you don't have to be a circus ringleader to be successful.

To a normal person, $10 million will seem like enough. But anyone who thinks that's enough is not the type that can acquire that much in the first place.

I think that the United States should be the leader, not only militarily. We need to stand for freedom; we need to stand for justice in the world, because there aren't too many countries that do.