Thinking Quotes

The Oscar for the films, it'd be nice. But I don't make those kind of films, and I don't think that will ever happen.

You will draw to yourself that which you most persistently think about

When we think the universe moves. When we think we actually cause things to happen.

C'mon kid. Think a minute, even if it hurts.

So, you know, I think the age of exploration is just beginning, not ending, on our planet.

I think my parents - my parents were very hands-off, quite liberal in terms of their - they really - they did encourage me, but they never really pushed me into anything, really.

I think I feel much more at home in studio.

I never stop thinking about what I have to do. Let's put it that way. The only thing that takes me out of that is probably a film. I watch a lot of movies.

I shoot a lot of video, first of all, whatever I think is interesting, just my travels; hard to say why. If something looks good, I take a picture or try to shoot it.

I don't have a dream project. I don't really think in those terms, to tell you the truth.

You can never really predict how people are going to react, what they're going to think about, whether they care.

You know, there are some people who just don't - that cannot get comfortable behind the wheel of a car and always sort of think they're going to kill somebody.

I think you say the word in your mind anyway, you know. When you look at a word, you say it.

I liked writing, and I loved movies, obsessively loved movies, but I had never made the leap of thinking I would actually come out here and write stuff.

The wise man thinks once before he speaks twice.

I think more and more people are recognizing how much adults and elders are actually needed. That's a gift of the sibling society.

In the best of relationships you have two people who cannot think of anything that was not part of the deal.

If you think that someone is out to steal everything you have, you're either paranoid or a member of the middle class.

I live in hope and that I think do all Who come into this world.

Poetry, I'm often told, is something made of words. I think it really goes the other way around: words are made of poetry.

There's a theory, and I think the theory is right, that in order to make a change you've got to make the whole language of the page harmonious. Well, that's a lot easier with a computer.

I think President Obama has done more than he is given credit for.

We often think that tragedies happen because of great earthquakes in people's lives. I think they sometimes occur because of small things that become obsessive to a particular person.

I don't think I began to be a professional writer until I learned my weaknesses and what I couldn't do. This forced me to compensate.

My family was all police and hard hats at the refineries; they didn't know what to think about me. So I became a closet writer.

When people say 'What are underground comics?' I think the best way you can define them is just the absolute freedom involved... we didn't have anyone standing over us.

Are there times in our lives when we think we have been forsaken by God, or by our fellow men, or by our families? Those are moments when we have to turn to Christ and endure.

The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems.

If death is the end of everything, then living is everything.

Just as science is more immediate and exciting than the history of science, so is insight more compelling than a history of insight.

[Emerson] was interested not in the bookworm, not even in the thinker, only in Man Thinking.

When I think of a good restaurant, it's where the food has been consistent; there's always a consistency.

A form of art that I like is portraiture. I've been thinking about portraiture, and its relationship to writing and literature, biography and autobiography, and so that will be my next thing.

I guess the main thing is, you unconsciously take things for granted, and you think the audience is with you, because you're with yourself.

I think there are more good young actors now than ever. It's a medium that everyone wants to be connected with - it is such a hip medium going into the 21st century.

Well, it's like my movie, 'The Apostle.' Some people in the North don't get that movie. They think that, in the South, if you don't shout, you can't play one of those guys.

Don't you think that as a people, Americans have less poetry, real poetry, in their souls than any other nations?

I probably did too much thinking in India. I blame it on the roads, for they were superb.

Sometimes we spend our money on something we think is gonna be great, and the titles shall remain nameless, but they're just a little disappointing.

I love the idea of comedy in horror. I think this should be allowed.

I think I am a little too old now.

I love fire. I just think it's hypnotic and great, but I've got to tell you - on a sound stage, that stuff scares me.

I think we as Americans know there's a much better alternative than the 17th century practice of burning rocks to power our economy.

Perhaps you see, therefore, why I think taste must come before nutrition? Our infatuation for the quasi-scientific has left us easy marks for con men and tin fiddle manufacturers.

I think there are perhaps two ways in which one can begin.

The sister's face Fell all in wrinkles of responsibility. She wanted to do right. She'd have to think.

I think I know enough of hate to say that for destruction ice is also great and would suffice.

New is a word for fools in towns who think Style upon style in dress and thought at last Must get somewhere.

Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away / You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.

Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.