Thinking Quotes

I like that girl more that I can remember likin’ anything in my life. I’m not about to give her up. I’ll start carin’ what people think when I am six feet under.

Sometimes I think Ben is right, that the fantasy world is better because reality sucks...but then I look at Nikki and I believe that we can beat the odds.

Is anyone human actually normal? I'm beginning to think being normal is actually abnormal.

Why are you making a joke out of this?" she asks. "Because it's stupid, Nik. There's not even room in my day to think about someone else.

I think that when you pay tribute and are citing, not only through naming the authors but also through the acknowledgement of the form, that you are in no way plagiarizing.

It is precisely those artists and writers who are most inclined to think of their art as the manifestation of their personality who are in fact the most in bondage to public taste.

If there were no affliction in this world we might think we were in paradise.

Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.

Contemplating an object fixedly with the mind, asking myself, 'What is it?' without thinking of any other object or relating it to anything else for hours on end.

It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.

When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, 'tain't any laughing matter!

Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.

Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.

This is how you know religion is failing because people think you're bonkers if you believe in God and also because it's so uncool believing in Jesus and everything.

I think people who come from abuse and/or people who have mental illnesses, have terrible self-esteem problems.

I think people think they're not brave if they're frightened, and that's not true at all.

I think there's a lot that's beautiful about religion and very inspiring, obviously, but I do think that God needs to be rescued from religion actually.

I think a lot of artists go waving their Grammies around thanking God for their Grammy, but when it comes to a pitch battle in the street for the honor of God, none of them is anywhere to be found.

I think there's a difference between God and religion.

I am catholic. And I don't like to see catholicism being brought into disrepute by those in charge who don't seem to believe in God at all... they act like they don't think God is watching.

If this world is wearing thin And you're thinking of escape I'll go anywhere with you Just wrap me up in chains But if you try to go alone Don't think I'll understand Stay with me, stay with me.

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.

He who thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.

After years of having immersed myself in science, I do think that if you master several different ways of thinking, it makes your own thought processes more agile.

But you finally think, there is what there is, and you have to work within those confines and just keep chipping away at your own work.

There's a lot of reasons you can think of to say why you act, but I can only say that it just felt good. At the same time, it felt really painful. It's still troubling and stressful to me.

I think my favorite experience is whatever I'm doing now.

I think there's a lot of unnecessary bullshit on the Internet. You can drown in it.

I cannot sing karaoke because it's hard and weird. If I actually tried to sing, I would probably sound good, and I think that's weird and not fun.

A lot of times, actors and directors don't want to repeat something. I don't think we're repeating something, but I think there's certainly a genre that we're in, and we're happy to embrace it.

I own now, I think about 38 pairs of cowboy boots, or 37, something like that now.

There is not enough high intellect to be catered to and when most people think of Hiphop they think of low intellect.

I think it's hard to have a full-time job and write fiction, but for essays, you need to be in the world.

I think that most New Yorkers would object to calling me a New Yorker. I didn't grow up here.

I don't really think of my essays as being about myself. I know it sounds insane, but I just don't think of them as a memoir. They're essays; they're not an autobiography.

I think the rule of thumb should be this: if you preface a sentence about a friend with the phrase, 'I love X, but... ' more than once in any conversation, you should stop hanging out with them.

I think anything you do that's different, that doesn't take the typical approach, invites differing opinions.

We were always around my dad, so he wasn't absentee at all. I don't think it was normal, but it was exciting. You always had lots of creative people around, and my parents took us everywhere.

The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that.

I didn't want to save art - I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew it was finished, even though, at that time, I didn't know what I would do.

A writer writes what other people only think.

I think we have to think about strategies that will help kids who have disabilities.

I don't think being beautiful takes away from your credibility.

I think that's one of the most important gifts we have in television - the ability to heal through laughter.

I think of a movie as a human body. You can feel the pump of the heart and the blood going through the veins when you watch that scene.

I think anybody who was ever saddened by a movie theater closing would be able to understand this film [Aquarius].

I just hope the film [Aquarius] doesn't feel overly nostalgic because too much nostalgia for me leads to depression. I think Clara is very pragmatic.

In our home we grew up thinking we were Mormons first and human beings second.

Like the one-tenth of our brain that we currently use, I think now that most if not all of us have access to about one-tenth of our possible feelings.

I think that even someone who got into an institution through affirmative action could prove they were qualified by what they accomplished there.