Thinking Quotes

As a kid, death seemed boring to me. As an adult, I think that it seems more like a waste of everything. Somebody once said every time a professor dies, a library burns.

I think we rarely recognize the fifth business in our lives at the time those people are changing us.

I think it is harder to write a story that appeals to the intellect. But, when you tie onto one, you can do it quite deeply. It really depends on the type of idea you have to begin with.

My books depend on someone in danger, putting pieces together and figuring things out. They do a lot of thinking, and that gets lost in the movie.

God and the afterlife and all that is certainly a subject that's interested me, and I think it interests me more the older that I get.

Lots of white people think black people are stupid. They are stupid themselves for thinking so, but regulation will not make them smarter.

I think of my novels as entertainments.

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit and write, not sell.

I think that war is diplomacy. There have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons and there are wars that have had to be fought. Indeed, there will continue to be.

My Hamlet was about as alienated as you can get. Mine was a bitter and lonely prince. Valid, I think, but maybe tough to root for. I think that romance was missing.

When actors begin to think, it's time for a change. They are not fitted for it.

I really do think everybody can sing.

I don't even think my voice is really good.

You don't realize that when you're young, and you're surprised there's a lot of people at your gig - you just think it's general British-press hype.

I'm thinking, I'm singing like Ozzy Osbourne, but I don't sound like him enough, ever.

I think it's just entertainment for people that are interested in the form. To sing along to and be psyched by.

I've wanted to not play as much. I would like to just sing now. Even though I don't think I'm a great singer, I wouldn't mind just - not being a frontman, per se, but singing and not playing.

If you'd rather learn how to ride a horse or something, I would say do that. That'll keep you out of trouble. You would think a band would get you in trouble, but I think it's the opposite.

When I see four young kids in a band, I think, That looks really fun, no matter how shitty they are. You develop your own thing, and get excited about your band name. It's all so harmless.

I think what we tried to do lyrically, vocally and musically was to capture a sound.

Looking back, I think we were very much a part of democratizing music, and we wanted to demystify the process of making music - to show it's a myth.

Going there [Japan] in the early 80s was quite a culture shock. I think the bombardment of Shinjuku and all that would have filtered through, which certainly informed things we later filmed.

I don't think it had a name when we started. If punk has any roots, Dada is part of it. And we saw ourselves as part of a kind of Dada tradition.

In that period, we had the Cold War mentality imbued through us - the Post-war [environment] and the Cold War. I think we were reflecting some of that. This was before the Wall collapsed, etc.

I think probably underneath it all, film [Kino] has its own rhythm and its own dynamic, and we were trying to capture the movement of film and cross-reference it with music.

I think that's the fascinating thing that exists now. This contrasts with a celebrity art and celebrity music culture.

I think there are worse things for a teen to be enraptured with than 'Twilight.

I think half of what a trainer does is make you feel shame if you dont show up.

When you've tried all the salves in the world and they don't work, you start thinking about fire

Contrary to what many may think, immortality is not a fairy tale invented to compensate for an unhappy life.

I don't think it's a secret that New York tastemakers don't love my work.

I don't like the word 'career'. When somebody says to me, 'oh, you've had such a wonderful career', I think, 'career - that's after you're dead.' I just don't think that way.

When I listen to my work, I think, what's so inflammatory about it? It's not really that dissonant. A lot of people who used to hate my stuff have come round to it.

Take a play that you like but you think is flawed, and see if you can improve it and turn it into a musical. [...] Then make up your own story.

I think, in my life, there've been three times I've broken down into tears on a set because I was happy.

I think I started realizing I was losing my hair when I was in Illinois. And it was traumatic. It was not something I had figured on in my life.

You can take off your hats now, gentlemen, and I think perhaps you'd better.

I do think that the kind of writing that I do will always be around and printed in books, magazines, and now blogs.

I think a blog is a catalyst for a number of possible kinds of writing besides being its own medium.

The other week I wrote a piece on a photograph I got at a flea market, and I got about 70 hits. I think a lot of people must be interested in flea markets.

I would never want to discourage anyone from listening to the news, heaven forfend. But I thought, you know, when I'm recommending music to people I like to recommend stuff that I think they'll like.

I'd rather know what you're thinking - even if what you're thinking is insane.

When I write a story, it's not like I'm thinking about what I'm doing

Just like a kitten that thinks its a tiger.

"What are you thinking?" he asked curiously. I looked up into his deep gold eyes, became befuddled, and, as usual, blurted out the truth. "I'm trying to figure out what you are."

He put his cold hands on either side of my face and fixed his golden eyes on mine. "Would you please tell me what you're thinking? Before I go mad?

Sometimes I think you like me better as a wolf." "Sometimes I do. It probably has something to do with the way you CAN'T TALK.

Say what you want, I still think Dracula One and Dracula Two are creep-tacular.

After all the planets and all the hosts you've left behind, you've finally found the place and the body you'd die for. I think you've found your home, Wanderer.