Thinking Quotes

Should we not have respect enough to God to make a record of those blessings which He pours out upon us and our official acts which we do in His name upon the face of the earth? I think we should.

I am thinking,’ he remarked quietly, ’whether I shall add to the disorder in this room, by scattering your brains about the fireplace.

Because we have this whole other human being we have to think about other than ourselves. We had the luxury before of being totally self-centered.

When you're young, you kind of take yourself seriously, and you think, like, "People need to see what I can do." And it's so laughable, especially with actors.

I've always maintained that I don't think comedy should be reviewed. I think it's un-reviewable, because it is so subjective.

I certainly look at the modern guys and think they are a different species to when we played. They are fitter and their conditioning is extraordinary.

President Bush says we've turned the corner in Iraq. What is that, about 16 corners we've turned? I think they call that running in circles.

I would think beer and football go hand in hand.

You know, when I'm looking at these '08 yachts that are for sale, I think "I could have just walked in with a briefcase of cash and put it on the table and walked out with a yacht."

By the time I was ready for college, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I think I secretly wanted a show business career, but I was suppressing it.

I think 'SNL' was such a unique thing because it was material you created and you're very comfortable with it, even though the setting was pressure-packed.

I don't really think in absolutes.

I think you can't do any action without in some way paying homage to John Woo. He's the guy who just invented that sort of next level of poetic nasty action.

I feel like all my faults go into making the person that I am. I like myself as a person. And I think taking any fault away would change who I am as a person.

I don't think, until the end, I had read a positive review of Boy Meets World.

When I did TV shows and my other movies, I never try to do it for anybody. I just do what I think is good no matter what the genre is.

I think we are all of the same opinion that "wherever you go, there you are," and if you are constantly searching for paradise outside of yourself, you will miss what is in your own backyard.

I don't think the players play with the same desire they once did.

I don't think we use television the way we should or the way the inventors intended.

I think we'll always have newspapers, but they'll lose influence.

I think money in general hurts all sports.

Overall, I think Michael Jordan is the greatest athlete in any particular sport. He dominated the game for the Chicago Bulls and brought the NBA to its greatest peak of popularity.

I think almost every newspaper in the United States has lost circulation due to the Internet. I also think the Internet will lead to a lot of plagiarism in journalism.

I don't think there is enough educational programming, but unfortunately, television is built around advertising and those shows don't get the big ratings.

I don't think that word - the word pirate - has any real meaning. Or it's something that's had meaning imposed on it.

Sometimes the ensemble 'Eighth Blackbird' will have performances and invite me to be a featured soloist. I think that is what they call it in that world-"featured soloist."

I think everybody works from a defensive position, for the most part, in the film industry.

I think that America in general is piratical. Every time we accept a paycheck for doing almost nothing, allowing us to live above the poverty line, we're engaging in piracy.

I think most great actors have their own life trajectory, the character motion doesn't have anything to do with their life motion.

I think that America is more diverse than ever before, and is continuing to become more diverse, and our content should and is reflecting that.

Obviously, my stuff has been more in the comedy realm, and I really believe that if I'm laughing behind the camera, then I think the film will be funnier.

Mental rehab is way tougher than the physical part... [You think] I'm tired of doing the same thing [exercising] all day. It's tough, but you've got to overcome it.

Politicians can do more funny things naturally than I can think of to do purposely

A senator got up today in Congress and called his fellow senators sons of wild jackasses. Now, if you think the senators were hot, imagine how the jackasses must feel.

They are voting whether to keep a governor two years or four. I think a good, honest governor should get four years, and the others life.

I think in retrospect that all those 'alternative'modes of living were little more than exercises in arrested development.

People tend to think of their lives as having a dramatic arc, because they read too much fiction.

A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think autonomously for itself.

I think it's a misreading of Dostoevsky to think of him as a programmatic theist. He's actually much closer to someone like William James. He's actually a pragmatist.

I always think it's far more admirable to confuse people than it is to reassure them.

People think that because they've seen your name in print, you're rich. I assume that. But all it means is that there was some intrepid interviewer who bothered to give you a call.

I love producing. I am loving doing that. I think that is my most natural space in the business. I just love producing or editing and that's where I thrive.

I think it would be arrogant and borderline foolish to believe there's no other life forms that exist out there.

When you connect to a primal idea - life, death, hunger, hope, fear - any of those primal ideas are going to translate, and I think that's the thing that I've always been attracted to in my work.

I think that when I make a film, I'm terrified that people will come to work and work on something that they're not proud of.

I think that my sensibilities are becoming slightly less delicate and I'm venturing out in a storytelling world.

Well, I think the camera freedom is something that we've resisted for a long time and feels like probably the biggest stretch. But it has some huge benefits.

The computer allows me to execute my ideas at the speed I think them.

Hip-hop is limiting itself and that also goes for editorially. Magazines and websites are the gatekeepers of what people think hip-hop is, but they actually end up limiting what hip-hop can be.

People always think the bread of another country is better than their own.