Thinking Quotes

Thea was still under the belief that public opinion could be placated; that if you clucked often enough, the hens would mistake you for one of themselves.

Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody.

I believe we have all this image stuff and blah, blah, blah but at the end of the day it all boils down to music don't you think?

I think women can cope a lot better than men.

I don't think people want to see me as a regular guy. Besides, I'm a regular guy in real life. I guess I just want to be reckless in my work.

I love Sam Neill. The thing that I always say about him, and I think it's true, is he's so dry. When he's serious, I think he's joking; when he's joking, I think he's serious.

I don't think people are interested in my personal life. I've never had a Hollywood life. I've always been a worker.

It is hard to think of anything more vile than to intentionally desecrate the Body of Christ.

Man's life is entirely in his operations, which may all be classed under three heads: he thinks, he feels, and he acts -- these three modes of activity exhaust his powers.

Johnny Depp and I think Woody Allen would be fun to hang out with.

I think especially since going solo it's pretty clear that I'm completely being myself.

Think not thou canst sigh a sigh And thy maker is not by; Think not thou canst weep a tear And thy maker is not near.

Do we change every time we have a new encounter? Are we endlessly mutable? I think these are fascinating questions: it's a rich vein to tap, and I don't think I have exhausted it fully yet.

you are so great, and I am so small, I hardly can think of you, World, at all

You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age; They were not such a plague when I was young; What else have I to spur me into song?

. . . you may think I waste my breath Pretending that there can be passion That has more life in it than death

I see a schoolboy when I think of him, With face and nose pressed to a sweet-shop window.

For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon.

Only the dead can be forgiven; But when I think of that my tongue's a stone.

So, I think China desperately needs to legitimize some form of opposition.

For there is a wind or a ghost of wind in all books echoing the life there, a high wind that fills the tubes of the ear until we think we hear a wind, actual.

Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think. Commenting on how an accident led to the discovery of X-rays.

He who writes badly thinks badly

I hope you do not think me prone to any iteration of nuptials.

All well bred persons lie - Besides, you are a woman; you must never speak what you think.

The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.

As some people say, we're already in a Singularity relative to ancient Grecians, inasmuch as they couldn't understand our world at all... and I think it's true in the opposite direction, too.

Live in the active voice, rather than passive. Think more about what you happen than what is happening to you.

Many people one meets in life somehow think they know you simply because they're hanging out at the same counter-but they really don't know a thing about you.

I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible for their acts that I think we should.

In reality, I don't think that many of the policies we've attempted to apply to deal with it are going to have any serious effect.

All that we do outwardly is but the expression and completion of our inward thought. To work effectively, we must think clearly; to act nobly, we must think nobly.

She forced herself once more to think of nothing, to keep her consciousness immersed, as a little dog that one keeps under water until he has stopped struggling

...thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

And when I think about that, I think that if nothing but being married will help a man, he's durn nigh hopeless.

A fellow gets to thinking. About all the sorrow and afflictions in this world; how it's liable to strike anywhere, like lightning.

He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.

Most persons who indulge in second thought don't do much thinking when the subject is presented for first thought.

I really dig the writers, and I think they challenged me for the most part throughout the journey on the show. If you don't challenge me in a series sort of situation, boy, I couldn't be on it long.

I don't think sexuality defines a person. It's one small part of who you are, in my view. You are many things, and I never felt that people were defined by their sexuality solely.

I don't believe that Citizen Kane or Gone With the Wind, or any damn picture that you can name, would be better off in 3D. I think it's a gimmick. I find 3D distracting.

Those Muslims in Americas army that stand with the Constitution, I support them, and I think we all have to.

He who thinks all mankind is vile is a pessimist who mistakes his introspection for observation; he looks into his own heart and thinks he sees the world.

I'm embarrassed if I think anyone knows exactly what I paid for something, or even where I got it. I want what I'm wearing to feel good on, wear well, and to be extremely functional.

I do not think an enormous permanent underclass is a very good thing to have if you're attempting to operate something that at least pretends sometimes to be a democracy.

I think that I've always written about things that are very personal, but initially, I coded everything.

I don't think about the real future very much.

Somehow I think that if Toronto had been forced to wait a decade [from 80th], it would be a better looking city.

I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.

I've always been interested in people who aren't from anywhere in particular. I think it's all melting. This has been true for as long as I can remember in my adult life.