Thinking Quotes

One of the many sad results of the Industrial Revolution was that we came to depend more than ever on the intellect, and to ignore the intuition with its symbolic thinking.

Meg, don't you think you'd make a better adjustment to life if you faced facts?" I do face facts," Meg said. They're lots easier to face than people, I can tell you.

I wouldn't play the normal girl. I don't think that that's interesting or realistic, as far as how human beings really are.

It's a good idea to prioritize your life and not making drinking the top priority. I think there are aspects of it that definitely illuminate bad decisions and how they'll negatively affect you.

I like living in California. I think it's the best state, although we're supposedly the most hated state of all.

I dont call myself a very good Christian, but I think I know one when I see one, and I also think I know when I dont.

People think they will wake up one day and I'll be gone. But I'm never going away.

If it makes Tom Cruise happy, I don't care if he prays to turtles, ... And I don't think anybody else should.

I don't care anymore if people dress like me, now I want them to think like me.

I love horses. I think I may have been one of Henry VIII’s knights in another life, riding through a great forest.

People think that being famous is just about having your picture taken all the time and being rich rich rich, and you know what?... They're absolutely right.

I think my biggest flaw is my insecurity. I'm terribly insecure. I'm plagued with insecurities 24/7.

When my world seems to crumble all around, and foolish people try to bring me down, I just think of your smile face, and I'm flying.

I do think that the birth of my daughter was sort of a rebirth for me. It made me look at life in a completely new way. And that made me appreciate life in a way I don't think I ever had before.

I can't even think of the words of what I'm feeling. This man [Prince] was my everything, we had a family. I am beyond deeply saddened and devastated.

I think most children who are adopted ultimately want to meet their biological parents and often do. I think that is an important journey for children who are adopted to go on.

I think there probably was a time when I was less provocative. That's when I was married.

I like to make people think.

I think everybody has a bisexual nature. That's my theory. I could be wrong.

I think love resides in all of the songs, even when they are overtly sexual.

I think it would be pretty cool if my kids were super kids.

When you think about it, what other playwrights are there besides O'Neill, Tennessee and me?

I am not a member of Fat Liberation, nor do I think that obesity is healthy. But I do believe that in many ways my life has been a more charmed and happy one because I was always large.

You can't lay down laws for what people think and hope.

I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.

When my sister Joan arrived, I asked if I could swap her for a rabbit. When I think what a marvellous friend she's been, I'm so glad my parents didn't take me at my word.

I think I'm brave because I've made decisions based - I hope not entirely selfishly - on what I think is right for me to do next.

I think as far as the action genre goes, I like when it has a sense of humor. I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl.

I think most human beings, even if you're in a situation that's constricting or complicated or hard, they try to survive.

Acting is really important to me, so I think it would be really hard for me to do something I didn't believe in.

One of the things I think is really problematic about something like [government] spyware is that it isn't transparent - because of that anonymity and that secrecy, there aren't laws to regulate it.

I think it was Rose Macaulay who said, "A house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived."

As you'll know yourself, there are these moments when you're writing a book when one remark or moment will pull everything together and you'll think, "That's it. I've got what I need."

I have two sisters, and I think siblings are always going to be irresistible for novelists. They have been throughout time and they'll continue to be.

It is a terrible thing to want something you cannot have. It takes you over. I couldn't think straight because of it. There was no one else, I realized, whom I could possibly tell.

I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that.

I think the posture of confidence can serve you well. I'm not sure what's to be gained by sitting at your computer and beating yourself up.

I think I'm someone who can prattle on a long time about something, which serves me well as a novelist, but it's the enemy when I'm writing short stories.

I think, as an actor, theater is like one of the things that you feel most in control of and in charge of.

The drama school was in Oxford - and it's funny to think of it, but in those days when I started out the University was nearly all male. And they certainly weren't mixed.

I think that’s a mercy of this island, actually, that it won’t give us our terrible memories for long, but let us keep the good ones for as long as we want them.

I try to think of something catchy to say, but there's nothing but irritation that something that was funny yo an eleven-year-old boy is still funny to a seventeen-year-old one.

Right, sure. Because there's no girls in politics! I have no interest. Voting? What? I forgot my apron. I think I ought to be in the kitchen right now, actually. My rolling pin-

I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.

The only thing is, the more I see him and Corr together, the more I think of how unbearable it would be for Sean to lose him. But we can't both win.

I think that whenever a book is not a challenge, I'm telling the wrong story.

I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago.

I don't think I'd like to argue with you," I say. "I think it would be a very dissatisfying pastime.

It's like thinking you're going to heaven, but when you get there it turns out to be Cleveland.

I couldn't think of anything to say. I was idiotically entranced by the way he said "Grace." The tone of it. The way his lips formed the vowels. The timbre of his voice stuck in my head like music.