Thinking Quotes

I think politics are a part of life, so I have no resistance to it, but it's not something I set out to do.

I think, life is miserable.

I think women who are very creative and giving members of society can be respected and accepted.

I think a woman who commits adultery, is not sympathetic in our culture - or in many cultures, let's face it.

I remember the time I said, 'I don't think you love yourself. You need to learn to love yourself.'

I think kids need to be allowed to be more creative and learn more about artists these days, so I'm all about that.

If you have had some taste of success, it's extremely addicting. I think the withdrawal from that is what's most devastating. I don't think it's the success that kills people, it's the withdrawal.

I grew up interested in the underside of Hollywood, which I think David Lynch does really well.

Americans always think they have to lead. I'm interested in ambiguity.

They say that depression is anger you turn on yourself, and I think women do that.

I think any big success is paralyzing. I have observed it in others.

It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm.

I hardly think a girl is much of a threat. I presume you searched her for weapons? But if she attempts to suffocate me with her straw mattress, I promise to call out for help.

I'm a singer who thinks like a rapper.

But why, she thought wryly, did a man seem more attractive as he became less available? How humbling to think one had so much in common with a cow stretching its neck through a gate for better grass.

Money is that dear thing which, if you're not careful, you can squander your whole life thinking of.

Your attitude determines your altitude. It really is true that If you think you can, you can; and if you think you can’t – you’re right.

I'm not married and I don't think that's going to work out for me. I'm not even bitter, I'm just exhausted.

I like America. I think it's pretty cool.

I like America. I think it's pretty cool. I got into acting to avoid politics of any sort, and so I could remain in a fantasy world.

Do you think a man is the only creature with whom one may fall in love?

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that - how to express this - you really must make the self.

I think we've all experienced sort of becoming who we are as a reaction to what we come from.

I love data. I think it's very important to get it right, and I think it's good to question it.

... the natural world is the old river that runs through everything, and I think poets will forever fish along its shores.

I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think of myself as a poet; I just get up and write.

I do not think that we have psychological and ethical and economic problems. We have human problems, with psychological, ethical and economical aspects, and as many others as you like.

I think we need to embrace feminism, we need to embrace all of the gifts women bring to the workplace.

It gives me no joy to be praised at the expense of a better artist, by someone who does not know the difference or who thinks me too vain to be aware of it myself.

Softball is the reason Washing Machines and Bleach are so popular. Don't think so? Just ask a softball Mom.

Many people think that we have no shared value system in the world today but we actually do.

That bad letters of every kind arise from want of the habit of thinking, I cannot doubt.

I do not think very highly of Madame D'Arblay's books. The style is so strutting. She does so stalk about on Dr. Johnson's old stilts.

When you're thinking, "Why do I have to eat Aunt Sue's casserole with potato chips crumbled on top again?" change that thought to "A couple of bites won't kill me."

Sometimes, I think, our impulses come not from the past, but from the future.

I think I am a writer, but professionally I feel drawn to and suited for directing.

I don't think there's anything quite as dashing as a cop on horseback. To me it's wonderful.

I don't think you should ever expect forever in anything, in either platonic friendships or sexual friendships.

it is the way of lovers to think that none can bless or succour their love but their own selves. And there is a touch of truth in it, maybe more than a touch.

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever course of action needed to be taken was his idea. Then he'd go right ahead.

I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely cunning selfishness.

At the age of twenty six I am in the condition of an aged person - all my old friends are gone... & my heart fails when I think by how few ties I hold to the world.

My spirit will sleep in peace; or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus. Farewell.

I leave a sad and bitter world; and if you remember me, and think of me as of one unjustly condemned, I am resigned to the fate awaiting me.

I never know why people come up to me. I think a lot of them just get super-excited because they recognize me from TV but they don't remember where.

I don't think anyone honestly would hire me, so I don't think I have to worry but, if it was well written I would do it. I would do anything.

You can never really tell, it's kind of a red herring until you see the project I think. You just know if you like working with someone or not, and he does have a real sweetness about him, I think.

I don't really ever think about whether or not I like the characters I'm playing. I'm more into the minutiae of their behaviour or what they're doing in a certain scene.

I have to say, I haven't really worked with that many people in my career that I haven't liked, which I think is really rare.