Thinking Quotes

I think all poetry is accessible in a certain sense if you spend enough time with it.

I am charmed by concrete poetry (but it's very hard to do well, I think) and in general by the idea of mixing the visual and the textual.

I think poetry involves heightened noticing or imagining as well as creating a certain made shape. On the other hand, that shape can be made just by pointing at something and saying, "That's a poem".

I am pretty interested in hybrid forms. I love graphic novels and I think there should be more graphic poems in the world.

It's one of the things that looks good written down, but the reality is that you think about the pieces you're doing and try to bear in mind everyone in the audience.

Everybody has secrets and some are deeper and darker than others. I think if we peered within the psyche of another we would be all of those things and so very much more.

Washington always has a high level of hypocrisy, right, but I think the level of hypocrisy that has come out of the United States Senate on both sides of the aisle is amazing.

I put a lot of pressure on myself and I think I am quite... well, intense about driving other people.

I think you've got to take your time and make sure you're making choices that are smart for you.

I'll put it to you this way: I never, ever think about the things that I get involved with on a macro means-to-an-ends scale.

I think that there's a hidden darkness in all of us!

I'm not saying I want a film career because I think I'm too good for television. I'm simply saying I want more control over my life.

Though we must never think to learn above our Bible, as long as we are here in this world, yet we must still be getting forward in it.

I think as an actor you're always learning, you're always trying to experience more things.

A lot of people struggle in their younger years, and I think people can relate to that.

I think everyone is given drama, by virtue of the fact that we all have drama in our lives, but not everyone can make people laugh.

I try to be fussy about the parts I play. I think that's quite prudent, it means you're stretching different muscles, and you're scaring yourself by doing something which is out of your comfort zone.

People like to think that actors are terribly worried about ghosts of other actors in the parts they play. But you just have to get on with it.

I would hate not to do a play every couple of years. I think it's not me.

I think I can keep a rhythm to a beat, but there are quite a few people who would argue with me.

I love good film, whether it's an independent or studio film. The independent films, I think the good ones aren't necessarily eccentric ones but they're the more specific ones.

I am vain. I think vanity is a good thing. It's done more good things for me than it has not.

I think for something like law or medicine you really have to love it and I didn't love it.

I think every great show has that kind of romance that people just kind of yearn for.

I run probably 35-40 miles a week, and I think 80 per cent of your body is what you eat. The biggest part is just eating well.

I dont think anyone can get away from high school unscathed.

My mantra is always, "Take a nap first, Matt! Then think." It's silly, but it works.

I think we need to educate our doctors about addiction.

I think all it really takes for different people to get along is a common rooting interest and a few beers.

I think it's strange to live in a house with someone you cannot talk to-especially when that someone is your father-and the thought makes me a little sad.

That's basically the mantra of Herr Silverman's teaching - think for yourself and do what's right for you, but let others do the same.

I feel comfortable here primarily because I think Los Angeles is made up of people who don't come from here, so you can find kindred spirits very easily. It's a town of gypsies.

In my head, I think I'd make a perfect spy, but in reality, I don't think I'd fare very well.

I thought maybe I'd be a farmer. That was another silly notion. I think I'd last about five minutes, being a farmer.

It's weird how your perspective changes. At the start of your career, you think, 'I just want to do cutting-edge work that makes people think.' Now, I would do a blockbuster in a heartbeat.

I got a lot out of 'Brothers Sisters' and learnt some incredible things and I think it certainly had come to a natural ending, so it was definitely time to move on.

I love it when television is shot in a cinematic way and I think to aspire to that is no bad thing.

I've done a number of projects where people go, 'This is your breakthrough role,' so I've stopped thinking that.

I sometimes get asked if I think about film stuff while I'm writing fiction, and the answer is, of course not.

These are the kind of movies that only a real apparatchik, someone who thinks that corporations are people, could love.

I think it's what fiction is for: to illuminate that gap between our secret selves and our more visible and apparent ones.

I think the publishing industry is dismayingly like the movie business. It grows more corporate by the day.

I think being central to the culture is overrated. Who really gives a damn if something is popular? Jay-Z isn't actually any better than James Joyce even though more people understand him.

People will continue to make movies. But I do think the economic model of the studio movie is closing in on a kind of systemic collapse.

I think writers can gain a lot of vitality from being misread.

Even though I think writers can sometimes thrive from being misread. It can give them something to push off of.

Keep thinking. You can hear our brains rattling around inside us, like the littler Russian dolls.

I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head.

I think you should make a movie that has an audience.

I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.