Thinking Quotes

I think people assume that women write about the domestic sphere. Women write about relationships and family. Men do, too, but then it's the Great American Novel.

I think once you sort of cross over and you realize what books can be - and if they mean something to you - there's just no stopping you.

I think that it is real important for someone to be really honest and open emotionally. I'm really an emotional person. If I'm that way and the guy isn't that way I just really feel like a jerk.

Automatically everybody thinks of me as an actress who is trying to sing. And if I weren't me I'd probably think the same thing.

To preach abstinence, I think, is absolutely not the right message to give to kids.

I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter.

I think in show business, it's really kind of easy to perpetuate that feeling of, like, Oh, I don't measure up. Or always having to prove yourself.

In real life, I always look at people and how they walk, or how they carry themselves. I think about the body a lot, in performance.

I've definitely read stuff that I've been offered, where I've been like, "I can't do this. I think somebody would be better in this than me."

I think people pick up on that. You use personal stuff and mix it all in - I definitely pull on that stuff in my acting.

I think things get a lot better after high school. I think the ones that struggle during that time tend to have better experiences after.

I think it's important to come from a humble place.

I tried to be really healthy and eat whole and organic as much as possible. I think that's the key to avoiding crazy weight gain.

Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of. Quick: try to think of a single movie about the horrors of Stalinism. This is not a failure of imagination. This is moral meltdown.

Sometimes, a stage curtain parts and you see: life could be better if you had more. Usually, I think, we can get just as good a different way. But tricks, they do not always work.

I don't want to get hung up on what 'people,' that nebulous mass, think about me. That's the way to unhappiness, I think.

When I think of the person that I thought was Bill Clinton, I think he had genuine remorse. When I think of the person that I now see is 100 percent politician, I think he's sorry he got caught.

Yeah, I think there are a lot of things about Cleveland that I miss. Los Angeles is a funny place to live.

Size 8 is great! That is my new motto. I was a 14 and 6 and 12. I think it's healthy. I like to eat, drink and be merry!

I tell my students to think of poems as language plus, language with value added beyond its everyday use.

Don't think that you can just rely on natural talent because there are going to be times when you get a little tired and that's when your skills come into play to help you make look easy.

I love the idea that somebody is going to compare me to my character or think that I am like my character when they see me. I feel like that is a role that I am willing to fulfill.

I like classics but I always add a twist because I don't like to think of my clothes as classic.

I think anybody who saw him will tell you that Willie Mays was the greatest player who ever lived.

Is the U.S. better or is the world better? Is the U.S. better off today than we were four years ago? Obviously not, economically not. I think our stature in the world is not the same.

If Shane Warne were to become England spin bowling coach I think it would be fantastic for myself and all those learning to bowl spin in England.

I think maybe one day I'll go back to music. I don't know. I don't know if sometimes you lose a passion or you don't lose it, it becomes more personal and less about sharing it with everyone.

I like to think of myself as a New Yorker, which is pathetic.

I think the story only really comes alive on the set.

I would, therefore, say that for no reason whatsoever, except in self-defense, should one think of killing any animal.

I like the computer! It's a gadget, and I love gadgets. But it's very complicated and I didn't think I'd have the time to learn.

It took me a long time to stop thinking that someone else knew what a great painting was. I was never sure.

I'm the expert when it comes to my paintings. I think all great painters have to have that confidence in what they are seeking and when they're getting there.

I do think it is possible to be in love with two people at the same time.

I love a hard-hit ball, a diving-play situation where you realize afterward there was no thinking involved. It was 100 percent reaction.

I've always been counted out. I've always had people believing I didn't belong. I think that has made me work a little harder.

I think you take a job, you owe it as much passion as the job itself demands. And most jobs demand that you be totally committed.

I think one of the things when you're casting children is you're also casting their parents.

I think the educational value is what comes first. I've always thought that the most effective tools we have for disseminating information, i.e. education, is television and film.

I think you have to be left-brained, to a certain extent, to understand science. I can talk about it, but I can't do it.

Writing I think, out of what all of us do, writing is the hardest. You're the only who start with nothing except what's up here. You do that. It's really hard I think, acting is not.

I don't think you're going to get nominated every time you jump out of the box.

But I was 22 before I took my first dance class. I had never been athletic, so I was very stiff; I still am. I think what I got mostly from dance was carriage.

My job, personally, is to do as much as I can to spread the warning that if we're not careful, it will end. The problem is, we don't think beyond our immediate needs.

Being a better songwriter, that's top of the list because I think that is a very intimidating, difficult task. I really admire people that just continue to write and get stronger.

I think that we need to make it our goal to define freedom for ourselves.

I also think that [political turmoil] gives artists something, a way of kind of processing.

My friends and I have all been super motivated to work and to do the work that we need to and want to and think should be in the world.

I've been thinking a lot about folks denying what has happened in history, or just not acknowledging it.

I think there's something that's fascist [in Donald Trump's election], and something that I think we could probably learn from, in terms of the energy in the world right now.