Thinking Quotes

I think what's dangerous is 24 hours a day, 335 channels, or whatever the hell there is. Too much is too much.

As H.L. Mencken once said, 'nobody ever when broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.' Our show [All in the Family] countered that witticism. I think he was wrong.

I think if you're feeling great about where you are, everything that led up to it had to be terrific.

I think somehow I got a sense of the foolishness of the human - my favorite phrase, the foolishness of the human condition.

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.

I think the internet is the greatest waste of time since masturbation was discovered.

Women think of being a man as a gift. It is a duty. Even making love can be a duty. A man has always got to get it up, and love isn't always enough.

I would introduce myself if it were not useless. The name I had last night will not be the same as the name I have tonight. For the moment, then, let me say that I am thinking of Sam Slovoda.

I don't trust a man who uses the word evil eighteen times in ten minutes. If you're half evil, nothing soothes you more than to think the person you are opposed to is totally evil.

The novelist ... must live in paranoia and seek to be one with the world; he must be terrified of experience and hungry for it; he must think himself nothing and believe he is superior to all.

I think there's huge room for a personality who can create a following, and that personality can be a person or a company.

I think there's still room for compelling voices to build up and get a great following.

You can really do more than you think you can do.

You'll always get an idea if you think and don't panic.

I think really good books can be read by anybody.

To a child, and to an adult, too, what you discover by yourself, or what you think you discover by yourself, is what stays.

One often thinks that using 2 different things like visual and sound lead to 2 different conclusions - to a different content - but in in my case it is all one.

Obsession is a negative word, I do not think that obsession can bring positive things. Not only in tennis but, I mean in any situation of life.

I think if you do not enjoy your time, your life, if you do not live intensely and do not spend time with your family, in one way or another it will be reflected in your career.

I think that's part of people wanting a wholesome life, to surround yourself with farm animals and fields. That's sort of an American ideal.

I like to think of birthdays as celebrating life." "Only losers acknowledge they survived a year and hope they cheat death again.

I don't think the amount of belief you have is what's important. I think it's what you have belief in that matters.

Actually, the zapping light was kinda like Sookie’s fairy-light-thing. Do you think there’s any chance I’m a fairy?” “No, Z. Focus. True Blood is fiction. This is the real world.

I think people respect governments that take decisions and act decisively.

I don't think we should label budgets even before the budget is presented.

I'm all for rational enjoyment, and so forth, but I think a fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at the electric fan

You are falling into your old error, Jeeves, of thinking that Gussie is a parrot. Fight against this. I shall add the oz.

I may as well tell you, here and now, that if you are going about the place thinking things pretty, you will never make a modern poet. Be poignant, man, be poignant!

Warm-hearted! I should think he has to wear asbestos vests!

It was one of the most disgusting spectacles I've ever seen-- this white-haired old man, who should have been thinking of the hereafter, standing there lying like an actor.

I've always figured that if God wanted us to go to church a lot He'd have given us bigger behinds to sit on and smaller heads to think with.

As a result of that, and as a result of friendship, I don't think we've ever been competitive. I mean, there's probably a very good reason Hunter [S. Thompson] isn't jealous of me.

There's such a self-conscious balance that goes into television. Also, these are not people that think things through.

I like Michael Moore, but I think of him more as a rabble-rouser.

I'll be 56 this year, I've got two kids, and I think it's probably time to go back to writing one-glove jokes.

Then there was LSD, which was supposed to make you think you could fly. I remember it made you think you couldn't stand up, and mostly it was right.

Who does Bill Clinton think got off the boat and stepped on Plymouth Rock? Peace Corps volunteers?

Well the planet I've got a chance to visit is Earth, and Earth's principal features are chaos and war. I think I'd be a fool to spend years here and never have a look.

Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.

I'm a member of the working press; you'd think I'd know better than to listen to journalists.

It is very hard now to shock people into thinking about government regulation and the extent of government involvement in life.

I think Michael O'Donoghue felt he'd said what he wanted to say. In fact, nobody thought we could spin it out long enough to make a book.

I think in the [Bill] Clinton era, if people hadn't been spending vast amounts of time attacking Clinton, they would have found that they had essentially the same problems as they do now.

Japan has really great fans for all kinds of music. I think they're keeping metal alive. They're really great supporters, and they really love music. I think it's a total outlet for them.

I think Harold Ramis is a genius beyond genius, and he's the nicest guy, funniest guy, sweetest guy ever. So I don't know if it applies to everybody, but maybe it has to do with your childhood.

I think the idea of Mary Poppins has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life.

I think every film is somehow a political film. You show a perspective and a world that has logic, and that logic is inserted into a political environment, and it means something. Yes, why not?

You're not such a dog as you think you are.

Whenever I'm in sync with the trends, it's always an accident. I still love wearing clothes I've had for ten years. I think understated luxury is the chicest thing.

I always think, after the second glass of wine, you should be putting something in your stomach.