Thinking Quotes

If we think today the way TV is ordering us to think, we think of Einstein as someone modern. Stravinsky is modern music, but it came at the time of Birth of a Nation, which is an old movie.

I don't need the definition of society, I'll just do my little thing in my corner and I'll be satisfied. I think that's important nowadays.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

It's just what people do when they're getting old, when they're sick of themselves and their life; they think of money and take care of themselves.

Do you think I can read [Alain] Robbe-Grillet in an underdeveloped country? He does not feel himself maimed.

With a little luck that epoch may arrive. I am on the side of those who think that things will go better when the world has changed.

I think [Alain Robbe-Grillet] a good writer, but he speaks to the comfortable bourgeoisie.

I find overtime exciting. You don't have time to think about anything.

I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.

I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.

If you think about something for long enough,' she explained, 'more than likely, that thing will happen.' She tapped her head. 'It's all in the mind.

I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to.

Why is the mind incapable of deciding its own subject matter? Why when we desperately want to think of one thing to we invariably think of another?

I think we are worlds compressed into human form.

Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception.

I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick.

Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother tongue.

I think of myself in a continuum as a woman. Two hundred years ago, it would have been very difficult for me to write at all.

You have to engage with people who are different from you and try to work with their thinking and their mind. That's a real challenge.

Then, when people saw you strolling around at high noon holding your rosary beads, they’d think, ‘Well, that can’t be a vampire.

I don't care what you think, your junk does not have special abilities.

You'll be scandalized in the morning when you can think again.

No matter what I think about this, Leila, you're my daughter, so you are not walking down that aisle alone.

Bones, what is everyone doing in here? Spade, cover up. Frigging vampires think everyone wants to see what they've got." ~Cat

Try not to think too often, you'll only hurt yourself

Does no one think to warn people before they meet me?" Vlad muttered, shooting an irritable look at Mencheres.

I think Mount Everest is gorgeous, too, but that doesn’t mean I have any intention of trying to climb it

Before you go,mate,turn on the telly. Something raunchy too. Think I'll rub off one before I go to sleep

Did you really think I'd ceased to care? Kitten, I care so much it wrecks me.

I think there are some things in music that work and don't work. That's learned from counterpoint and rhythm and theory, and they don't work if you don't want them to work.

What could be more interesting than thinking of mysterious happenings, finding the answers to intriguing questions, and making up new worlds?

I think the call of the inward life starts here. Solitude helps you differentiate, define the borders of the self. Solitude helps you figure our where everybody else stops and you begins.

Maybe the biggest problem with loneliness is that we walk around thinking we're the only ones suffering from it.

Why do we think the people on stage are the only ones having fun?

If you don't think you're hurt, then you aren't

I admire John Boehner greatly. He's a great public servant. I think people are going to miss him in the long run because he's a person that is focused on solving problems.

I think the voters can make up their own minds.

I'm a skeptic. I'm not a scientist. I think the science has been politicized.

The notion that somehow you're going to have freedom just kind of outbreak in Cuba, I think is false.

I think to deal with Putin, you need to deal from strength. He's a bully, you enable bad behavior when you're nuanced with a guy like that.

I think Republicans really need to be disciplined, to stay focused on sustained economic growth.

Donald Trump is not a serious kind of candidate. We need someone that thinks this through. That can lead our country to safety and security.

I think people have good ideas on this. Clearly, we need to secure the border. Coming here legally needs to be a lot easier than coming here illegally.

If we're going get back into hypotheticals, I think it does a disservice to a lot of people that sacrificed a lot.

I think I can fix the problems in Washington that people desperately want to see fixed.

Half of the interview is substantive and half of it I think is sizing the person up.

I don't like watchingpeople get shot so I would be a little skittish about that - squeamish, but I must say, I don't think the argument that this is going to offend Muslims is a legitimate argument.

It's great that people are basically spending their two weeks of vacation to come out and be with us in some weird part of the world. And I think we owe it to them to take 'em to some cool places.

I think the men and women serving in Iraq today deserve special recognition for that.

I don't think I ever went down that movie star path. I always enjoy taking a 90-degree turn from the last thing I did.