Thinking Quotes

Because you're only thinking they-might-not-like-me-they-might-not-like-me, and guess what? When you act like that, no one likes you.

We're not going to break anything. Don't think of it as breaking in to SeaWorld. Think of it as visiting SeaWorld in the middle of the night for free.

Once you think a thought, it is extremely difficult to unthink it.

I was thinking about this girl you love so much," she said, "And this place I love so much. And how that happens. How you can just fall into it.

I think maybe I know why,' she finally said. 'Why?' 'Maybe all the strings inside him broke,' she said.

I think maybe the reason I have spent most of my life being afraid is that I have been trying to prepare myself to train my body for real fear when it comes. But I am not prepared.

We just sat there quiet for a long time, which was fine, and I was thinking about way back in the very beginning in the Literal Heart of Jesus.

And okay, fair enough, but there is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind of violates that contract.

I think forever is an incorrect concept.

I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer. He smiled. Gallows humor.

Also, it was a bit hopeless," he said. "A bit defeatist." "If by defeatist you mean honest, then I agree." "I don't think defeatism is honest, " Dad answered. "I refuse to accept that.

I’ve stopped thinking about it. I don’t have time to have a girlfriend. I have like a full-time job Learning How to Be Blind.

I hope you didn't bring the Asian kid along thinking he's a computer genius. Because I'm not," Takumi said.

I think that most of us [writers] would rather have an audience than countless riches. If we wanted to be rich, we'd be doing smething else.

I think people who are religious are more likely to want one around, but it's a very secular position.

I think when you're 16, if you have good parents, they generally just fade in the background. I had great parents, and because they were great, I thought very little about them in high school.

I think that it's a universal urge to have our pain not be felt alone and to have our joys not be felt alone.

I think all true stories are hopeful stories. I don't think there's any room for nihilism.

When we think of death, we often imagine it as happening in degrees: We think of a sick person becoming less and less alive until finally they are gone.

I think teenagers bring a lot of intellectual sophistication. They're wrestling with big questions. It's just that, a lot of times they do that separately from adults.

Certainly it does make the greatest possible difference what we think about God; the knowledge of God is the very basis of religion.

I cannot bear to think that our young men are merely living four years in a country club and spending their lives wholly in a spirit of calculation and snobbishness.

The power of the past to still dominate our thinking today.

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg.

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together to create what they need.

I think that some of these plays are lost in this new horror called development, which is a place for dramaturgs to say "let me tell you what your play means," and the life gets sucked out of a play.

Obama is seen as very, very cool. I think a lot of people find him sexy.

I think even in today's America, there's a sense that there's something vaguely sexy about cigarettes.

The tendency of the UN and its major supporters is to think good intentions and mild to rampant corruption are as good as actual results.

'The New York Times' thing... I think any actor would be thrilled to be profiled in that paper.

As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.

I don't think there are in life, pure darkness or pure light. Everyone's got a little of everything.

Certainly I've had the experience of thinking a person was one thing, and finding out they were another.

I think we're all mysteries to ourselves.

I think we should always listen to Bill Clinton about everything. And so, if that's his view then that should be the rule of law.

I think that Jesus-dependency has taken over our minds, and too many of our institutions.

In general, I think very few people have a sustained interest in news.

I think in American culture, we put value on economic success but tell people you don't have to be economically successful to be happy.

All books should be trilogies; I mean I think we all agree on that.

I think for the foreseeable future, the truth is going to be awful and funny all at the same time.

I think, as we all learn as a child, you have to learn to tolerate ambiguity better and I'm still terrible at it and I hate it; even the word ambiguity makes me sick to me stomach.

To want to become the President is, I think, such a bizarre ambition that it is automatically deranging.

It would be a nice problem to have. It would mean we had reached the final. I'd like to think common sense would prevail and we'd have the use of both of them.

I felt, you know, body and soul, as it were. But, of course, I mean, I - at that age, I didn't think in terms of being professional. I didn't know anything about it. That happened later.

You know, people think you have to be dumb to skip rope for 45 minutes. No, you have to be able to imagine something else. While you're skipping rope, you have to be able to see something else.

They all settled into being the kind of friends when they heard from each other.... or when they occasionally got together. And when they were not in touch, they did not think of one another.

Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can't even remember having met you

I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.

I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I've seen in the country since John Kennedy.

What a phrase that is: 'that explains everything!' I know better than to think anything 'explains everything' today.