Thinking Quotes

I do think that I have a more flexible view of the interactions between people, and between human and non-human protagonists, humans and their landscapes.

So much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary books and sci-fi/fantasy books as existing on a continuum.

To be a good editor or a good writer, I think you really need to be a great reader first.

In general, I think I'm quick to worry about disasters of all kinds.

I'm an only child, and I think one of the sweet things about that is that my parents are really interested in every aspect of my life.

I think that Donald Trump, how many times during the campaign did he tell us that his plan for dealing with foreign policy was to be unpredictable? Well, there we have it.

At this point of time in history, I don't think that women in any work force that's a male-dominated work force have the same rules to play or live by as men do.

Ask yourself what you could do to make situations less difficult. Do it, even if you think you shouldn't have to.

A lot of novels use crime as a stepping stone to talk about greater issues. So I just think of myself as a writer.

If you're a smart guy, you should really try to find out what women are thinking. I mean, we are 51 percent of the population.

I am a voracious reader myself. I don't stick to one genre. My only criteria is that it's a good story. I try to bring that to my work because I think people can read your excitement about a story.

When a woman creates an unlikable character, a lot of people think it's a mistake.

I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature.

I think that people do things for a reason - that we have mental illness, that we have genetic wiring that can get triggered by certain environmental factors.

I think a lot of guys who are on the internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time.

I think that the more alien and strange a world or situation is, the more concise you have to be if you want the reader to follow you. It depends on what effect you're looking for.

I just think the David O. Selznick story is one of the great, epic stories of Hollywood history that nobody knows. Maybe one of the reasons why nobody knows it is because he wasn't a movie star.

We built everything - toilets included. I think those islands in the middle of nowhere are quite poetic. It's kind of an Oriental Atlantis.

I’m trying to think of the last time I had onions.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

I think it's very important what young people see in pictures or on TV or in magazines. Drugs, violence, anorexia. All of the things that I absolutely do not reference in my photos.

People want to know everything, and so they put you in the limelight. Sometimes, I am not down to earth, and I think I am flying away from the outer realms of reality.

I see things in the middle of the night. I draw them on paper and I don't even think about it. I'm like a machine in a way - just made of some electronic stuff. Vaguely digital.

I pre-suppose, of course, a reader who is willing to learn something new and therefore to think for himself.

If you are disappearing from yourself, but you're still writing, then there is a kind of activity of thinking going on, which in my world is similar to what's going on in music.

People moan about drugs being tested on animals. I sort of think it depends innit. If the drug's aspirin and the monkey's got a headache, is it right?

I don’t think I’ve ever felt this lost, even in Wales.

There’s fish in here that I’ve read about that are so see-through that they’re invisible. So I don’t even think they know they exist.

That's important, I think, for people who come here to realize that we are here for only a time and we have an obligation of service and we need to keep things in perspective.

It's a complex system we live in to think the actions that we take have consequences beyond the years in which we serve, and we all have an obligation to do what is best for our country.

I think it was Osama bin Laden's [idea to start a pre-emptive war in Iraq].

I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.

71 percent of the American people think that the federal government should take no more than 20 percent of anybody's paycheck no matter how much they make.

I would have strong opinions and be prepared to argue my case, but if you talk to my colleagues, I think you'd find they consider me the jokester, the informal mayor of the West Wing.

There is a difference between Senator Obama and Senator McCain. Senator Obama believes that the government ought to be able to take as much as it thinks it needs from anybody.

With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets.

All thinking of the religious man is etymological, a reduction of all concepts to the original intuition, to the characteristic.

I don't think failure is to be overcome as much as it is to be learned from.

Our society really needs to take a better look at what we're selling, because I think women being empowered will be as beneficial to men as it is to us.

I think, especially with this show [How to Get Away with Murder], we have Viola Davis and Pete Nowalk as the showrunner.

I hope that we start trendsetting [with Everybody Loves Somebody], you know, like having bigger movies also include that. Because I think it'll definitely change a lot of what's going on right now.

I tell [scriptwriters] I think [their scripts] has too many stereotypes, that even the way they come in and out of Spanish doesn't really make sense, it feels forced.

I think that, for sure, we as women should try and realize that it's more about having someone to share.

I think Shonda Rhimes came to change television for women forever.

I wish I could fly. Or speak fluent Chinese. Both I think are equally impossible.

By the end of Fashion Week my apartment is covered with makeup and clothes and shoes. Everything you can think of.

I just keep thinking how lucky I am that I haven't had to sacrifice anything.

You know, it's hard to say what's going to happen in the future. But, if I stay healthy, I think I'll probably play until I'm about 40.

I think travel is probably the downside of playing professional golf, but you've got to do it.

I think it's as popular as it ever has been and it continues to grow as it does all around the world.