Thinking Quotes

If I said what I was really thinking about this f**ked up world, the government would assassinate me like all the other people they've killed.

I think fundamentally, the question of whether or not Christianity makes sense - whether it withstands scrutiny, whether the evidence supports it or hurts it - always comes down to the Resurrection.

I think people really don't like cops so much; they're kind of rude to them or treat them like they can't see them.

I feel like the ideal length is three months. I go short and sweet on the engagement. I did have a longish engagement, but I think short and sweet is best.

I was being honest - I have nothing to hide. All I do, all the time, with everybody, is tell them what I am thinking, what I am feeling.

I always get scared of traffic cops when I'm driving, like I freak out even when I'm not doing anything wrong. I still think they're going to pull me over and arrest me.

I've managed to create intimacy with people I know, and people that I don't know. The longer things stay inside of us, the more we think they are black or tainted, but they're really not.

I don't think many kids question their surroundings. Everything seems so permanent and inevitable growing up, even chaos.

My natural inclination is to think in scenes. So that's how I write, and the issue for me is usually: what to compress for speed.

I'm trying to think of what I'm ashamed of. But, damn, I don't really have any shame.

In this world, everyone wants to know everything about you, and I think that's funny.

When I do get free time, I spend a lot of it at home with my family and my close friends and I think that's what keeps me happy, healthy, grounded, and totally in check.

I think guys who are rebels and make their own rules are appealing.

I don't even think about fame at all.

I think humor is important for all of us, and a great comedian is a great treasure.

People, of all ages, are far more open than you might think to being moved in new ways.

I think money is pretty straightforward. Get some money in; pay off what you owe, the rest is yours.

Snow-capped Snowdon has been an iconic Welsh image for centuries. It is shocking to think that in just 14 years, snow on this great mountain could become nothing but a permanent and distant memory.

You can't force other people to like you and you just kind of have to ride the wave. I think I could have saved myself a lot of sleepless nights with that advice.

I think we all feel that way when we're young we don't think teachers have lives. We don't think therapists have lives. We don't think doctors have lives.

I don't think anyone would want to come to my gallery show.

When I write I'm never really thinking about themes or the universal.

But I also think when we embark on intimate relationships, we make a basic human promise to be decent, to hold a flattering mirror up to each other, to be respectful as we explore each other.

My uncle's a lawyer and I remember going to see him in court and thinking, 'That's cool, too bad I could never be a lawyer.'

I'd love to write something for a male protagonist. That's sort of the next frontier for me. I think it'd be really amazing to write the kind of parts that I love for women but for a guy.

I learned that people are much more game to mock their own personas than you would think.

I am thinking particularly of a shower I took where the lower half of my body was under the running water and the upper half was laid out on the bath mat, eating a loaf of bread.

On a personal level, I'm proud of Grace Dunham for being so staunchly in her identity. It's a very unusual thing for a young person. I think she's been very strong about it.

I always say that I can play sort of six variations on one girl, all of whom are a variation on me. Maybe I'll think of myself as an actor if, like, I do a corset drama.

I felt highly anxious in a way that I didn't think other children were.

I think breakfast is the one meal when you don't have to eat animal, maybe.

I do think girls in their twenties accept certain kinds of lesser treatment than they would at other times in their lives.

You know, I always think of myself as sort of ready for every criticism.

I remember asking my mom, "Do you think that I will ever have enough money to live outside of your house?" And she would be like, "You just never know."

I frustrate myself as a writer. There are certain things that I'll think, 'Well, that would be really fun to play... if somebody else was playing this character.'

I think that social networking makes people more connected, yet more distant, so there are people with less ties to real friend groups and less a sense of self.

I support Selfies! I think the war on selfies is really unjust!

Instagram what you think is funny and exciting and try not to include any animal abuse!

I think what people really hate is to be caught by surprise by criticism.

I think that as our country becomes more tolerant as a whole of certain things, hopefully becomes more tolerant, there's a way that certain kinds of bullying will be passe and unacceptable.

There has been a whole lot. Just to combine a musical career with the last year on high school was enough as it is. I didn't think it should fare as well as it did, but apparently it did.

I have what I came to find in my research is a mild form of synesthesia, though I never would have labeled it as such. It's how I think about numbers and letters. They all have inherent genders.

When I watch students make particular decisions about language, structure, and form, it sharpens my own thinking and my own development as a writer.

Part of being a writer is feeling that constant dissatisfaction, thinking about what else you could do, and also knowing when it's time to leave a project.

I don't usually like talking about acting or what my process is, and all those kinds of things, because I don't necessarily think it's helpful to talk about how I do my job.

My favorite television show of all time is 'Hill Street Blues.' I think it's the show that is to television what Pele was to football or Muhammad Ali was to boxing.

I think vulnerable is something you should always be. [It] makes you open to each experience. I try not to see vulnerability as a negative.

Sometimes chaos is a little easier to handle than the regular moments because your body just takes over. No time to think. Just do.

I think that we have to be very careful and get back into the loop, get back to nature. Get back to God and not let the technology send us somewhere that we're going to regret.

I don't like to approach people that much. There's been times when I wanted to say something to somebody, in a quick moment, but didn't. Then you think, man, who knows?