Thinking Quotes

I think the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals abused its power all day long.

I think I understand the Constitution a little bit because in 1971 we went off the gold standard under President Nixon into the Federal Reserve notes because we were a worldwide currency.

I don't think I had a specific moment when I thought, "I'm not going to play music anymore." I just played less and got involved in other things.

I did pull out my old Telecaster, and have been thinking I'd like to play that loud with a drummer. But I haven't actually done that yet.

I think he's got good potential, but he needs a lot of work.

When I was coaching with the Patriots, the players pulled a practical joke and I said, 'Do you think I'm Charlie the Tuna, like a sucker?' After that, they called me Tuna.

I think Joe [Madison] is right. What we have to do is call him out on every one of these things and then maybe somebody will take the sweet machine away from him.

But I didn't think about this beforehand. I just went ahead and did it, and that's the way it turned out. So I guess there are lots of paradoxes which I'll leave for other people to unscramble.

As state leaders, I think its important for us to provide our perspectives on issues we face every day - like access to school spending, access to health care and governing in a global economy.

Runners...you're competitive, but you want to have fun, too. You want to enjoy life. And runners really get to do that, I think-after we recover.

It's a silly fool who thinks killing an animal with one tool is different than killing him with another.

I think that money has changed my sport.

The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.

It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves.

I think I can say without fear of contradiction that we could generate sorties at an extremely high level and bring very, very effective air power to bear in support of our troops.

If you think that one individual can't make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house.

Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

I don't think other people in the world would share the view there is mounting chaos.

I often think about the class differences involved in "jobs" vs. "careers."

I'm not one of those "omg texting kids rite bad" alarmists. I just think there's an interesting nexus where the Internet itself hastened language change when it comes to Internet terms.

On occasion I omit commas. On occasion, I use them. (The more you know about English, the less you're likely to think there are unbreakable "rules" for a lot of these things.)

Tim Duncan's foot issue, I think, is a major factor in this year's playoffs. That's not the kind of injury that gets better over time playing NBA basketball.

Chick Hearn was my favorite broadcaster ever - he's the one who taught me to think basketball, how to love basketball.

For no reason I can think of, I've wandered far astray. And that is how I got to where I find myself today.

I think comics overall would be better. I think there's a tremendous potential to be tapped.

I always think of "Popeye" and "Barney Google" as quintessential comic strips in that old rollicky, slapstick way we've sort of lost.

I think when an actress marries she should leave the stage. She cannot be happy if she is married and remains on the stage. She must care more for her art or for her husband.

Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].

I think it's really important to have portion control. I don't believe in losing weight quickly.

I like to see what future generations are thinking about.

That's where all good music comes from, I think - anything that's likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there's no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal.

With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed - that's sort of the root of age.

I am thinking about those things now. More so than all my friends - they're a lot older than me, but they're not even thinking about babies.

People think you have to be tortured or miserable to write, but I'm finding that I get inspired a lot more these days before I'm happy.

I've lived in California for half of my life. It's weird, everyone thinks of me as this guy who's from the South ... I'm really a Californian.

I think Americana music is music that is generally more singer/songwriter oriented. It has more to do with the songwriting. The music, it's more like stories set to music.

I don't think anybody chooses to be an underdog.

If you look at a character as a mountain over there that you have to climb, then I think you've lost 50 percent of the air.

You never know what an audience is going to think about something. The ones that the audience doesn't get, I tend to let them go. I don't like to dwell on them too much.

I think my stuff's kind of obsolete now, you know? I'm making Model Ts or something, and everybody else is making spaceships.

I'm not really a full-time director, I just like to direct the things that I write because I think I'm going to know it better than someone else.

I think everybody's contemplating TV now, because mid-level and high-budget independent films are not being made now.

It's not that I don't understand it. But people think if you speak with an English accent it somehow makes you smarter.

When people wear shoes that don't fit them, it says something about their soul. Generally, I think it means they are good people.

Sometimes the songs you think will be best don't turn out to be best.

I think all art is subjective - that whoever's watching it or listening to it will decide whether it's good or bad.

I'd like to win a Booker Prize for writing. A Nobel Peace Prize for my work in peace... and I think that'll probably do.

Acting, music, painting... it's very subjective. So what I might think is a great actor, you might think is not a very good actor at all.

I think the ears are a strange look for me. Quite big. But I loved the hair down to my shoulders. It felt right. I'm thinking of letting my hair go.

I think once you get it in your head, that you're not going to do anything bigger, you just do things that you enjoy, which has always been my ethos anyway.