Thinking Quotes · Page 4,391

.......the poor of the world cannot be made rich by redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I regard myself as being the final filter so everything that ends up in the movie is there because it's something that…

— Peter Jackson

I auditioned [for America's Most Talented Kids] just to see where I would rank. I had been playing [gigs] around town, and…

— Cheyenne Kimball

When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.

— Margaret Atwood

My most prized possession is my pillow. I can't travel or sleep without it. And it's, like, this really thin down pillow…

— Sam Mikulak

I've always enjoyed that kind of thing - thinking about the production of narrative and why it is that when we read…

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

Sex therapist claims that the most effective way to arouse your man is to spend 10 minutes licking his ears!! Personally, I…

— Billy Connolly

Too often we bask in our comfortable complacency and rationalize that the ravages of war, economic disaster, famine, and earth quake cannot…

— Ezra Taft Benson

I think admitting youre an addict is the first step towards recovery.

— J. J. Abrams

I am often able to hear what people are thinking.

— Matt Hardy

I think the more the listener can contribute to the song, the better; the more they become part of the song, and…

— John Prine

A fan is someone who, if you have made an idiot of yourself on the pitch, doesn't think you've done a permanent…

— Jack Lynch

We think we're near energy independence - nothing could be further from the truth. We're in much better shape now, but the…

— Michael Mullen

I sometimes set myself thinking and imagining that I find amongst men but one single art or science, and that is drawing…

— Michelangelo

I think I can keep a rhythm to a beat, but there are quite a few people who would argue with me.

— Matthew McConaughey

I never had a hat, never wore one, but recently was given a brown suede duck-hunting hat. The moment I put it…

— John Cage

I think it's been the topic of conversation for every one... If the U.S. is hit again, how are we going to…

— Holly Johnson

Primitive, naive drawing can also be good drawing but it's hard to pull off. I don't think most submitters realize that.

— Robert Mankoff

That was the thing about Prabhupada, you see. He didn't just talk about loving Krishna and getting out of this place, but…

— George Harrison

My general approach to writing fiction is that you try to have as few conceptual notions as possible and you just respond…

— George Saunders

We're very privileged as Americans - it's easy to forget about the rest of the world and to think that your problems…

— Madonna Ciccone

By bringing together what we know and what we don't know through analogy, metaphorical thinking strikes the spark that ignites discovery,

— James Geary

If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.

— Golda Meir

Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a few revolutions to go yet…

— David Chalmers

The Internet's been so great, and it's so nice to have fans do nice, elaborate websites, but I think the down side…

— Denise Richards