Thinking Quotes · Page 1,113

It doesn't matter what we think we are there [in Afghanistan] for; it matters what they think. They think we are invaders.

— Gwynne Dyer

My thinking is Lincolnian rather than Jeffersonian, Teddy Rooseveltian rather than Franklin D. Rooseveltian.

— Jacob K. Javits

We don't have a "consciousness meter" that'll tell us exactly how conscious something is. I think we might get there eventually.

— Edward Boyden

I think having funny characters is just one way of having three-dimensional characters.

— Ti West

As a society, I think older women are marginalized, but I think that has changed so much in the last twenty years.

— Melinda McGraw

I think that when audiences find a movie that they don't expect to like, it adds great word of mouth.

— Neal H. Moritz

I think if you want to get to know me, you should come and see a show. A person might get to…

— Nina Arianda

“There's no difference between a madman and a professor...it should be clear to you in the way they dress, act and think.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

...I do not mean to say that this general government is charged with the duty of redressing or preventing all the wrongs…

— Abraham Lincoln

What was good was that I had friends who were actors and in theatre who were really good, because I think my…

— Rob Urbinati

No - Kajol can never go anywhere. Kajol is absolutely hearts and minds and memories and silloys for ever and ever. I…

— Shahrukh Khan

I'd like to see where boys and girls end up if they get equal encouragement I think we might have some differences…

— Sheryl Sandberg

I don’t think a naked body is particularly shocking or interesting. . . . It’s not the culture I was raised in.…

— Anna Paquin

We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wasn't…

— Barbara Mandrell

I had one class in the morning, the mysteriously named "Further Maths". It was two hours long and so deeply frightening that…

— Maureen Johnson

One of the things I think is really problematic about something like [government] spyware is that it isn't transparent - because of…

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached,…

— John le Carre

Silence is something more than just a pause; it is that enchanted place where space is cleared and time is stayed and…

— Pico Iyer

If I were retired I wouldn't know what to do because I'd have to think, well, now what is it I want…

— Stan Lee

Spending a lot of time away from home was strange. My parents visited me, obviously, but I was in hospital a lot,…

— Maggie O'Farrell

The chicken noticed that the farmer came every day to feed it. It predicted that the farmer would continue to bring food…

— Bertrand Russell

Well, I don't know anything about television. I'd never done it before. Initially, it was quite daunting to take on so much…

— Diane Kruger

There's a guy on YouTube ... who just re-voices Donald Trump. He does a thing called Sassy Trump which is just to…

— Armando Iannucci

Pro wrestling was there, and I was good at it, thank God. I started getting a lot of offers, but unfortunately, at…

— Kurt Angle

I don't think focus is in itself ever a bad thing. But focus of the wrong kind, or managed poorly, can be.

— Daniel Goleman

Every time I see Anthony Hopkins I think that, to some extent, he has just been getting away with it all these…

— Liam Neeson

I know I was a generic dysfunctional child, but I think a lot of people are.

— Henry Rollins

Love is complicated if you only depend on our feelings. Sometimes you should use your brain.

— Anonymous

You'd never last in South America. Fans take their radios to the stadium so they can think what the commentators think.

— Simon Kuper

I'm sorry that I did not become the world's first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.

— Nina Simone

In some senses, I think it's almost deliberately anachronistic. There's a retro feel to the [Donald] Trump program.

— Judy Woodruff

I think of the amazing things that were going on. So it's so rich. The doors keep opening.

— Anne Waldman

My size wasn't something that I'd ever spent a huge amount of time thinking about - I guess at the age of…

— Sophie Dahl

When you would think, "what was the use of it," you'll remember something you can't grasp and you'll wonder what it was.

— Hilda Doolittle

I think the dignity of Congress and the dignity of the country demands something more than merely censure here.

— William Weld

You know, the energy I think I was just born with. I think I was just always like that as I kid;…

— Godfrey

Tell me a story then...keep me occupied." "A story?...What makes you think I can tell a story?" "Insight," said the king, "Go…

— Megan Whalen Turner

I love slow readers. And readers who think about what I've written, think about how it's written - and copy me!

— Jacqueline Woodson

I think that fear of embarrassment is the essence of the human challenge.

— Frances Moore Lappé

I think basically I just think I want everyone and don't really want anybody.

— Maureen Duffy