Thinking Quotes · Page 1,159

Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I can take care of a house, and some people I meet, I think, 'You don't even know how to make a…

— Beth Ditto

I'm the kind of person that thinks that you should get what you deserve in what you show, with actions, not with…

— Cub Swanson

Nay, we must think men are not gods, Nor of them look for such observancy As fits the bridal.

— William Shakespeare

Every morning I walk like this around the pond, thinking: if the doors of my heart ever close, I am as good…

— Mary Oliver

If I'm not playing basketball, I'm reading or thinking of stories I can create.

— Robin Lopez

If you want to know what you think of yourself, then ask yourself what you think of others and you will find…

— Seth

Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.

— Mason Cooley

We think sometimes we're only drawn to the good, but we're actually drawn to the authentic. We like people who are real…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

I have found that the characters in my novels stay with me after a book has ended. I know them in some…

— Marilynne Robinson

November 18. . . I dig musicians, I feel they have the most to offer me mentally and emotionally because they think…

— Pamela Des Barres

I don't write the same book over and over - I think if I did that, I would stop writing. I couldn't…

— Jodi Picoult

Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is a form of service journalism. To be successful, I think it has to be a…

— Ted Allen

We aren't allowed to have any opinions. People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but it doesn't stop you having…

— Anne Frank

You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see…

— Oscar Wilde

Somebody who moved up very fast was Jim Cameron, who was a young guy out of - I think he came from…

— Roger Corman

I don't see a lot of studio executives caring at all about what the culture is telling us. They think they make…

— Wesley Morris

What I love about the ministry of Jesus is that he identified the poor as blessed and the rich as needy...and then…

— Rachel Held Evans

My casting process was slightly different and slightly interesting insofar as I knew everybody could act. That's something you've seen. You know…

— Dan Mazer

Good education is linked with good teachers. We need to think how we can have good teachers. India has the capability to…

— Narendra Modi

We can be aggressive at the right time with the right stakes when it comes to price. But I think for us,…

— Amy Nauiokas

A defining moment in my life was my first actual VMA performance… That was the first time in my head I said…

— Chris Brown

But you need to strive to try and communicate and try and change things in a similar way. And then people can…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

Think of what's stored in an 80- or a 90-year-old mind. Just marvel at it. You've got to get out this information,…

— Studs Terkel

The aesthetic, as I understand it, is really about the way in which we understand beauty and speak and think about beauty.

— Kwame Dawes

You should think about for the next 10 years, you're going to be giving out 3-5% of the company every year.

— Sam Altman

Some guy said to me: Don't you think you're too old to sing rock n' roll? I said: You'd better check with…

— Cher

There's a genetic memory that stays on your bones. What you experience when you're young, I think it stays with you.

— Richard Schiff

I truly believe that if you think something's stupid, that might mean it's actually good.

— Victoria Legrand

I think people think that labels can get you features more than you can get your own. I just doesn't work like…

— Kid Ink

The Service without Hope Is tenderest, I think-- ... There is no Diligence like that That knows not an Until

— Emily Dickinson

I never listen to the radio. If it's bad, I make fun of it, and if it's good, I get jealous that…

— John Lennon

We don't necessarily always agree, but hopefully we make each other think, and that's what matters.

— Vanessa Kerry

Against Dirrell I was thinking: 'Hold up, he's not as fast as me.' I can hit him with my left hand. It's…

— James DeGale

Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.

— Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

I let everyone have [the] space to do what they want, but I think I'm still a bit of a perfectionist.

— Gustav Ejstes

We are like magnets - like attract like. You become AND attract what you think.

— Anonymous

Character, I think, is the single most important thing in fiction. You might read a book once for its interesting plot—but not…

— Diana Gabaldon

I think that President Obama is beginning to realize that a lot of his plans have backfired.

— Jonathan Krohn

I think you have to want to be really famous. It's a lot easier to sabotage your career than to have a…

— Win Butler