Thinking Quotes · Page 1,257

When I moved to New York, I remember thinking, 'I'm never going to live anywhere else.'

— Rostam Batmanglij

I think the internet is the greatest waste of time since masturbation was discovered.

— Norman Mailer

When one is writing a letter, he should think that the recipient will make it into a hanging scroll.

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.

— Howard Dietz

I think people who go to a psychiatrist ought to have their heads examined.

— Jane Ace

I don't think coolness used to be such a commodity among adults. And now it is.

— Diablo Cody

Elvis had animal magnetism, he was even sexy to the guys, I can't imagine what the chicks used to think.

— Ian Hunter

I went to prep school, Eton and Oxford. When people hear that, they think they know you, and you think: 'No, you…

— Harry Lloyd

Maybe half a dozen think they are a community, but, in general terms, I think English writers tend to face outwards, away…

— William Golding

Which is more messed up- that we have so much compared to everyone else, or that we don't think we're rich? That…

— Francis Chan

I think the most important factor moving us toward a secular society has been the educational factor. Our schools may not teach…

— Paul Blanshard

I've concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress genius because we haven't yet figured out how to manage a…

— John Taylor Gatto

New York means so much to people. If you're inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most people think they…

— Griffin Dunne

I think what it is is do not depend on the president to get you over the line. Do not depend on…

— Christopher Michael Cillizza

Oftentimes Westerners don't really understand fully the values of this particular culture. And I think the jury is still out as to…

— Katie Couric

I think it's really great that people share their work [on Myspace] and no one is paying for it. I think that's…

— Patti Smith

I think the reason Buddhism and Western psychology are so compatible is that Western psychology helps to identify the stories and the…

— Tara Brach

I like being able to play make believe as my job. I think I played make-believe growing up a little too long…

— Elizabeth Olsen

Knowledge and productivity are like compound interest. The more you know, the more you learn; the more you learn, the more you…

— Richard Hamming

Those who live in the country get idiotic in time, without noticing it, for a while they think it's original and good…

— Thomas Bernhard

If you think of the way a composer or say a pop arranger works - he has an idea and he writes…

— Brian Eno

I'm not a fancy person. I love small spaces. I like tiny cars. I don't buy things, aside from music and books.…

— Ellen Page

I think that voodoo as a spiritual tradition has been demonized for so long in popular culture. I wanted to write against…

— Jesmyn Ward

I honor the sanctity of all religions - I'm not here to put them down. But the only religion that I personally…

— Leslie Jordan

Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up

— Stephen King

Remember: what you think you will become - good or bad, weak or strong, defeated or victorious.

— Norman Vincent Peale

I think that the audience intuitively understands the idea of sampling and remixing stories. That's why electronic music is global.

— DJ Spooky

I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at…

— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

Keep your eyes open, take risks, and whenever possible, don't think of things the way everyone else does.

— Jon Daniels

When you start thinking you may get hurt, it's time to get out of racing.

— Mario Andretti

You keep waiting for the heaviness to leave you. You keep waiting for the moment you never think about the ex again.…

— Junot Diaz

They think him the best dressed man, whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think if a woman is feeling aggressive, she should be aggressive and not hold back.

— Jhene Aiko

If you think you can, then you’re half way there. If you say, ‘I can’t,’ then you’re defeated.

— Debbi Fields

I tell it stories now and then and feed it images like honey. I will not speculate today with poems that think…

— Anne Sexton

I think kids are incredibly savvy readers. I think we should give them all the credit in the world. They want to…

— Alan Gratz

People seem to trust you more when you're pregnant. I think they see you as some kind of Mother Earth figure.

— Sara Cox

“That got him thinking about his life. It seemed a bitter, pointless sort of a life now.”

— Joe Abercrombie

When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.

— Roddy Doyle

I believe very firmly in the principle of free agency - people making their own decisions and doing what they think is…

— Mitt Romney