Thinking Quotes · Page 377

“Question authority... Then ignore it! ”

— Joseph Barjack

If there wasn't death, I think you couldn't go on.

— Stevie Smith

People who laugh together generally don't kill each other.

— Alan Alda

I like America. I think it's pretty cool.

— Mary Lynn Rajskub

We sit in a room for months trying to think of funny things.

— David Walliams

As soon as something becomes art I think you get over the fear

— Damien Hirst

I think you can use fiction to get inside people's minds.

— Don Winslow

The thing I like about Bush is I think he hates liberals.

— Ann Coulter

In general I don't think the image of the state as a divinity is very helpful.

— Noam Chomsky

I don't really think our government at heart wants peace. So I urge you, write to Mrs. Laura Bush, because she reads.

— Sandra Cisneros

I think all writers have a bit of genius in them, and a bit of talent. Genius retreats but talent improves.

— Martin Amis

I'm not that comfortable with actors receiving honours, partly because I think they ought to go to those who really help others.

— Jim Broadbent

I guess if you're stupid enough to join the army without thinking about getting shot at, then you really are a fool.

— James Blunt

The only way a show works is you find people who you think are qualified and talented and you give them a…

— Jerry Seinfeld

I don't think sun-tanned skin is any more attractive than white skin, or any healthier, for that matter

— Marilyn Monroe

Off camera, I'm, like, chill and very laid-back. I don't know if the word is 'shy,' but 'reserved.' I'm always thinking.

— Jake Paul

The Lord has a plan. We always think the plans are A, B, C and D, and everything is going to be…

— Tony Dungy

... if [a photograph is] unbelievably real it becomes superreal or another kind of super real, better than real... [it] also can…

— Ralph Eugene Meatyard

I think that in the process of writing, all kinds of unexpected things happen that shift the poet away from his plan…

— John Ashbery

When my mother was sick, I found myself needing to put down in my journals all sorts of things - to try…

— Meghan O'Rourke

I think there is a weird loneliness that comes with being a comedian. There is something definitely inside the personality of a…

— Chris Gethard

Apart from being interested in a good role, I think it's necessary to make up your mind as to whether it will…

— Rod Taylor

If a child is going to grow into a truly special adult–someone who thinks, considers other points of view, has an open…

— Rafe Esquith

I'm fighting against my will to control. I think that is what I am doing. I would like to accept things in…

— Lars von Trier

Goethe said that the worst thing in art is technical facility accompanied by triteness. Many an artist, like God, has never needed…

— Randall Jarrell

Certainly for me prose has a dilatory capacity, insofar as I don't trust my abilities in prose. I imagine I could have…

— Shane McCrae

A—ris—ta?” Degan asked, sounding horse. “What is it?” “A rat bit me,” she said, once again shocked by her own rasping voice.…

— Michael J. Sullivan

You can’t say ‘if this didn’t happen then that would have happened’ because you don’t know everything that might have happened. You…

— Terry Pratchett

When critics or people judge, I think it's harder to make a commercial, pop movie than it is to make a pretentious…

— Brett Ratner

He's like a drug for you, Bella." His voice was still gentle, not at all critical. "I see that you can't live…

— Stephenie Meyer

When I sleepwalk into your room, and pick you up, and hold you up in the moonlight, you cling to me hard,…

— Galway Kinnell

I think comedians get too much credit or too much criticism for the style of comedy they do, and they generally do…

— Jim Gaffigan

I think we need a huge dose of love.

— Ala Bashir

I'm not one of these people who thinks everybody's gay.

— Andrew Sullivan

I think more people want to be rappers than anything else.

— Nas

I think the role of the Federal Reserve is enormously exaggerated.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Christianity made us think there's one heaven.

— Patti Smith

Animals in the wild are lean, and I think we should be too.

— Eddie Izzard

Negative expectations are a quick route to dead-end thinking.

— John C. Maxwell

I think in any writing you're paying attention to detail.

— Peter Matthiessen