Raymond Pettibon Quotes

No one can help me with my work. I think I do best when I am just left alone.

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• I haven't found it to be particularly enjoyable... ninety percent of the time when I go on dates, I'm thinking, 'I could be reading my book instead.'

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Book

• My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Long

• I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.

  

  AJ McLean
  • World
  • God
  • Thinking

• In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don't feel. But all my novels are about joining together thinking and feeling.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Thinking
  • Together
  • Think

• I can remember being at Sandringham, for the first time, at Christmas. And I was worried what to give the Queen as her Christmas present. I was thinking, 'Gosh, what should I give her?'. I thought, 'I'll make her something.' Which could have gone horribly wrong. But I decided to make my granny's recipe of chutney.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• I was a child during the Lebanese civil war, and I remember Israeli bombardments. So growing up, my view of Israel was completely negative. I'm not coming from a neutral place, but with time, I've had to re-examine my thinking.

  

  Ziad Doueiri
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• 'What, concretely, is Enlightenment?' 'Seeing Reality as it is,' said the Master. 'Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?' 'Oh, no! Most people see it as they believe it is.' 'What's the difference?' 'The difference between thinking you are drowning in a stormy sea and knowing you cannot drown because there isn't any water in sight for miles around.'

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • People
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• It's dogged as does it. It's not thinking about it.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Thinking

• It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Thinking
  • Soul

• I find motion, literally, is where ideas come from. It's almost like a built-in rhythm section. The contents of the songs are about change, and a lot of that stuff happens when you're on tour, and you wake up and you're in a different place and you start thinking about where you're going and where you've been.

  

  Kathleen Edwards
  • Up
  • Different
  • Thinking

• We can't do every good thing there is to do in the world. Too many Christians live under the terror of total obligation, thinking every act of injustice, every opportunity of ministry, and every urgent appeal are our responsibilities.

  

  Kevin DeYoung
  • World
  • Good
  • Thinking

• I think it's safe to say people are going to be interested in Kim Kardashian's love choices for the next 30 years. But they can take a minute to think about the new robotic arm that could replace the one they lost to cancer. Then they can keep thinking about Kim Kardashian.

  

  James Woods
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Lost

• I'm just thinking about being the best I can be for the team first because that's what comes first.

  

  Aly Raisman
  • Thinking
  • Team

• There are a lot of stuff on the record that I am thinking is generic but actually it is just as good as everybody else who is putting stuff out at the time.

  

  Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden
  • Time
  • Good
  • Thinking

• I started 'Society's Child' on a bus in East Orange as I was going home from school. I saw a black and white couple sitting there and started thinking about it.

  

  Janis Ian
  • Thinking
  • School
  • Home

• When Kenny first came to me, I think he was thinking of making a nice little folk record, but in my opinion, folk music had come to an end and I felt he needed to go to the next step, the next generation.

  

  Jim Messina Buffalo Springfield
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Nice

• When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

  

  James A. Baldwin
  • Thinking
  • Action
  • Balance

• I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it and then you let it go because you can't waste many brain cells on hours thinking about it.

  

  Mark McGwire
  • Thinking
  • Brain

• Negative thinking is subtle and deceptive. It wears many faces and hides behind the mask of excuses. It is important to strip away the mask and discover the real, root emotion.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Thinking
  • Negative
  • Subtle

• I regard it as an inelegance, or imperfection, in quaternions, or rather in the state to which it has been hitherto unfolded, whenever it becomes or seems to become necessary to have recourse to x, y, z, etc.

  

  William Rowan Hamilton
  • Seems
  • Regard
  • Imperfection

• I'm not a braggart, but when I was a little girl people used to come from all over Hollywood to hear me sing.

  

  Etta James
  • Hollywood
  • Sing
  • Little Girl

• I think actually singing the words is more therapeutic than just sitting down to write them, because then you are letting it out, and it's coming from your gut.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Singing
  • I Think
  • Gut

• No one can help me with my work. I think I do best when I am just left alone.

  

  Raymond Pettibon Black Flag
  • Thinking
  • Helping