Thinking Quotes
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I get really nervous if pigeons are flying around before shows. I can't stand them after one once flew in through my bathroom window and went for me while I was having a wee. That was enough. I think pigeons target me.
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I think that if my voice for some reason changes - because your voice does change - then it's time for me not to sing.
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Our young men are going into the professional fields because they don't 'feel called' to the mission field. We don't need a call; we need a kick in the pants. We must begin thinking in terms of 'going out,' and stop our weeping because 'they won't come in.' Who wants to step into an igloo? The tombs themselves are not colder than the churches. May God send us forth.
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My father was a particularly zealous Christian Scientist, but young Christian Science children, who have little choice but to believe what their parents are telling them, are taught that illness originates in errors in their parents' and, eventually, their own thinking.
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Touring is really a weird social experiment, even though everyone thinks it's a party every day.
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Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is.
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I had my first kiss when I was 11, but I think I've blocked it out of my mind because it was so bad. I'm not even sure it counts as a kiss.
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What's going to be funny is when they think Mom and Dad are a little bit cool, because right now, we're not cool Mom and Dad.
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I think more like Charlie Chaplin than like Jennifer Anniston.
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Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.
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Quit thinking about what Bobby Lee's gonna do to us and start thinking about what we're going to do to him.
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I think that too many strangers were in her [Nina Simone's] life, and not enough people that she knew and loved.
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I do not believe, as do so many musicians, that genius should be left to fight its way to the light. Genius is too rare, too precious, to be permitted to waste the best years of life--the years of youth and lofty dreams--in a heart-breaking struggle for bread. To starve the soul with the body is to do worse than murder. Think, too, of what the public loses!
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The most challenging project I've ever done, I think, is every single thing I've ever tried to do. It's never easy.
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I can only live my life in this way. I don't think I would be living it a different way if I wasn't acting.
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One would think America big enough to set aside wilderness preserves for the many of our citizens who seek to escape the incessant crowd, to search for solace in solitude amidst a sanctuary far removed from the banality of beer ads and cigarette commercials.
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Disconnect your identity from what you produce, and that’s a hard thing for us because we think of our significance, worth and value based on what we do instead of who we are.
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I'm a big hit at parties. Friends ask me to sing B-I-N-G-O all the time. I'm thinking, you know, of maybe putting out a Christmas album or something.
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I'm not thinking about anything when I'm climbing, which is part of the appeal. I'm focused on executing what's in front of me.
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I think in order to keep America great, we have to keep America creative.
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Your body's ability to function as a clean and efficient channel is limited by stiffness, lack of strength, and lack of endurance. Your mind's ability is limited by the way it thinks about itself, by the way you think about you. The process of yoga is one of undoing the obstructions and limitations in your body and mind that inhibit the free flow of creative life force.
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I was thinking Claire Danes [wardrobe I was obsessed with], since you said My So-Called Life, but that is a little grungy for me.
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I think President Obama has always been a little bit underestimated. Some of the things he's done with foreign policy have been unassailable. Getting us out of Iraq, killing Osama Bin Laden.
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There are fashions in reading, even in thinking. You don't have to follow them unless you want to. On the other hand, watch out. Don't stick too closely to your favorite subject. That would keep you from adventuring into other fields. It's silly to build a wall around your interests.
