Thinking Quotes

• Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Graduation

• I think there's something your hormones do that makes a chemical change in the way you think.

  

  Boots Riley
  • Thinking
  • Chemicals

• Having photographed the landscape for a number of years and specifically working with trees and in the forest I found, without consciously thinking about it, that it was a great learning experience for me in terms of organizing elements.

  

  John Sexton
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Learning

• I think the ties to slavery and the terrible tragedy that followed the Civil War with Jim Crow and racial violence is closely linked to the Confederate flag.

  

  William R. Ferris
  • Violence
  • Slavery
  • Tragedy

• I hear a good song and I start thinking, 'Oh shoot. You know there's a story that can be told to this,' and whatnot.

  

  Uzodinma Iweala
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Story

• I think that you need to have books that talk about the lives of the poor, and they need to be involved - involved in acquisitions.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Book
  • Poor
  • Acquisition

• I think that Twilight is so big that nothing can affect it.

  

  Judi Shekoni
  • Thinking
  • Twilight

• We started the band with a work ethic of 'it's us against the world' and that is something that our fans aligned with, too. Together, we speak a common language. I think that motto has helped us keep the creative force alive all these years while the fans have kept the fire burning for us to always be excited to create new music for them. Without the fans, we are a band without a home.

  

  David Ellefson
  • Work
  • Home
  • Together

• I feel like I want to write some songs and I don't know how to go about doing it. Usually it's the lyrics that are a problem, and I think I am not really cut out to be a lyricist.

  

  Mike Gordon
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Problem

• I'm always looking at my brother and sisters, thinking - do we look inbred, maybe? Maybe a tiny bit.

  

  Bryce Dallas Howard
  • Thinking
  • Brother

• What we do and think in our own lives, then, becomes of extreme importance as it effects everything we're connected to.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Thinking
  • inspirational
  • Importance

• People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.

  

  Vivien Leigh
  • People
  • Care
  • Acting

• I would like to own a dog in the future. I think it would be a big step for me in the rehabilitation process.

  

  Michael Vick
  • Process
  • Would
  • Rehabilitation

• Religion does not mean just precepts, a temple, monastery, or other external signs, for these as well as hearing and thinking are subsidiary factors in taming the mind.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Mean

• I think that the Middle East is the largest piece of unfinished business that we all have. I happen to believe in the democratization process.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Believe
  • Business
  • Unfinished Business

• I don't think that has ever changed. I don't think I see any more or any less than I did years ago. Let's say I have the print of a photo taken in the 1960s and one I took a month ago. I think it's pretty difficult to tell any difference, personally.

  

  William Eggleston
  • Taken
  • Difficult
  • Changed

• The late British-born philosopher Alan Watts, in one of his wonderful lectures on eastern philosophy, used this analogy: "If I draw a circle, most people, when asked what I have drawn, will say I have drawn a circle or a disc, or a ball. Very few people will say I've drawn a hole in the wall, because most people think of the inside first, rather than thinking of the outside. But actually these two sides go together--you cannot have what is 'in here' unless you have what is out there.' " In other words, where we are is vital to who we are.

  

  Eric Weiner
  • Philosopher
  • Circle
  • Lectures

• Jeff Beck is my idol .. sometimes he finds notes that I just do not have on my guitar. Frank Zappa's another one .. I loved Frank Zappa ... I do think Van Halen reinvented the guitar ... he's an excellent musician, a shrewd guitarist and as a person he's wonderful.

  

  Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
  • Music
  • Sometimes
  • Wonderful

• If you based your knowledge of the human species exclusively on adverts, you'd think that the normal condition of humanity was to be a good-looking single person between 20 and 35, with excellent muscle-definition and/or an excellent figure, and a large disposable income.

  

  Francis Spufford
  • Humans
  • Looking
  • Definitions

• Some people understand the charity of our Lord and are saved by it; others, relying on this mercy and kindness, continue in their sins, thinking that it may be theirs whenever they wish. But this is not so, for then they are too late and are taken in their sins before they expect it, and so damn themselves.

  

  Walter Hilton
  • People
  • Taken
  • Kindness

• Whatever I was writing at the time, I knew there was no market for it and never would be, because there’s never a market for true art, so my main concern was always to have a job that didn’t require me to write or think.

  

  Nell Zink
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Concern

• I think we are able to keep active provided we approach our lives with creativity. I think the mere fact that we keep doing is self-creating.

  

  Jessica Tandy
  • Creativity
  • Able
  • Active

• With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own self I needed to develop quite a bit more. So that put Blur down the list of priorities quite a lot by the time I came to thinking about it.

  

  Graham Coxon Blur
  • Mother
  • Daughter
  • Priorities

• If your life's work can be accomplished in your lifetime, you're not thinking big enough.

  

  Wes Jackson
  • Enough
  • motivation
  • Lifetime

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