Thinking Quotes

• I think young people are the most creative and the coolest - people that we should be learning from. Even when I'm at a party, I'm analyzing it and thinking about it in the context of how I would write about it. That side of me never switches off.

  

  Lorde
  • People
  • Party
  • Learning

• Think against your feelings; unmask the unbelief they have nourished; let evangelical thinking correct emotional thinking.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Thinking
  • Feelings
  • Emotional

• I love thinking of movie stars who could play the characters in the books I write. I think Charlize Theron would make a lovely Marie Antoinette.

  

  Kathryn Lasky
  • Thinking
  • Movie

• I think I'll always be a better playwright than a pundit, but I believe that writers should be public intellectuals and that theater, even more than film, is a place of public debate.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Believe
  • Film
  • Debate

• I don't want to take fame for granted because that is when you start to think you are better than everyone else. That is when you start thinking that you are someone that you are not.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Thinking
  • Better
  • Start

• When I was in Marine training I memorised 'The Waste Land,' which was a significant experience in terms of really breaking apart language and thinking about how the different voices in that poem function.

  

  Phil Klay
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Training

• I think that we have two things going on in the world right now. We have one sort of vibe that's love who you are, be yourself, love your flaws, embrace your body, embrace your inner beauty, all of that. And then we have another very looks-based thing happening at the same time, you know?

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Time
  • World
  • Love You

• I was raised in a bit of a hippie environment. I was lying around naked until I was two, having a good time. I think the California mentality is laid back and I definitely embody that.

  

  Urijah Christopher Faber
  • Time
  • Good
  • Environment

• I think all human beings are at least a little bit Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde, and many of us are downright quadrophenic.

  

  Dave Smalley
  • Human
  • Little
  • Quadrophenic

• I don’t like to badmouth people. But I’m the head of a monarchy that began in the ninth century, and I’m apparently more modern than Chris Christie. Look, I know he has to appeal to the crazy right-wingers in his party, but the fact is, he’s not as forward-thinking as an eighty-seven-year-old lady who wears a crown on her head. It’s pathetic.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • People
  • Party
  • Crazy

• I've done kissing scenes with people who have been loaded. I'd think, 'Do you actually have to drink that Jack Daniels to kiss me?'

  

  Molly Ringwald
  • People
  • Done
  • Kissing

• I think diseases have no eyes. They pick with a dizzy finger anyone, just anyone.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Eye
  • Disease
  • Illness

• I think oil prices are down for two reasons. One is, there is a lot of supply. There is a lot of supply because the U.S. now produces a lot of oil and there is a lot of supply because the Saudis seem to want to produce a lot of oil, maybe to punish the Iranians and the Russians.

  

  David Wessel
  • Reason
  • Produce
  • Saudis

• What we have done, I think, is build a model from a lot of hard lessons in Afghanistan and Iraq but in other places around the world, where we are working with them in an advisory capacity.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Done
  • Model

• The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.

  

  William Nicholson
  • Wine
  • Drinking
  • Adultery

• For the Flower to blossom, you need the right soil as well as the right seed. The same is true to cultivate good thinking.

  

  William Bernbach
  • Needs
  • Flower
  • Wells

• Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Up
  • Reality
  • Fragments

• I think in rural settings, people have a different appreciation for animals than might the city dweller. In parts of India where poisonous snake bite is common, people have a much different value system. I live in a city. I'm not thinking about wolves, lions, etc.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Different
  • Animal

• As a person, I do ascribe to a lot of magical thinking myself.

  

  Lauren Groff
  • Thinking

• At the age of eight, I bought my first telescope and would spend hours gazing at the moon and stars. I remember thinking what it must have been like when man first realized that we were only a very small part of the overall picture.

  

  Daniel Hope
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Small

• As a songwriter, I was really into pulling away from the melodrama and the overdramatic type of writing that I was previously always doing. I think over time my songs have become more and more restrained.

  

  Kaitlin Austra Stelmanis Austra
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Melodrama

• I was thinking about how we're so in touch with our image now. That conception of ourselves, in a very physical sense, can be oppressive. You find people wanting to be in dark places, not really see themselves, see themselves as a filtered image. A curated image.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Dark

• I was thinking about Afghanistan's future, Afghanistan's next generation, what we have next. These children who learn how to kill people, how to do jihad, how to behead, how to fire, this would be Afghanistan.

  

  Najibullah Quraishi
  • People
  • Children
  • Future

• I love thinking, I love coming up with great ideas. I just get excited. Sometimes if I get a big idea, I'm just like a kid, like I've found a new toy.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Sometimes

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