Quotes with thinking

Quotes 121 till 140 of 462.

  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Lewis H. Lapham I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.
    Lewis H. Lapham
    American essayist and editor (1935 - )
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  • A. J. McLean I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.
    A. J. McLean
    American singer (1978 - )
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  • Anne Tyler I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' We're just amateurs.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Alanis Morissette I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules.
    Alanis Morissette
    Canadian-American singer, songwriter and actress (1974 - )
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  • Joan Rivers I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.
    Joan Rivers
    American stand-up comedian, actress, writer and producer (1933 - 2014)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Vikram Seth I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
    (2005)
    Vikram Seth
    Indian novelist and poet (1952 - )
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  • Allen Ginsberg I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts.
    Allen Ginsberg
    American poet (1926 - 1997)
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  • Don Mazankowski I think it would be totally inappropriate for me to even contemplate what I am thinking about.
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  • Mark Haddon I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2005) p. 34
    Mark Haddon
    English writer and illustrator (1962 - )
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  • Arthur Levitt I think we have got to start thinking about banding together in terms of interested groups.
    Arthur Levitt
    American SEC chairman (1931 - )
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  • Andrew Wiles I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Alanis Morissette I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.
    Alanis Morissette
    Canadian-American singer, songwriter and actress (1974 - )
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  • Andrew Wiles I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
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  • Bruce Greenwood I was thinking about doing another film at the same time, which was the sequel to Basic Instinct and I just had a feeling that wasn't going to happen. You know, I just kind of read the writing on the wall.
    Bruce Greenwood
    Canadian actor and producer (1956 - )
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  • Joan Didion I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
    Faceboek (2011)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • A. A. Milne I wrote somewhere once that the third-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the majority, the second-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the minority, and the first-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking.
    War with Honour, Macmillan War Pamphlets, Issue 2 (1940)
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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