Quotes about thinking page 49
“Why do men think you can pick love up and re-light it like a candle? Women know when love is over.”
Dylan Thomas (1914–1953) Welsh poet and writer
David Eddings book Queen of Sorcery
Source: Queen of Sorcery
“Beautiful women are always drawn to men they think will keep them beautiful.”
Mark Z. Danielewski book House of Leaves
Source: House of Leaves
“I try not to think. It interferes with being nuts -Leo Valdez”
Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena
Source: The Mark of Athena
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (1960) Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, former trader and risk analyst
“How lucky we are, when we're spared what we think we want!”
Lionel Shriver book We Need to Talk About Kevin
Source: We Need to Talk About Kevin
A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author
War with Honour http://books.google.com/books?id=QmQDAAAAMAAJ&q="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+with+the+minority+and+a+first+rate+mind+was+only+happy+when+it+was+thinking", Macmillan War Pamphlets, Issue 2 (1940).
“You'd think that in a fight, NOT MOVING would be a bad habit!”
Scott Westerfeld (1963) American science fiction writer
“I think it’s wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.”
Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author
“It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).”
Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer
Source: Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer
Acceptance Speech for the Margaret Edwards Award (1998)
Context: I've always believed that there is no subject that is taboo for the writer. It is how it is written that makes a book acceptable, as a work of art, or unacceptable and pornographic. There are many books circulating today, for the teen-ager as well as the grown up, which would not have been printed in the fifties. It is still amazing to me that A Wrinkle In Time was considered too difficult for children. My children were seven, ten, and twelve while I was writing it, and they understood it. The problem is not that it's too difficult for children, but that it's too difficult for grown ups. Much of the world view of Einstein's thinking wasn't being taught when the grown ups were in school, but the children were comfortably familiar with it.
Gregory Bateson (1904–1980) English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician and cyberneticist
Susanna Kaysen book Girl, Interrupted
Variant: I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't.
Source: Girl, Interrupted
“While some of us act without thinking, too many of us think without acting.”
Dan Millman (1946) American self help writer
Source: The Four Purposes of Life: Finding Meaning and Direction in a Changing World
“I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon.”
Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress
“I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it.”
Douglas Coupland (1961) Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, and graphic designer
Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist
Source: 1975, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975), Ch. 1: Puberty
Context: During the 60's, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered. I think that once you see emotions from a certain angle you can never think of them as real again. That's what more or less has happened to me. I don't really know if I was ever capable of love, but after the '60's I never thought in terms of "love" again.
Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer
Source: Froi of the Exiles
Emily Giffin Something Borrowed
Source: Something Borrowed
Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You
Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Seduce Me at Sunrise
“I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?”
Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English writer and humorist
“The past is never where you think you left it.”
Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980) American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Tempt Me at Twilight
Karen Chance American writer
Source: Hunt the Moon
“They attacked you? (Danger)
No, I beat my own self up. What do you think? (Keller)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: Sins of the Night
“When I told you that I’d pray for you, what did you think I was talking about?”
Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember
Source: A Walk to Remember
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Bleeds
“Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958) American astrophysicist and science communicator
“I think I wished for you all of my life.”
Cecelia Ahern book If You Could See Me Now
Source: If You Could See Me Now
“But there was something about you that made me think of sparks and motion.”
David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary
Source: The Lover's Dictionary
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
Source: The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child (1877)
Context: Only a few years ago there was a great awakening of the human mind. Men began to inquire by what right a crowned robber made them work for him? The man who asked this question was called a traitor. Others asked by what right does a robed hypocrite rule my thought? Such men were called infidels. The priest said, and the king said, where is this spirit of investigation to stop? They said then and they say now, that it is dangerous for man to be free. I deny it. Out on the intellectual sea there is room enough for every sail. In the intellectual air there is space enough for every wing.
The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.
“I think I made you up inside my head.”
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist
Source: Lover Unleashed
“Just when you think you’ve hit rock bottom, someone’ll throw you a shovel.” – Chloe Traeger”
Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer
Variant: Just when you think you’ve hit rock bottom, someone will hand you a shovel.
Source: Head Over Heels
