Quotes about thinking page 51
“AMANDA: I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives.”
Noel Coward (1899–1973) English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer
Source: Private Lives an Intimate Comedy in Three Acts
Variant: There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.
Source: V for Vendetta (1989)
“I think we are in rats’ alley
Where the dead men lost their bones.”
T.S. Eliot book The Waste Land
Source: The Waste Land
“To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex.”
Stephen King book 'Salem's Lot
Source: 'Salem's Lot
“I think the sun is a flower,
That blooms for just one hour.”
Ray Bradbury book All Summer in a Day
Source: All Summer in a Day
“help conquer the IQ shortage worry less and think more”
Robert Anton Wilson book The Illuminati Papers
Source: The Illuminati Papers
Alan Greenspan (1926) 13th Chairman of the Federal Reserve in the United States
Attributed to Greenspan by Rupert Cornwell, "Alan Greenspan: The buck starts here" http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/alan-greenspan-the-buck-starts-here-595789.html, The Independent, 27 April 2003, citing an unspecified Capitol Hill hearing. However, as Ralph Keyes notes in The Quote Verifier (2006, p. 233), "This popular tongue twister gets attributed to the obfuscator du jour." The earliest known print attribution is to Robert McCloskey, U.S. State Department spokesman, by Marvin Kalb, CBS reporter, in TV Guide, 31 March 1984, citing an unspecified press briefing during the Vietnam war. <br class="br">Earlier attributions include: "a high government official", Annual Report, North American Gas Tax Conference, Federation of Tax Administrators, 1967; Jerry Lewis (a sign pasted on the camera during a movie shoot), by Dick Kleiner, Hollywood Correspondent, Sumter Daily Item, Feb. 4, 1970; a sign on the desk of Suzanne Schroeder, collector of bureaucratic gobbledygook, AP wire story, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, July 3, 1973; Jack Nicklaus paraphrasing Richard Nixon, by Larry Dorman, The Palm Beach Post, Dec. 8, 1979; and "a Hollywood film director", by J.D. Douglas, The Third Way, 29 December 1977. Additionally, a thesis monograph by Michael David Katz, Georgia State University, 1973 is titled with the quote. <br class="br">On the back of the first Stealers Wheel album, a very similar statement attributed to band member Rod Coombes is found: "We know that you believe you understand what you think we said, but we are not sure you realize that what you heard is not what we meant." The album was released in 1972. <br class="br">See Richard Nixon: "Now, when individuals read the entire transcript of the [March] 21st [1973] meeting, or hear the entire tape, where we discussed all these options, they may reach different interpretations, but I know what I meant, and I know also what I did" <br class="br">Misattributed
“It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are
not.”
Denis Waitley (1933) American writer
“Love is not something you think about, it is a state in which you dwell”
Christopher Moore (1957) American writer of comic fantasy
Katie MacAlister (1964) Author
Source: Sex, Lies and Vampires
“I think we ought to live happily ever after.”
Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle
Source: Howl's Moving Castle
Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist
Source: As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
“As long as you think the problem is out there, that very thought is the problem”
Stephen R. Covey (1932–2012) American educator, author, businessman and motivational speaker
“I think it's a lovely hallucination but I love it sorta.”
Jack Kerouac book The Dharma Bums
Source: The Dharma Bums
“I think I speak for all of us when I say, "Huh?”
Frank Beddor book The Looking Glass Wars
Source: The Looking Glass Wars
“You're thinking I'm a hopelessly romantic idiot.
And you know what?
You're right.”
Sonya Sones book What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know
Source: What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know
“Every hour, she thinks, someone for whom the war was memory falls out of the world.”
Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See
Source: All the Light We Cannot See
“Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.”
Bacchæ l. 395
Source: The Bacchae
“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.”
Francis Bacon book The Advancement of Learning
Book II, vii, 5
The Advancement of Learning (1605)
“There are no evil thoughts except one; the refusal to think.”
Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher
Variant: There are no evil thoughts, Mr. Rearden," Francisco said softly, "except one: the refusal to think.
Source: Atlas Shrugged: Wer Ist John Galt?
“I think that people who can't believe in fairies aren't worth knowing.”
Tori Amos (1963) American singer
“I think pot should be legal. I don’t smoke it, but I like the smell of it.”
Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist
Bill Gates (1955) American business magnate and philanthropist
PBS interview with David Frost (November 1995)
1990s
“It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.”
Tom Clancy book The Hunt for Red October
Source: The Hunt for Red October
“I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason.”
Willie Nelson (1933) American country music singer-songwriter.
Source: The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart [With Headphones]
“I'm not a very happy person," I told him."But sometimes I can trick myself into thinking I am.”
David Levithan (1972) American author and editor
Source: Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd
“Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.”
Sue Grafton (1940–2017) American writer
Karl Pilkington (1972) English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer
Source: An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington
“You're an Apprentice! You're not ready to think!"
Gilan and Halt.
The Ruins of Gorlan.”
John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower
Variant: You're an apprentice, you're not ready to think yet.
-Ranger's Apprentice
Haruki Murakami book Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Variant: I sometimes think that people's hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what's at the bottom. All you can do is guess from what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) American novelist, poet, and short story writer
Source: The Pill vs. the Springhill Mine Disaster
“I know I don't need him, but I think I want him.”
Charles Frazier book Cold Mountain
Source: Cold Mountain
Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995) French philosopher
Source: Dialogues II
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Breaks
“I think that we vote, not to get the best party in, but to keep the worst party out.”
Melina Marchetta book Looking for Alibrandi
Source: Looking for Alibrandi
“If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.”
Madonna (1958) American singer, songwriter, and actress
Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist
Source: Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
“Learn to use your emotions to think, not think with your emotions.”
Robert T. Kiyosaki book Rich Dad Poor Dad
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!
Source: Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“Parents. Honestly. Sometimes they really do think the world revolves around them.”
Randa Abdel-Fattah (1979) contemporary Australian writer of novels for young adults
Source: Does My Head Look Big In This?
Vera Nazarian (1966) American writer
Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration