Think Quotes - page 90

I can no longer think what I want to think. My thoughts have been replaced by moving images. (Georges Duhamel)
Cowards are nice, they're interesting, they're gentle, they wouldn't think of shooting down people in a parade from a tower. They want to live, so they can see their kids. They're very brave. View quote
William Saroyan
I don't think my writing is sentimental, although it is a very sentimental thing to be a human being. View quote
William Saroyan
I sometimes think that rich men belong to another nationality entirely, no matter what their actual nationality happens to be. The nationality of the rich. View quote
William Saroyan
Nothing radically changes when instead of human satisfaction, we think of the satisfaction of some heavenly being! God's person displaces the problem and does not abolish it. View quote
Georges Bataille
My people have been wearing green glasses on their eyes for so long that most of them think this really is an Emerald City. View quote
L. Frank Baum
It must be inconvenient to be made of flesh," said the Scarecrow thoughtfully, "for you must sleep, and eat and drink. However, you have brains, and it is worth a lot of bother to be able to think properly. View quote
L. Frank Baum
So with each advance in understanding come new questions. So we need to be very humble. We shouldn't have hubris and think that we can understand everything. But history tells us that there is good reason to believe that we will continue making fantastic progress in the years ahead. View quote
Max Tegmark
The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery! View quote
Robert E. Howard
I'll say one thing about an oil boom; it will teach a kid that Life's a pretty rotten thing as quick as anything I can think of. View quote
Robert E. Howard
Everyone in my book accuses everyone else of being crazy. Frankly, I think the whole society is nuts - and the question is: What does a sane man do in an insane society? (Joseph Heller)
The mental never influences the physical. It is always the physical that modifies the mental, and when we think that the mind is diseased, it is always an illusion. View quote
Claude Bernard
Some students of philosophy have unreasonably high expectations of the subject. They expect it to provide them with a complete and detailed picture of the human predicament. They think that philosophy will reveal to them the meaning of life, and explain to them every facet of our complex existences. Now, although studying philosophy can illuminate fundamental questions about our lives, it does not provide anything like a complete picture, if indeed there could be such a thing. Studying philosophy isn't an alternative to studying art, literature, history, psychology, anthropology, sociology, politics, and science. View quote
Nigel Warburton
I was an avid anime watcher until I was about 10, when I moved to manga. I think I am influenced by Osamu Tezuka's and Walt Disney's works which I watched during that time, such as Tetsuwan Atom and 101 Dalmatians. View quote
Akira Toriyama
I think that those elements - light and sound - are beyond democratic. They're into the creative part of life. View quote
Ornette Coleman
I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable. View quote
Frank McCourt
I sometimes think that ‘friend' is just a word I use for all the people I haven't murdered yet. View quote
Scott Lynch
So odd to think of the Devil as a fumbler! View quote
John le Carré
Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do. View quote
John le Carré
I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives. View quote
John le Carré
Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself. (Samuel Rutherford)
In Hollywood the man who cleans your pool is an actor. The man who sells you your copy of Variety is an actor. I don't think there's a real person left in the place. View quote
Neil Gaiman
I think... I would rather recollect a life misspent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt. View quote
Neil Gaiman
I really like Shakespeare a lot. The characters that he writes for females, I think, are really great and a lot more compelling than what modern writers write, which is weird because they didn't have actresses then. View quote
Julia Stiles
I think the music business will eventually crush me, but I [smiles]... I'm ready. View quote
Elliott Smith