“A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.”
Thoughtful feeling
Thoughtful Quotes — page 69 of 303
“Art hath an enemy called ignorance.”
“Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read; what I haven't read.”
“Day after day I read Freud, thinking myself to be very enlightened and scientific when, as a matter of fact, I was about as scientific as an old woman secretly poring over books about occultism, trying to tell her own fortune, and learning how to dope out the future form the lines in the palm of her hand. I don't know if I ever got very close to needing a padded cell: but if I ever had gone crazy, I think psychoanalysis would have been the one thing chiefly responsible for it.”
“The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.”
“We are defined by the stories we tell ourselves.”
“I don't think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.”
“It is remarkable that in all of his writings Paul's prayers for his friends contain no appeals for changes in their circumstances.”
“Men always believe they are in control of everything around them. When they find out they are not, they think they have failed, instead of learning a simple truth women already know.”
“To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.”
“What I might do is watch Mrs Doubtfire. Or Dead Poets Society or Good Will Hunting and I might be nice to people, mindful today how fragile we all are, how delicate we are, even when fizzing with divine madness that seems like it will never expire.”
“Don't leave it all unsaid, somewhere in the wasteland of your head.”
“A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.”
“Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in the middle with only the rhythm of the first uncounted strokes lingering in the mind.”
“A man's opinions are generally of much more value than his arguments.”
“I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and dont give them a lot of credence.”
“No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.”
“Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.”
“To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets.”
“If you cared enough about your characters, what happened to them was interesting... it's important to care about them, about who they are and what they do...I don't really care whose side they are on, and they can be monstrous on the outside or, worse, on the inside, but you still have to want to spend time with them.”