“A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.”
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Thinking Quotes — page 940 of 4756
“Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.”
“Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.”
“If you do things merely because you think some other fool expects you to do them, and he expects you to do them because he thinks you expect him to expect you to do them, it will end in everybody doing what nobody wants to do, which is in my opinion a silly state of things.”
“Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.”
“When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.”
“It's not only that I want to get things right when I'm composing but that my imagination often gets lost, and then I have to wait until I come back to the path. I think there's an internal force that makes a piece logical from beginning to end; I like to tell stories in music that are unexpected but also logical.”
“I, myself, have killed six people. All random, all undetected, no way to trace them to me. And, let me tell you, there's nothin' like it. It's a great feeling. Yeah, I know, you're thinking. 'Aw, he's a comedian. He's just sayin' that stuff.' Good. That's exactly what I want you to think.”
“I've never owned a telescope, but it's something I'm thinking of looking into.”
“I have this real moron thing I do? It's called thinking.”
“Y'ever notice how you never seem to get laid on Thanksgiving? I think it's because all the coats are on the bed.”
“When I'm not actually doing my work, I'm planning it or thinking about it or reading things that on some level are transformed into performance fantasies. I have no active interests. I never go anywhere or do anything that transports me outside the boundaries of my mind.”
“I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.”
“I don't think we really gave barbarism a fair try.”
“I think tobacco and alcohol warnings are too general. They should be more to the point: 'People who smoke will eventually cough up small pieces of lung.'... And 'Warning!! Alcohol will turn you into the same jerk your father was.'”
“Just think, right now as you read this, some guy somewhere is gettin' ready to hang himself.”
“Instead of thinking about the sex, I'd always think about the clap and the crabs those people have.”
“I think it keeps the child alive in me. There's a thrill when you steal something in plain view of other people.”
“I'm not a person who thinks they can have it all, but I certainly feel that with a bit of effort and guile I should be able to have more than my fair share.”
“I'm thinking of buying a church and changing it around: maybe selling crack and having a few whores in the pew.”