Thinking Quotes - Page 1017

I do not see why I should be polite to tyrants, who slobber of humanitarianism and think only of their own petty interests.

Sight is something you take for granted until you think you might lose it.

That's for non-musicians to say: "I only listen to this or that type of music." I think musicians love all music, or at least that's my case.

The most challenging project I've ever done, I think, is every single thing I've ever tried to do. It's never easy.

Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years.

In global warming, I think everyone is scratching their heads - are there technological things that can be brought to bear that can make a difference?

I think there are times when a song can be a spiritual experience - just making music, in general, is pretty much that.

I've been a witness to unfairness in society all my life. To the conditions under which my mother worked all her life, working in an industrial weaving shed in the north of England. And it has been this feature of unfairness that has motivated me in all of my political thinking.

I love doing a lot of things I'm told I can't do. I think that's what drives me and keeps me awake every day.

Still, these days when I daydream about the movie, I don't think about the big picture. It's more fun for me to think of little things that would add to the movie. I like to think the powers that be would let me amuse myself with some small things in order to shut me up while they re-write the screenplay to turn Kvothe into a lesbian, shape-changing unicorn.

I'd like to do an anthology. Maybe a collection of songs set in my world, or based on my world. I think that would be a lot of fun.

I think my government are fascists. I feel that if we don't change from a society that worships money and power over to one that worships compassion and generosity, there is no hope for human survival this century.

Worrying about the future is a thing of the past. I don't think about it.

Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

I found my mind has changed over the last years. Different vulnerabilities - things that I was never vulnerable to before I am now. And vice-versa. Things I was vulnerable to then are like water off a duck's back. I have a lot less fear. I think I'm getting more determined.

I have always wanted to write in such a way that will make people think, Why, I've always thought that but never found the words for it.

Oh Esperanza!' said Isabel, jumping up and down and clapping.'I think my heart is dancing.

I think the future takes care of itself.

I agree with cosmetic surgery for medical reasons - my mother had breast cancer and I think it's very sad when somebody has no choice in what happens to their body.

I think what makes me different from the average Joe is that I feel free to be myself and express myself in the way that I want. If that makes you mad, we're living in a world of dire straits. If anything, it makes you more sane.

I know so many people who are so much better at it than I am, and I think I'm a goofier person rather than a serious, dramatic actress, so I probably belong in comedy.

I don't support the belly putter. I think it's bad for the game of golf.

I don't like the word 'balance.' To me, that somehow conjures up conflict between work and family... as long as we think of these things as conflicting, we will never have happiness. True happiness comes from integration... of work, family, self, community.

Have you come over time to think that you know more now than you did when you were young, know less now than when young, know now there is so much more to know than you knew there was to know when young that it is moot whether you think you knew more then than now or less, or do you now know that you never knew anything at all and never will and only the bluster of youth persuaded you that you did or would?