Thinking Quotes - Page 1333

Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium.

Over at our place, we’re sure of just one thing: everybody in the world was once a child. So in planning a new picture, we don’t think of grown-ups, and we don’t think of children. But just of that fine, clean, unspoiled spot down deep in every one of us, that maybe the world has made us forget.

I think you have to know these fellows definitely before you can draw them. When you start to caricature a person,you can't do it without knowing the person. Take Laurel and Hardy for example; everybody can see Laurel doing certain things because they know Laurel.

The mind is the pilot. We think of things before the body does them.

I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.

I think... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes...Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

It is the abiding concern of thinking people to preserve what keeps men human-to save our contact with nature of which we are a part.

I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.

Nothing that is possible in spirit is impossible in flesh and blood. Nothing that man can think is impossible. Nothing that man can imagine is impossible of realization.

To do things in a way you want to do them, you will have to acquire the ability to think the way you want to think: this is the first step toward getting rich.

Thinking is the hardest and most exhausting of all labor; and hence many people shrink from it.

I think there is a period of esthetic discovery that happens to a man and he can do all sorts of things at white heat.

People will still make great art, but I think it's good to assume you will always be a failure. People were believing the opposite.

I think as a student I ended up liking so many different and conflicting things.

I don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads, and women are never at ease with themselves when they have ideas.

You know, when one's in love,' I said, 'and things go all wrong, one's terribly unhappy and one thinks one won't ever get over it. But you'll be astounded to learn what the sea will do.' What do you mean?' she smiled. Well, love isn't a good sailor and it languishes on a sea voyage. You'll be surprised when you have the Atlantic between you and Larry to find how slight the pang is that before you sailed seemed intolerable.

I think I was a little disappointed in her. I expected then people to be more of a piece than I do now, and I was distressed to find so much vindictiveness in so charming a creature. I did not realize how motley are the qualities that go to make up a human being. Now I am well aware that pettiness and grandeur, malice and charity, hatred and love, can find place side by side in the same human heart.

Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured.

And that singular anomaly, the lady novelist-- I don't think she'd be missed--I'm sure she'd not be missed!

Obviously invidious and prejudicial stereotypes need to be deconstructed and overcome, but it's not that they can be destroyed. I think that would be an illusion to think that we can somehow get rid of these basic search templates that allow us to sort out our social lives and to sort out the material world as well.

Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands when, in fact, he is obliged to. Most slaves of habit suffer from this delusion and so do some writers, enslaved by an all too personal style.

Only in the books written in earlier times did she sometimes think she found some faint idea of what it might be like to be alive.

In the treatment of the child the world foreshadows its own future and faith. All words and all thinking lead to the child, - to that vast immortality and wide sweep of infinite possibility which the child represents.