Top 100 I Can't Think Quotes
#1. Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be. In running the mind flees with the body, the mysterious efflorescence of language seems to pulse in the brain, in rhythm with our feet and the swinging of our arms.
Joyce Carol Oates
#2. If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?
Kay Redfield Jamison
#3. And now, if you have anything more to ask, I can't think how you can manage it, for I've never heard anyone tell more of the story of the world. Make what use of it you can.
Snorri Sturluson
#4. I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.
Dan Brown
#5. I think it's much richer and much more fun to be an artist than to be anything else. I can't think of a better life than acting.
Edward Herrmann
#6. I can't think of anything until I've got printed words in front of me. I never wake up in the middle of the night with a song in my head.
Elton John
#7. What actor do you really take seriously who becomes a singer? It's kind of ridiculous. I can't think of anybody.
Kirsten Dunst
#8. Running my hands really fast up and down the fretboard ... I mean, anybody can do that. It's the Guitar Olympics, and I can't think of anything more pointless.
The Edge
#9. To me, torture would be, "I can't think what to write in the next sentence. I'm stuck." Torture would be if you didn't have the next idea.
Steve Martin
#10. I can't think of a specific meal, but my favourite country for food has got to be France. I love those restaurants in the middle of the village squares.
Giles Foden
#11. I've met nearly every woman in this room, and I can't think of one who would make a better friend. I'd be glad to have you stay."
My relief was inexpressible.
"Do you think," Maxon asked, "That I could still call you 'my dear'?"
"Not a chance." I whispered.
Kiera Cass
#12. I play games on-set at work. Sometimes I can't remember people's names, so I start throwing out clues. Like if I can't think of George Clooney, I'll say, 'You know, drop-dead gorgeous, was on a big TV show ... ' Until someone says his name, I can't finish my story!
Andie MacDowell
#13. In my life, no three miles have been flat and no three days have had sun. I've been brave in the past, but now I'm beyond devastated. My grief is like dense clouds that cannot be dispersed. I can't think beyond the blackness of my clothes and heart.
Lisa See
#14. I can't think of anything to write about, I'm just walking around here between the lines, under the light of your eyes, in the breadth of your mouth as in a beautiful happy day, which remains beautiful and happy, even when the head is sick and tired.
Franz Kafka
#15. I thought you were interesting. Why did you do what it said?" "I ... " I can't think up a fake answer quickly enough. "I'm a straight guy, you know. So if a girl talks to me or whatever, I'll do exactly what she says." Wait, now: make it a compliment. "Especially if it's a pretty girl." I smile.
Ned Vizzini
#16. I can't think of any musician or producer who has influenced me more than Brian Eno. From when he was in Roxy Music, producing Devo, the Talking Heads and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts.
Moby
#17. I can't think of anything in the world lovelier than you.
Brenda Hodnett
#18. I can't think of anybody ... who knows the sum and substance of what I know and feel and cry about in my secret self all the time when I don't feel strong, the sorrows of time and personality, and can therefore on all levels make it all the way with me
Jack Kerouac
#19. Remind me why we just said goodbye?
...
Because for the life of me, I can't think of one damn good reason.
...
What would you say if I told you I wasn't ready to let you go just yet?
Penelope Ward
#20. I can't think of a time in the history of man when food was in excess. We're dealing with the same old problems we've dealt with for 60,000 years.
Homaro Cantu
#21. I can't think of anyone who is up on evolutionary psychology and related areas who is deluded enough to be called a utopian.
Keith Henson
#22. I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.
Seamus Heaney
#23. Abby. She's a pigeon. A demonic pigeon that fucks with my head so bad I can't think straight. Nothing makes sense anymore, Cam. Every rule I've ever made's getting broken one by one. I'm a pussy. No ... worse. I'm Shep.
Jamie McGuire
#24. The lights disappear,
The elevator shudders,
Stalls,
Quits.
All in the same nanosecond.
All that exists is darkness so thick I can't think,
And Travis so close I can't breathe.
Elana Johnson
#25. Think of social media as the Internet. I can't think of anyone betting against the Internet in 2012.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#26. I can't think of a society on Earth where people don't take drugs that any of us would want anything to do with.
Terence McKenna
#27. I can't think of anything specific growing up that pointed me toward NASA at all. I was interested in the Moon landings just about the same as everyone else of my generation. But I never really thought about being an astronaut or working in space myself.
Laurel Clark
#28. Naive' is not a word I associate with the Southern Rule. Superstitious, perhaps, traditional, yes, maddeningly set in their way, certainly but not naive." "I meant you are naive. They must have a hidden motive." "This is why I have no politics," said Darvin. "I can't think in those terms.
Ken MacLeod
#29. I can't think of a striker in the world who has scored so many important goals, never mind a midfielder.
Thierry Henry
#30. I can't think of one other thing I do that even begins to compare to the joy I feel as a mom. The job is a labor of love. There are days that are painful and test you for sure, and then there are those glorious days where you pass with flying colors.
Sandra Magsamen
#31. This can't be real. It can't be. It's a nightmare. I'll wake up and find it's all been a nightmare. I mustn't think of it now, or I'll begin screaming in front of all these people. I can't think of it now. I'll think later, when I can stand it - when I can't see his eyes.
Margaret Mitchell
#32. I can't think of a man more worthy of the presidency then my good friend Sam Nunn.
Jimmy Carter
#33. With the exception of Megadeth, I can't imagine any band we were hesitant about touring with. I mean we liked the original Megadeth, but I can't think of any band we toured with we weren't psyched about.
Reed Mullin
#34. You should know how great things were before you. Even so, they're better still today. I can't think of who I was before you ruined everything in the nicest way.
Jonathan Coulton
#35. I can't think of too many things as exciting as reading a book for the first time!
Jen Selinsky
#36. I can't think of a better way to start my day."
"Get used to it," he murmured, right before he kissed her.
Samantha Chase
#37. As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
Barbara Kingsolver
#38. To me, real comedy comes out of behavior. It's the choices you make as an actor. It's never about, "I want to do a comedy script." I can't think of it that way. And besides, some of those movies, those comedy movies, I can't even watch them.
Robert Duvall
#39. I can't think of a bigger waste of police time than chasing somebody who has said something offensive on Twitter.
Tony Parsons
#40. I can't think of a better compliment for a couple than to know that they are that familiar with each other's strengths, and comfortable with their partner's judgment that they seem to share one brain.
P.J. LaRue
#41. I can't "Think of a nicer way to commit suicde."
That's good."I can't think of a better way to commit murder
Josh Lanyon
#42. I like what I'm doing. Today at 88, I wouldn't think of quitting because I can't think of anything else I would rather do. And now with my lectures on all the charitable things that I do, just as you do, I think that what I'm doing matters.
Art Linkletter
#43. If you're going to worry about anything, Gideon, it should be me . Because I can't be rational when it comes to you. I'm crazy about you. Literally. I can't think about a future without you - it freaks me out.
Sylvia Day
#44. Sometimes I can't think of a better way to end my day than coming home and just strumming my ukulele for a few minutes. I mean, I joke around and tell people that it's an entire yoga session in one strum, you know?
Jake Shimabukuro
#45. I can't think of anything worse after a night of drinking than waking up next to someone and not being able to remember their name, or how you met, or why they're dead.
Laura Kightlinger
#46. ("It's crazy," she'd said, "but I'd be perfectly happy if I could sit looking at the same half dozen paintings for the rest of my life. I can't think of a better way to go insane.")
Donna Tartt
#47. Young readers are the most challenging, demanding, and rewarding of audiences. Adults often ask why I write for the younger set. My reply: 'I can't think of anyone I'd rather write for.'
Karen Hesse
#48. Until the day I die, or until the day I can't think anymore, I want to be involved in the issues that I care about.
Janet Reno
#49. I'd like to be seen as an average Australian bloke. I can't think of ... I can't think of a nobler description of anybody than to be called an average Australian bloke.
John Howard
#50. I can't think of any sentiment which is finer than being in a position to give people something they like. I love giving, I am rather embarrassed at receiving.
Trevor McDonald
#52. I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.
Caitlin Moran
#53. I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80.
Peter Greenaway
#54. I'm seventeen today and dressed for a party. But I can't move. I can't think, much less move. I can't breathe, much less think. This is the moment when my life will change forever.
Hilary Thompson
#55. I am sure there are many things better than a good cigar, but right now, I can't think of what they might be.
Richard Carleton
#56. We're seastnan, we live to protect, sometimes we die and I can't think of a better way to go than fighting for someone I love.
Caroline Greyling
#57. I can't think of anything more empowering than the fact that we are destined to be, do and have anything we choose.
Hal Elrod
#58. There's a thousand reasons why I shouldn't drink ... but I can't think of one right now.
Shemp Howard
#59. Love is everything. Without it, I have no use for this world. When I'm not in love with someone, I feel empty and I can't think about anything but trying to find that someone.
Joshua Radin
#60. I can't think of any way to help Raffe that doesn't involve getting my head chopped off or something equally horrendous.
Susan Ee
#61. Initially I thought: 'I would never get cast opposite Will Smith! No one would ever buy it with the age difference, our personalities.' I can't think of a couple that makes less sense in every way, shape and form.
Margot Robbie
#62. I can't think of a time that the U.S. government asked us or instructed us not to report or air something.
Jim Walton
#63. I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of anything better than to die in place 's just beginning their lives.
F. Murray Abraham
#64. I can't think of a recent baseball song except John Fogerty's Centerfield. It's very difficult to write a baseball song that pleases fans and non-fans alike.
Garth Brooks
#65. Ender laughed and shook his head. 'You're actually having fun, Val'
'I can't think why I shouldn't.
Orson Scott Card
#66. I can't think of anything more depressing than to be an Egyptian high priest on display next to a set of vintage wagon wheels and a two-headed chicken.
Jennifer Niven
#67. I can't think of any film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#68. Cole grabbed a fistful of his own hair. Beckett, I met the most amazing girl this morning. I can't think straight.
Debra Anastasia
#70. I can't think of any sorrow in the world that a hot bath wouldn't help, just a little bit.
Susan Glaspell
#71. I can't think of any other region in the world which is such a vast source of fossils.
Richard Leakey
#72. I can't think straight. But why am I trying to do that anyway? Everybody else thinks straight. That's why nobody expects me to think zigzag-hop.
Frances Hardinge
#73. I will find any excuse to go into somebody's study or ask them what they are reading. I can't think of too many other things that say what goes on in someone's head than the books they have.
George Packer
#74. And I went to New York and died; for 10 years I walked those pavements. I can't think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and feeling like a failure.
Harvey Korman
#75. I love N.Y.C.! I can't think of any individual that hates New York.
Theophilus London
#76. Bemoan being lower-middle-class and colored in a police state that protects only rich white people and movie stars of all races, though I can't think of any Asian-American ones.
Paul Beatty
#77. When I'm up on stage, I don't think about anything except the song I'm singing. Anyway, the majority of my audience is female, and I can't think that many of them want to see me a French maid outfit somehow!
Louise Nurding
#78. I can't think again. Not ever again. I don't know if you've ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that.
Stephen Chbosky
#79. I can't think of any bank robbery comedy where it's about two normal guys. It's kind of like Superbad meets Heat, which is a cool combo, and it's just fun doing a normal guy that's robbing a bank.
Aziz Ansari
#80. I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.
Aaron Johnson
#81. I can't think of my life without Donna Reed. She has been such an enormous influence on my life.
Shelley Fabares
#82. Being called a 'music legend' is a very funny thing. It's nice to know that my work has been appreciated and that people have given me that status. On a personal level, however, I can't think about it too much. It means a lot ... but then it doesn't.
Chris Squire
#83. Your face says so much in so little time, you let everything you're thinking bloom upon your face, and I can't think of anything else I'd rather watch than you pass through five moods in five minutes. What glorious weather.
Carlene Bauer
#84. He doesn't know what to make of me," Mat said softly.
"How very uncommon. I can't think of anyone else who has reacted that way to you, Mat.
Robert Jordan
#85. I think I ought to have some eddication,"said the Wart, "I can't think of anything to do.
T.H. White
#86. I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.
Robert MacNeil
#87. I can't think of any flower that wouldn't be suitable to merge with an image of a newborn, and as I was planning for the book, Miracle, I was drawn to blossoms that appealed to me artistically.
Anne Geddes
#88. I can't think of a performer who is better on television than in person.
Mark Russell
#89. Who isn't a fan of Jeff Bridges? And he is such a unique character. I can't think of anybody who's quite like him. He was a lot of fun to be around, just personally.
Marisa Miller
#90. I can't think of anything that's as exciting as I'm sure this mission will be, and actually being in space. But, we did some training as a crew together.
Laurel Clark
#91. I can't think of any more powerful moment than when you stand on a stage.
Irving Azoff
#92. I simply want to celebrate the fact that right near your home, year in and year out, a community college is quietly - and with very little financial encouragement - saving lives and minds. I can't think of a more efficient, hopeful or egalitarian machine, expect perhaps the bicycle.
Kay Ryan
#93. I kill in my own time," he said. "In any case, killing unconscious people isn't right."
"I can't think of a more opportune time," said the Loremaster.
Terry Pratchett
#94. I suppose what you're doing as a painter is making a record of your trip through life. I can't think of any job that is quite as satisfactory as doing a painting.
Robert Genn
#95. I need you." He licked her bruised lip to soothe it. "I can't think straight without you. My world is all turned around, and I go through it in pain, wanting to hurt someone.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#96. It is a dark, dark world. If you're going to be in a dark world, I can't think of any better one to be in. I still think I'm very lucky to be in it.
James Gandolfini
#97. The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.
Charles Kuralt
#98. I will do anything. Anything, Blaire, just to be near you. I can't think about anything else. I can't focus on anything. So never think you're inconveniencing me. You need me, I'm there.
Abbi Glines
#99. I can't think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself.
Emma Stone
#100. I can't think of a subject that is taboo for me, unless it's one I simply don't know anything about.
Chris Crutcher
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