Top 100 I've Been Thinking Quotes
#1. I've been thinking so much about writing as a gift to readers - and how newness of subject (place or topic or person) is one of the biggest gifts at our disposal.
Leslie Jamison
#2. It freaks me out to stare at myself, especially my eyes, and know all those things I've been thinking inside
Carolyn Mackler
#3. I've been thinking about going back to university. I need more tools to continue to apply to the music. I've got to open myself up to more language.
Ana Tijoux
#4. I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it and then you let it go because you can't waste many brain cells on hours thinking about it.
Mark McGwire
#5. I've been thinking a lot about Lady Gaga and what she means for feminism. I think - I find her completely fascinating, and I really like what she has to say.
Jessica Valenti
#6. I've been thinking I'd like to be Daisy; I'd like to have someone like Gatsby stare at my house for whole years and never stop dreaming of me
Koren Zailckas
#7. I'd love to do a fashion label in the future. I've been thinking a lot recently about maybe making a line of little dresses, so maybe one day.
Georgia May Jagger
#8. I've been thinking of humorous things since I was ... I can't remember when. All the way through elementary school, all the way through junior high, all the way through high school, through college and after college, I was thinking of the same kinds of things that I say in front of an audience now.
Steven Wright
#9. In third grade, I had to an oral report on the state of Oregon. I brought up Big Foot sightings, and I remember there was an argument about whether or not Big Foot was valid history. Ever since then I've been thinking about how subjective history is.
Sufjan Stevens
#10. I've been thinking about where I want to take my live show. I want everything in it to be pink, gold, and black. I don't want people to feel any other colors, like brown or yellow.
Charli XCX
#11. I've been thinking with my guts since I was fourteen years old, and frankly speaking, between you and me, I have come to the conclusion that my guts have shit for brains.
Nick Hornby
#12. When
I think of all the things I've been thinking of
I feel insane
Frank O'Hara
#13. I've been thinking that when people break up there's usually a reason, and whatever it is, it's still going to be there even if we do get back together.
Paula Stokes
#14. I've been thinking. Her eyebrows rose, but he was used to surprise whenever he claimed an idea. Even when his ideas were as good as theirs, they always remembered how deliberate he was in thinking of them.
Robert Jordan
#15. When I turned 59, I looked at that as the first day of my 60th year, so I've been 60 for the last 365 days, in my opinion. So I've been thinking all this year, I'm 60 - this is the time when I need to get some stuff done.
Walter Mosley
#16. I always write as I like to write, and I've been thinking about it because I honestly didn't realize how different my stuff is, until I started looking at other people's scripts as a producer.
William Monahan
#17. Everything I think I can't say 'cause it'd come out fucking emo, like, if I were to say what I've been thinking all day, every day: I don't know if I can go on like this forever; or, I'm also always thinking, it shouldn't be this hard just to have a brain. Everyone has a brain.
Elissa Washuta
#18. The failure of protection, the importance of recognizing the ways in which we influence (and infect) each other - the fact that being an "individual" can't protect you - these are issues I've been thinking about for a while.
Laura Mullen
#19. Being here alone with nothing to do, I've been thinking about myself too. Trying to understang why I hate myself so badly.
Orson Scott Card
#20. You can say no," he rasped, his breath warming her lips. "But you ought to know I've been thinking about this all day."
Crystal savored the heat that slammed through her body as she placed her palms on his chest. Rising on tiptoe, she said softly, "Just do it, Tanner.
Roz Denny Fox
#21. Stars lookin at our planet watching entropy and pain
And maybe start to wonder how the chaos in our lives could pass as sane
I've been thinking bout the meaning of resistance, of a hope beyond my own
And suddenly the infinite and penitent begin to look like home
Switchfoot
#22. God, Hannah. I've been thinking about fucking you. It's like there's something wrong with me. I can't stop thinking about it. I want my body against yours, my cock inside of you. It's driving me wild. Does that frighten you?
M. Pierce
#23. I've been thinking about that question about what city people can do. The main thing is to realize that country people can't invent a better agriculture by ourselves. Industrial agriculture wasn't invented by us, and we can't uninvent it. We'll need some help with that.
Wendell Berry
#24. I've been thinking of something your father said - that the true measure of love is what one is willing to give up for it. He was talking about freedom - fighting for liberty. But I believe 'tis the same for love as war.
Laura Frantz
#25. Ever since I got married I've been thinking night and day about whose fault it was, and every time I think about it, out comes a new fault to eat up the old one; but always there's a fault left.
Federico Garcia Lorca
#26. But it's not easy. I've been thinking it over for years. While we loved each other we didn't need words to make ourselves understood. But people don't love forever. A time came when I should have found the words to keep her with me, only I couldn't.
Albert Camus
#27. I've been thinking about something we should do, We should fall in love around two. And then when it becomes four, I'll start loving on you even more.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#28. A form of art that I like is portraiture. I've been thinking about portraiture, and its relationship to writing and literature, biography and autobiography, and so that will be my next thing.
Robert Dessaix
#30. I've been thinking a lot about gay marriage. I'm a big supporter.
Russell Simmons
#31. I have too much to lose, she said, if I cross that line. Like what? I said. She could not think of anything that day so she said she'd get back to me. Since then I've been thinking what I would lose if I cross my line & I haven't come up with anything either. There's always another line somewhere.
Brian Andreas
#32. I've been thinking about kissing you again since the moment our last kiss stopped.
Cora Carmack
#33. I've been thinking a lot aboit the energy of the universe. And if energy can't ever be created or destroyed, only transferred, what do you think happens to people's energy once they die?
Jasmine Warga
#34. Reducing the price of AIDS drugs gave me so much satisfaction that I've been thinking what else I could do. One day, I thought, 'Let's look at cancer and see how we can spare cancer patients' unnecessary suffering.'
Yusuf Hamied
#35. I've been thinking a
lot and it's not that anyone did anything wrong. We just didn't know what we wanted. We weren't the
people we were supposed to be yet,
Joe Meno
#36. I've been thinking."
That snapped Piper back to the present. Coming from your boyfriend, I've been thinking was kind of a scary line.
Rick Riordan
#37. How much do we remember of what hurts us most? I've been thinking about pain, how each of us constructs our past to justify what we feel now. How each successive pain distorts the preceding.
Sherman Alexie
#38. Now that I have a daughter, I've been thinking about how I'll define beauty to her. I watched a video of Kendall when she was three, and she was putting on makeup. I don't know how I feel about that. But my daughter already watches me do it. When do you let them start wearing it? I don't know yet.
Kourtney Kardashian
#39. I've been thinking of installing a train in my house. It could bring me shrimp crackers from the kitchen.
Cassandra Clare
#40. I've been thinking about Skinny Dave. I wonder if he's in heaven, up past the glittery constellations, in some paradise-shaped other dimension. I want him to be there, far away from the demons that betrayed him.
Carrie Firestone
#41. I tend to navigate by indirection, meaning that most of the major things in my life have happened when I've been thinking about something else.
Lauren Willig
#42. I've been thinking." Ben stopped Nikolas trying to straighten his wayward tie. Nikolas shook Ben's hands off and continued what he was doing with a frown. "This is hardly the time to start a new hobby.
John Wiltshire
#43. For some reason, I've been thinking more and more about my mother and the way her life failed her, humiliated her with impulses beyond her command, broke her with year after year of the same.
Mark Z. Danielewski
#44. It is absolutely okay with me if you need to keep some secrets. I've been thinking about this and I decided that a best friend is someone who, when they don't understand, they still understand.
Nancy Werlin
#45. I've been thinking of death a lot, and I am amazed by its inevitability, frightened, as we all are, of the totally unknown, and yet feel a long sleep is somehow earned by those of us who live on the edge.
Jackson Pollock
#46. When will we get the chance to be just friends? It's never safe for us, not even in the evening, cuz I've been drinking. Not in the morning, when your shit works. It's always dangerous when everybody's sleeping, and I've been thinking ... Can we be alone?
Amy Winehouse
#47. After all,'I've been thinking' meant she had previously identified the parameters and analyzed all the branching considerations.
G.S. Jennsen
#48. I've been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I've been wondering about this, because our civilization is completely dependent on science and high technology, yet most of us are alienated from science.
Ann Druyan
#49. I sit down with a guitar player and if there's a situation I feel strongly about, or a guy that I've been thinking about or if I'm mad at a guy, it comes out.
Avril Lavigne
#50. I'm writing a book on Procrastination. I hope to start it tomorrow. I've been thinking about it for almost six years now.
Ron Moore
#51. You remember what you told me, Mom? That there are no medals for the completion of a good life? I've been thinking about that. About how no one wins. Like you said, it's impossible to win, because the finish line is death.
J.A. Konrath
#52. You know what I've been thinking?
Why I hadn't crawled over the center console and into his lap yet? Because damn if I was wondering that very thing, but the car was way too small for those kind of Shenanigans.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#53. I've been thinking about that. About how your kids aren't really yours, they're just these people that you try to keep an eye on, and hope you'll all grow up someday to like each other and still be in one piece.
Barbara Kingsolver
#54. The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot.
Leslie Fiedler
#55. People think of my entire image as a kid who lives a straight and narrow life, so I can feel myself not being able to act comfortably. I've been thinking that I want to go through some different life experiences and have been learning a lot while living with my other members.
Seohyun
#56. Lately I've been thinking a lot about leaving versus being left, and how obvious it is that leaving is easier. It was for me.
Sarah Protzman
#57. I've been thinking. You'd better be my bridesmaid, since you gave me the idea that led to this whole farce. It's a horrible job, I'm sure, so you deserve it. Plus, you're my friend. Will you do it?
Jayne Bauling
#58. I've been thinking about Jesus. Don't you find it a bit strange that, since He was living with His family and all, He up and left them just when they needed him most?
Edith Piaf
#59. Dear Madame Morgenstern,
As absurd as it sounds, I've been thinking of you since we parted. I want to take you into my arms, tell you a million things, ask you a million questions. I want to touch your throat and unbutton the pearl button at your neck
Julie Orringer
#60. I've been watching American baseball on television for a long time, but it was only in recent years that, realistically, I've been thinking about playing here.
Hideki Matsui
#61. Yes. I long to break you. It's all I've been thinking about since we ate dinner last night.
Kenya Wright
#62. You have exactly three seconds to get out of here before I do everything I've been thinking about since the first day I saw you. You decide. Now.
Codi Gary
#63. I've been thinking a lot lately about the power of doctrines - how support for a false dogma can become politically mandatory, and how overwhelming contrary evidence only makes such dogmas stronger and more extreme.
Paul Krugman
#64. Give me a minute,' I told her. I sat on the cold, clumpy ground. I turned my back on the smudgy sunrise so that I was facing west, facing you. I closed my eyes and I did something I've been thinking about: I sent you a message. A question. I hope you receive it.
Then I got up and we left.
Jerry Spinelli
#65. I've been thinking that you, me and Kristy should all have a sleepover or something like that. Wouldn't that be so cool! - Carol
Matthew Leeth
#66. I've been thinking about it, since you said it," said Seivarden. No, said Mercy of Kalr. "And I've concluded that I don't want to be a captain. But I find I like the thought that I could be.
Ann Leckie
#67. I find it interesting when I look back at songs and it's what I've been thinking and feeling for the past two years. There's some sexual stuff in this record and I'm sometimes like, "Is that too far?" There's a confidence in it. It's over-sharing, but in a really therapeutic way.
Elena Tonra
#68. I've been thinking ... Maybe you're a mockingbird ... Mockingbirds imitate the songs of other birds ... No, I've never heard of any copyright problems.
Charles M. Schulz
#69. Since the boss said I would play, I've been thinking I should kiss the penalty spot, the grass and the post. I think every Liverpool player should do that.
Jerzy Dudek
#70. I've been thinking Hobbes"
"On a weekend?"
"Well, it wasn't on purpose
Bill Watterson
#71. I've been thinking about the cruel mathematics of my life, looking at my sums & wishing I'd shown my work.
Jonathan Evison
#72. I've been thinking about you and all my fucking sauces have been splitting. O'Reilly, everything you don't say speaks to something gentle in me. Something I thought I'd choked.
Mel Bossa
#73. Have we been guilty of declaring, 'I've been thinking about making some course corrections in my life. I plan to take the first step - tomorrow'? With such thinking, tomorrow is forever. Such tomorrows rarely come unless we do something about them today.
Thomas S. Monson
#74. I spent four minutes yesterday looking for the halfway point between where I am & where I want to be. I found the city - you just have to tell me if you want pizza, coffee or strange street meat. Just four minutes searching, but all day (really all week), I've been thinking of this letter & you.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#75. I never knew what it was to crave a woman's touch. Or to hunger for a woman's kiss."
"And now you do?" she asked hesitantly.
"Since I met you, Corinne Bishop, I've been thinking of little else.
Lara Adrian
#76. I thought you needed to be tougher. But I've been thinking that protecting somebody by hurting them before someone else gets the chance isn't the kind of protecting that anybody wants.
Holly Black
#77. I've been thinking, Jules said
Never a good thing I thought
Kasie West
#78. I've been thinking about your Father a lot lately, and I've realized something. I married Gary specifically for the fact that he wasn't Curtis. If your Father has an opposite, it's Gary. I just need to decide if I want to spend the rest of my life with someone I married by default.
Matthew Norman
#79. I've been thinking about happiness-how wrong it is ever to expect it to last or there to be a time of happiness. It's not that, it's a moment of happiness. Almost every day contains at least one moment of happiness.
May Sarton
#80. I've been waiting for you." His voice sizzled with hunger.
How could I respond? I've been thinking about you non-stop like a sex-crazed harlot since I left?
"I'm here.
Lisa Carlisle
#81. I've been thinking a lot about what Hobie said: about those images that strike the heart and set it blooming like a flower, images that open up some much, much larger beauty that you can spend your whole life looking for and never find.
Donna Tartt
#82. I'm almost weeping when I'm painting my daughter. I've been thinking she won't be little for much longer.
Chantal Joffe
#83. The Ferris wheel came to a stop two seats down from the top. "I've been thinking about you a lot this past week," she said, and it came out a lot more moony than she intended. He lowered his gaze from the sky and met her eyes. His smile was mischievous. "Oh?
Sarah Addison Allen
#84. There were redheads and there were brunettes and there was even a
super-hot chick that looked kinda like Pink but you think any of them did it
for me? No, Shaw not one because they weren't fucking you and ever since you
walked out on Sunday all I've been thinking of is you.
Jay Crownover
#85. I've been thinking about songwriting more in terms of playing it live, and how it will sound as a band.
Florence Welch
#87. I've been thinking it over for years. While we
loved each other we didn't need words to make ourselves understood. But people don't
love forever. A time came when I should have found the words to keep her with me, only
I couldn't. - Grant
Albert Camus
#88. I've been thinking that of late - she said. - Thinking what? - That the world of Henry James is becoming very small for me.
Donna Leon
#89. One thing I've been thinking about is taking the social issues out of national politics. For example, if Georgia wanted abortion and Alabama didn't, that's going to be up to the people in Georgia. I can't sway them. Would I give them advice not to? Absolutely. Would I say it's wrong? Yes.
Joe Wurzelbacher
#90. I've been thinking of trying my hand at rap. I've been recording snippets on my BlackBerry.
Rufus Wainwright
#91. Lately, I've been thinking about the difference between poetry and prose, and as I've experienced it, poetry is insistent. It allows for images and statements to operate in a single space and resonate powerfully without the application to be elaborated upon and narrated.
Tracy K. Smith
#92. This entire time I've been thinking about where my home was. At first it was California, then Wisconsin. But in truth, home isn't necessarily where you sleep at night. It's where you feel like yourself. Where you're most comfortable. Where you don't have to pretend, where you can just be you.
Elizabeth Eulberg
#93. It's not an irrational decision, I've been thinking about this for quite a while and maybe it'll be good for me [on his career break
Ronnie O'Sullivan
#94. I've been thinking of doing a sci-fi thriller or a sci-fi noir, if that's possible.
Kim Ji-woon
#95. I do feel as if I'm living a blessed life at the moment. I've been thinking about the phrase 'living a dream,' because that's exactly what is happening. I'm just trying to go with the flow and take each day as it comes, otherwise I might freak out at all the things that have happened recently.
Katherine Jenkins
#96. In fact, I've been thinking; lips like that have got to be soft as a rose petal. You wouldn't mind if I tested them out, would ya, sweetheart?
Codi Gary
#97. I've been thinking a lot about next year, which will be the first time in 25 years that I don't have a child at home.
Jessica Lange
#98. I've been thinking," he said. "Which is not an easy thing for a teacher to admit to.
John Barnes
#99. I've been thinking a lot about Anacortes and what it's like to be here, though I'm not trying to get people to move here - I would hate that.
Phil Elvrum
#100. I've been thinking," Ty said as he pressed his nose to Zane's cheek.
"Not your strong suit.
Abigail Roux
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