Made Me Think Quotes

#1. Without thinking, I asked, "Are you afraid of temptation?"
He shook his head. "God, no. Just being with you, just seeing you. Fuck." He mostly swallowed the expletive, his hips rolling in a way that made me think the movement was instinctual, then added on a rush, "You breathing tempts me.

Penny Reid

#2. My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.

Dan Fogelberg

#3. One Christmas I had no money, and so I went home and just, like, wrote a poem; I mean, I didn't write them, but I just handed out poems as Christmas presents. Like, 'Here's a Pablo Neruda poem that really made me think of you.'

June Diane Raphael

#4. His laughter made me laugh, his thoughts made me think, and his silence made me listen to each intake of his breath.

Charlie N. Holmberg

#5. Unlike Bec and I, Hayden didn't yell anything angry, but the speed at which his ball hit the glass made me think that maybe he did have a few demons.

Kasie West

#6. I do love the sound of ripping corn husks. The violence of the noise, the sustained popping and shoring of the silky organic threads, made me think of someone tearing up an expensive and potentially Italian set of trousers in a fit of madness that this person just might regret later.

Reif Larsen

#7. I certainly like the rumour that I was the father of Elizabeth Hurley's baby. It made me think I could impregnate women in a different way to everyone else. Elizabeth and I were never alone in a room together, so I must be a very powerful man indeed. Actually, I'm thinking of suing the baby!

Matthew Perry

#8. It was brave of them to love again. It made me think I could do it too.

Ally Condie

#9. I would fall asleep with my face pressed into her fur, while her deep electrical purr vibrated softly against my cheek. They made me think of the seaside, and so I called her Ocean, and I could not have told you why.

Neil Gaiman

#10. Playing on the streets of Iraq, or in Israel or the Gaza strip, I'd sing angry protest songs against war. People would say, 'Make us clap, make us dance, and laugh and sing.' It really made me think about the importance of happy music.

Michael Franti

#11. You haven't offended me at all. You've made me think. That's all.

Alexander McCall Smith

#12. And sharp-faced, like Boris, but with an evil red-rimmed gaze and tiny, brownish sawteeth. He made me think of a rabid fox.

Donna Tartt

#13. I sat there for a moment and thought about my mom. It was her groans of pain that would get me the most. Sometimes they didn't even sound human. Sometimes she sounded like a cow, and for some weird reason, that made me think about hamburgers and I suddenly realized how starved I was.

Adam Rapp

#14. Something about the way you looked at me made me think for a moment that maybe we were meant to be .

Michelle Branch

#15. Apart from 'Stoned,' I can't think of a film that's made me think, 'Blimey, that should have been at Cannes.'

Eric Fellner

#16. Met men who made me laugh, men who made me think, men who made me cum. But I never met another man who made my heart leap and had me hoping for forever. Two chances at love in one lifetime, it seemed, were the maximum any one person got. During my bitter moments, it

Anonymous

#17. And I would never, ever have that euphoric, all-consuming love that had wrapped around me every moment I was with Sydney, that feeling of love that constantly made me think, Yes, this is what it means to be alive.

Richelle Mead

#18. But what I could see out of the corner of my eye made me think of two lovely bundles of silk floating along a stream. In a moment they were hovering on the walkway in front of me, where they sank down and smoothed their kimono across their knees.

Arthur Golden

#19. I looked down both ends of the alley. To my left, two men had entered the alley. Their tense body language made me think they meant malice. Plus, what the hell were they doing walking like badasses down an alley when it was pouring rain?

Dennis Liggio

#20. He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood.

Tom Perrotta

#21. When I was shooting with Tarantino and Mike Mills and amazing directors, it made me think that I would never be a director. It's obviously too hard.

Melanie Laurent

#22. And there's no sex, hardly any love stuff at all, in Middle Earth, which always made me think, yes, the world would be better off without it.

Jo Walton

#23. The weapon made me think of the Bible story I had been studying. "Wake up, Deborah! . . . Arise, O Barak,

Sharon Hinck

#24. I started to understand what the song could be about. The ache of nostalgia even for things we don't like, the commitment to keep moving despite that ache. It made me think of how I relate to my privilege - as a white person, as someone who grew up upper middle class.

Erin McKeown

#25. It was a weird moment in my life and a weird experience [doing a theater]. It made me think, "Gee, I don't know if I ever want to do this again." And I love theater. I love going. I love the experience of theater. But I am not sure it's for me.

Jodie Foster

#26. And, too, it made me think of the wonderful power of money! What can it not do when it is properly applied; and what might it do when basely used.

Bram Stoker

#27. To obey my queen in all things." His voice was like his skin, dark. It made me think of molasses and other thick, sweet things. A voice so deep it could hit notes low enough to make my spine shiver.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#28. The first record I ever listened to was Elvis Presley, and I remember thinking, 'Man this guy is cool!' The swagger he had really helped my confidence, because he really made me think that a white boy could make music like this.

Jesse McCartney

#29. As yet too hungry and too clumsy for tenderness, still he made love with a sort of unflagging joy that made me think that male virginity might be a highly underrated commodity.

Diana Gabaldon

#30. I watched the footage of Saddam being executed, and it really made me think ... is there nothing on the internet that I won't masturbate to?

Frankie Boyle

#31. When I am really alone some power seems to grow in me ... Conjugality made me think of a three-legged race, where two people cannot go fast and keep tripping each other because their two legs are tied together.

Brenda Ueland

#32. It made me think that everything was about to arrive - the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever.

Jack Kerouac

#33. The sequence of doors we passed made me think of all the rooms of my past and future. The hospital ward I was born in, classrooms, tents, churches, offices, hotels, museums, nursing homes, the room I'll die in. (Has it been built yet?)

David Mitchell

#34. Seduced her? Every time I turned round she was up a library ladder. In the end I gave in. That reminds me - I spotted something between her legs that made me think of you.

Tom Stoppard

#35. I was constantly, always and forever, trying to perform the musical 'Annie' for anyone who would listen, and I have a terrible singing voice. It was the first thing that made me think I wanted to be an actress.

Sarah Paulson

#36. She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in the reading of it, and the sound of that smile made me think that maybe I would like novels better if Alaska Young read them to me.

John Green

#37. But there was something about you that made me think of sparks and motion.

David Levithan

#38. My mom made me think I was gorgeous. When I was younger she was like, 'Look at you! You're an angel. You sparkle!' And I was like, 'I do!' You believe your parents.

Amy Schumer

#39. I guessed she must be, at most, twenty, but there was something about her manner that made me think she could be ageless. She seemed trapped in that state of perpetual youth reserved for mannequins in shop windows.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#40. Got you something."
"A portable bath?"
"Better." I pulled out the alien doll. "Made me think of you."
"It looks like you," she said. "I'm going to name it DB.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#41. Mrs. Agnew wasn't the kind of woman that made me think about romance. She reminded me of an unmade bed.

Fiona Quinn

#42. The course made me think a bit, you know. That we're smart enough to get out of here. We're just too stupid to work out a way.

Cath Crowley

#43. They made me think. Everything has to fight to live. Rats work very hard. If we are not careful they will inherit the earth.

Ben Okri

#44. She had such unusual eyes. They made me think of the seaside, and so I called her Ocean, and could not have told you why.

Neil Gaiman

#45. I still have a lot of military contacts, and friends and readers who've served or are serving, and they react really strongly to G.I. Joe. I've lost count of the number who've said, 'Oh, I just loved it as a kid. I had all the figures; it really made me think.'

Karen Traviss

#46. When I was young, a lot of things were closed off to me. I was always told, 'Don't do this, you can't do that' - instead of stopping me, it made me think, 'I can do that, I must do that.'

Omar Sy

#47. Harold stuck his chest out a bit. "I'm the Senator's representative in this district," which made me think of the relationship priests supposedly have with God.

John Fox

#48. I think it was my mom's attitude about art and being part of the narcissistic digital generation or whatever that made me think anyone would care what I had to say about anything!

Tavi Gevinson

#49. It made me think about a whole area of human activity that was not really a concern to me before that, because I was involved in reading Chinese history, or languages, or whatever.

Ron Silver

#50. We didn't get along, but he convinced me we did. He made me think that I had a fear of intimacy, when in reality I just hated his goddamn guts.

Margaret Cho

#51. I shouldn't have been looking at lingerie. It naturally made me think about sexy things. Like kissing. Like Patch.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#52. It was actually an Israeli cartoonist, Nurit Karlin, who made me think that I could draw for 'The New Yorker.' I saw her work published in the magazine in the early 1970s - she was the only woman working as a cartoonist at 'The New Yorker' at the time.

Liza Donnelly

#53. I wasn't trying to be a role model with 'The Dutchess,' but suddenly, seeing little girls in the audience with their moms made me think about what I do onstage a little bit more. I had to watch my mouth, because it can be filthy. It changed things for me.

Fergie

#54. The films that have influenced me and the films that have motivated me and inspired me were films that resonated, films that made me think after I saw them.

Eriq La Salle

#55. I had never had any heart-pumping spiritual moments, the ones that would have made me think there was someone up there with my best interests at heart. So, if he did exist, one might say God and I mutually ignored each other.

Anonymous

#56. It made me think how different everything might have been if we had both been born in Terravin.

Mary E. Pearson

#57. Again, this made me think of Daisy, and her white lie about the dresses. We were willing to do so much for the people we loved, even if it meant hurting ourselves. Maybe that, in the end, was what love
all kinds
was really all about.

Sarah Dessen

#58. As I said, it wasn't even a gay thing. But it made me think how hard some kids have it with their families. Me, I could show up as Lady GaGa dressed as Little Red Riding Hood, and Mom would be like, "How was your day, honey?" That's just not the case for most kids.

Bill Konigsberg

#59. I loved English, and I did very well in it. A lot of teachers encouraged me to write, and because of that, it later made me think it was possible to be a writer.

Sharon Creech

#60. It was my own special brand of insanity that made me think the trials of Lucy's life could somehow be eased by the order of Tupperware.

Ann Patchett

#61. Whoa. It was hard to stick to my resolve of not caving to the ridiculous notion of us being together when he was actually ... nice, and when he stared at me like I was the last piece of chocolate in the whole world.
Which made me think of that damn chocolate chip cookie in his mouth.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#62. Getting the call from Ridley Scott made me think that sometimes you just need to go to work.

Joel Edgerton

#63. At lucky moments this emanation could overwhelm the spectator in such a way, that because of all sorts of associations in his thinking, he could finally be taken to those areas which also had moved me so deeply and made me think I should draw the attention of others to it.

Antoni Tapies

#64. He leaned toward me and said his name like he was sharing a secret and it made me think he probably kept a lot of secrets. His smile was sweet and his teeth the tiniest bit crooked.

Laura Anderson Kurk

#65. But I know that I am not who I was supposed to be, who I could have been, and I know it's because I was too afraid for too long. It made me think about things I never should have.

Nancy Werlin

#66. I focused on that point of light for a long, long time. It made me think of something like the final throb of a soul's dying embers.

Haruki Murakami

#67. I was also beginning to learn about social psychology and the Milgram experiment on obedience to authority figures, which made me think about how malleable our supposedly strict moral codes become in the right conditions. Something that DIVERGENT grapples with.

Veronica Roth

#68. He had a nice laugh, rich and almost melodious. It made me think of warm caramel, dripping from a spoon.

Richelle Mead

#69. But there was something strange about her that made me think she was "somebody." I don't mean her poise, the cool manner in which she stood with arms folded just watching all the goings on at the book party. Kids inherit that poise. It's their enemy, the way ignorance was the enemy of my generation.

Anne Rice

#70. It was Mac who first made me think about the way food brought people together - and kept them apart.

Ruth Reichl

#71. Sometimes a phone made me think of an elephant turd. You know, all the shit you hear. A phone is a phone but what comes through it is another matter.

Charles Bukowski

#72. He smiled weakly. "You are the only woman I have ever met who made me think so much."
She laughed. "That doesn't say much for you.

Jen Wylie

#73. a light that made me think of long hours in dusty libraries, and old books, and silence.

Donna Tartt

#74. In English, we don't have a word for people who aren't virgins. What the non-virgin lexical gap really made me think was that our obsession with sexual purity is such that once you are no longer this THING, you are indescribable.

John Green

#75. I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen.

Steve Wozniak

#76. I will write things, he was thinking. I will write something meaningful and wonderful someday. I can do that. And I'll dedicate it to you because you're the first person who ever made me think I could.

Anne Rice

#77. We sat in silence, listening to strange creaks and groans in the maze, the echo of stones grinding together as tunnels changed, grew, and expanded. The dark made me think about the visions I'd seen of Nico di Angelo, and suddenly I realized something.

Rick Riordan

#78. He was somebody who made me think, I suppose, about the contemplative life. I've always been a city fellow, but I've often had vague thoughts about 'checking out' and perhaps going into a monastery and just seeing what it was like.

Derek Jacobi

#79. I hadn't slept with anyone in two years. Frankly, it was unnatural. The way I reacted to Will made me think that I really needed to give up the saint act,

Renee Carlino

#80. I got the sneaky feeling that I was present at something at which I would rather not be present. It made me think of Bill and Hillary Clinton. Of Oprah Winfrey.

Herman Koch

#81. The economy has made me think I have no power. That is not true. I control the power to change my future.

Jon Jones

#82. ...it made me think of everything I had done. It made me weigh up my life. And it made me want to tie things up, so that next time - and I hope there will not be a next time - the next time I faced death like that, I could think: I have set me life in order.

Alexander McCall Smith

#83. I knew I could compete with most people in high school. It didn't quite give me an attitude, but it made me think I didn't have to try hard sometimes.

Ashton Eaton

#84. I did large drawings of couples having sex! Men and woman enjoying intercourse and oral sex in a Madison Avenue Gallery? That was the first time I broke a barrier that made me think, some idiot is going to blow my brains out for sure.

Betty Dodson

#85. Some of their best songs don't have bridges and choruses. So that made me think I should trust my instincts. My songs were okay, I figured. I didn't need to change anything.

Lucinda Williams

#86. That smell - cigarette - it always made me think of him. He smoked his cigarette. I drove. I didn't mind the silence and the desert and the cloudless sky. What did words matter to a desert?

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#87. I remember passing through New York in college and thinking, 'I'm going to come back here.' The energy just made me think of Europe - everyone walking, seeing the delis and flowers outside. It just felt very familiar. I loved it right away.

Stephanie Szostak

#88. When Springsteen meets a future girlfriend on the boardwalk in Asbury Park, he delivers this electric introduction: "She was Italian, funny, a beatific tomboy, with just the hint of a lazy eye, and wore a pair of glasses that made me think of the wonders of the library.

Bruce Springsteen

#89. Amadu is all about the family. I've never known love like that before, and it made me think, 'I want a bit of that'. It kind of forced me to get to know my family again. Another reason why he's so lovely.

Billie Piper

#90. That chain of relationships made me think of how connections are made
you read a book, you meet a person, you have a single experience, and your life is changed in some way. No act, therefore, however small, should be dismissed or ignored.

Howard Zinn

#91. Boxes of records made me think that LPs should be outlawed or at least limited to five per person, and I soon came to despise the type who packs even her empty shampoo bottles, figuring she'll sort things out and throw them away once she's settled into her new place.

David Sedaris

#92. I said, 'What you wanna be?' She said, 'Alive.'
It made me think for a minute, then looked in her eyes
... I coulda died.

Andre Benjamin

#93. And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five.

James Merrill

#94. Some people are paralyzed by the consciousness of death, other people live with it ... The fatwa certainly made me think about it a lot more than I ever had. I guess I know I'm going to die, but then, so are you.

Salman Rushdie

#95. It made me think all the nowheres and even the nobodies of the world might stand a chance after all

Linda Kage

#96. That made me think I could contribute more to society by looking at people on the autopsy table and feeding back the findings so that lots of people could benefit, rather than just treating patients one at a time.

Michael Baden

#97. The way glass can be molded or blown or cut into any kind of shape made me think about how we as people - our characters or souls - can be shaped or changed by outside influences.

Lisa Kleypas

#98. yesterday made me think of something.

Kiera Cass

#99. It made me think of my mother, when she made her pie crusts. She'd prick little holes all over the place. So it can breath, she said. I was just breathing. I closed my eyes, anticipating each cut, feeling that wash of relief when it was done.

Jodi Picoult

#100. I have just read a long novel by Henry James. Much of it made me think of the priest condemned for a long space to confess nuns.

W.B.Yeats