Thinking Of Quotes

#1. How can you tell if you are draining someone? How far have you gotten into their life? Are they dependent upon you? Are you thinking of them negatively? Does your energy drop when you stop seeing them?

Frederick Lenz

#2. He saw us play a few times in fact. I did this song called I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes, and Jimi loved it. He paid me a huge compliment when he told me that he was thinking of doing something similar himself!

Alvin Lee

#3. Time is so fleeting that if we do not remember God in our youth, age may find us incapable of thinking of him.

Hans Christian Andersen

#4. Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is ever happy. Neither grief nor misery is experienced in this state.

Ramana Maharshi

#5. I doubted whether this work was truly worth something and was thinking of destroying it upon my return, everything we write down, if we leave it for a while and start reading it from the beginning, naturally becomes unbearable and we won't rest until we've destroyed it again, I thought. Next

Thomas Bernhard

#6. This is a game between players from 12 national sides, a game that if you have a friend in China, in Brazil, in Qatar ... in half the world he wants to watch. I was thinking of this game when I signed for Chelsea.

Luiz Felipe Scolari

#7. No one has done what Saddam Hussein has done, or is thinking of doing. He is producing weapons of mass destruction, and he is qualitatively and quantitatively different from other dictators.

Madeleine Albright

#8. Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.

Ayn Rand

#9. He was a habit in my thoughts, not any more welcome than a rash, but I'd find myself thinking of him before I even realized what I was doing. Banishing him from my thoughts was like learning to breathe in a new way. it was a conscious effort.

Mary E. Pearson

#10. When Jesus got to the point when most people today are thinking of retirement, he goes - 'time to save the world!'

Leonard Sweet

#11. I've never had that concern of thinking of myself as stupid.

John Travolta

#12. I'm a nudist by trade and hobby. I grew up in LA and I've been fortunate enough to be doing this for a great deal of years; if someone is thinking of me as they're writing something I take it as a huge compliment and hope that it's an interesting character at least.

Martin Starr

#13. This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregiousof sins ... It is one step away from protestantism.

Stendhal

#14. That word again. Happy. It's a curse. The pursuit of happiness makes us deeply unhappy. It's a trap.Before anything else happened, there was me in bed, thinking of who you used to be.
I don't want you to think I forgot.

David Levithan

#15. I don't know what's wrong with me, but like, the second I stop working, I have a panic attack, so it's good for me to be thinking of projects ahead of time and lining things up.

Katie Aselton

#16. I heard a lot of those things. I heard that I was greedy; that I didn't care about winning; heard the questioning of my loyalty. And I'm thinking: 'Of course I want to win. I've been winning my entire life.'

James Harden

#17. I have emphasized experiments more than theory. Of course, we need some theory when thinking of soft matter.

Pierre-Gilles De Gennes

#18. I'm of the opinion that it is always a kind and appropriate decision to get in touch with someone who's lost a loved one to remind them that you're thinking of them and have fond memories of the deceased.

Mallory Ortberg

#19. If you're thinking of coming to America, this is what it's like: you've got your Comfort Inn, you've got your Best Western, and you've got your Red Lobster where you eat. Everybody's very fat, everybody's very stupid and everybody's very rude - it's not a holiday programme, it's the truth.

Jeremy Clarkson

#20. The free thinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Matthew Arnold

#21. The rains would end, and when they did, Ian and I would be together, partners in the truest sense. This was a promise and an obligation I had never had in all my lives. Thinking of it made me feel joyful and anxious and shy and desperately impatient all at the same time - made me feel human.

Stephenie Meyer

#22. Working on my own vocals is something I've been avoiding. But, I'm constantly thinking of ways to be able to include my own vocals without getting embarrassed. Even John Lennon wasn't comfortable on hearing his voice.

Hans-Peter Lindstrom

#23. Once on stage, I was thinking of something else, and I forgot my line. I became so frightened. The girl I was playing with also became so frightened, she couldn't give me the next line. I just walked off stage.

Maria Karnilova

#24. One always overcompensates for disabilities. I'm thinking of having my entire body surgically removed.

Douglas Adams

#25. What could be more interesting than thinking of mysterious happenings, finding the answers to intriguing questions, and making up new worlds?

Jeanne DuPrau

#26. And I'll ask you a question, You can tell me the truth. Are you thinking of me when I'm fighting for you?

Brittainy C. Cherry

#27. Like a lover who spends all his time thinking of his distant love, God has been thinking of me since before I was born, for all eternity.

Ernesto Cardenal

#28. There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement.

Robert Creeley

#29. I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. Unfortunately, its not the way the music business works. If you don't create some kind of public image, it gets created for you.

Tom Verlaine

#30. What resonates with people is that it feels like you actually are thinking of them.

Zachary Levi

#31. It occurs to me as we're all sitting here thinking of Mickey, he's probably somewhere getting an earful from Casey Stengel, and no doubt quite confused by now.

Bob Costas

#32. All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.

Plato

#33. One of the first drawings I did in Paris - I wasn't thinking of doing drawings, but somehow or other, I kept drawing - I bought a hyacinth flower with a lot of leaves, just to make me feel like spring.

Ellsworth Kelly

#34. But what we're really trapped by is perceptions. You think you need to lose weight for someone to love you. I think if I gain weight, no one will love me. What we really need is to just stop thinking of ourselves as bodies and start thinking of ourselves as people.

Jennifer Weiner

#35. Yes, Jean Monnet was the father of the concept of a United States of Europe and his efforts more than those of any other single man helped change the thinking of European leaders.

Paul Hoffman

#36. People assume I'm out there having this great life, but money doesn't erase the pain. When you're young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there.

Jennifer Lopez

#37. I let it boil and it's got scum on it," Carol said annoyedly. "I'm sorry."

But Therese loved it, because she knew this was exactly what Carol would always do, be thinking of something else and let the milk boil.

Claire Morgan

#38. I've used Twitter now and again to try to figure something out; it's an amazing resource. But I think you have to use it judiciously: it's a self-selected group, so it's important not to start thinking of it as the whole world.

Susan Orlean

#39. I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones.

Kevin McCloud

#40. Beware of the gap. The gap between where you are and where you want to be. Simply thinking of the gap widens it. And you end up falling through.

Matt Haig

#41. That's the problem with being alive," she says, staring at the floor. "You've got to keep thinking of what to do.

Glen Duncan

#42. Ain't they people too, though?" muttered Beck, thinking of the face of that Union man lying dead in the shack yesterday. "Just like us?" Whirrun squinted across at him. "More than likely they are. But if you start thinking like that, well ... you'll get no one killed at all.

Joe Abercrombie

#43. But in that moment I understood what they say about nostalgia, that no matter if you're thinking of something good or bad, it always leaves you a little emptier afterward.

John Corey Whaley

#44. In my book, all manners are is thinking of somebody else.

Penelope Keith

#45. I'm a narrative-minded actor. I'm thinking of the story. I'm not worried about whether the camera is on the right side of my face, or where the camera is. I'm just going for the story.

Mark Duplass

#46. I'm thinking of you, that's all I do, all the time. You're always the first and the last thing on this heart of mine. No matter where I go, or what I do, I'm thinking of you.

Dierks Bentley

#47. You'll be thinking of me, won't you, baby.

J. Kenner

#48. We've all experienced pondering a problem all day long only to find we receive the solution when forgetting about the problem and thinking of something else. When we stop concentrating so hard, we allow our subconscious to flourish, and those who do this more than others are often called geniuses.

James Morcan

#49. My existence from day to day has become a matter of averting my eyes, of cringing. Death is the only truth left. Death is what I cannot bear to think. At every moment when I am thinking of something else, I am not thinking death, am not thinking the truth.

J.M. Coetzee

#50. When I awake thinking of dreams I slept on, I often wonder, if the dreams ever wake up thinking of me?

Anthony Liccione

#51. We must get rid of the habit of classing all women together politically and thinking of the 'woman's vote' as one and indivisible.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#52. I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.

Tadao Ando

#53. She knew now that the trick to being brave was not thinking of the worst thing that could happen. It was a weird thing - if you acted brave, you could almost feel brave.

Jude Watson

#54. I'd already lost my fucking mind and was already thinking of her as mine.

Jordan Silver

#55. He became a dark paramour, her muse, and she knew that muses had a tendency to kill those they inspired. She could feel him seeping into her, like the chill. She knew she would never be rid of him now. She was his forever, and she didn't even know what he was thinking of.

Jennifer Megan Varnadore

#56. Was thinking of taking a yoga class, then realized I wasn't gay. Whew. Close one.

Dov Davidoff

#57. Thinking of Germany in the night robs me of my sleep.

Heinrich Heine

#58. If companies don't know that they can run out of money, they won't be thinking of ways not to run out of money.

Bill Gross

#59. Gratitude alone can keep you looking toward the all, and prevent you from falling into the error of thinking of the supply as limited, and to do that would be fatal to your hopes.

Wallace D. Wattles

#60. Really? And what curse befalls the Adams of the world?"
Ann opens her mouth and, presumably thinking of nothing to say, closes it again.
It is Felicity who answers, eyes steely. "They are weak to temptation. And we are their temptresses.

Libba Bray

#61. Fine, be a big dumb man about it. I'm only thinking of your health and well-being.

Anonymous

#62. Watching the vast ocean, the flickering sunlight, thinking of the distant lands, Eliza was enveloped by a feeling quite unlike any she'd experienced before. A warmth, a glimpse of possibility, an absence of wariness-

Kate Morton

#63. E felt no more than a boy again-but a very well-versed boy who couldn't help thinking of the scene described by these old words, surely the most beautiful words written or said: His father, when he saw him coming, ran to meet him.

Tobias Wolff

#64. The thinking of the one, therefore, will be determined by eternal truth, the actions of the other more by the practical reality of the moment. The greatness of the one lies in the absolute abstract soundness of his idea ...

Adolf Hitler

#65. I have a side of me that doesn't care. I really enjoy physical comedy, thinking of an idea and pitching it to the director.

Isla Fisher

#66. I think about my audience when I write, to some extent. Thinking of writing for young adults, I try to keep the stories moving, never a dull moment, to hold their interest.

William Sleator

#67. Your body represents the Goddess and I want you to start thinking of your body as a separate, female entity that deserves your worship and respect.

Melissa Wells

#68. And right now you're doing it backwards. You are only concentrating on why the problem is impossible. You are not thinking of the solution.

Terry Goodkind

#69. Still thinking of you.
Dr. S.

John Katzenbach

#70. And thinking of her waiting to be found, while he was waiting to find, gave a beautiful symmetry to the love he felt for her.

Howard Jacobson

#71. You cannot read any image of the World Trade Center without thinking of 9/11.

Colum McCann

#72. 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

#73. Since I'm doing so much science, I think the reason these ideas have occurred to me and not to other people in music is simply the influence that science plays in my life: working in laboratories, thinking of models, hypothesis, putting things together, trying to make sense of it all and so forth.

Dave Soldier

#74. I was thinking of setting myself on fire tonight. Would you mind? (Callie)
What? (Sin)
Ha! I knew it. I knew I could get you to talk. Just think, a whole word, too. Who knows if I keep this up, I might have you speaking an entire sentence by week's end. (Callie)

Kinley MacGregor

#75. For the first time in six months, she wasn't thinking of her own misery. She was thinking of others - and how to make their misery worse.

G.A. Aiken

#76. Once the script is done, I put it aside for a month. I start thinking of all the films that have influenced me, which I have liked for different reasons, and not necessarily the look, but films that have moved me. Some very strange films came to mind.

Deepa Mehta

#77. I want to hear your moans while I fuck you relentlessly. God, Gabrielle, I'm going to fuck your sweet cunt so hard you won't be able to move without thinking of me.

Lena Black

#78. I was thinking of my father's family. I can find their graves, but not that much about them. They didn't do anything notable enough to be in the records of newspapers.

Daniel Woodrell

#79. When we're apart whatever are you thinking of?
If this is what I call home, why does it feel so alone?
So tell me darling, do you wish we'd fall in love?
All the time, all the time

Owl City

#80. I was thinking of how, when we think of loss in our life, how our sense of 'home' was the first thing to go. You know, we lose that place of childhood innocence, of feeling protected. And so many of us spend the rest of our lives trying to reclaim that place called home, that life made simple again.

Tabitha Vohn

#81. I'm thinking of doing a marital comedy for one of the studios, but I want it to be so painful that it'll have a profound effect on married couples who see it together.

Harold Ramis

#82. I started as a black-and-white teenage photographer, and I'm still there decades after. In some ways, the genre is almost gone. I am thinking of true, stubborn, lifetime black-and-white photographers, as opposed to black-and-white as a photographic commodity.

Hedi Slimane

#83. A good listener is usually thinking of something else.

Kin Hubbard

#84. He shrugged. "Try thinking of me - how good-looking I am. How talented - " "How arrogant." "That,

Sarah J. Maas

#85. Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. Humility is thinking more of others.

Rick Warren

#86. I want to kiss you," Nikolai said. "But I won't. Not until you're thinking of me instead of trying to forget him.

Leigh Bardugo

#87. I'm actually even thinking of stealing the Walls of Jericho and turning in into the Walls of Miz.

The Miz

#88. I found myself, unbidden, thinking of the holy fools in the old story, the ones who went fishing in the lake for the moon, with nets, convinced that the reflection in the water was nearer and easier to catch than the globe that hung in the sky.

Neil Gaiman

#89. Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much.

Criss Jami

#90. People tell me all the time I should stop and smell the roses, but I can't. I'm always thinking of what I can do to make what I have better and do more.

Eddie Trunk

#91. He had spoken himself into boldness. Stephen, shielding the gaping wounds which the words had left in his heart, said very coldly:
I am not thinking of the offence to my mother.

James Joyce

#92. Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences - all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel it.

Albert Camus

#93. mental alchemy you can effect by thinking of any adversity as an opportunity for power.

50 Cent

#94. I got Elliott Smith's photography book as a gift before. The publisher of that book's logo were glasses, and those glasses came to my mind when I was thinking of having a tattoo.

Go Ah-sung

#95. Many reporters, when they go to work in the nation's capital, begin thinking of themselves as participants in the political process instead of glorified stenographers.

P. J. O'Rourke

#96. Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself - a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.

Eric Butterworth

#97. Not to belittle what we do as actors, but my wife Helen is a teacher, and she makes a real difference to kids. So it's unusual to see people thinking of us as something special.

Colin O'Donoghue

#98. For that matter, thinking of one's self as exceptional is probably more the rule than not.

Lionel Shriver

#99. I resist thinking of myself as a teacher. I think of myself as a writer who has pulled a fast one and hoodwinked this institution into giving me a job and health insurance.

Vijay Seshadri

#100. Can I just ask, after we find this guy, can we talk about the Vibrator Ceremony? I'm thinking of making us all kind of choir like robes to wear but with sequins and some satin sashes as belts. Maybe in chartreuse.

Kristen Ashley