Think Quotes

It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness.

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you're on it.

The president we have today is a typical Washington politician that's prone to hyperbole and decisiveness and false outrage. And I think it's very sad - very sad to watch.

Do you think I am standing here, making this up as I go? I am sorry to disillusion you. I am not Robin Williams. I am the king of the pen.

If it's a modern-day story dealing with certain ethnic groups, I think I could open up certain scenes for improvisation, while staying within the structure of the script.

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of "work," because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you're mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

I don't think in terms of God.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

Now I meet people with full-color Wolverine tattoos on their backs. Thank God I did okay, because I think if I hadn't, they'd spit on me in the street.

I think I'm very hardheaded.

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big.

I'm getting better now, but I used to be incredibly awkward with girls. I think any guy who says 'I've never had an awkward moment with a girl' is a liar.

I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

Being a mother, singer and actress is a definite juggling act, but I don't think I would be comfortable any other way.

I think sportsmanship is knowing that it is a game, that we are only as a good as our opponents, and whether you win or lose, to always give 100 percent.

You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.