I walked in thinking, 'I have ten movies under my belt and now they want me to go back to making commercials?' I said, if I do that, I want it to be funny. - Orlando Jones
Progressively thinking biologists, both in our country and abroad, saw in Darwinism the only right road to the further development of scientific biology. - Trofim Lysenko
To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events. - Teresa de Lauretis
When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women. - Jack Nicholson
Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves. - Helen Garner
We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion. - Anne Sullivan Macy
Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work. - Paddy Chayefsky
The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals. - Thomas Huxley
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. - Albert Einstein
While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then. - Garth Brooks
The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction. - William Trevor
To my thinking, this: - that the Priestly Code rests upon the result which is only the aim of Deuteronomy. - Julius Wellhausen
I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful. - Alanis Morissette
Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. - William James
Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things. - Eric Butterworth
Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division. - Jerry Brown
Taking an interest in what others are thinking and doing is often a much more powerful form of encouragement than praise. - Robert Martin
Do not allow yourself to imagine that revolutionary thinking can be propagated by governmental power. - Vinoba Bhave
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. - Don Marquis
In Europe the parents are included as with children. All three generations are together. I'm thinking of Italy. You go out on a Sunday afternoon and the whole family is there. - Dana Delany
I think it's time for me to get out, because at the moment I'm only thinking about fishing 21 hours a day, and they're the waking moments. And even when I close my eyes I'm thinking about it. - Rex Hunt
My work is based on the assumption that clarity and consistency in our moral thinking is likely, in the long run, to lead us to hold better views on ethical issues. - Peter Singer
If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy. - Eric Bogosian
We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think religion stops people from thinking. I think it justified crazies. - Bill Maher
But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term. - Mary A. Ward