The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we’re sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we’re not. – J. G. Ballard
I was the teenage kid growing up in New Jersey watching the Tony Awards and thinking, ‘Oh, maybe if I’m lucky I’ll make it to Broadway by the time I’m 40!’ – Jason Alexander
I can’t imagine that I would be the person I am today if, over the last seven years, I had been married to somebody who didn’t feel 100 percent comfortable with my drive, my ambition, my interest in thinking big and swinging for the fences. – Ivanka Trump
I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom. – John Barrymore
Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it’s trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things. – J. Michael Straczynski
American hypocrisy consists of thinking that everything is serious; French hypocrisy is to think that nothing is serious. – Isabelle Adjani
I stuck with that size because I could bend the strings so well, and somewhere along the line I must have gotten it into my mind that I had small hands, so I was thinking I’d never be able to play a full-scale guitar, but I also felt like I was cheating or cutting corners. – John Fogerty
There’s probably a way to use that great content and to live under the radar now and then in order to reach a new audience. That’s the thinking I’m talking about. – John Tesh
Advertisers are not thinking radically enough – they look for technology to lead instead of trying the neuroscience approach and thinking about what parts of the brain haven’t been activated before. These new experiences bring new capabilities to the brain. – Jaron Lanier
It’s not my style to be thinking about what a record is while I’m making it: I just write songs. – John Darnielle
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does. – Jorge Luis Borges
While everyone else is thinking about economics and politics, executive salaries and the future of the euro, do the opposite, even if it’s hard. Invest in the spirit. – Jonathan Sacks
What I’m still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television. – J. J. Abrams
There’s nothing worse than finishing your last take on a movie and thinking, ‘God! I finally nailed who this guy was!’ – Jamie Campbell Bower
I didn’t like the Feds coming to town when I was in Miami, telling me what to do. I didn’t like them coming to town and thinking that they knew more about Miami than I do. – Janet Reno
Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have. – Joyce Meyer
I’ve met so many of my idols, but the one person that has eluded me is Bono. But because he’s done ‘Spider-Man,’ I keep thinking maybe, through a Broadway connection, somehow our paths will eventually merge. – Idina Menzel
If you’re not critical about your history, that can be a problem because there are religious leaders, politicians and all kinds of powerful people who can take advantage of a population that isn’t really thinking. – Jose Gonzalez
Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself. – Irving Babbitt
I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string quartet, jazz band and electronic stuff. – Jonny Greenwood
You can always tell you’re in deep trouble when people start thinking money’s real. – John Ralston Saul
Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whereas Jeremy is just the opposite: always moving because he’s never really thinking of anything and the kind of guy you’d worry inviting to a dinner party because he says what he thinks. He can be insulting at times but doesn’t mean to be. – Jason Schwartzman
You don’t stop thinking about women just because your wife dies. It’s terrible, but you know. I just want the hugs, the kisses. A kiss! – Ian McLagan
There is so much temptation to hold on to my career even more now. To try to micromanage and dictate every little aspect. But that’s not how I want to do things anymore. I’m thinking about how can I trust God more. How can I surrender more? How can I bring him more glory? It’s a fight. But it’s one I’m going to keep fighting. – Jeremy Lin
There’s not a lot of thinking that I need to do away from the studio on Broken Bells stuff. – James Mercer
What you believe is very powerful. If you have toxic emotions of fear, guilt and depression, it is because you have wrong thinking, and you have wrong thinking because of wrong believing. – Joseph Prince
As a long-time registered Democrat who started voting in the year of Watergate, I resent being taken for a ride to the place where anything goes and nothing matters. And especially where nothing matters less than clear thinking and straight talk. – James Howard Kunstler