The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.
Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.
It makes us feel better that everyone out there is thinking of Maurice.
It looks like I'm this huge shark going in for the kill... I don't know what I was thinking.
Then I got the offer to play Buck Rogers, but I turned it down thinking it was a cartoon character. Well I was wrong, it wasn't at all. So I read the script and decided I liked the character, it had a good concept.
The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.
People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.
Don't believe your own publicity. You can't; you'll start thinking that you're better than you are.
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.
My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.
Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen. They couldn't have been more wrong.
You know, all writers are vampires and they'll look around and they watch you when you're not even thinking they're watching you and they'll slip stuff in.
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.