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Thinking Quotes (page 385)

I met a reverend mother once who cried...ah, it's all so sad' - 'What did she cry about?' - 'I don't know, after talking to me, I remember I said some silly thing like "the universe is a woman because it's round" but I think she cried because she was remembering her early days when she had a romance with some soldier who died, at least that's what they say, she was the greatest woman I ever saw, big blue eyes, big smart woman ... you could do that, get out of this awful mess and leave it all... Jack Kerouac
Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where the spirit can find exercise in unsupervised play. John Updike
The sight of snow made her think how beautiful and short life is and how, in spite of all their enmities, people have so very much in common; measured against eternity and the greatness of creation, the world in which they lived was narrow. That's why snow drew people together. It was as if snow cast a veil over hatreds, greed, and wrath and made everyone feel close to one another. -- Snow pg 119 Orhan Pamuk
Agatha Christie quote: "The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old..."
The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools. Agatha Christie
Whether or not we continue to enforce a universal conception of human rights at moments of outrage and incomprehension, precisely when we think that others have taken themselves out of the human community as we know it, is a test of our very humanity. Judith Butler
J. D. Salinger quote: "People never think anything is anything really. I'm getting..."
People never think anything is anything really. I'm getting goddam sick of it. J. D. Salinger
Gloria Steinem quote: "Having someone who looks like us but thinks like them is worse..."
Having someone who looks like us but thinks like them is worse than having no one at all. Gloria Steinem
They strike one, above all, as giving no account of themselves in any terms already consecrated by human use; to this inarticulate state they probably form, collectively, the most unprecedented of monuments; abysmal the mystery of what they think, what they feel, what they want, what they suppose themselves to be saying. Henry James
Jeffrey Eugenides quote: "She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all..."
She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about. Jeffrey Eugenides
Fifty-five crystal spheres geared to God’s crankshaft is my idea of a satisfying universe. I can’t think of anything more trivial than quarks, quasars, big bangs, and black holes. Tom Stoppard
Bertrand Russell quote: "Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think..."
Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously. Bertrand Russell
It's truly weird how everyone just thinks they can bring me Diet Coke and everything will be okay. Especially since it's pretty much true.-Lizzie Nichols Meg Cabot
I don't think he could ever be a serial killer. He's way too shy. That Ted Bundy guy, he was pretty outgoing , from what I heard. -Jess about Doug p. 107 Meg Cabot
Harry looked around; there was Ginny running toward him; she had a hard blazing look in her face as she threw her arms around him. And without thinking, without planning it, without worrying about the fact that fifty people were watching, Harry kissed her. After several long moments, or it might have been half an hour-or possibly several sunlit days- they broke apart. J. K. Rowling
My leg hurts, I wonder if it's cancer? There's a bump. I'm starting to sweat. Stop sweating. I've got to stop sweating. Can she see it dripping down my forehead? She looked at my hair line. She thinks I'm bald. Charlie Kaufman

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