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Thinks Quotes (page 650)

And did I not think then, What nonsense it is to suppose one man so different from another when all that life really boils down to is getting a decent cup of coffee and room to stretch out in? Alice Munro
So you know how things stand. Now forget what they think of you. Be satisfied if you can live the rest of your life, however short, as your nature demands. Focus on that, and don't let anything distract you. You've wandered all over and finally realized that you never found what you were after: how to live. Not in syllogisms, not in money, or fame, or self-indulgence. Nowhere. Marcus Aurelius
I don't think it would be fun to write after inhaling art fumes. (What are art fumes?) No, I just make stuff up. It's easier that way. Neil Gaiman
By the way, did you fellows know that a hummingbird weighs as much as a quarter? Do you think a hummingbird also weighs the same as two dimes and a nickel? But then she asked a question of her own: How do they weigh a hummingbird? Calvin Trillin
Richard Adams quote: "Lots of little Bigwigs, Hazel! Think of that, and tremble!"
Lots of little Bigwigs, Hazel! Think of that, and tremble! Richard Adams
Oscar Wilde quote: "I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It..."
I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue. Oscar Wilde
I think Kwan intended to show me the world is not a place but the vastness of the sou. And the soul is nothing more than love, limitless, endless, all that moves us toward knowing what is true....If people we love die, then they are lost only to our ordinary senses. If we remember, we can find them anytime with our hundred secret senses. Amy Tan
T. H. White quote: "Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically--to..."
Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically--to those who hardly think about us in return. T. H. White
Terry Prachett quote: "And what had he wanted? He'd never sat down to think about it...."
And what had he wanted? He'd never sat down to think about it. But mostly, he wanted yesterday to be different from today. Terry Prachett
Pablo Neruda quote: "I think it was very informative, but a lot still needs to be..."
I think it was very informative, but a lot still needs to be done. Pablo Neruda
To think, analyze and invent, he [Pierre Menard] also wrote me, “are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence. To glorify the occasional fulfillment of this function, to treasure ancient thoughts of others, to remember with incredulous amazement that the doctor universal is thought, is to confess our languor or barbarism. Every man should be capable of all ideas, and I believe that in the future he will be." (Jorge Luis Borges, "Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote,... Jorge Luis Borges
Occasionally she glanced at him, asking with her glance, 'Is this what I think?' "I understand,' she said, blushing. "What is this word?' he said, pointing to the "n' that signified the word "never." .... She wrote: t, I, c, g, n, o, a. Leo Tolstoy
I think now that being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligation but being able to love. To love someone else enough to forget about yourself even for one moment is to be free. Jeanette Winterson
The victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there's life, there is hope. Stephen Hawking
The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing. John Adams

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