“When you're really happy, you don't sit around thinking.”
Thinking quotes
308 thinking quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines-
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“It takes a rare thing, a turning point, to free oneself from any obsession. Be it prejudice or hate, or, even love.”
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“I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed.”
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“Ariel, please! Will you get your head out of the clouds and back in the water where it belongs?”
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“I was very ill last summer. For a while, I thought I was a goner. I woke up one night in my hospital bed, and I saw, standing there, a tall man, wearing a white robe, with a long white beard. I said, 'Who are you?' He said, 'I am the Holy Ghost.' I said, 'Where are the Father and the Son?' He said, 'They're out of town.' I'm not a religious man,...” (continue) (continue reading)
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“- Don Birnam: Do you ever lay in your bed looking at the window? A little daylight's coming through and you start to wonder. Is it getting lighter? Is it getting darker? Is it dawn or is it dusk? That's a terrifying problem, Nat. Because, if its dawn, you're dead! The bars are closed. The liquor stores aren't open until nine o'clock and you...” (continue) (continue reading)
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“Maybe the truth is that when a man does nothing all his life, it leaves him too much time to think. And thinking too much makes him... makes him stupid.”
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“- Commodus: Father thinks too much.
- Livius: There is much for a Roman to think of these days.
- Commodus: Why Livius, for a moment that honest warrior's face of yours took on the... philosopher's look. Let's not think, let's drink.”
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“- Arthur: Of course it's not working. It's been sitting here gathering dust since before the Sahara was a desert!
- Mera: Before the Sahara was a desert... You do your best thinking when you're not thinking at all.” -
“When that day come when you can think for yourself, I will let you know.”
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“Sometimes we have to avoid thinking about the problems life presents. Otherwise we'd suffocate.”
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- Sari Hatvany: "Pierre says, Pierre says, says, says." Since you are 14, Pierre is always saying. Isn't it time you say a few words yourself?
- Maria Corvier: You're the one who's always saying, "Listen to Pierre. A ballerina shouldn't think."
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“Social media has colonized what was once a sacred space occupied by emptiness: the space reserved for thought and creativity.”
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“I paint, as a matter of fact, to stop thinking. I stop thinking, and I feel that I'm a part of everything outside and inside of me.”
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“- Neil Clarke: Dennis, become a rational thinking creature!
- Dennis: Look, I just can't concentrate on anything till I've had one of those biscuits! I know it's crazy, but that's how it is. I guess I'm kinda hooked on them. So please, give me just one biscuit, and I'll be able to think about something else!
- Neil Clarke: That makes sense [goes...” (continue) (continue reading) -
“- Ian Donnelly: If you immerse yourself into a foreign language, then you can actually rewire your brain.
- Louise Banks: Yeah, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. It's the theory that the language you speak determines how you think and...
- Ian Donnelly: Yeah, it affects how you see everything.”
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“- Benjamin Franklin Rodriguez: Man, you think too much! I bet you get straight A's and shit!
- Scotty Smalls: No, I got a B once. Well, actually it was an A minus but it should have been a B.
- Benjamin Franklin Rodriguez: Man, this is baseball, you gotta stop thinking! Just have fun. If you were having fun, you would have caught that ball!”
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“- Dr. Ouelet: You're not invulnerable. I can repair your body, but I can't protect your mind.
- Major: Why not? You can see all my thoughts, so... you should be able to secure them.”
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“You're just a mass of prejudices, aren't you? You're so much thought and so little feeling, Professor.”
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“- Kevin Dolenz: Well, you're all I think about.
- Leslie Hunter: Me?
- Kevin Dolenz: And I think the reason I'm not interested in other women, and why I haven't had sex in so long, is because I'm desperately, completely in love with you.”
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“- William: You know what I could never figure out about the Mummy? The Mummy used to walk with one arm out and a leg draggin' behind him, but he was still always able get his victim. I'm thinkin' as a kid, I was pretty fast, I'd just, ya know, put some moves on the Mummy and the Mummy, he'd never get me.
- Jimmy Alto: This is what you're...” (continue) (continue reading)
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“It is always consoling to think about suicide. It's what gets one through many a bad night.”
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“All I could think about in that moment was the guy in the next room was eating with only one chopstick.”
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“- Sherlock Holmes: What are you doing?
- Dr. Watson: Thinking.
- Sherlock Holmes: Right. I'm going to think too. What shall we think about, Watson?”
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