#think

Chandler's the guy everybody thinks will do well with women, but he thinks too much and says the wrong thing. ↗

— Matthew Perry

#everybody #guy #much #says #thing

I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#arts #believe #confusion #elite #endeavor

I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own childhood. I can see, taste, smell, feel, and hear them. Then what I do is, not write about that kid or about his world, but start to think of a book that would have pleased him. ↗

— Daniel Pinkwater

#book #child #childhood #feel #hear

I think no commander ever is going to come out and say, 'I'm confident that we can do this.' ↗

— David Petraeus

#commander #confident #ever #going #i

The Germans have done wonderful work. Not long ago, a German battle group battalion conducted a very impressive counterinsurgency operation in a portion of Baghlan province. I think these are the first counterinsurgency operations conducted by any German element after World War II. And they did a very impressive job. ↗

— David Petraeus

#ago #any #battalion #battle #conducted

I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem. ↗

— Tom Petty

#feel #good #good attitude #i #life

It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy. ↗

— Nolan Ryan

#helps #hitter #little #thinks #you

I think the reason these readers come back to me is because I represent their points of view. It may not be my point of view, but that's OK. Everyone still deserves to have their say. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#because #come #deserves #everyone #i

I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers have to choose between literary and commercial fiction. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#book #choose #commercial #dead #fiction

I'm not going to tell a person how to think, don't believe in that. What I want to do, when I write these books, is just to say don't be so sure of yourself. Let me pull the carpet out from underneath you, and let's see if you can still find the footing. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#books #carpet #find #footing #going