#thinking

I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#being #books #built #i #i think

It is not important for life to meet your great expectations. What is important is that you hold high expectations of yourself and meet them greatly. ↗

— Roopleen

#courage #determination #goals #inspiration #inspire

I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime. ↗

— James Ellroy

#american #american history #brooding #crime #history

Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#compelling #exercise #force #game #internal

I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. Unfortunately, its not the way the music business works. If you don't create some kind of public image, it gets created for you. ↗

— Tom Verlaine

#business #create #created #find #gets

My thinking was scrambled when Sullivan and I separated. Something happened to me that had never happend before. I couldn't cope. It was heartbreak time. I thought it was the end of the world. ↗

— Henry Fonda

#cope #end #end of the world #had #happened

I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema. ↗

— Lars von Trier

#audience #cinema #efficient #efficient way #give

This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#great #ideas #rather #than #thinking

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. ↗

— Voltaire

#no problem #problem #sustained #thinking #withstand

I took Beetle home thinking that after the Korean War was over, I would have to take him out of the Army. I thought, well, what am I going to do with him? ↗

— Mort Walker

#am #army #beetle #going #him