“A friend said to me I'm like a walking New Yorker article. It's true! That's how I write. That's how I think.” ThinkingWritingSaidWalkingArticlesNew Yorkers Author:Jose Antonio Vargas
“You say fate is almost indispensable to literature - I think it's completely indispensable, at least in a novel, because a novel always has a plot. Even if nothing happens, even if someone just spends a day walking around Dublin, or whatever, there's still something going on.” IfsThinkingStillsHappensLiteratureNovelFateWalkingThings HappenPlotIndispensableDublin Author:Daniel Kehlmann
“I think anything we do - eating, walking down the street, online shopping - gives you another perspective on writing stories.” ThinkingGivingWritingStoriesStreetsPerspectiveWalkingEatingOnlineShoppingWriting StoriesOnline Shopping Author:Peter Orner
“I always think about Katharine Graham - she was the publisher of The Washington Post. In her autobiography she talks about the way her parents met. Her father was, I think, in New York just walking by on his way home and looked into a store and saw the lady that became his wife. It was just pure luck. And she said that it once again reminds her of the role that luck and chance play in our life. I really believe that, too.” ThinkingWayBelieveSaidPlayHomeFatherParentChanceRolesSawsOur LivesWifeNew YorkWalkingMetsPureLuckStoresPostsAutobiographyPublishersWay Home Author:Owen Wilson
“I find, however, it's a much more freeing way to live. It certainly beats walking around with the "Don't you know who I think I am?" voice in your head. I find that only leads me down dark monkey-mind paths and patterns of behavior that benefits no one.” ThinkingKnowsWayMindVoiceDarkPathWalkingBehaviorBenefitsBeatsPatternsMonkeysWay To LiveLeading MeMonkey Mind Author:Patrick Fabian
“I think spirituality is probably one of the most important things. I feel that I'm a spiritual person and as long as you're walking on that path, you have a communication with God - that's spiritual to me. That spirituality is something that emanates through all of us and is the source energy, and that energy makes everything stronger.” ThinkingFeelsPersonsLongImportantSpiritualSpiritualityEnergyPathCommunicationSourceWalkingStrongerImportant ThingsEmanateCommunication With God Author:LaToya Jackson
“I'm a writer, not an editor, and though the editing rarely cut into my writing time, it did take away from that walking-around-thinking-about-it-when-you're-not-thinking-about-it time that I think is important for writers. When you're half-thinking about what you're working on while driving, cooking . . . just letting things sift and settle, come to you.” ThinkingWritingImportantHalfCuttingWalkingCookingDrivingSettlingEditorsEditing Author:Ben Fountain
“I don't think I have ever really gotten Leopold Bloom's interior ramblings out of my head! I am sure that voice continues to inspire the walking consciousness in my work - that is, the way I carry on an interior monologue as I walk through this city.” ThinkingWayVoiceWalksCitiesConsciousnessInspireWalkingInteriorsMonologuesRambling Author:Stephen Vincent Benet
“I haven't been walking around for years with some burning desire to do a solo record. If I had, maybe I'd have made a record that was experimental. Usually, the idea of a solo record is to get some weird stuff out of your system, but I don't think like that. I wasn't interested in making something that was a hard listen - maybe I'll get around to that some other time. I wanted it to sound effortless, not like I was trying to reinvent the wheel.” IfsThinkingTryingYearsMadeIdeasHardWantedDesireStuffSoundRecordsHavensWalkingBurningWheelsSoloEffortlessBurning DesireWeird Stuff Author:Johnny Marr
“I was thinking about New York and realized how much I hate walking around in the winter and how much I dread getting on the train.” ThinkingHateNew YorkWalkingI HateTrainWinterDread Author:Frankie Cosmos
“I just started playing music on the street and walking around with a fiddle, and I think that's kind of when I started being serious - or as serious as it's going to get.” ThinkingKindStreetsSeriousWalkingPlaying MusicFiddle Author:Frank Fairfield
“The Internet is the new public space. And because women are out in public, people don't like that in much the same way that if you're walking down the street you get harassed. I think the same kind of thing happens online, and I think that's why a lot of women are hesitant to put their voice out there.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayKindHappensVoiceSpaceStreetsInternetWalkingThings HappenOnlineHesitant Author:Jessica Valenti
“I remember when Martin Luther King was assassinated and riots broke out in the city. We celebrated Palm Sunday on 14th Street. I have a memory of walking down the street with buildings smoldering, and soldiers and cops everywhere. Anyways, it [St. Stephen’s] was a church that really taught me the things I needed to learn to not go to church. But I think it is a church that does great work, I went to a wedding there three days ago.” ThinkingDoeRememberThreeChurchMemoriesCitiesStreetsBuildingTaughtKingsNeededWalkingSoldierBrokeSundayCopPalmsRemember WhenGreat WorkLutherRiotPalm Sunday Author:Ian MacKaye
“I'm also not an avid watcher of the show ['Walking Dead'] for no good reason. I think it's obviously a great show. I think it's a good comparison [to "Zoo"], because it is this apocalyptic world we're living in Season 2 of "Zoo."” ThinkingWorldReasonShowsWalkingSeasonsComparisonZoosApocalypticWatchersAvidWalking Dead Author:James Wolk
“For example, you go to Fuji, and there are no animal attacks. Why? And I think that gets you into the world of "The Walking Dead" or "Lost." Humans start doing some weird stuff.” ThinkingWorldHumansLostStuffAnimalExampleWalkingWalking DeadWeird Stuff Author:James Patterson
“I think it's so important to have a practice, because the consciousness isn't perfection or enlightenment or any of that bullshit. The consciousness is, "Oh, I'm walking down the street and I'm doing nothing."” ThinkingImportantConsciousnessPracticeStreetsWalkingEnlightenmentPerfectionBullshitDoing Nothing Author:Amanda Palmer
“[In] the 21st century, the mainstream can satisfy your every whim. I guess the idea of walking around with groups of people dressed the same and saying, "I'm only into ska" or "I'm only into whatever" - is kind of restrictive in the 21st century. I don't know if it's a bad thing that these movements have run their course. I think what I miss about it is the collective experience.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsKindIdeasRunningCoursesGroupsCenturyMissingMovementWalkingCollectivesBad ThingsMainstream21st CenturyWhim Author:Don Letts
“It is hard not to be inspired when you're living in New York. It doesn't matter what you do. I think that there is so much going on in this city. I like walking around or taking the subway, thinking about all the history here, looking at the architecture and all the people; of course, the museums. It's tough to find a better place to live.” PeopleThinkingMatterHardCoursesCitiesNew YorkWalkingToughInspiredArchitectureMuseumsBetter PlaceSubwayPlaces To LiveBe Inspired Author:Diego Klattenhoff
“Having a kid, it makes you slow down; when you're walking with a toddler to pick up a leaf it can take a half hour. You've never spent that time looking at a leaf before, having that kind of interaction. So I think it does make you change the way you look things.” ThinkingWayLooksKindDoeKidsHoursHalfWalkingPicksInteractionLeafsSlow DownHalf HoursToddler Author:Sofia Coppola
“It was easy and fun [filming in Hail, Caesar!], and I think it's easy to be intimidated by the Coen brothers, because they're quiet. They don't heap praise, especially upon themselves. It's not like they're walking around thinking they're the greatest thing on Earth.” ThinkingEarthFunEasyBrotherWalkingQuietPraiseIntimidatedHailCoen Brothers Author:David Krumholtz
“The gospel is only good news if it gets there on time. I think if we don't deliver this message, it's negligence of the highest order. It would be like if you were walking down the street and a house was on fire and you heard screams coming from inside and you just kept walking. How irresponsible is that? At the very least, call 911 but better yet, you might run in and try to save the people.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingMightWould BeRunningOrderHouseFireHeardStreetsWalkingMessagesNewsHighestScreamGood NewsIrresponsibleNegligence Author:Greg Laurie
“You can get a sense of the wonderful power of framing by holding your fingers up in a kind of square, walking around the room and framing it differently - how that changes the nature of what you think the room is like.” ThinkingKindRoomsWonderfulWalkingFingersSquaresFraming Author:Martha Ronk
“I think it's too late. I think that there's been too much. This all started with the red line, walking away from it. The inability to arm the legitimate [Bashar] Assad opposition.” ThinkingLinesToo MuchArmsWalkingLateRedOppositionToo LateInabilityWalking AwayAssadRed Lines Author:John Kasich
“When I would knock about the town in London, I was doing it with my head down, walking very quickly and it had become the norm for me because I'm recognized there. And people are not unkind but occasionally there's a sort of British who do you think you are sort of, I don't really think I'm anybody. I just go about my normal day. But sometimes you're faced with that.” PeopleThinkingSometimesWalkingNormalTownsBritishLondonNormUnkind Author:Ewan McGregor
“The Islamic State fighters in Mosul are dead men walking and I think they increasingly know it.” ThinkingKnowsMenStatesWalkingFighterIslamicDead ManIslamic State Author:David Petraeus
“I think that any time a person comes face-to-face with their own mortality - close enough to Death that they can smell its breath - they have a choice: 1) Fall to pieces; 2) Reassemble yourself and keep walking.” ThinkingPersonsEnoughFacesChoicesFallPiecesWalkingBreathsSmellMortalityFace To Face Author:Jim Goad
“If you're thinking about the idea in the shower. If you're thinking about the idea while you're walking your dog, there's probably something to it.” IfsThinkingIdeasDogWalkingShowers Author:Lin-Manuel Miranda
“What the soul is doing is kind of walking through the forms, and so our experience of thinking isn't normally this kind of pure intuitive insight that intellect gets, and that intellect must get right, because it's always identical to its objects, it's always the same as the forms that it's thinking about.” ThinkingKindSoulFormObjectsWalkingPureInsightIntellectIntuitiveIdentical Author:Peter Adamson
“Most people when they're walking are thinking about where they have to go and what they have to do. But that removes us from happiness.” PeopleThinkingWalkingRemove Author:Oprah Winfrey
“I think walking is very useful, like sleeping and dreaming, as something that's important to my ability to write.” ThinkingWritingImportantDreamSleepAbilityWalking Author:Mohsin Hamid
“I think women need to have a lobby. I feel that women need to speak out. The first time a man hits you is one too many times and you need to do something about it. That something about it is walking out that door and seeking for help and never looking back.” ThinkingMenNeedsFeelsFirstsHelpingSpeakDoorsWalkingFirst TimeSeekingLooking BackSpeaks OutWalking Out Author:LaToya Jackson
“I think it's so easy when you have children just to turn your focus inward on your family and because, when they're young, you don't sleep very much, you're walking around like a zombie most of the time anyway. It's a really important part of my life to have good friends, you have to work quite hard to keep the relationships going but it's worth it.” ThinkingChildrenImportantHardYoungTurnsEasySleepFocusWalkingOur FamilyInwardGood FriendWorth ItZombie Author:Jo Brand
“In cinema people are always walking into something and saying this is who I am, what I want, and how I'm going to get it and we don't in life - particularly not in public situations. People might know your first name, not your last name, they don't know what you do, and you're not going to offer it up. So if you start there and you realize this is a much more normal presentation in a film then you would ordinarily have; you know that there is a big life behind what everyone presents and that I think is super interesting.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWantFirstsBigsMightLastsFilmNamesRealizingInterestingBehindsSituationWalkingOffersNormalWho I AmCinemaPresentation Author:Julianne Moore
“I was walking around legally blind. Now I have 20-20 vision. I can't believe I spent so many years blurry, but I think that coincides with how I was feeling. Now I notice if people are watching me, but I also smile right back if someone waves, which helps.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsBelieveI CanHelpingFeelingsVisionWalkingBlindSmileWaveBlurry Author:Nicole Kidman
“Osama Bin Laden is not well read and he's not sophisticated, but he will have worked out very coldly what America would do in response to this attack 9/11. I'm sure he wanted America to attack Afghanistan. Once you do what your enemy wants, you are walking into a trap, whether you think it's the right thing to do or not.” ThinkingEnemyWalkingResponseRight ThingAfghanistanSophisticatedBin LadenOsama Bin Laden Author:Robert Fisk
“Anything an artist does is to show ourselves as we really are, which is a complex thing. I don't think that one work of Philosophy or Art, or Letters, or Acting, or Middle Playing, or Tightrope Walking, or Flea Circuses has made mankind better, if by better you mean kinder, wiser, more tolerant of each other. One thing self knowledge. Knoticayton: know thyself.” ThinkingMeanArtPhilosophyArtistActingMankindWalkingSelf KnowledgeWiserThyselfKnow Thyself Author:Peter O'Toole
“I'm gut all the way, which is why I think I'm so connected to shows like Falling Water and even The Walking Dead, which is all about the mortal consequences of our actions. Generally, we act first and realize the consequences later.” ThinkingActionFallWaterRealizingWalkingConsequenceGutsWalking Dead Author:Gale Anne Hurd
“I think all the simple things can and do still work - holding your child's hand while walking across the street will do it. But we can hardly hear it for all the noise which has turned love into a cliche, and most people can't even hear John Lennon's "All You Need Is Love" anymore without wincing.” PeopleThinkingSimpleWalkingYour ChildrenClicheSimple Things Author:Dan Simmons
“I remember being on Hawaii when I sailed to Hawaii. It felt unsettling to be walking around there because I was thinking, "This place could just sink at any second." In actuality, it totally can. But it really felt like, I am this teeny, tiny speck out in the middle of all that water, I feel so unprotected right now. It almost felt creepier than being on a boat, which is an even smaller speck out in the middle of nowhere. But I felt like I had some control over that situation.” ThinkingRememberWaterSituationWalkingBoat Author:Jherek Bischoff
“Barack Obama thinks this country is a crime. Obama thinks this country is a walking, living crime, the way it's treated poor people, minorities and so forth, and he wants to get even, he wants to get even with all those people that have engaged in this theft, discrimination, racism and be and so forth, he also wants to create a permanent underclass for the express purpose of making sure he's never out of office or the regime's party is never out of office.” PeopleThinkingCountryPurposePoorPartyCrimeWalkingOfficeRacismDiscriminationBarackPoor People Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I don't understand why we have laws that prevent someone from walking a school campus and selling alcohol or drugs but somehow can't feed our children who attend those schools a healthy balanced diet, which I think is a lot worse. It's offensive and I think anyone who isn't offended by it is an idiot.” ThinkingChildrenSchoolWalkingHealthyDrugOur ChildrenAlcoholSellingIdiotOffensiveOffended Author:Andrew Zimmern
“I was the first person to tweet from space, but now every astronaut tweets from space and does Instagram and Snapchat and Face - they have Facebook going. I think it's more of a personal relationship they have with space now. They see it as more obtainable than me watching my superhero Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walking on the moon. It's like, there's no way I can do that.” ThinkingWalkingMoonSuperheroAstronautTweet Author:Michael J. Massimino
“The left portray Donald Trump as somebody that's a walking mental midget, that literally has no idea what he's done here by winning the presidency, that has no idea how to talk, has no idea how to behave. They continue to make the mistake of plugging him into their model. They're plugging him into what they think an accomplished politician is, and he's not that, he's never been that, and he's not going to be that. He doesn't want to a politician, successful or not. He is president and he's going to lead this country in the ways that he's being very open and honest about.” ThinkingCountryDoneWinningPresidentMistakeSuccessfulHonestPoliticianWalkingBehaveAccomplishedMidget Author:Rush Limbaugh
“All entertainment is an element of fantasy because you are seeing something that is not quite real. There is no such thing as reality TV. Reality TV would be to leave a camera on in front of someone's house. Just leave it on. Then whenever the person comes or goes walking the dog or getting groceries, that's what it would be like. Any time you make an edit, you've lost reality TV. You're either compressing time or extending. That's a term that's been overused and overexposed. I think it's fantasy movies that take the fantasy of movies even further.” ThinkingRealRealityHouseTermFantasyDogWalkingOverused Author:Bruce Campbell
“Generally, the ways we discuss the fat body pathologize it; we treat it as a medical problem and/or a social problem that must be solved. "Morbid obesity" is in many ways saying we are the walking dead. Or walking to our death. And that is no way to live, with that sort of moniker hanging over your head at all times. I think it forces fat people to internalize a lot of unnecessary self-loathing.” PeopleThinkingProblemWalkingMedicalAll TimeOver YouUnnecessaryObesityMorbidWalking Dead Author:Roxane Gay
“In actor's career, I had a fair amount of denial, which I think is possibly in the genes, where I just couldn't go to, "Maybe this won't work out." I just couldn't do it. My mind just refused to go there. I don't mean there weren't low periods. There were plenty. But I remember arriving in New York and I was maybe 32, and I didn't have an agent. I came from Chicago, where I had gone to school and worked and got my sea legs, so to speak, and I remember walking out of the subway, walking the streets, standing in front of the theater and saying, "I will work in this theater."” ThinkingMindMeanSchoolRememberSpeakWalkingWork OutPlentyDenial Author:Ann Dowd
“I think people kind of come up and go, "Why hasn't that person busted out?" Almost always at the end of career, what you find out is that either consciously or subconsciously success hasn't happened because that person hasn't chosen for it to happen. Either through walking away because it wasn't the life they wanted or through self-sabotaging because they weren't ready.” PeopleThinkingKindWalkingChosen Author:Chris Gethard
“But this cheap-thrill version, this sort of ease definition, the feel-good definition of happiness is an empty promise. Unless we get wiser as to how to carry the difficulties of life in a way that's self-compassionate and empowering, we can create this kind of world in which we'd rather sort of plug into the matrix with whatever pills or escapist tendencies we can think of instead of walking through a process of living that's going to include loss. It's going to include limitations on function. We need to learn and teach our children how to do that.” ThinkingWorldKindChildrenLossTeachWalkingPromiseEmptyDifficultyOur ChildrenLimitationEmpoweringWiser Author:Steven C. Hayes
“We are little animals walking on the ground, we have a certain life time, we are acting and interacting with different people, and we are trying to build things, but we are just some sort of virus compared to the entire sky. You always have to remember that the moon, the earth, the sun, they are like the real universal objects. We are just passing by, and it makes life more beautiful to think that way. More relaxing to think that way, that nothing is really important, because you give yourself much more confidence and you forgive yourself more things when you think about that.” PeopleThinkingGivingTryingImportantDifferentRealEarthBeautifulRememberAnimalActingWalkingMoonForgivingForgive YourselfLife Time Author:Jean-Benoit Dunckel
“Sometimes you have to get out of your own way as an actor. Young actors tend to over prepare sometimes and over think it. And actually there is nothing wrong with walking on a set with an empty brain and then on action allowing your adrenaline and your trust in yourself to take over.” ThinkingSometimesActionBrainWalkingEmptyTrust YourselfAdrenaline Author:Frank Langella