George Barr McCutcheon Quotes

The noble style immobilizes its subjects.

Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes.

I've always been pretty serious and introspective.

George Harrison was known as the quiet Beatle. Quiet people are often quiet because they are deep thinkers.

To think of shadows is a serious thing.

In this world, where everything happens so fast, it's hard to sit back, take the time and contemplate.

I just didn't make music that you could sing with a big grin, still don't.

I was a reflective child.

I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker.

I think you need to have the guts to not use comedy. Often, the people that work in comedy use a joke to avoid contemplation.

In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.

All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves.

I was a shadow among shadows brooding over the fate of other shadows that I alone strove to summon up out of the all-pervading dusk.

Today is a day for sober and mature reflection, not glee. Mindless celebration is both spiritually inappropriate and politically naive.

I think a lot, but I don't say much.

The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.

Generally, I have lot of patience, and I won't take a decision immediately on anything. I will think twice, thrice; then only I take a decision.

I've always been a serious person.

I'm just a bit of a dreamer, and I get really in my thoughts. I get so deep with myself at times it's almost very scary.

I smiled at her, but she was already lost in thought, looking around the library as if it held all the answers to all our problems.

You're told that you're in your head too much, a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers.

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

The thoughtful man becomes a hermit in the thoroughfares of the marketplace.

But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts. And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts

That great brow And the spirit-small hand propping it.