Alex Turner Quotes

I spend many months in apparently listless rumination out of which I hope something will emerge.

I'm contemplating thinking about thinking...but....it's overrated - just get another drink in!

To think is to confine yourself to a single thought that one day stands still like a star in the world's sky.

I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much – in just standing and staring.

One sits down first; one thinks afterwards.

We don't ruminate during a fight. Maybe in a bath, or driving a car, or as we take a walk. But not right smack in the middle of a dramatic moment.

You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. I can't tell you just now what the moral of that is, but I shall remember it in a bit." "Perhaps it hasn't one," Alice ventured to remark. "Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

Avery: "So I've been doing some thinking." Cam: "Oh God." Avery: "Shut up.

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

To know, to think, to dream. That is everything.

If you sit on the doorstep long enough, I daresay you will think of something

Every thought is an afterthought.

In the meantime, I would drink, rest, and ponder the meaning of this mob.

He had been (Thinking? Praying?) It was all the same thing.

The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid

Do you always think this much? It's just that sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.

I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.

You might want to put this in the back of your craw and think about it.

Pondering is a little like considering and a little like thinking, but looser. To ponder, one must let the facts roll around the rim of the mind's roulette wheel, coming to settle in whichever slot they feed pulled to.

My trouble is I analyze life instead of live it.

Don't talk for five minutes, there's a good chap! I've a strange feeling come over me--almost as if I were going to think!

They only babble who practise not reflection.

I try not to be overly analytical.

Every now and then, I have a deep thought.

When I was in lower school, I graduated from fourth grade, and the principal gave us a summer assignment to take a 30-minute reflection period every day. And, of course, there were no cell phones at the time. She said to just think. And that's lost. It doesn't exist anymore. Just imagine being on a couch and just thinking.