Quotes About Contemplative

My brain is just so busy. I'm inattentive; I'm a daydreamer: the space cadet kind.

Shakespeare has surface beneath surface to an immeasurable depth, adapted to the plummet-line of every reader; his works present many phases of truth, each with a scope large enough to fill a contemplative mind. Whatever you seek in him you will surely discover, provided you seek truth. There is no exhausting the various interpretations of his symbols, and a thousand years hence a world of new readers will possess a whole library of new books, as we ourselves do, in these volumes old already.

My thing is, I like playing guys who have a really interesting internal monologue.

I'm going to have my moody times.

I want to be one of those serious, moody writers.

Is dat dan niet gevaarlijk?' vroeg Didi. 'Dat is een interessante vraag uit de mond van een meisje dat bijna haar eigen huis heeft opgeblazen,' antwoordde Kiki. 'Daar zit wat in,' zei Didi bedachtzaam.

Thoughts roamed like lost dogs through

Cats, on the other hand, are similar to Vulcans—dispassionate, contemplative and pointy-eared.

He has the gift of quiet.

I am reserved; I don't speak much.

I've never really been a social butterfly, so to speak.

Why did I go back to school? After working with giant snails as the manager of an abalone farm, who wouldn't be fascinated with the inner workings of the mind? They are a very contemplative species.

I don't think of myself as a spiritual person.

I'm generally soft spoken, very measured, and I think 500 times before I say something.

I've always cared about issues, always thought through problems. I don't know how much that comes from my personality or my mum.

A wide and vague impression exists that so-called Eastern religion is more contemplative, innocuous, and humane than the proselytizing monotheisms of the West. Don't believe a word of this: try asking the children of Indochina who were dumped by their parents for inherited deformities that were attributed to sins in a previous 'life.

I'm not driven by the spotlight and I'm not that outgoing.

He was a quiet man, Eric Cantona, but he was a man of few words.

She thought I was...soulful, by which I think she means that I don't say much and I always look vaguely pissed off.

And for a minute she became thoughtful, ac- complishing during that one minute, as sometimes hap- pens, a long leisurely journey: she set off into Luzhin's past, dragging Valentinov with her, visualizing him, from his voice, in horn rimmed spectacles and long-legged, and as she journeyed through the mi^t she looked for a spot where she could dump the slippery, repulsively wriggling Valentinov, but she could not find one because she knew almost nothing about Luzhin's youth.

I'm too quiet. But I'm really not quiet. I just tend to come across that way to new people because I don't like to talk first.

But he was fine keeping mostly to himself.

Their souls are usually heavy and managerial.

He had a particularly deliberate way of speaking that made him sound as if he had thought up his sentences several minutes ago and was only now getting around to saying them.