Quotes by Thinking The way superheroes dominate the fictional landscape now, along with dystopian futures and zombies. Yeah, definitely - I think these stories function as a kind of mythology for us. Adam Frank zombiesuperherothinking They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows. Adam Garcia stylesleepthinking I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument. Adam Garcia dogfeetthinking My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes! Adam Garcia gaygirlfriendthinking I don't care if people think I'm gay. I know I'm not, so it doesn't bother me. Adam Garcia gaypeoplethinking There is this weird thing that happens, when you stop worrying so much about what other people think of you...you suddenly start seeing what you think of you. Adam Gidwitz worrypeoplethinking Physical immortalists today, those who think science will find a way to keep us young forever, would call Hanaya Yanagihara scenario the Tithonus error. They think they'll find another way. I'm not so sure. It seems like her book views immortality as a dangerous desire. Adam Gollner foreverbookthinking I think I'm more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write. Adam Gopnik speakwritingthinking Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself as the only reasonable creature among crazy people who think they are disinherited monarchs. Adam Gopnik crazymenthinking There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind who has an image in his head and goes out to accomplish it. The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more. Adam Gopnik twofirststhinking Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking. Adam Gopnik good-timessometimesthinking Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers, I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life. Adam Gopnik winemeanthinking I think that we're always drawn - particularly sophisticated people - are always drawn to the idea of simplicity. Adam Gopnik peopleideasthinking Writing doesn't come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency, I think - the more sentences you write, the more sentences you have written, if that slightly Zen confection makes any sense. Adam Gopnik practicewritingthinking I don't think there's any question journalists have become targets, but then I think that - that anyone who tries to practice liberty becomes a target of fanatics. Adam Gopnik practicetryingthinking We don't know that we've lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence. Something is missing, we think. And so we long for the thing we've missed and can't name, and out of that wanting - well, everything else rises, good and bad. What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place? The light in your eyes shines because of the longing in your soul. And the longing in your souls rises because you are looking for the lost half minute. Adam Gopnik eyenamesthinking We've had mass shootings in the United States in the part of violent antiabortion protesters, in the part of violent pro-ISIS militants. The trick and the trap and the horror is not faith, Scott. I don't think the trap and the horror is fanaticism. Adam Gopnik isismass-shootingsthinking I think the worst thing we can do is to concede to fanaticism its devotion, say. Well, you have to understand, these people are really fanatics, so we should back down from them. I think if journalists start doing that then they won't be practicing journalism. If satirists start doing that then they won't be practicing satire. Adam Gopnik journalismpeoplethinking I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast - you sort of can't skip it. Adam Gopnik coffeenew-yorkthinking There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I am a guilty party here - to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores. Adam Gopnik partyattitudethinking«2122232425262728293031»
