deep in thought Quotes

Give me a window and I'll stare out it.

And if they thought her aimless, if they thought her a bit mad, let them. It meant they left her alone. Marya was not aimless, anyway. She was thinking.

You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk.

I'm the kind of person, I think a lot about everything. Nothin' I can do about it. It's like, I'm a thinkin' fool. That's a big part of me.

Everyone looked pensive, which is good cover-up for clueless.

In my quiet, I was working something out.

You can linger too long in your dreams.

I stood in the lee of an overhanging rock and thought of many things.

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.

There was a thoughtful frown on the face of the man who was the possessor of twenty million dollars.

I was too absorbed to be responsive

Hoyt was by himself right under one of the portable lights rigged up for the occasion. He had his hands thrust in his pockets, and he looked more serious than I’d ever seen him. There was something strange about the sight, and after a second I figured out why. It was one of the few times I’d ever seen Hoyt alone.

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.

I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.

Franny was staring at the little blotch of sunshine with a special intensity, as if she were considering lying down in it.

Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes.

My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.

When Ray Charles is concentrating he's like a piece of granite, nothing twitches, nothing, ... He sat for 25 minutes solid like that, like a stone, and I thought, 'Oh my God, if he doesn't like it I'm dead.' ... And then finally, after 25 minutes he started to talk back to the screen. I heard him say 'That's right. That's the truth.' .