For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker.

- Gregg Easterbrook

I'm not on all the time. I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker.

- Keenen Ivory Wayans

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

- Keenen Ivory Wayans

The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.

- Jose Bergamin

Ross Perot came and visited Apple several times and visited the Macintosh factory. Ross was a systems thinker.

- John Sculley

Emerson's fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.

- John Burroughs

A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.

- iO Tillett Wright

I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker, and you have to stop all that to write a novel.

- Hilary Mantel

I'm not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years.

- Haruki Murakami

A hero holds purposes appropriate to man and is, therefore, a thinker.

- Andrew Bernstein

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.

- Frank Moore Colby

No, I try not to be a negative thinker.

- Earl Butz

I'm admittedly a record guy. Singles and I are a different beast. I'm definitely an overall picture thinker.

- David Cook

I think I identify more with the smart guy, but most people might take umbrage at that. I like to think of myself as a real thinker, but I suppose people might beg to differ.

- Colin Quinn

I'm bad at doing what I'm told. I'm a born free thinker.

- Christopher Monckton

I am not a political thinker. I'm not even much of a thinker. I'm a hack novelist.

- Christopher Buckley

I really am a thinker. I don't do things rash. I know some of the things I've said or the way I act seem rash. But I do take ownership of it. I don't say things I don't mean.

- Bode Miller

Snowden is an orderly thinker, with an engineer's approach to problem-solving.

- Barton Gellman