Faith Prince

Half of me is this wacked-out comedienne who will do anything for a buck and a laugh. Well, at least for a laugh. But the other half is a lot darker, sadder and more pensive. It's the dark side that feeds the outrageousness and allows it to surface. I think that's true for anyone with comic flair.

American Actress

Leon Foucault

Any person, brought into the presence of this fact, stops for a few moments and remains pensive and silent; and then generally leaves, carrying with him forever a sharper, keener sense of our incessant motion through space.

French Inventor

Elvis Mitchell

In 'Training Day,' Mr. Washington's dry-ice grandeur - the predator's reflexes contrasting with a pensive mouth - deserves regard, and his powerhouse virtuosity will almost guarantee him an Oscar nomination.

American Critic

Jewel

I'm a Gemini and I have a lot of different moods. Sometimes I'm very serious and introspective and pensive, but other times I'm completely goofy and girlie. So, I like my songs to cover all my moods.

American Musician

Heart Evangelista

A lot of people tell me that my paintings are sad-looking, but they're actually more pensive than sad. They're very colorful and that says a lot about my disposition in life, how I'm very hopeful.

Filipino Actress

Goapele

Break of Dawn,' musically, is still soulful and eclectic, but I think I opened up a little bit more vocally. It's a little more intimate. It's a little more sensual than before - and pensive.

Drummond Money-Coutts

I arrived at school pensive, introverted, and not very sporty, so magic became a place of mystery and intrigue, an escape for my boyish mind.

English Entertainer

Bob Dylan

I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.

Sushmita Sen

There is a very pensive and intense side to me that even I did not know someone could capture.

Indian Actress

Pensive can suggest a slight, not obvious, sadness or concern in someone's expression or mood.

Subtle Sadness

'Pensive' isn't always negative; it can express thoughtful reflection, even with a positive aspect.

Not Always Negative

Pensive implies a quiet and peaceful kind of focus, unlike worry which might appear more anxious.

Quiet Focus

 Cubs they're still really young she was only four years old mom the elephants have been around her she's used to him but the Cubs aren't really that sure about it so they're little pensive he's

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 easy up here with more protection from the elements and a little more food this troop is particularly large and can devote pensive time to their social noise

Pensive

Subtle Sadness

Not Always Negative

Quiet Focus

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