300 Quotes on Thought

• Imagination is the alchemy of spirit, turning whispers of the possible into vivid landscapes on the canvas of our minds.

  Author: Elara Virrow

• Imagination is the quiet breach that unlocks doors; with every visionary thought, it reclaims spaces thought forever dorm<Character_'0>ant.

  Author: Amara Jensen

• I believe the most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

  Author: Mother Monster - Lady Gaga

• Consciousness expresses itself through creation.

  Author: King of Pop - Michael Jackson

• Simplicity may peel back the layers, but it complicates the mind as it loosens the ties of convention.

  Author: Alex Murphy

• Life seeks a rhythm not in repetition, but in reinvention, a melody that mutates but never misshapes excitement.

  Author: Clara Appelbaum

• Every blink unfolds an ever brandishing curiosity, a silent rebellion of awareness liberating itself from echoes of yesterday.

  Author: Clara Beador

• True interconnectedness resembles an endless ripple that defies time; in its crux, individual moments coagulate into a universe pulsating with empathy, transcending haste with a potency more substantial than marble.

  Author: Ophelia Trent

• The maze of grief can twist like forgotten paths in an intricate map--only to lead one lost soul towardrice glimpses patch landscapes herbs softer hope hills.

  Author: Elysia Narins

• Embracing uncertainty is like painting on a windswept canvas; it's in the turbulent strokes that masterpieces often emerge populating a world much richer than we imagined.

  Author: Ava Marlowe

• Uncertainty in creativity is not a gaping void to fear, but an open road understood--not limited measure but boundless exploration.

  Author: Selene Brooks

• Reasoning is the clarity with which our mind navigates the fog of uncertainty.

  Author: Alex Bennett

• Reasoning is the compass that guides the mind through the labyrinth of uncertainty.

  Author: Emma Steele

• Reasoning illuminates the path through confusion, turning complex problems into opportunities for clarity.

  Author: Alex Reynolds

• The true power of the mind is revealed in its ability to reason through chaos and uncover clarity.

  Author: Emily Carter

• Reasoning is the compass that guides our decisions through the world of uncertainty.

  Author: Alex Rivers

• Life is 10% evolution and 90% myopia.

  Author: Jane Doe

• Embrace uncertainty with the mind of an explorer, the heart of an adventurer, and the spirit of a survivor.

  Author: Savannah Miller

• Writing is the wine that intoxicates passion in the calm of thought.

  Author: Victoria Harper

• Silence is the loudest scream.

  Author: Sophia Adams

• Sometimes in chaos, we find our deepest clarity.

  Author: Luna Blackwell

• In eliminating the impossible, what remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

  Author: Sherlock Holmes

• Simplicity in thought could be the key to unraveling complex mysteries.

  Author: Maya Gupta

• Mountains were once my big adventure but is is over since a long time; I still dream from the wonderful days sometimes, read also a few pages from a mountain book. But the thought of doing again active mountain climbing has faded.

  Author: Fritz Zwicky

• The reason why I have survived as long as I have survived is what my friends, comrades and supporters thought was an extraordinarily cautious approach.

  Author: Ernst Zundel

• And besides, I'm so in Dutch with my neighbors here that I thought that was better than getting them all upset with what might be a fake bomb scare where they'd have to clear out the whole neighborhood.

  Author: Ernst Zundel

• You know, OJ was a really nice guy, and he knew his lines. He was nice to everybody on the set. He got to be a better actor, I thought, with every movie.

  Author: David Zucker

• Chevy Chase and Bill Murray - we thought those guys were funny. We love Bill Murray, but we didn't think they were right for Airplane! because it would step on the joke if there was a known comedian.

  Author: David Zucker

• I've always thought those guys are really funny. And I love Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin and Mary.

  Author: David Zucker

• Our fathers were actually business partners in the same real-estate firm, and we got together and thought, How can we get a movie together and get distribution and create a new movie genre? We started by making satires of commercials.

  Author: David Zucker

• Our producer Jon Davison thought it would be a good idea to put in additional TV scenes. So, they sent me a tape of these additional TV scenes, and I watched them, and I didn't think they were that great. I didn't think it was worth putting them in.

  Author: David Zucker

• As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action.

  Author: Shoshana Zuboff

• The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.

  Author: Emile Zola

• Sonny and another Hells Angel who was at the meeting thought they were beyond a little patch so they headed down to a local tattoo shop in Oakland and were the first to get the famous One Percent tattoos.

  Author: Chuck Zito

• At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia.

  Author: Philip Zimbardo

• The search for religion is the starting point of thought.

  Author: Xu Zhimo

• I suspect people always thought I had a boyfriend, so nobody came after me.

  Author: Ziyi Zhang

• When radio stations started playing music the record companies started suing radio stations. They thought now that people could listen to music for free, who would want to buy a record in a record shop? But I think we all agree that radio stations are good stuff.

  Author: Niklas Zennstrom

• And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more.

  Author: Niklas Zennstrom

• Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.

  Author: Mao Zedong

• When I was young, I was too slow. I thought I must learn to run fast by practicing to run fast, so I ran 100 meters fast 20 times. Then I came back, slow, slow, slow.

  Author: Emil Zatopek

• My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated.

  Author: Moon Zappa

• We're from Rockford, Illinois, but we've always thought international.

  Author: Robin Zander

• Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.

  Author: Yevgeny Zamyatin

• You know, it was important for me to do something like that, because nobody ever really thought I could do anything except look sexy on a poster and go shopping.

  Author: Pia Zadora

• This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

  Author: Lin Yutang

• I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer.

  Author: Marguerite Young

• I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6.

  Author: Loretta Young

• Ten years ago, in 94, we thought maybe nobody would ever care about Styx again.

  Author: James Young

• I thought I had to show all my stuff and I almost tore the boards of the grandstand with my fastball.

  Author: Cy Young

• I tried. But not everybody thought so.

  Author: Andrew Young

• They sent me the script and I thought that there was something very appealing and funny about it. Also, I was familiar with Mike Myers' work in Saturday Night Live, but I did not know the extent to which he would make this creation.

  Author: Michael York

• It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

  Author: Boris Yeltsin

• After Lockerbie, everyone thought, now we've learned the lesson of how to be proactive instead of being reactive. Unfortunately, September 11 came and we know the result. Thousands of people lost their lives. Security totally failed, not at one airport, at three different airports around the country.

  Author: Isaac Yeffet

• A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught.

  Author: William Yeats

• Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

  Author: William Yeats

• If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.

  Author: Minoru Yamasaki

• God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.

  Author: Xenophanes

• I had a wonderful time with the Stones but after 31 years, I thought it was time to move on.

  Author: Bill Wyman

• I love to study the many things that grow below the corn stalks and bring them back to the studio to study the color. If one could only catch that true color of nature - the very thought of it drives me mad.

  Author: Andrew Wyeth

• I really liked them, not just Syd, but all of them. Roger was very important, I thought, his contribution. And so was Rick's organ playing. It was a good band. It became something else completely, obviously.

  Author: Robert Wyatt

• I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony.

  Author: Elizabeth Wurtzel

• Am I worried people will say I'm repeating myself? Sure. One thought I had was to publish it as a novel but eventually I just decided to do what I wanted to do.

  Author: Elizabeth Wurtzel

• We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.

  Author: Wilhelm Wundt

• I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.

  Author: Steven Wright

• As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spelling. Maybe I thought I would avoid the judgement of the establishment.

  Author: Peter Wright

• My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.

  Author: Fay Wray

• The producers who wanted me to do it liked me and trusted me, and more than one scene was only one take, because I'd plan ahead what I thought would be appropriate for that scene-so one take was enough.

  Author: Fay Wray

• Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.

  Author: Fay Wray

• I thought I saw him for what he was-or what I thought he was. And he was talented, no doubt about that. But, he thought his talent was based on misery and that if he became happy it would just go. He believed that.

  Author: Fay Wray

• Cary Grant and I were doing a play in New York. He had a crush on me. Whenever we went to a party, he would always sit on the floor beside me. I thought that was kind of beautiful, like that's where he wanted to be.

  Author: Fay Wray

• The more we thought, the more they all sounded boring compared to Apple. You didn't have to have a real specific reason for choosing a name when you were a little tiny company of two people; you choose any name you want.

  Author: Steve Wozniak

• I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I thought it out and came up with reasons why it was a monopoly.

  Author: Steve Wozniak

• I did I Love My Wife on Broadway in 1978, and then went into television land. Now things are starting to come together in the way I thought they might when I was a kid.

  Author: Tom Wopat

• I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• I knew I was coming home, I thought they would consider acquittal, I was disappointed that they didn't.

  Author: Louise Woodward

• There may yet be another Watergate book. I have thought a book about the aftermath of Watergate and its impact could be done, perhaps by me or someone else.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.

  Author: Carter Woodson

• The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.

  Author: Carter Woodson

• As a kid, I might have been psycho, I guess, but I used to throw golf balls in the trees and try and somehow make par from them. I thought that was fun.

  Author: Tiger Woods

• I suppose I'm led to do so by the fact of what happened to my contemporaries - people whom I've admired, people who I thought were ten times better than me when I was in my twenties and early thirties. I may have been right.

  Author: George Woodcock

• As an adult (after college) and as an artist I thought about what was real, what sustained me - it was Christian Science. I was using that when I didn't know it. Saying yes to the Light and your better instinct.

  Author: Alfre Woodard

• I threw so hard I thought my arm would fly right off my body.

  Author: Smokey Wood

• Even though we didn't actually record it as the Move I had already written a song called 'Dear Elaine,' which I subsequently put on the Boulders album. I thought at the time that was probably the best song I'd written.

  Author: Roy Wood

• We got touring with the Stones, and people were trying to keep up with Keith. He's like a human machine with a constitution of iron, and they all thought they could do the same.

  Author: Ron Wood

• I thought it was a wonderful line - right on the cutting room floor.

  Author: Natalie Wood

• We all just kinda did everything we thought we were supposed to do and girls dated the guys they were supposed to and did things with the guys they were supposed to.

  Author: Evan Wood

• I thought my Beatles LPs sounded pretty good on a record player, but that was before I had heard a CD.

  Author: Alastair Wood

• The satisfaction comes because you work hard and it pays off. It is not as glamorous as I thought it would be, but, you know, I appreciate it more than I ever knew I would, and I love it more than I ever knew I would.

  Author: Lee Womack

• The satisfaction that I get from doing what I do is not what I thought. I thought it would be that I'd feel like a star, I'd feel important. But I don't.

  Author: Lee Womack

• I have read only the first 'Harry Potter' book. I thought it excellent, perhaps the best thing written for older children since The Hobbit. I wish the books had been around when my kids were the right age for them.

  Author: Gene Wolfe

• It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.

  Author: P. Wodehouse

• Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.

  Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein

• I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary quantum field theories or to have new insights about the quantum states of black holes.

  Author: Edward Witten

• I got a role in this movie called Freeway playing this really angry, aggressive, violent young woman who believed wholeheartedly in the truth. I had such satisfaction afterward, and I thought, That's what I want to do.

  Author: Reese Witherspoon

• During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema.

  Author: Michael Winner

• As a musician, basically the masses never thought I was a musician.

  Author: Kip Winger

• I thought my nose was too prominent so I had this corrected via plastic surgery in 1959.

  Author: Marie Windsor

• I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting!

  Author: Marie Windsor

• We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given to us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it.

  Author: William Wilson

• But when I came back into the city for the first time last November, I thought every truck, every building was going to blow up. It has truly changed me something fierce.

  Author: Lanford Wilson

• For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors and vice versa. The difference did not exist. Our company is too big. It goes with the welfare of the country.

  Author: Charles Wilson

• A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.

  Author: Charles Wilson

• I've often cringed when I heard myself described as a jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a jazz vocalist.

  Author: Cassandra Wilson

• I thought Jimi Hendrix... was just phenomenal.

  Author: Carl Wilson

• Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld.

  Author: Henry Williamson

• Basically that was the moment when I thought I'd like to do this forever. I never changed my mind.

  Author: Treat Williams

• The wonderful thing about Food for Thought is that it lets you keep your hand in theater and be in front of a live audience without a commitment of six months, or even three months.

  Author: Treat Williams

• Human beings are creators, flinging powerful images into the minds of their fellow men. And all of these images are built of tiny particles of thought.

  Author: Roy Williams

• I appreciate the sentiment that I am a popular woman in computer gaming circles; but I prefer being thought of as a computer game designer rather than a woman computer game designer. I don't put myself into gender mode when designing a game.

  Author: Roberta Williams

• Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer.

  Author: Roberta Williams

• I never walked the streets of New York hoping to be a musical comedy star. For one thing, they would have thought I was too tall, because l was five feet eight and a half, and they were all little bitty things running around in the studio at that time.

  Author: Esther Williams

• It's my mother's engagement ring so I thought it was quite nice because obviously she's not going to be around to share any of the fun and excitement of it all - this was my way of keeping her close to it all.

  Author: Prince William

• In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.

  Author: Frances Willard

• I refuse to go into a fast-food outlet - to use the toilet even - in case anyone got the wrong idea and thought I was sneaking in a quick burger.

  Author: Jonny Wilkinson

• Charles and I go back since college. None of us thought this would happen, we just wanted to play basketball. This is the highest honor that can ever be paid, and it's mind-blowing.

  Author: Dominique Wilkins

• I never really had a chance to know the players individually... I thought when they were on the floor, they worked hard. But I never really got to know them.

  Author: Lenny Wilkens

• I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any desire to. I didn't think there was any reason to.

  Author: William Wiley

• Then when I reached college I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods.

  Author: Andrew Wiles

• I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them.

  Author: Gene Wilder

• Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever fresh and radiant possibility.

  Author: Kate Wiggins

• The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

  Author: John Whittier

• That's really what was wonderful for me growing up, since I got to know so many of the songwriters who liked me and thought I had talent. They would then tell me how to read a lyric and sing a song, and challenge me to try and find a different end to a song.

  Author: Margaret Whiting

• I was at the vice president's Christmas party. I thought that his speech was spectacular, and I knew that it was a very emotional and difficult thing for him to do, but I admonished him for not waiting just one more stinking day.

  Author: Bradley Whitford

• The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

  Author: Alfred Whitehead

• Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

  Author: Alfred Whitehead

• The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.

  Author: Alfred Whitehead

• When I was having that alphabet soup, I never thought that it would pay off.

  Author: Vanna White

• The hardest that I've laughed at a movie was probably Team America. I laughed 'til I thought I was just gonna throw up. I almost had to turn it off.

  Author: Ron White

• The next time you have a thought... let it go.

  Author: Ron White

• I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.

  Author: Patrick White

• I remember rehearsing it, and it was the one that we were really excited about and thought would sound the best, and once it was down on tape, it was like, This doesn't actually sound that good.

  Author: Meg White

• There's nothing I'm doing these days that I ever thought I was gonna do.

  Author: Meg White

• I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.

  Author: E. White

• The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.

  Author: Barry White

• We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed.

  Author: William Whewell

• We always thought the Tom Tom Club could change to anything, but it acquired this image, which was cartoon animation and this real light-hearted dance music.

  Author: Tina Weymouth

• Growing up, I didn't give my grandfather's photography a second thought. I wasn't involved in his work, except that I helped my dad print his negatives.

  Author: Kim Weston

• By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they?

  Author: William Westmoreland

• It's my first record since my son is old enough to understand and I can't even show it to him. Yes, it's affected me, probably in the opposite of how anyone would have thought.

  Author: Paul Westerberg

• Style is the dress of thought; a modest dress, Neat, but not gaudy, will true critics please.

  Author: Samuel Wesley

• The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

  Author: H. Wells

• In summary, the Romans were opposed to tyranny in any form; and the feature of government to which they gave the most thought was an elaborate system of checks and balances.

  Author: Robert Welch

• If I thought I had hurt my chances of winning another major just because I was chasing money around, I'd wind up kicking myself.

  Author: Mike Weir

• No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.

  Author: Otto Weininger

• My father wasn't a very good lawyer. He thought the law was sacred and something that was meant to help people. He didn't charge people like he should have... which is why I was allowed to play bars and strip joints when I was 14.

  Author: Max Weinberg

• Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback.

  Author: Len Wein

• I've never sat down and thought about the difference between plot and theme. To me, that's never been important.

  Author: Len Wein

• I've always thought of myself as an organic writer, rather than a cerebral one. I feel my way along as I go, hoping I'll get to the place I intend to reach.

  Author: Len Wein

• I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.

  Author: Len Wein

• And I thought I'd always like some form of business, I didn't know what kind of business I'd go in.

  Author: Sanford Weill

• I wonder how many people would have thought at the end of World War II that the capitalist system would be one that was meeting the challenges and making things better for people as we approach the 21st century.

  Author: Sanford Weill

• We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.

  Author: Simone Weil

• Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

  Author: Simone Weil

• I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.

  Author: Simone Weil

• She could only write with him at night and she was wasting her days just sitting around. So he thought I could write with her during the day. And that was Carole King.

  Author: Cynthia Weil

• Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.

  Author: Daniel Webster

• The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

  Author: Daniel Webster

• On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships.

  Author: Eberhard Weber

• Whenever I release a record, it's my record. It's not a selfish thought. I may work all year 'round for other people. So, finally, when I come out with my own album, it should be me with the creative help of other musicians.

  Author: Eberhard Weber

• And it sort of jogged a memory of something that I read at school and I read it, and I thought God this is it. So you never can tell. I could find something this afternoon.

  Author: Andrew Webber

• I said, look, do you think you could bring Gerry through, and they said yeah, absolutely, they thought that. Joel was very keen to cast him. If all my music team were happy, I was happy.

  Author: Andrew Webber

• I think back at the time, if it had been 1988, I would have thought Michael and Sarah probably would have been cast but I don't think, I think it's much better that the girl is younger and if Sarah would have been 26 or 27 then.

  Author: Andrew Webber

• Two years ago I hadn't even thought of the Woman in White, and I was doing a television show and I said I hadn't found a story and the next day somebody rang me and said have you ever thought of the Woman in White.

  Author: Andrew Webber

• I've always thought that a lot of the problems in the world would be solved if a spaceship did arrive, then anyone with one head and two arms and two legs would be your brother! It wouldn't matter where they were from or what they believed or anything. It might be good for us.

  Author: Sigourney Weaver

• I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I've been looking for my whole career, actually, in film. You know, just to play a femme fatale who's very smart, and wicked.

  Author: Sigourney Weaver

• In rare instances you have to give up what you thought was a great scene.

  Author: Keenen Wayans

• I never thought about being famous.

  Author: Damon Wayans

• Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching.

  Author: Steve Waugh

• It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!

  Author: Naomi Watts

• A lot of our tracks have sounded a lot better than I thought they would because of recording, mixing, and because I probably didn't hear it that way. I'm not a songwriter.

  Author: Charlie Watts

• Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.

  Author: Bill Watterson

• I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn't. So even when I was broke, my career didn't lack for interest.

  Author: Sam Waterston

• We were contracted to make a soundtrack album but there really wasn't enough new material in the movie to make a new record that I thought was interesting.

  Author: Roger Waters

• The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade.

  Author: Ethel Waters

• To me, flying free is doing what I want to do, even if it's different from what everybody expects me to do. I'm flying free when I win the battle between me and the people who thought I should go down this road and I find my own road.

  Author: Crystal Waters

• I thought if Oasis could get away with sounding like The Beatles, I could get away with sounding like Abba.

  Author: Pete Waterman

• When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

  Author: Denzel Washington

• When I was a child I thought I saw an angel. It had wings and kinda looked like my sister. I opened the door so some light could come into the room, and it sort of faded away. My mother said it was probably my Guardian Angel.

  Author: Denzel Washington

• Four hundred wickets is 400 more than I thought I'd get.

  Author: Shane Warne

• The reason why I have lost weight is that I looked at the international schedule and thought that I wanted to play for another two years. It is a very hectic schedule and if I want to get through that then I have to be in the best shape that I can.

  Author: Shane Warne

• Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.

  Author: Andy Warhol

• I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

  Author: Andy Warhol

• I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say "figment."

  Author: Andy Warhol

• I thought he was an interesting central figure, central character, one who is definitely not your typical central character figure in a film, who's easy to like. He's not easy to like. It forces you to involve yourself with what's going on.

  Author: Patrick Warburton

• I was asked about doing a nude shoot for men's magazine GQ. I thought it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard.

  Author: Julie Walters

• You don't want to give kids an idea that they might not have thought of.

  Author: John Walters

• Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it.there.

  Author: Barbara Walters

• I believe, based on the activities, and I am not an expert on terrorism by any stretch, but I believe that when they attacked the United States and they attacked New York and Washington, D.C., they thought they could defeat us.

  Author: Jim Walsh

• I think the new spirituality will be a spirituality that's not based on a particular dogma. And that steps away from the old spiritual paradigm that we have created on this planet, which comes from a thought that there is such a thing as being better.

  Author: Neale Walsch

• His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.

  Author: Edmund Waller

• Yes, I won the Bafta. I thought the British were very intelligent.

  Author: Eli Wallach

• I took Beetle home thinking that after the Korean War was over, I would have to take him out of the Army. I thought, well, what am I going to do with him?

  Author: Mort Walker

• The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army thought I was representing their experiences. I was on both sides, and I survived.

  Author: Mort Walker

• When I introduced a black soldier, Lt. Flap, in 1971, the Stars and Stripes banned the strip. They were having racial problems and thought it would increase the tensions.

  Author: Mort Walker

• When the war was over and the guys were back to shaving every day, the editor thought the Beetle Bailey strips were hurting their disciplinary efforts to get the guys back to routine.

  Author: Mort Walker

• I've made movies that we're very successful that we're a complete surprise, and I've made movies that I thought we're going to be very successful that, you know.

  Author: Christopher Walken

• The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win.

  Author: George Wald

• One might have thought that the most significant change in the film industry that would come about with a transition from the communist economy to capitalism would fundamentally concern the sources of funding.

  Author: Andrzej Wajda

• It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.

  Author: Arthur Waite

• We thought we were going to go up against SNL on Saturday Nights - that would have changed things so much that it's almost impossible to speculate what might have happened.

  Author: David Wain

• I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired.

  Author: Richard Wagner

• The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.

  Author: Abdoulaye Wade

• We thought we'd write a good script for women, giving them the fun roles that generally men get.

  Author: Andy Wachowski

• The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try.

  Author: Sarah Vowell

• It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

  Author: Voltaire

• Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

  Author: Voltaire

• When people begin anticipating inflation, it doesn't do you any good anymore, because any benefit of inflation comes from the fact that you do better than you thought you were going to do.

  Author: Paul Volcker

• I was a guy who needed to go to class, because I had some raw talent that I thought was identifiable, when I finally made a decision to be an actor. And yet I wanted to learn how to really do the stuff. You know, 'How do I get to be a serious actor?'

  Author: Jon Voight

• But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer.

  Author: A. Vogt

• Well, first of all, going off with dianetics was based upon a thought of mine.

  Author: A. Vogt

• I thought it was time to get a group together and the first person I thought of was Wayne Shorter. I called Wayne and in the meantime, Wayne called me to make an album with him, which was Super Nova.

  Author: Miroslav Vitous

• Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

  Author: David Viscott

• Nobody really thought I was going to make it, because I was a musician. I really wasn't a singer.

  Author: Bobby Vinton

• Now, most dentist's chairs go up and down, don't they? The one I was in went back and forwards. I thought 'This is unusual'. And the dentist said to me 'Mr Vine, get out of the filing cabinet.

  Author: Tim Vine

• While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

  Author: Leonardo Vinci

• I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy.

  Author: Fay Vincent

• Make my breast transparent as pure crystal, that the world, jealous of me, may see the foulest thought my heart does hold.

  Author: George Villiers

• Without any formal orders to retreat, what was left of the several organizations yielded to a general impulse to abandon the field. Officers and men became controlled by the one thought of getting as far as possible from the enemy.

  Author: Henry Villard

• Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always vague and cloudy?

  Author: Alfred Vigny

• Often and often must he have thought, that, to be or not to be forever, was a question, which must be settled; as it is the foundation, and the only foundation upon which we feel that there can rest one thought, one feeling, or one purpose worthy of a human soul.

  Author: Jones Very

• Sex in a dance is in the eyes of the beholder. I never thought my dances sexy. I suppose that's because I see myself with my face washed, and to me I look like a rabbit.

  Author: Gwen Verdon

• I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.

  Author: Ken Venturi

• On the day I was born, or possibly on one of the following days, my father went on a walk in the forested hills and thought of a name for me. His first son was called Daniel, and Samuel in memory of one of his forefathers.

  Author: Immanuel Velikovsky

• For the greater good, I thought I should be a spiritual leader for people for some reason.

  Author: Johnny Vegas

• To me, a feminist belongs in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.

  Author: Suzanne Vega

• When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.

  Author: Marquis Vauvenargues

• I loved Old School. I thought Old School was very different than a lot of the comedies that had come out. And that character I liked. I tried to ground him very much in reality and play him very much finding things important to him that are somewhat ridiculous.

  Author: Vince Vaughn

• I had never thought of my career as going in the direction that it did, as far as fan response was concerned.

  Author: Robert Vaughn

• On second thought, I think I am more crazy than my goat.

  Author: Remedios Varo

• I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.

  Author: Edgard Varese

• I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast.

  Author: Jack Vance

• Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

  Author: Paul Valery

• The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

  Author: Paul Valery

• We only get together when there's a good reason. Like, last summer, we didn't really intend to go out, but we thought the B-52's tour was a good opportunity.

  Author: Kathy Valentine

• Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.

  Author: Peter Ustinov

• Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

  Author: Peter Ustinov

• The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.

  Author: Peter Ustinov

• I always thought I could play pro ball. I had confidence in my ability, You have to. If you don't who will?

  Author: Johnny Unitas

• I wondered how people would take me being a country music singer. I thought about deviating from that and singing other things. But... it doesn't really make sense for me to try to be something that I'm not.

  Author: Carrie Underwood

• Our deal always was that we did one as scripted always, we got it like we thought we needed - so we were all happy with it as written. Then I'd let him play as long as we had time.

  Author: Blair Underwood

• I guess I'm a little charmed. I never thought this would happen so quick.

  Author: Skeet Ulrich

• The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.

  Author: Sun Tzu

• Thought is made in the mouth.

  Author: Tristan Tzara

• The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proven to have their counterparts in the world of fact.

  Author: John Tyndall

• There was a storyline this year where Taylor lied to Brooke. It was supposed to be set up in a way that I was so outraged by her that I let it stay. I thought that was human, which was great.

  Author: Hunter Tylo

• I kind of thought the writers were starting to take Taylor and make her kind of down and dirty.

  Author: Hunter Tylo

• I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.

  Author: Liv Tyler

• Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace.

  Author: John Tyler

• I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns.

  Author: Anne Tyler

• I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.

  Author: Anne Tyler

• I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?

  Author: Anne Tyler

• There were moments when I really just thought, I don't need anything and I don't need anyone. I just want to go away and disappear.

  Author: Shania Twain

• Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

  Author: Mark Twain

• I'm very old-fashioned in some ways because of my father, who thought that being a public servant was an honor. Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.

  Author: Kathleen Turner

• Not until he stood at the altar did he achieve a sense of being hale and furnished. It was strange, he thought, that a man would find his surest current in the spot where he felt least worthy.

  Author: Charles Turner

• One half-conscious thought was burned in my mind: stay on your feet.

  Author: Gene Tunney

• Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

  Author: Mao Tung

• When I was younger, I thought about retiring.

  Author: Tanya Tucker

• The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism.

  Author: Benjamin Tucker

• Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

  Author: Barbara Tuchman

• I think Ronald Reagan was one of the great presidents, period, not just recently. I thought he had the demeanor. I thought he had the bearing. I thought he had the thought process.

  Author: Donald Trump

• The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

  Author: Harry Truman

• Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

  Author: Harry Truman

• I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

  Author: Harry Truman

• I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

  Author: Harry Truman

• Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better.

  Author: Garry Trudeau

• I believed totally in the possibilities implied in the series. I never thought of it as fantasy. Far from it.

  Author: Patrick Troughton

• It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

  Author: Anthony Trollope

• A lot of people thought this dream must be madness, but we are not crazy.

  Author: Gloria Trevi

• Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

  Author: G. Trevelyan

• Only one of us would usually sing lead. Which most of the time was, Mickey or Dave. They thought it was perfectly a natural routine, because Mickey and Dave saw themselves as TV actors.

  Author: Peter Tork

• Carrot Top is a nickname that people call me and I thought that it was more marketable.

  Author: Carrot Top

• My real name is Scott Thompson. I could have gone by that name, but when I started doing comedy I thought I needed to go by something that has a little more of a hook.

  Author: Carrot Top

• I always thought marketing in general was an interesting kind of thing. I always liked commercials and billboards.

  Author: Carrot Top

• I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.

  Author: Lily Tomlin

• I thought I'd better check this third plate, which is another date, see if there's an image there in the right place that would be consistent with the images on the other plates. That was the final proof.

  Author: Clyde Tombaugh

• I used to think about how nice it would be to visit the planets. Of course, I didn't expect to see in my lifetime what has happened. I knew it would happen some day, but it came along faster than I at first thought.

  Author: Clyde Tombaugh

• Every girl likes to be thought of and made to feel special.

  Author: Kiana Tom

• On October 18, 1941, I suddenly received a mandate from His Majesty to form a new cabinet. This was completely unexpected, and when I was summoned to the Imperial Palace I thought I would be questioned on the army's point of view.

  Author: Hideki Tojo

• Joseph Stalin is a titan of thought. His name is to be given to an entire century.

  Author: Palmiro Togliatti

• I did find some time to go to a record store and check out "Headstrong" actually in the racks. It was pretty cool; I never thought I'd see my own CD sitting there with everyone else's. I made my Mom take lots of pics!

  Author: Ashley Tisdale

• Sadly, I've seen a lot of bands hit that sort of peak and then eventually start supporting again, you know, which we will never do. We always put a lot of thought into the way that we are going to go, and we always change.

  Author: Glenn Tipton

• Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought.

  Author: Michael Tippett

• Everyone said that if you want to be a real actor, go to New York. If you want to sell out, go to LA. And I thought - I want to sell out!

  Author: Jennifer Tilly

• Well, I guess, but I just feel so strong. Actually, it was probably when I was 50 that we were trying to - to get pregnant, and I thought that I could do it then.

  Author: Cheryl Tiegs

• I thought last week's game was ugly and this was even uglier.

  Author: Mike Tice

• Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It's extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible.

  Author: Uma Thurman

• As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• When he asked if I would like to try second base, I thought, Hey, get me in the lineup.

  Author: Bobby Thomson

• One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off.

  Author: William Thompson

• The strongest thing I put into my body is steak and eggs. I just eat. I'm not a supplement guy. Steroids are not even a thought.

  Author: Jim Thome

• Living with these teenage boys allowed me to see how much their psyches were like their girl counterparts. They were more familiar to me than I would have thought.

  Author: Marlo Thomas

• Maybe... there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for unlawfully detaining 120 people. Maybe they just got carried away with last year's idea of pre-emptive strikes and thought, 'Let's not wait for an actual crime to occur. Let's get the innocent.

  Author: Mark Thomas

• My thought has always been completion. Maybe you have to rebound better, shoot better, hit free throws, handle the ball, defend better. You have to do all those things in the course of a game.

  Author: Isaiah Thomas

• Larry Brown thought Steve Francis was a Larry Brown type of player.

  Author: Isaiah Thomas

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