Quotes on Thought

There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.

Author: F. Abraham

The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

Author: Douglas Adams

It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.

Author: Douglas Adams

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Author: Henry Adams

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Author: Henry Adams

I have thought about the next steps, and you know, they still don't know that I can dance. They don't know it, and it's frustrating me because I feel that it's an edge that I have, and I'm not talking about I took this hip hop class, I'm talking about this is how people actually know me.

Author: Naima Adedapo

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.

Author: Felix Adler

Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.

Author: Theodor Adorno

Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.

Author: Theodor Adorno

Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.

Author: Theodor Adorno

It is the part of a fool to say, I should not have thought.

Author: Scipio Africanus

I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.

Author: Andre Agassi

Well, in 1947... in Europe and in Italy especially, we thought of America as all-powerful.

Author: Giovanni Agnelli

I thought about that the other day after I went to the grocery store and had to sign fifteen autographs before leaving. On one hand, it's just so flattering. On the other hand, sometimes it would be nice to get the bread and leave, you know?

Author: Clay Aiken

I always thought I was a singer, but I really am not.

Author: Eddie Albert

For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.

Author: Samuel Alexander

An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.

Author: Samuel Alexander

Everything has to be well thought out - what do you really need, when can you do with less coverage.

Author: Debbie Allen

Wilson thought in terms of the whole world; Harding was for America first. And, finally, whereas Wilson wanted America to exert itself nobly, Harding wanted to give it a rest.

Author: Frederick Allen

The reason I went for Jenny Craig is I thought, Maybe I'm not the only one who has stupid reasons for getting fat.

Author: Kirstie Alley

I was really tired of words like 'plus size,' 'round' and 'large.' I thought, 'Come on, we're fat.'

Author: Kirstie Alley

When I got out of high school, I thought, I'll take a year or two off and play the clubs, get this out of my system, and then go to med school.

Author: Gregg Allman

I never thought I was the most beautiful model out there or the most sexy woman, but I was a hard worker.

Author: Carol Alt

I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get.

Author: Christiane Amanpour

I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson.

Author: Stephen Ambrose

We've always been a band that stood up for what we thought was right.

Author: Jeff Ament

It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so that I thought that the people responsible in London were acting in a manner that no longer coincided with British imperial interests.

Author: John Amery

Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.

Author: Henri Amiel

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Author: Henri Amiel

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

Author: Henri Amiel

I stopped caring what people thought.

Author: Namie Amuro

If we thought it would improve our relationship, we would get married tomorrow, but as it is, nearly 7 years after we got engaged, we are content to wait.

Author: Benny Anderson

The worst thing is always thinking of titles for records, with some reason behind them, and she just came out with the word, which she thought was a good word, a hard word, and since then we've sort of attached loads of meaning to it.

Author: Emma Anderson

I thought it was all a flash in the pan. It wasn't until Broadway came along that I felt I had really made it.

Author: Julie Andrews

I thought Nixon was getting ganged up on, but when I heard the tapes, I was shocked and terribly saddened.

Author: Walter Annenberg

I caved in to what people wanted me to do. I thought that they weren't going to like me if I didn't.

Author: Fiona Apple

I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.

Author: Fiona Apple

I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.

Author: Louis Aragon

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

Author: Diane Arbus

Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx.

Author: Hannah Arendt

I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.

Author: Dario Argento

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Author: Aristotle

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

Author: Aristotle

I've always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet.

Author: Giorgio Armani

Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not.

Author: Richard Armour

I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.

Author: Billie Armstrong

Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.

Author: Lance Armstrong

Well, no, I didn't because I didn't even know the nominations were coming out. I gotta say, it wasn't even on my radar. I hadn't... I hadn't even thought about it.

Author: Will Arnett

It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.

Author: Matthew Arnold

Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.

Author: Matthew Arnold

Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.

Author: Thomas Arnold

One of our most difficult realizations was that - in the course of two years - a connecting hub in St. Louis had gone from something we thought we needed to something we could no longer afford.

Author: Gerard Arpey

Prior to September 11, we thought the world beyond our shores was one world of risk and the world in our continent was another world of risk.

Author: John Ashcroft

I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.

Author: Arthur Ashe

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

Author: Isaac Asimov

I thought that would be kind of cool, to make a bad guy look sympathetic.

Author: Christopher Atkins

Mostly I am sorry for the way I thought of other people. Like a good general, I had treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me.

Author: Lee Atwater

We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.

Author: Margaret Atwood

But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement.

Author: J. Austin

I have always thought that my ear is also very influenced by my eyes.

Author: Emanuel Ax

All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.

Author: Sai Baba

Even now, we make no apologies for the choice we made. The sacrifices we made were selfless. The options we offered were patriotic while the paths we chose were well thought out.

Author: Ibrahim Babangida

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

Author: Richard Bach

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

Author: Burt Bacharach

Frankly I've never really subscribed to these adjectives tagging me as an 'icon', 'superstar', etc. I've always thought of myself as an actor doing his job to the best of his ability.

Author: Amitabh Bachchan

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

Author: Francis Bacon

So when I had to make a decision whether I would like to do honors degree course in Islamic studies and Malay studies too, so I thought Islamic studies would be good.

Author: Abdullah Badawi

I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to help others by sharing her emotion. That's what I do, too, so I think that's a great comparison.

Author: Erykah Badu

I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite.

Author: Leo Baekeland

I would have thought it possible to choose delegates for these larger conferences who, even if they could not speak the principal languages, could at least understand them or could have friends seated beside them who could keep them informed on essential points.

Author: Fredrik Bajer

When I thought about the calibre of people in the room I realized we might just have a credible candidate for Mayor who will would finally enforce the laws of the city. It was almost too good to be true.

Author: Herbert Baker

In the beginning I thought, and still think, he did great good in giving support and encouragement to this movement. But I did not believe then, and have never believed since, that these ills can be settled by partisan political methods. They are moral and economic questions.

Author: Ray Baker

I never examined what I did in any great detail because I thought it would spoil things. I never read the scripts at all carefully, and never wanted to know what was going on, because I felt that being a benevolent alien that's the way it should be.

Author: Tom Baker

I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.

Author: Ralph Bakshi

Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.

Author: Mikhail Bakunin

In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.

Author: James Baldwin

I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.

Author: Arthur Balfour

When I used to live in the Brewster Projects, I always thought it would be fantastic to have a phone. I would dream about a phone.

Author: Florence Ballard

Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment have been intellectual joys.

Author: Honore Balzac

When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that you know a great deal more than you thought you did.

Author: Toni Bambara

I've given no thought to moving to America at all.

Author: Eric Bana

Your spikes, which were really quite long then, would catch the material of the track and your shoe would get heavier. I was simply filing them down and rubbing some graphite on the spikes. I thought I would run more effectively.

Author: Roger Bannister

The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

Author: Anna Barbauld

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

Author: Joseph Barbera

I was 82 years old before Who's Who thought I was enough of a big shot to do a piece on me.

Author: Joseph Barbera

We just wanted to write a bunch of songs that we thought were good songs.

Author: Travis Barker

I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.

Author: Carl Barks

I've always thought of the project as a sort of sexually driven digestive system, that it was a consumer and a producer of matter. And it is desire driven, rather than driven by hunger or anything like that.

Author: Matthew Barney

There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.

Author: Natalie Barney

Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word.

Author: Lynda Barry

I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer.

Author: Lynda Barry

I wasn't as nervous as I thought I would be when I started.

Author: Todd Barry

I mean, I've had bartenders and waiters and waitresses make a comment about a joke of mine, like pointing out some sort of logic error or something that I've never even thought about, and they're right.

Author: Todd Barry

I thought they may have presumed too much knowledge of certain things for people who are not comedians. Like Montreal. A comic understands what it is and its importance, but someone else may not know about it.

Author: Todd Barry

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.

Author: Jean-Michel Basquiat

I would have to say honestly I was very pleased to be in a film whether it was good or bad with De Niro, Norton and Brando even if I don't have any scenes with them, I thought it was pretty good company to keep.

Author: Angela Bassett

As soon as he hit it, I thought I had it. But I lost it when it went into the lights. I did my best.

Author: Danny Bautista

That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing.

Author: Les Baxter

And I thought my loss my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic.

Author: Birch Bayh

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.

Author: Pierre Bayle

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.

Author: Pierre Bayle

We met, 'twas in a crowd, and I thought he would shun me.

Author: Thomas Bayly

He thought as a sage, though he felt like a man.

Author: James Beattie

I hadn't done much rapping in a while. I really wasn't sure I was going to do that any more. For a couple years I thought I was done with that. It wasn't really required of me.

Author: Beck

I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk.

Author: Ulrich Beck

Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.

Author: Samuel Beckett

Our friends in the group Chicago, they just numbered theirs and we thought that was kind of neat but it made continuity from album to album and that was our way of doing it.

Author: Gerry Beckley

I thought I might be a band instructor, someone who plays all the instruments and teaches others.

Author: Adrian Belew

I started when I was in college because I was shy and thought it would be a good way to break out of that.

Author: Catherine Bell

You know, when you can play with the greatest players of that particular era, you look forward to going to the ballpark. I mean, you thought it was great to be there in the clubhouse. You thought it was great to be on the field.

Author: Johnny Bench

When I first saw a Fellini movie, I came out of the movie theatre and decided to become a lawyer! I thought to myself, it's impossible to make something so beautiful!

Author: Roberto Benigni

I remember in the circus learning that the clown was the prince, the high prince. I always thought that the high prince was the lion or the magician, but the clown is the most important.

Author: Roberto Benigni

I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing.

Author: Warren Bennis

While I was doing these plays in the beginning, I wasn't getting paid. I thought of it more as a hobby. Then I realized how seriously a lot of these people took what they were doing.

Author: Tom Berenger

I was kind of confused. I thought, Well, if I get drafted, I'll go. Everybody was very concerned with it. I had friends who went. Some that came back and some that didn't.

Author: Tom Berenger

When I look back at it, I'm mostly amazed at how poorly it was shot. David Kelley is a great writer, and I thought the scripts were great, but it just looks so cheap.

Author: Peter Berg

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

Author: John Berger

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

Author: Henri Bergson

In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside.

Author: Henri Bergson

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.

Author: George Berkeley

The political tradition of ancient thought, filtered in Italy by Machiavelli, says one thing clearly: every prince needs allies, and the bigger the responsibility, the more allies he needs.

Author: Silvio Berlusconi

I always wanted to act, but I never thought it would be my profession. I thought that I'd end up doing other things, but that in the meantime I'd do plays.

Author: Gael Bernal

It is pretty clear that they are ineffective in stopping the course of thought at present, but they have not always been so in the past and we cannot be sure that they will not be so in the future.

Author: John Bernal

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Author: Georges Bernanos

I'm sort of an experimenter; I thought it'd be interesting to play around and see what's there.

Author: Corbin Bernsen

They sent me some tapes of the original Mole and I thought it was pretty intriguing. I'm sort of an experimenter; I thought it'd be interesting to play around and see what's there. It was fun. Turned out to be good.

Author: Corbin Bernsen

I thought in terms of the enthusiasm of doing it. I didn't think about whether I was ready.

Author: Elmer Bernstein

I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.

Author: Yogi Berra

I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be.

Author: John Betjeman

They gave me the chaps and hat and everything. I looked like a real cowboy. I walked around the rodeo and thought, I am a real cowboy and thought everyone thought I was a real cowboy.

Author: Michael Biehn

Being Sexiest Woman Alive definitely didn't just open all the doors for me, which I thought it would. I thought, 'This is going to be huge for me!' And it really wasn't at all.

Author: Jessica Biel

Well, I'm proud to say American Pie was the kind of crazy, gross-out film that guys thought was the greatest.

Author: Jason Biggs

One might have thought the world would stop ascribing moral equivalence between acts of terrorism and acts of punishing terrorism. It has not happened that way.

Author: Theodore Bikel

Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer it would approximate to the prerequisites of the mathematical way of thinking.

Author: Max Bill

Before I thought there was a common denominator between my films - as if all my characters were sisters - but I'm not so sure now.

Author: Juliette Binoche

Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but he's not at all.

Author: Jane Birkin

When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore.

Author: Bjork

I know I didn't like that dress 'cause it didn't fit but I thought it was a great picture. We weren't the first band to do a picture in drag; The Rolling Stones were. If it was good enough for them then it had to be good enough for us.

Author: Jimmy Black

You own a watch the invention of the mind, though for a single motion 'tis designed, as well as that which is with greater thought with various springs, for various motions wrought.

Author: Richard Blackmore

And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.

Author: Algernon Blackwood

My first crush was Spock. I thought it didn't get any better than Spock.

Author: Selma Blair

One thought fills immensity.

Author: William Blake

We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind.

Author: H. Blavatsky

I knew Secrets and Lies was a great film, but I didn't expect it to get the attention it did because none of his other films had and I thought they were just as good.

Author: Brenda Blethyn

The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on.

Author: Robert Bloch

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Author: Leon Blum

The camera can photograph thought.

Author: Dirk Bogarde

Humbled by the fact that never in a million years would I ever thought that I would be on the same stage with all these great Hall of Famers and enshrined to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Author: Wade Boggs

I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I thought I was being idealistic.

Author: Eric Bogosian

What is the source of all this trouble? I'm saying that the source is basically in thought. Many people would think that such a statement is crazy, because thought is the one thing we have with which to solve our problems. That's part of our tradition.

Author: David Bohm