Thought Quotes

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

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

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

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

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.

I remember my oldest son, Steve, saying to me once, 'I don't ever remember seeing you with an apron on.' And I thought, that's right, honey, you did not. That was his concept of what a mother should be.

My mom is an actress, but she never really pushed me into it, and it was never something I thought I would be doing. She was very happy I decided to, but she certainly doesn't offer me criticism because she knows I'd tell her to shut up! Nobody wants to hear that from their mum!

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I just thought it was magic that you could stick a bit of paper in some coffee-type liquid and a picture comes out.

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.

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.

I've always thought of myself as shy.

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.

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

And I've always felt comfortable certainly in a courtroom because you're just performing. And there was a time in my life when I thought when I grew up I'd be a trial lawyer myself.

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.

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.

I mean, it's a bit of a double-edged sword being a celebrity and being an actor as I'm sure you know. Your public laundry is constantly aired out and I thought that maybe I could do some good.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

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

There's been moments of depression in my life, moments when I was in situations that I thought I wouldn't be able to get out of.

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

Life is too mysterious to try to map it out. I've certainly lived long enough to know it will take you places you never thought it would take you - and some of those places are kind of wonderful.

I'd seen 'Interview with A Vampire' and saw Dracula movies growing up, but I never thought, 'I love vampires; I have to do a show about vampires.'

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.

I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

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.

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.

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

A couple of years after I arrived in Hollywood, everything that was Latino was fashionable, and years after, my thought is that we're not fashionable anymore. We're here to stay.

(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.

Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.

I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.

As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of.

I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.

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

One thought fills immensity.

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

I always thought of myself as some sort of athlete until I started playing golf a couple years ago.

At 24, my head was as shiny as a cue ball on a billiard table. I naturally thought this meant curtains. Actually, I found it helped. When I was too young to play real character parts, they mistook me for older because of the bald noggin. I got juicy roles right from the start.

I want to make all kinds of movies. I do want to make big movies that are a lot of fun to go to, but I also want to make movies that are going to stimulate some thought and maybe raise some awareness.

For many years I thought my job was to go to places where it would be difficult for most of the readers to ever get to. Now, in the more than 20 years I've been doing this, the concept of adventure-travel trips or expeditions by groups has sprung up. The places I went 20 years ago now have adventure-travel trips.

The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought, That's what I want to do.

I never thought I would become a television host, but I never thought anybody would pay me to just talk.

I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions.

I'm learning to hunt with rifles, because if you think about it, hunting gets you the healthiest meat - organic, free-range food. It's a totally yuppie spin on what I thought was kind of a redneck occupation.

There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith.

Creatively, I thought we were still viable and could do more records. But our working relationship just wasn't happening at all, and our chemistry as people broke down because of that.

I didn't think I was going to play that day. I'd have to thank the training staff for getting me on the field that day. They made a bigger deal than I thought it was.

In 83 I thought we were going to go all the way. We had Roy Smalley, and Steve King, and good players.

Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.

There have been times when I've been asked to do things and I've thought, 'This is great! This is a great script. But, I do not believe myself in this role.' I pretend I'm the producer and I think, 'If I was making this movie, would I cast myself in this part,' and if that doesn't feel right to me, then I don't even go audition for it.

I guess I'm like Roger Miller who used to say that he didn't have as many jokes as he thought he did.

I always thought I should base how good I am on how good I feel I am.

It's a lot more comfortable, I must say. Ummm, I didn't think I'd be playing with another band, I kinda thought I was through with that, but I make an exception because they're nice people.