Thought Quotes

• 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.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Words
  • Thought
  • Without

• I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • People
  • Myself
  • Listening

• I thought 'The Well' was going to launch my career, but nothing happened.

  

  Maidie Norman
  • Career
  • Thought
  • Nothing

• All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Way
  • Thought
  • U.S.

• I'm not sad about any of my life. It's so unconventional. It doesn't look anything like I thought it would.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Life
  • Thought
  • Sad

• The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Artist
  • Thought
  • Better

• At the start, I had no idea to go into fashion, because I thought people would think I was stupid. I don't worry about those things anymore.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Worry

• Sometimes I wish I was more comfortable just saying what I thought and getting my point across.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Wish
  • Thought
  • Saying

• I've always been a bit of an inventor, just making up weird things people haven't thought of before. I can't tell you exactly what, though, because they might actually happen one day!

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • People
  • Up
  • Day

• I did two movies that were arthouse movies; they were critically successful but made no money at all... but after making those movies, I thought, 'I wouldn't watch my own movies when I was 16, and my buddies where I came from wouldn't watch my movies, because they were boring.'

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Money
  • Thought
  • Successful

• When I was young, it was very exciting to have a thought that we can change the world if we all collaborated, but I think it's not just an artist's responsibility as I think we all have responsibilities to different things, whatever we choose in our lives.

  

  Gates McFadden
  • World
  • Different
  • Responsibility

• I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Talent

• Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • People
  • Change
  • Enemy

• Before I left China, I was educated that China was the richest, happiest country in the world. So when I arrived Australia, I thought, 'Oh my God, everything is different from what I was told.' Since then, I started to think differently.

  

  Jack Ma
  • World
  • God
  • Different

• The best aphorisms are.... portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and nutriment in the smallest compass. About every weak point in human nature, or vicious spot in human life, there is deposited a crystallization of warning and protective proverbs.

  

  William R. Alger
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Feeling

• Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Over It

• I never really thought about modelling. It wasn't something I ever wanted to do. I used to always be so angry about modelling.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Angry

• 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.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Beautiful
  • Party
  • New York

• I think very visually, and I just never thought I had a novel in me.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Think
  • Me
  • Thought

• I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • People
  • Remember
  • War

• It was important that I got my own voice out there in the world. I'd used it on other people's films, collaborated, and I thought, 'You know, I can do this myself.' That was more important than anything else.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• I'm always gonna be compared to the greatest cats that's in the game, but I lack a little bit less when I'm not as visible as other guys. So I live with that thought right there - yo, you still gotta work, still got more to do. One thing where I come from you gotta remember is, don't get souped up.

  

  Raekwon
  • Up
  • Work
  • Live

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

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Good
  • Clever

• Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Thought
  • Same
  • Repetition

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