Thought Quotes

• I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Me
  • Actor

• I think it's hilarious that you would give an endorsement deal to someone who you've heard their lyrics a million times and you thought it was cool. And then they said something a little messed up and you take the endorsement deal away.

  

  Lamorne Morris
  • Up
  • Think
  • Cool

• I voted for McCain. But I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organized, very, very good. I was very impressed.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Good
  • Best
  • Thought

• When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Special

• Since I grew up, I have never deliberately used any technique at all other than the physical shaping of my tale so that it more or less resembles what has been thought of as a novel for these last two hundred years.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Up
  • Years
  • Last

• I always thought I was going to be a great poet, and go and live in New York, where the great poets lived - you know, where Whitman had walked the streets.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Great
  • Live
  • Thought

• 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

• I'm just not one of those people who thought having biological children was that important, to me it was more about wanting to raise a child.

  

  Edie Falco
  • People
  • Important
  • Children

• The more and more I got into writing, the harder and harder it became for me. I still love it, but it became much more problematic than I thought it would be.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Writing
  • Thought
  • Harder

• I've always wanted to be on an original cast recording. I grew up listening to them, and now to know that my voice is heard on three or four of them is just surreal. I never thought I would be that person.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Up
  • Listening
  • Three

• The first dress that I wore in the Spice Girls, which everybody thought was a little black Gucci dress, was actually from Miss Selfridge - it wasn't a little black Gucci dress.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Black
  • Thought
  • Dress

• All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Association

• I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Remember
  • Fall
  • Powerful

• 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

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

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Me
  • Thought

• I've never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I've only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Growing
  • Sadness
  • Loneliness

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

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Thought
  • Broken
  • Stand

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

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • People
  • Me
  • Boyfriend

• I didn't even realize I was writing songs - I thought I was just being witty and sarcastic.

  

  Halsey
  • Writing
  • Witty
  • Sarcastic

• In August of 2011, Steve Jobs, the tech icon who disrupted a string of traditional industries, called me and told me he thought he'd figured out a way to revolutionize TV. He invited me to come see it at Apple in a few months, but he died just six weeks later, and that meeting never came to pass.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Meeting
  • August
  • Apple

• The really valuable method of thought to arrive at a logically coherent system is intuition.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Intuition
  • Valuable
  • Method

• I loved Peter Sellers. I thought he was the perfect mix of physical comedy with out-of-the-box humor. I loved his tone; I loved his physicality; I loved everything about what he was doing as a comedic actor.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Perfect
  • Comedy
  • Humor

• Every thought has the power to bring into being the visible from the invisible. It is absolutely necessary for us all to understand that everything we think, do or say comes back to us. Every thought, word or action- without exception- manifests itself in some way as an actual reality.

  

  Ann Wigmore
  • Reality
  • Action
  • Thought

• We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Religious
  • Thought
  • Place

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