Thought Quotes

The extra calories needed for one hour of intense mental effort would be completely met by eating one oyster cracker or one half of a salted peanut.

We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own but they probably are.

Thinking is like loving and dying - each of us must do it for himself.

And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?

The real offence as she ultimately perceived was her having a mind of her own at all. Her mind was to be his - attached to his own like a small garden plot to a deer park.

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable but to be certain is to be ridiculous.

The thoughts that come often unsought and as it were drop into the mind are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

We shall succeed only so far as we continue that most distasteful of all activity the intolerable labour of thought.

Man is a slow sloppy and brilliant thinker the machine is fast accurate and stupid.

Facts in books statistics in encyclopedias the ability to use them in men's heads.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.

Speaking without thinking is shooting without taking aim.

Any man may make a mistake none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.

The mind grows by what it feeds on.

A penny for your thought.

Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

As he thinketh in his heart so is he.

Ben Schwartzwalder was a decent guy, but he was from another era. He was like a Marine, with a real army attitude. He thought there was only one way to play football, and that was the rough way.

I never really thought of myself as depressed so much as paralyzed by hope.

I thought 'Moulin Rouge' was inspirational, and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' I loved.

In my wildest dreams I never thought - well, I never thought I'd work.

I thought I was going to be known for my humor. But then I had an idea for a story, which was absolutely not humorous. But, of course, that's the one that sells and becomes big.

There were times in 'Adaptation' during the editing where I really thought, 'Okay, well, this was a noble failure. I tried to do something good, but this is not going to work.'

I couldn't stand the thought of not succeeding failure was more than I could deal with.

I created 'Rookie' because I read a lot of websites that I thought were cool and interesting, but they weren't for teens, and I wanted us to have something that could be ours.

There's something about girls together, uniting, that I just thought was cool.

I used to ride motorbikes and drive cars like everything was a racetrack it was ridiculous. It wasn't because I thought it was cool it was just because I loved living on the edge. But I've chilled.

The artists who stick around for a while are the ones who go, 'Oh, that's cool, never thought of that. Ought to do that.'

I never set out to be a cult cool artist. I always made music that I thought was pop.

I thought it'd be cool to start my own university, in a way.

I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.

I wanted to be Cher for a long time, but not for the singing. I just thought she was so cool. I wanted her long hair, and I wanted to weigh five pounds.

My mother was so stylish, but she never pushed that on me. She always thought I looked cool.

We didn't do a square ball in 'Pong' because we thought it was cool. We did it because that was all we could do.

That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in your face. After you got the groove, you were just singing the hooks, because you thought it was cool.

For a few months when I was about 17, I smoked a small cigar because I thought it looked cool and it would get me the girls. It didn't.

I got to say 'Hi' to Dolly Parton, which my mom thought was kind of cool.

I didn't know anybody in show business, and I never thought it was the path I'd go down. I was hoping it was sports, like so many kids.

I thought I would be a sports announcer. All I was was a curious kid who wanted to be on the radio.

What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.

Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.

I loved dinosaurs, I loved space, and I thought maybe I'd be the first paleo-astronaut.

I watched the moon landing as a boy, and I thought that was the most exciting thing ever, going into space, orbiting Earth and exploring other planets. That looked fantastic.

I was using computers for music in the '70s, '80s and '90s, and people didn't get it. They thought you should only use computers for your taxes and making pie charts.

Life is but thought.

Christopher Walken and Nathalie Baye played my parents so well that I really thought I was in my living room at Christmas. My mother couldn't have been played more correctly.

The tradition of putting candles on Christmas trees actually began in Germany. The person who came up with the idea is thought to have been Martin Luther, father of the Reformation.

Lyndon B. Johnson thought he'd have the boys home from Vietnam by Christmas - for four Christmases in a row (he never shifted course, and lost his presidency for it).

I'm not a fan of musicals at all, but I do think 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is a very good. I always thought 'Walk the Line' was very good, too.

I never thought being famous would be wonderful, but my limited exposure to celebrity has shown me the dark side big-time.