Thought Quotes

I didn't even listen to any music until I was 19, really. I just wanted to be famous. But I didn't say it to anyone because I was really embarrassed at the thought.

One famous movie executive, who shall remain nameless, exposed himself to me in his office. 'Mr X, ' I said, 'I thought you were a producer, not an exhibitor.'

I'm not thirsty. I'm not a pop star. I don't want to reign over all forever... I don't want to be famous! It makes me feel sick, the thought of being a famous person. It's just not me.

Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

You can play professional lacrosse, but they make less than a teacher's salary now. I always thought about that. And it's a very difficult career, a short career, as a pro athlete.

I wonder if liberal kids call liberal talk shows and ask how to get along in a conservative teacher's class? No. No. It doesn't happen, 'cause there's no thought of getting along.

The wonderful drama teacher at my high school, Barbara Patterson, saw me standing in the hall and told me I should audition for 'West Side Story.' I guess she thought I looked like a gang member.

I thought I'd grow up to be a teacher, or maybe run for political office.

I never thought, 'Oh God, I'm in Prince's shadow.' He'd been performing for years, and he was my teacher.

The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness.

I really never thought I was that good at film. And honestly still don't. My strength is language. My background is monologues and a certain kind of Brechtian spin on theater.

No one thought the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight would happen, but I had patience.

I won Miss Teen World, and then a movie rep saw me on the pageant website and thought that I had the perfect image for the role in 'Madrasapattinam.'

I never thought in a million years I'd be that healthy girl who wakes up every morning to exercise. After being called 'cherubic and chubby, ' I'm rocking a bikini!

I've been there a thousand years, and I never felt comfortable. Beverly Hills - when I first saw it, I thought they put it up this morning. You got to pack water to get to the drugstore.

I eat an egg every morning, and when I'm done, I almost always have the thought: 'There. Now even if I'm captured and starved, I'll be able to live off the protein of that egg for a while.'

I had always thought, for 'Roman Empire, ' I would love to do the death of Marcus Aurelius in the snow. One morning I woke up, and it was really snowing.

I've always thought 'Today' is an iconic staple of morning life.

When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.

Intuition enlightens and so links up with pure thought. They together become an intelligence which is not simply of the brain, which does not calculate, but feels and thinks.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

I think that the best things come from thought, without thinking. I think that's the smartest use of the intelligence that we all have.

I'd have thought my particular brand of quirkiness, combined with sharp intelligence and a fine voice, would have yielded more. But it hasn't. Yet!

My father was always slightly bemused by my success. Although he knew that I had reasonable intelligence, he always thought that I was a little bit lazy.

I initially thought I would be an architect, maybe. So I went to architecture camp and quickly learned that I did not want to be an architect. I was like, 'No. This is not for me.'

The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.

In architecture, Palladio is the game. It means hard thought all through - if it is labored, it fails.

I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.

Some days, I think maybe we should try and be a little more conventional, but every time I try, I fail, so I'm learning to not even entertain that thought anymore.

Ferran Adria making hamburgers... some thought it was crazy. But getting them perfect was a challenge. Plus I'm fascinated by all aspects of food.

Our rights are interconnected and inseparable. When freedom of expression is threatened, the rights to freedom of association and assembly, of thought, conscience and religion, are also compromised.

I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.

I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of women who invent lives in order to survive.

I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange I never thought I would be.

It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange I never thought I would be.

'Sound of My Voice' is an amazing film. Small, simple, yet incredibly thought provoking.

I was really attracted to doing 'Game of Thrones' because I thought the character of Meera was absolutely amazing.

But the cause for which we fought was higher our thought wider... That thought was our power.

You can lay in bed and think you don't stand a chance, that's what all of us thought, and here we are. We ended up doing all right.

In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: it's the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance.

I understand it's promotion, but no one ever gave me a chance. No one ever thought I'd be the champ, and look where I'm at now.

When you receive God's love and encouragement, it will empower you to do more than you ever thought possible.

People didn't think animals thought or remembered or had minds! They most certainly do: any pet owner knows more than a lot of scientists about animals.

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

I never, ever thought I would be able to grow a beard like I have now. I think it's gonna be here for a little minute. Fear the beard, hopefully.

Whether you're on a diet, or you're looking for a go-to one bowl dinner recipe, salads should be thought of as crowd-pleasers, not a dreaded component of a meal.

At one point, I even thought, 'Oh, I'll take diet pills.' I tried it for one day, and I thought my heart was going to explode. It's awful, and I would never, ever recommend it.

My dad works in finance, so he kept giving me the stats: only one in a hundred actors makes it. He'd ask, 'Have you thought about producing?'

I always wanted to be a medical doctor, and I never thought of business.

I have many times thought I did the wrong thing, but the reason was not to be a medical doctor - it was just to have the information. But then, maybe I was wrong, I don't know.