Thought Quotes

There are lots of great movies coming out of the U.S. but it's not something I've ever really been interested in. They're great films but I much prefer the smaller independent films, which are more thought provoking and experimental.

~ Billie Piper

I gave my heart to the Americans and thought of nothing else but raising my banner and adding my colors to theirs.

~ Marquis De Lafayette

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.

~ Cyril Connolly

Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.

~ Fidel Castro

Since coming back from overseas, this is more of a foreign country than the places overseas. I don't understand it. It's like America has lost faith in rational thought.

~ James Mattis

I can't tell you how Aquinas has enriched and changed my life, my thought. He has helped me to be a better evangelical, a better servant of Christ, and to better defend the faith that was delivered, once for all, to the saints.

~ Norman Geisler

The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair.

~ Leo Fender

I graduated from Academy of Fashion and Costume Design in Rome. At first, I thought I was going to be a costume designer for films, and then I ended up working in fashion - not as a designer, but mostly as a model.

~ Isabella Rossellini

I was obsessed with fashion when I was young. I thought fashion meant fashion design, and I thought I wanted to be a designer at some point.

~ Nina García

The theory of mechanism design can be thought of as the 'engineering' side of economic theory.

~ Eric Maskin

I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.

~ Ralph Lauren

I thought the divorce statistics would never apply to me. I was beyond heartbroken when they did. But I got up and got on with it. I also kept my belief in marriage.

~ Jennifer Garner

It is my conviction that marriage is such a good idea, only God could have thought of it.

~ Myles Munroe

When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.

~ Donald Johanson

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

~ George Bernard Shaw

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

~ Samuel Butler

I never looked at my parents' marriage or really anyone who had been married more than 30 years and thought, 'I gotta get me some of that!'

~ Mike Birbiglia

I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.

~ Salma Hayek

Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the sixties were very much opposed to it. I was, too, and it was never a possibility for gays, but when I saw how opposed the Religious Right was to it, I thought it a fight worth fighting.

~ Edmund White

First, I was opposed to gay marriage because it seemed like one more way that gays were wanting to assimilate. When I realized the Christian right was so opposed to it, as well as tyrannical governments in Africa and Russia, I thought, 'It must be a good thing to fight for.'

~ Edmund White

I've always thought of, of a relationship with an actor to an audience as a marriage, you know. And a story, you know. And there are ups and downs, and you work through them, and you work with them.

~ John Travolta

When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?

~ Park Shin-Hye

I trust my taste. I trust it completely and I always have done, and I've always thought it isn't that different from everybody else's.

~ Brian Eno

I never felt, 'Oh, I think I look good.' I always tend to be more in the insecure side. And I thought that has always been a way to protect myself. Because I don't trust the good feelings that can come from that.

~ Penelope Cruz

I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty, so that oncoming generations can look back to the shapes we leave here and get the same thrill that I get in looking back at theirs - at the Parthenon, at Chartres Cathedral.

~ Philip Johnson

I think that I was slightly naive. I thought that if I showed people the beauty of the Arctic and the beauty of the polar bears that they would care so much that they would stand up and try to make a change.

~ Lewis Gordon Pugh

Aesthetics - rather than reason - shapes our thought processes. First comes aesthetics, then logic. 'Thinking in Numbers' is not about an attempt to impress the reader but to include the reader, draw the reader in, by explaining my experiences - the beauty I feel in a prime number, for example.

~ Daniel Tammet

I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.

~ James Weldon Johnson

He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.

~ John Galsworthy

I always loved Belle from 'Beauty and the Beast'. I always thought I looked like her, so I dressed like her for every Halloween.

~ Sofia Carson

I never thought I was funny, but I enjoy being funny.

~ Nora Dunn

I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was on the Comics Pages. They were able to pull off intelligent social comment, pure truths not found elsewhere in the news pages, and had the ability to make it all funny, entertaining, and pertinent.

~ Elayne Boosler

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

~ Henry Kissinger

The next time you have a thought... let it go.

~ Ron White

As a kid, I thought of myself as a funny person who secretly wanted to be serious, but now I think maybe I'm a serious person who secretly wants to be funny.

~ Noah Baumbach

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

~ George Eliot

We've seen some insane signs: 'Is that a loaf of bread in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?' Funny stuff along those lines. Very original. One just said, 'I will do unspeakable things.' I thought that was very interesting - and mildly terrifying!

~ Josh Hutcherson

I always thought 'chick lit' meant third-person contemporary funny novels, dealing with issues of the day. I mean, it's not the ideal term; when I'm asked to describe what I do, I say I write romantic comedies, cause that's what I feel they are. But I'm quite pragmatic.

~ Sophie Kinsella

I had an idea of what I thought was funny. It's kind of based on how I am.

~ Jennifer Aniston

I think since I was kid people told me that they thought I was funny.

~ Demetri Martin