Thought Quotes

Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don't know anyone on Earth who doesn't, but I do find it funny.

~ Benedict Cumberbatch

I never thought of myself as like, a funny person.

~ Lena Dunham

I look at old performance videos now, and it's really funny - I thought I was such a gangster!

~ Becky G

When I was a little kid, I wrote this play about all these characters living in a haunted house. There was a witch who lived there, and a mummy. When they were all hassling him, this guy who bought the house - I can't believe I remember this - he said to them, 'Who's paying the mortgage on this haunted house?' I thought that was really funny.

~ Mindy Kaling

What you do with it and things like that, but I basically chose this after I read it because I thought it was different and funny and unique and dark - things that I like to do.

~ Danny Devito

I remember watching Gilda Radner when I was a kid and everyone thought she was so funny and no one ever said that she was a funny woman, she was just funny.

~ Rachel Dratch

It's funny, because I've never thought of myself as a Hispanic actor, like in 'American Gangster,' I'm playing an Italian. I've always been fortunate enough to have been allowed to play all these diverse roles.

~ Yul Vazquez

No breed of cats in its proper condition can by any stretch of the imagination be thought of as even slightly ungraceful - a record against which must be pitted the depressing spectacle of impossibly flattened bulldogs, grotesquely elongated dachshunds, hideously shapeless and shaggy Airedales, and the like.

~ H. P. Lovecraft

Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.

~ William C. Bryant

The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.

~ Elizabeth Drew

In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.

~ J. C. Watts

I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination I'm very grateful for that. I like that what I do is create. I'm feeling very lucky to have had the career I had. It's gone much longer and bigger than I ever thought it would be.

~ Steven Wright

I'm essentially the result of other people's imagination. And that's fine. Because of other people's imagination, I've played parts I would never have thought I could do. Still, I've never had a hankering or an ambition for any particular role.

~ John Hurt

The arts stimulate imagination. They provoke thought. And then, having done that, all sorts of other things happen.

~ Melvyn Bragg

You know when you're a child and your imagination is limitless and you really believe in magic? I thought I had super powers.

~ Michelle Phan

I seriously believed that my last hour was approaching, and yet, so strange is imagination, all I thought of was some childish hypothesis or other. In such circumstances, you do not choose your own thoughts. They overcome you.

~ Jules Verne

My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead.

~ Nicole Kidman

We know their names: Hippolyta, Antiope, Thessalia. But they were long thought to be just travelers' tales or products of the Greek storytelling imagination. A lot of scholars still argue that. But archaeology has now proven without a doubt that there really were women fitting the description that the Greeks gave us of Amazons and warrior women.

~ Adrienne Mayor

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

~ Michelangelo

I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.

~ Tara Reid

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

~ Emma Goldman

There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand.

~ Annie Besant

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.

~ Mikhail Bakunin

Boxing was not the sport that I thought is was due to all the politics.

~ Gerry Cooney

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

~ Honoré De Balzac

When I came into politics I always thought there was a possibility I would be killed.

~ Imran Khan

I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

~ William Gilbert

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?

~ Richard Dawkins

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

I always thought it was sad that you couldn't get anything really good to eat at concerts, so we sit down with our fans before every show and eat a gourmet meal that we made for them.

~ Zac Brown

I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.

~ Juliette Binoche

A lot of my movies have come to be thought about only years after the fact, and I'm sad about that but also happy about it in a way, as it's given them longevity.

~ Nicolas Roeg

Mainly, I thought of Barney as a kid. You can always look into the faces of kids and see what they're thinking, if they're happy or sad. That's what I tried to do with Barney.

~ Don Knotts

Ever since the arrival of printing - thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into people's minds - people have been arguing that new technology would have disastrous consequences for language.

~ David Crystal

I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.

~ Bruce Sterling

As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action.

~ Shoshana Zuboff

The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.

~ Glen Hansard

The world dominion of western thought, forms of organisation, technology and military force is not God-given, nor eternal, nor greatly appreciated by the rest of the world.

~ James Buchan