Thought Quotes

The sense of anger I had when I was younger is something I thought would never go away. Over time, it's something you get almost bored with.

~ Chris Cornell

I asked a shrink: 'Everything is so great. Why am I still so angry?' He said, 'Anger doesn't go away.' I always thought it was kind of a good engine.

~ Mike Nichols

But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because the street protesters were full of anger and nearly out of control. This is why I thought we needed to find another way out.

~ Eduard Shevardnadze

I thought I did well for someone who has been out for 10 or 11 months. Then I was sub against Liverpool and tried to play for the guys and work on my fitness.

~ Paul Gascoigne

I have a way of filming things and staging them and designing sets. There were times when I thought I should change my approach, but in fact, this is what I like to do. It's sort of like my handwriting as a movie director. And somewhere along the way, I think I've made the decision: I'm going to write in my own handwriting.

~ Wes Anderson

Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.

~ Jack White

The thought of being alone when time goes on is a little bit scary sometimes, but not really.

~ Celia Hammond

I used to spend a lot of time alone as a kid, creating characters and doing voices in my room, and I thought to myself, I'm either going to go absolutely nuts, or I'm going to find something to put that energy into.

~ Rami Malek

I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness.

~ Bell Hooks

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.

~ R. Buckminster Fuller

I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didn't do anything academically around the arts.

~ Aisha Tyler

I've always thought the main argument for organic was more environmental than a health argument. I just don't think spraying a lot of pesticides into the environment on a routine basis is a good thing.

~ John Mackey

One of the things that I've always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways.

~ Maurice Strong

Here on Earth, we've found organisms that thrive in environmental conditions we would have once thought uninhabitable. The presence of these extremophiles suggests that life could potentially take hold on worlds other than our own.

~ Nick Sagan

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

~ H. L. Mencken

I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn't understand Iraqi society. They thought it was a blank slate, that they could use Iraqis as guinea pigs.

~ Juan Cole

The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers.

~ Abbe Pierre

I've always thought legal addictions are a great way to create a business. Starbucks is a wonderful example.

~ Nolan Bushnell

I've thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I've managed to separate out the psychological from the legal, moral, and political.

~ Alan Dershowitz

A national legal organization is giving very serious thought to using The Betrayal of America as a legal basis for asking the House Judiciary Committee to institute impeachment proceedings against these five justices.

~ Vincent Bugliosi

I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.

~ Constance Baker Motley

On my first day on the set of 'Boston Legal,' I thought the director was calling me 'Candice' instead of 'Constance.' But I didn't realize he was actually talking to Candice Bergen.

~ Constance Zimmer

Somebody ripped their pants open at my wedding, dipping my mother. My mother is not a lady who throws herself into a dip that often, so I don't think he thought she was really going to do it.

~ Melissa Mccarthy

I thought I was attractive when I shot 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding.' Studio executives and movie reviewers let me know I had a confidence in my looks that was not shared by them.

~ Nia Vardalos

I've thought about it a hundred times. I even buy bridal magazines sometimes. I want David Tutera to do my wedding.

~ Marlen Esparza

Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom.

~ Aung San Suu Kyi

Rock n' roll to me is all about freedom of thought and to be whatever you want to be.

~ Noel Gallagher

When the Internet first came, I thought it was just the beacon of freedom. People could communicate with anyone, anywhere, and nobody could stop it.

~ Steve Wozniak

I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized.

~ Jalal Talabani

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.

~ Jimmy Wales

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is nothing wrong with intellectual differences flowing from freedom of thought as long as such differences remain confined to intellectual debates.

~ Pervez Musharraf

One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.

~ Dan Savage

None of us had any idea of how successful Downton was going to be. I thought I was signing up for another period drama that had a slightly modern feel. It had a freedom about it because it was coming out of the head of Julian Fellowes. Anything could happen and generally did.

~ Dan Stevens

Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what he knows, what he has personally thought about and experienced, and not merely to express with slightly different variations the opinion which has been inculcated in him.

~ Mstislav Rostropovich

My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.

~ Phil Mcgraw

When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years.

~ Frank Butler

I was obsessed with clowns. My dad had to get rid of them. I thought there were clowns under my bed for years.

~ Haley Bennett

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

~ David Bowie