Thought Quotes

Running for office was definitely something I've thought about. When I was younger, I wanted to major in political science. And I've been engaged in current events since I was a kid. If I can make a difference and feel passionately and capable, then I would. Why not?

~ Queen Latifah

I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.

~ Bianca Jagger

If you go into science, I think you better go in with a dream that maybe you, too, will get a Nobel Prize. It's not that I went in and I thought I was very bright and I was going to get one, but I'll confess, you know, I knew what it was.

~ James D. Watson

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

~ Walter Gilbert

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

~ H. G. Wells

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.

~ Nash Grier

I initially thought I was going to be a teacher. Maybe like an elementary teacher or something like that, which would be fun. Maybe someday.

~ Tyler Oakley

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.

~ Rush Limbaugh

It wasn't until sixth grade, at P.S. 168, when my teacher took us on a field trip to her house that I realized we were poor. I have no idea what my teacher's intentions were - whether she was trying to inspire us or if she actually thought visiting her Manhattan brownstone with her view of Central Park qualified as a school trip.

~ Jay-Z

I always wanted to be a teacher or wanted to do something with food. But modeling, I just never thought I could do it myself, really, ever. I still have trouble calling myself a model. I just never thought I was tall enough or skinny enough.

~ Chrissy Teigen

Students never think it can be the teacher's fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldn't do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that it's how you present it that makes it scary or friendly.

~ Danica Mckellar

My grandma was so old-fashioned. She thought we were supposed to have homework every night. I would come home, and she would be like, 'Where's your homework?' and I'd be like, 'I don't have none.' She'd be like, 'I'ma call your teacher.'

~ Bryson Tiller

In the fourth grade, my history teacher gave us a project: Why was the auto industry located in Detroit, Michigan? I didn't know I was going to be an economist, but I knew I was going to do something that was involved in answering questions like that one because I thought that was a fascinating question.

~ Mark Zandi

I love kids, so two things that I have thought about are being a pediatrician or a kindergarten teacher.

~ Karlie Kloss

I had this wonderful career and thought I would retire as a teacher.

~ Tim Gunn

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.

~ Gary Sinise

I was 20 years old, working as a roofer and a telemarketer and driving a taxi, just barely getting by. A friend of a friend suggested I try acting. I was like, 'Why? What am I going to do? Community theater?' But I took a class, and the teacher thought that I had potential, so I moved to Vancouver and started auditioning.

~ Cory Monteith

When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet.

~ Brian Ferneyhough

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

~ Jake Shimabukuro

In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar.

~ Trevor Nunn

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

~ Vanity

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

~ Bill Moyers

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

~ Francis Bacon

Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness.

~ Billy Corgan

This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps.

~ Frederick Law Olmsted

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.

~ Edwin Booth

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.

~ Liev Schreiber

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

~ Isaac Newton

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

~ Floyd Mayweather

When I was 20, I thought I was 30 - but I was so far from it. When you're young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience.

~ Elisha Cuthbert

A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?

~ Aaron Spelling

Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days.

~ Joshua Slocum

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

~ Henry David Thoreau

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

~ T. S. Eliot

Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.

~ Kim Elizabeth

There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

~ Angelina Jolie

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.

~ Paulo Coelho

I know what it's like to be in the closet! I know what it's like to be bullied and attacked because someone or some group thought I was different or below them... so, I'm coming out of the closet as an ally of equality for everyone; as an ally to hope.

~ Jason Alexander

As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.

~ Johnny Depp