Thought Quotes

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

~ Saul Steinberg

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

~ Edwin Lutyens

Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

~ Abraham Lincoln

You break your neck, you don't know what's going to happen. I mean, it's foreign. You're in this body that you thought you were - that you were accustomed to, and now you're not. You have to figure out everything. I think the biggest thing for me was getting a license, because it gives you - it gives you your independence back.

~ Mark Zupan

I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.

~ Samuel Dash

Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous.

~ Confucius

I'm learning to hunt with rifles, because if you think about it, hunting gets you the healthiest meat - organic, free-range food. It's a totally yuppie spin on what I thought was kind of a redneck occupation.

~ Sarah Wayne Callies

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

~ John D. Rockefeller

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

~ Nate Silver

And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography.

~ Nicolas Roeg

I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.

~ Daniel Defoe

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

~ Fatima Sana Shaikh

People take years learning how to act; it's a skill, not just a job. If I tried it out and thought I'd be OK, then perhaps I'd go for it, but it's not the kind of thing you can get into just because of your looks.

~ Travis Fimmel

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.

~ Seinabo Sey

One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off.

~ William Irwin Thompson

The wonderful thing about Food for Thought is that it lets you keep your hand in theater and be in front of a live audience without a commitment of six months, or even three months.

~ Treat Williams

The thing about all my food is that everything is a remembered flavor. Maybe it's something I had as a child or maybe it's something I had in Milan, but I want it to taste better than you ever thought.

~ Ina Garten

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.

~ Ferran Adria

We all thought of chicken as lean, protein-rich food that's good for weight watching, but the truth is chicken might actually be making us fatter!

~ Kathy Freston

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

~ Joseph Campbell

Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

~ Frank Murphy

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

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.

~ Nazanin Boniadi

Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.

~ Sri Aurobindo

In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.

~ Chinua Achebe

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

~ Salman Rushdie

Religion is run by thought police. 'Obey. Listen. This is what you do. Don't ask questions. Go die for your country.' The spirituality says, 'Okay, you can die for your country, but know what you're doing while you're doing it.'

~ Tommy Chong

The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.

~ Peter Ustinov

In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations.

~ Nikola Tesla

Meditation is to dive all the way within, beyond thought, to the source of thought and pure consciousness. It enlarges the container, every time you transcend. When you come out, you come out refreshed, filled with energy and enthusiasm for life.

~ David Lynch

The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn't thought of before and that aren't talked about in the news all the time.

~ Steve Wozniak

Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

~ Charlotte Whitton

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.

~ Lynn Nottage

I'm very comfortable in my own skin now. I started just being myself more and more. For women, this happens as you get older. I loved my 40s - I thought they were fantastic. And I'm loving my 50s. I'm going to love everything because you're either older or dead!

~ Gloria Estefan

I have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realise how much easier it was to reach people by making them laugh than by shaking a fist and saying, 'Don't you see how oppressed you are?'

~ Nora Ephron

I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I'd meet beautiful women in the rain.

~ Bill Nighy

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.

~ Michelangelo

The best move you can make in negotiation is to think of an incentive the other person hasn't even thought of - and then meet it.

~ Eli Broad

The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.

~ Sun Tzu