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Thought Quotes
"Last season when things weren't working out, I thought we needed a different voice around the place."
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"Joseph Stalin is a titan of thought. His name is to be given to an entire century."
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"I reached the stage where I was afraid to wiggle my leg, but then I thought 'why shouldn't I?' It's what I do and now I know how to turn an audience on again."
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"I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eyes and focused my thoughts. Presently, this book is my prized possession."
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"I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors."
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"Landon drops the bloody knife and stares at Summer like he doesn't even know her anymore. The truth is, she'll never be the girl she was seven months ago. Too much has happened. Too much has changed.'Why'd you do that? Summer cries.'To save you, he says.But there's nothing left to save."
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"But here's my point to the LA Times. If you had a serious story to run, if you thought there was serious misconduct, you don't wait until the Thursday before the Tuesday. You run it early."
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"I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning."
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"Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus; but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasure."
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"Just because I don't do bad things doesn't mean I don't have bad thoughts."
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"We thought we were going to go up against SNL on Saturday Nights - that would have changed things so much that it's almost impossible to speculate what might have happened."
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"I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And that's been both a useful thing and I suspect something that's haunted me a little bit."
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"When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness."
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"Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was whether they wore glasses. If they're that clever, take them off when they see him coming!"
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"All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books."
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"Has President Bush exceeded his constitutional authority or acted illegally in authorizing wiretaps without a warrant? Benjamin Franklin would not have thought so."
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"I thought my Beatles LPs sounded pretty good on a record player, but that was before I had heard a CD."
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"Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of."
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"We find that other employees are very enthusiastic about their fellow crew members who have disabilities-or what they previously thought of as disabilities."
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"Write in a disciplined manner, but write in a way that is natural to the individual's thought processes."
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"I have thought about Happy Days made into a movie. As far as the original cast not being a part of it, wow, I don't know who could be who!I just don't see it going in that direction. I can see the original cast doing the movie very easily though."
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"An organized effort is making to deceive the people. There are two great enemies of thought and progress, the aristocracy of royalty and the aristocracy of gold."
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"I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training."
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"I'd always thought that if Python was going to go on at all, it'd be nice to get into storylines."
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"I never worked in a coffee shop and I don't drink coffee, so I never thought I would become a coffee pusher on TV."
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"The images attempt to capture scientific thought. They represent the physical manifestation of the thought process. Everything in the laboratory is a product of a stream of conscious or unconscious thought."
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"That rockabilly sound wasn't as simple as I thought it was."
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"He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums."
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"A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy."
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"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die."
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