It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
When How Green Was My Valley finally wrapped, I thought John Ford was a walking god.
~By Maureen O'Hara ~
I know I'll never feel that sensation of racing and winning again and that took a while to get used to. The Tour was a race I never thought I could lose.
~By Greg LeMond ~
I thought that would be kind of cool, to make a bad guy look sympathetic.
~By Christopher Atkins ~
I had always thought of Chris as my kid brother and watching how this kid, as I still thought of him, had affected so many people's lives around the world was incredible.
~By Margot Kidder ~
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
~By Buddha ~
My father took me back home, back to Greenwich Village, and he thought by taking me out of the orphanage he'd be out of the World War too. But no way - they got him anyway. He went in the Navy and then I lived on the streets.
~By Gregory Corso ~
And in the middle of one of those scenes, I suddenly felt my heart just open: it was overwhelming, to the point where I got teary-eyed. Never would I have thought anything like that could happen in a love scene.
~By Sheryl Lee ~
I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
~By Sam Houston ~
I liked getting the best villain award. I thought that was funny.
~By Stephen Dorff ~
When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists... I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now.
~By Eddie Cantor ~
I always thought after 2002 that I'd hang up my skates and turn professional and just go on tour and do shows. But I don't know when it is enough. I mean, I still enjoy it. I'm the luckiest girl alive that I get to perform in front of thousands of people, do what I love doing.
~By Michelle Kwan ~
A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another.
~By Sidney Poitier ~
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.
~By Maurice Strong ~
Listen, I, I did vote - I did cast a vote for health care, and I also said that I thought the process was horrible. The status quo before we passed health care was also horrible.
~By Michael Bennett ~
As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action.
~By Shoshana Zuboff ~
Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the thought of becoming the object of his wrath was more than I felt ready to take on.
~By Joyce Maynard ~
Understanding that yes, we are committing more resources than we thought we might be in protecting our homeland and prosecuting a war and so it's understandable that we would be going through a period of deficits.
~By Donald Evans ~
I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be.
~By John Betjeman ~
I stopped living according to my core values. I knew what I was doing was wrong but thought only about myself and thought I could get away with whatever I wanted to.
~By Tiger Woods ~
The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use.
~By W. Averell Harriman ~
And I used to assemble the family to hear because I thought that they were so good that even from the point of view of enjoyment people shouldn't miss them, and I got every word of his that I could, and I could see by hard argument there was only the one way for it.
~By Ruth Pitter ~
I thought they know that I was the Commander in Chief, not that I know that I am the Commander in Chief, and they should behave; know how to behave to the Commander in Chief.
~By Kamisese Mara ~
The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.
~By Harry S. Truman ~
I never thought a role model should be negative.
~By Michael Jordan ~
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
~By Albert Einstein ~
I mean, I really don't want the federal government to be determining whether or not a person who feels certain ways about the environment or about animals or about certain religious issues should be considered an extremist. That to me is a type of thought control, mind control, which is very dangerous.
~By Peter King ~
You know, I've done this show for six years, and this could be the first time that I had a person that actually got no points, and I think it's a damn fine way to go out. I thought I was a loser until you walked up here; you made me feel like a man.
~By Ray Combs ~
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
~By John Keats ~
From the time I was very young, maybe five or six, I thought a lot about being an actress. I didn't tell my friends about my ambitions, though, especially when I got older, because I thought they would not receive them well. I never talked about what I wanted to do.
~By Louise Fletcher ~
The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.
~By Dee Hock ~
Human beings are creators, flinging powerful images into the minds of their fellow men. And all of these images are built of tiny particles of thought.
~By Roy H. Williams ~
I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time.
~By Franz Boas ~
Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.
~By David Seabury ~
Most of my stuff before CSI was kind of the jerk boyfriend, so I thought this was one of those deals, where these two have a thing going on, so we had a scene where they make out.
~By George Eads ~
Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.
~By Lance Armstrong ~
I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.
~By Alexander Herzen ~
For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim.
~By Philip Pullman ~
All thing I thought I knew; but now confess, the more I know I know, I know the less.
~By John Owen ~
We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would succeed at it because we were Americans.
~By Neil Sheehan ~
After Lockerbie, everyone thought, now we've learned the lesson of how to be proactive instead of being reactive. Unfortunately, September 11 came and we know the result. Thousands of people lost their lives. Security totally failed, not at one airport, at three different airports around the country.
~By Isaac Yeffet ~
Whenever I release a record, it's my record. It's not a selfish thought. I may work all year 'round for other people. So, finally, when I come out with my own album, it should be me with the creative help of other musicians.
~By Eberhard Weber ~
No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.
~By Otto Weininger ~
One of the reasons I came to Berkeley was because I saw so many students of all different colors speaking so many different languages and ferociously presenting all these different views. I thought, this is the 21st century and I want to be here!
~By June Jordan ~
Angelina came up, and as soon as we said hello, I thought, This is going to be great. I'm really going to love doing this with her. And I did. And then I was very excited to do the movie after that.
~By Gerard Butler ~
Great thoughts come from the heart.
~By Luc de Clapier ~
Prior to my election, young Cherokee girls would never have thought that they might grow up and become chief.
~By Wilma Mankiller ~
I do give a great deal of forethought and zone in on character and all sorts of things like that. Never before have I just stuffed something away in the back cupboard of my brain because it was just such a crazy concept.
~By Greg Kinnear ~
Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.
~By Charles Maurice de Talleyrand ~
For me, being tall was very positive because I thought my mom was the most beautiful person ever.
~By Lisa Leslie ~
For sure, all over Poland, kids had my picture of a lemur on their bedroom wall - but the chances are they may never get to see a real lemur in Madagascar. I thought this was great and it really meant a lot to me.
~By Nigel Dennis ~
Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
We were building a - what I thought was a fantastic company. We had great people. We were changing - we were changing the way the marketplace operated. We were creating a market for natural gas and electricity that had never existed before.
~By Jeffrey Skilling ~
There was a time when I was 19 when I really, really, really thought I was going crazy. I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.
~By Winona Ryder ~
A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
~By Hippocrates ~
But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that I have been before the public my secret methods have been steadily shielded by the strict integrity of my assistants, most of whom have been with me for years.
~By Harry Houdini ~
Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.
~By Robert Quillen ~
The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army thought I was representing their experiences. I was on both sides, and I survived.
~By Mort Walker ~
Any idea can be brought into the classroom if the point is to inquire into its structure, history, influence and so forth. But no idea belongs in the classroom if the point of introducing it is to recruit your students for the political agenda it may be thought to imply.
~By Stanley Fish ~
I never thought I'd get a chance to sing with Wilson Pickett but we did.
~By Eddie Floyd ~
I'm a conservative. I was an avid supporter of Ronald Reagan; I thought he was fabulous.
~By Shannen Doherty ~
It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.
~By Theophile Gautier ~
If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game.
~By Sean Penn ~
I never thought I was doing the same thing as directors like John Carpenter, George Romero, and sometimes even Hitchcock, even though I've been sometimes compared to those other guys. We're after different game.
~By David Cronenberg ~
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.
~By Danny DeVito ~
I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He's a very talented director.
~By Famke Janssen ~
I thought Jimi Hendrix... was just phenomenal.
~By Carl Wilson ~
Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.
~By Daniel Webster ~
My first thought is always of light.
~By Galen Rowell ~
I thought I would be Sheena of the Jungle as a little girl.
~By Pam Grier ~
The other aspect of idealism is the one which gives us our notion of the absolute Self. To it the first is only preparatory. This second aspect is the one which from Kant, until the present time, has formed the deeper problem of thought.
~By Josiah Royce ~
When I first came to Hollywood I was told to go out with an agent because it was good for my career. So I went to a party with him because it was good for my 'career.' Well, he thought the whole thing was a big date. Needless to say, I was very upset.
~By Salma Hayek ~
I've always thought of myself as an organic writer, rather than a cerebral one. I feel my way along as I go, hoping I'll get to the place I intend to reach.
~By Len Wein ~
You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
~By James Lane Allen ~
I thought I was going to be killed. The casualties were so heavy, it was just a given. I learned to take each day, each mission, as it came. That's an attitude I've carried into my professional life. I take each case, each job, as it comes.
~By Elliot Richardson ~
For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains.
~By Katharine Anthony ~
I knew I was a good stage actor but I had no idea about movies. And I wasn't a Paul Newman type of guy. That's why I thought the stage is just right for me.
~By Ed O'Neill ~
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
~By Swami Vivekananda ~
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?
~By Richard Dawkins ~
I think the job of movie reviewing can be really tough. If a film has layers that need to be thought about, it's easy to get missed the first time around.
~By Roland Joffe ~
That rockabilly sound wasn't as simple as I thought it was.
~By Carl Perkins ~
Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.
~By Mason Cooley ~
I thought I'd do something nice for the band... I'll hang myself.
~By Jason Newsted ~
I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books.
~By Cornelia Funke ~
Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar.
~By Joel Hodgson ~
Beware thoughts that come in the night.
~By William Least Heat Moon ~
I got one letter at the very beginning, like, in the first season, saying - from a woman who was very religious, very Christian, saying how wrong she thought the show was, but she thinks it's the funniest show on television.
~By Sean Hayes ~
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.
~By Sam Donaldson ~
Imprisonment hit me so hard - much harder than I had thought.
~By Mathias Rust ~
Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government.
~By King George V ~
Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!
~By Bob Marley ~
To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.
~By Richard Bach ~
As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience love them, being over emotional.
~By Richard Foreman ~
I was still thought of as a kid actor even though I was in my mid twenties.
~By Tommy Rettig ~
Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
~By Alexander Pope ~
There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.
~By Natalie Clifford Barney ~
The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his Misfortunes, and the Happy may be infinitely more so by contemplating on his Condition.
~By Eliza Haywood ~
It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.
~By Aristotle ~
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