There were movies that always made me want to be a director. You see brilliant scenes and the way the emotions were handled. I thought, I'd really like to do that. ~By Bruce Beresford ~
Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone. ~By John Buchanan Robinson ~
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking. ~By Albert Einstein ~
When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines. ~By Beck ~
I never thought Cathy would get married in the comic strip. And I also thought I would never get married. ~By Cathy Guisewite ~
I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice. ~By Debi Thomas ~
To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought. ~By Walter Pater ~
I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice. ~By Amy Tan ~
I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen. ~By Buffalo Bill ~
No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly. ~By Arthur Erickson ~
I watched Someone to Watch Over Me the other night. I thought it was a really good movie. It's a great movie. ~By Ridley Scott ~
Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever fresh and radiant possibility. ~By Kate D. Wiggins ~
Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side. ~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught. ~By Edmund Waller ~
We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give. ~By Jean de La Fontaine ~
I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw. ~By Len Wein ~
Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed. ~By Albert Schweitzer ~
I always thought that record would stand until it was broken. ~By Yogi Berra ~
Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action. ~By Frank Murphy ~
Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory. ~By Emily Post ~
I played with dolls until I was 15. My mother encouraged it because my older sister got married when she was 15, so Mom thought that the longer I stayed with dolls, the better. ~By Linda Evans ~
I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it. ~By Ann Richards ~
I thought it would be a lot of fun and I wasn't going to do the movie without Johnny. The studio suggested a couple people, and I'd never met Johnny, but I thought we'd be a perfect team for this movie because we're both a little bit unpredictable. ~By Sean William Scott ~
But it is possible that, in the days ahead, these years we have lived through may eventually be thought of simply as a period of disturbance and regression. ~By Hjalmar Branting ~
I thought Out of Action was better as a catalogue than the honeycomb because the honeycomb was like walking into one compartment and then another compartment. ~By Richard Serra ~
Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes. ~By Mary Martin ~
A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer. ~By Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ~
I will throw all my best efforts into it, my thoughts and political observations, but ultimately I want to create a narrative that keeps you turning the pages and leaves you with a sense that this thing has a reason for being there. ~By Frank Miller ~
I thought I'd better check this third plate, which is another date, see if there's an image there in the right place that would be consistent with the images on the other plates. That was the final proof. ~By Clyde Tombaugh ~
Such schemes take money from people who can least afford to spend it to support an unneeded bureaucracy that eats money people thought they were providing for education. ~By Jesse Helms ~
Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot. ~By Bernard Barton ~
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 ~
Well, I've always thought that my career was in England, really. I used to do more in the theatre, and I felt that I should be there. It's not far is it? It's amazing the way that special FX have taken a quantum leap in what they're capable of doing. ~By Albert Finney ~
We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges. ~By Tim Berners Lee ~
Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again. ~By Ernst Mach ~
I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it. ~By David Icke ~
One of the things I thought a lot about was how can we get the views, for instance, the main plaza, you look up to Telegraph Hill from there and therefore it would be a disaster to close that view off. ~By Lawrence Halprin ~
Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime! ~By Lawrence G. Lovasik ~
I like the dueling club scene, where Daniel and I fight with our wands. I thought it was a brilliant scene to shoot. I think the end product looked really good. ~By Tom Felton ~
Personal law is simply the thought that controls your mind and your life more than any other thought. Finding that thought is the most valuable knowledge that you can have about yourself. It is like the leverage on personal change. It enables you to change very efficiently. ~By Leonard Orr ~
Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it. ~By Samuel Richardson ~
I had a lot of different thoughts and ideas and always to transform, but I'm trying certain things that I feel my heart is really going for and that was one of the things that I initiated a few months ago. ~By Steffi Graf ~
We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it. ~By Lawrence Durrell ~
Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against. ~By Bruce Lee ~
I got confused. I thought it was a K.Y. scare, so I bought 2000 jars of personal lubricant. I still have some. ~By Julie Brown ~
All of this suggests that while citizens became more comfortable with President Bush after September 11 and thought him to have the requisite leadership skills, they continue to harbor doubts about his priorities, loyalties, interests, and policies. ~By Thomas E. Mann ~
A lot of people thought I was going to be a one-hit wonder, so I had that chip on my shoulder. ~By Bubba Sparxxx ~
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins. ~By Albert Schweitzer ~
The first piece of art that I ever bought-when I could afford it-was a Warhol sketch from the period when he was just getting out of doing commercial work and more into art. It's a sketch of a young guy's face. I guess the gallery that I bought it from thought I would like it because the young guy kind of looked like James Dean. ~By James Franco ~
I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded. ~By Simone Weil ~
I have always thought that Israel, as an independent and sovereign nation, had a right to defend itself. ~By Don Nickles ~
Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. ~By Garrison Keillor ~
I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get. ~By Christiane Amanpour ~
Before we got married, I had tremendous ambition. Once we got married and I started having children, then I just thought that that was my real life. Steve was definitely more ambitious than I. ~By Eydie Gorme ~
I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol. ~By Dee Dee Ramone ~
I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South. ~By Nat King Cole ~
In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life. ~By J. M. Coetzee ~
There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say. ~By Martin Buber ~
No one but myself thought I could beat guys like Tommy Hearns or Roberto Duran. ~By Sugar Ray Leonard ~
Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined part of those who are not capitalists to cease to labor for hire. ~By Leland Stanford ~
Well, I tried to get a record deal in 1966 or '67, and everyone thought I was too eclectic. ~By Carly Simon ~
When I watched Ellen come out in '97, my jaw was on the floor. I thought, There are some people who break the doors down, hold them open, and some people who walk right through. ~By Portia de Rossi ~
And I thought that was the best way for me to participate, because standing in the crowd and listening is a fantastic education, but it's not my nature. I need to be involved. So I did that instead. ~By Andre Braugher ~
I thought I had too much money to be happy and normal. Thousand of pounds is just too much for a working person to handle all of a sudden, and I felt I didn't deserve it. ~By Peter Green ~
Not until he stood at the altar did he achieve a sense of being hale and furnished. It was strange, he thought, that a man would find his surest current in the spot where he felt least worthy. ~By Charles Tennyson Turner ~
I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart. ~By Douglas Sirk ~
Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought. ~By Sallust ~
Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I was. ~By Stevie Nicks ~
The oldest, shortest words - "yes" and "no" - are those which require the most thought. ~By Pythagoras ~
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. ~By Robert Browning ~
I had thought about landing in the Kremlin, but there wasn't enough space. ~By Mathias Rust ~
We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own. ~By Maria Mitchell ~
An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. ~By W. E. B. Du Bois ~
Well, no, I didn't because I didn't even know the nominations were coming out. I gotta say, it wasn't even on my radar. I hadn't... I hadn't even thought about it. ~By Will Arnett ~
So sweet love seemed that April morn. When first we kissed beside the thorn, So strangely sweet, it was not strange We thought that love could never change. ~By Robert Bridges ~
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. ~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
I've never looked at myself and thought, 'Oh yeah, I'm sexy'. I've felt sexy and confident, but I don't look at myself that way. ~By Ashlee Simpson ~
Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear. ~By Corrie Ten Boom ~
I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.' ~By Andy Warhol ~
When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't. ~By Annie Leibovitz ~
When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools. ~By Michael LeBoeuf ~
I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer. ~By Marguerite Young ~
I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might. ~By Joseph Epstein ~
I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very far to pick up their know-how. ~By Lionel Blue ~
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women. ~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
One of the guys that used to run it - for some reason I've no idea why he used to call me the Sea Monster and I was just looking around for a name and thought that'll do. That lasted for a couple of years probably. ~By Jo Brand ~
A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat. ~By Rex Stout ~
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. ~By Wendell Berry ~
My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence. ~By Jai Rodriguez ~
I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'. ~By Thomas Huxley ~
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought. ~By Susan Sontag ~
The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure. ~By Annette Funicello ~
We've got our own daylight to get bad thoughts away, and we talk with that light - our star in our heart. We take away what's unimportant. ~By Indra Devi ~
But the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought wider... That thought was our power. ~By Joshua Chamberlain ~
A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love. ~By Joseph Conrad ~
When I think of the person that I thought was Bill Clinton, I think he had genuine remorse. When I think of the person that I now see is 100 percent politician, I think he's sorry he got caught. ~By Monica Lewinsky ~
How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper. ~By Olive Schreiner ~
I obtained a job at the Library of Congress. I loved books, so I felt at home. I was going to end up, I thought, majoring in English and teach at the college level. ~By Tom Glazer ~
I actually got really petrified by the thought of people seeing me. ~By Andy Partridge ~
They sent me the script and I thought that there was something very appealing and funny about it. Also, I was familiar with Mike Myers' work in Saturday Night Live, but I did not know the extent to which he would make this creation. ~By Michael York ~
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