Thought Quotes

To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

Even my family laughed at me because they thought this young guy who's always stuttering in front of other people should be in front of 100 musicians and talk to them and leading them.

I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature.

In the run-up to the 1992 Democratic convention, Clinton's campaign realized that voters thought the young governor had a privileged upbringing. They didn't buy his alleged concern for the middle class.

I thought, If people are going to write about what I'm wearing, then I would wear young British designers who need the publicity.

When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

In England we burnt redheads at the stake, because we thought they were witches. There are still young redheads in Britain getting ripped for having red hair. 'Oy, Ginger!'

I always thought I would adopt. Even when I was young, I used to look up how to adopt.

When my daughter was young, she thought all electronic signs were mine.

I was very young. I thought I knew a lot and I really didn't. I trusted the wrong people.

My motto in life is 'If you think it, you can do it' and if we all apply that thought we can end hunger the world over.

I never thought I would end up being the Senator from New York.

A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.

I went to Marymount College in New York City with a lot of kids whose parents paid their way, and I wouldn't even have thought of asking my parents - they couldn't afford it, not with six kids!

When 'Twilight' hit the New York Times bestseller list at number 5, for me that was the pinnacle, that was the moment. I never thought I would be there. And I keep having moments like that where you just stop and say, wait a minute - how is this still going up? I'm waiting for the rug to be pulled out from under me.

But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable.

And so there I was living in California from Brooklyn, New York, and it was this whole new world for me and I was meeting vegetarians. I thought, let me try this vegetarian thing. I got really into that.

I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet.

I believe, based on the activities, and I am not an expert on terrorism by any stretch, but I believe that when they attacked the United States and they attacked New York and Washington, D.C., they thought they could defeat us.

Everyone said that if you want to be a real actor, go to New York. If you want to sell out, go to LA. And I thought - I want to sell out!

I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.

I always thought security was a joke at New York airports, and in U.S. airports to begin with. You can go through any European or Middle Eastern airport and things are a lot tougher.

I do an hour's yoga and go running every day. Then I see a picture of myself and I still look like a skinny, potbellied idiot - and I thought I had turned into this superhunk!

Actually, I never liked Dylan's kind of music before; I always thought he sounded just like Yogi Bear.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.

It's ironic that in our culture everyone's biggest complaint is about not having enough time; yet nothing terrifies us more than the thought of eternity.

I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.