Thought Quotes

One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.

I never thought I was much of an actor anyway.

Cary Grant and I were doing a play in New York. He had a crush on me. Whenever we went to a party, he would always sit on the floor beside me. I thought that was kind of beautiful, like that's where he wanted to be.

I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be.

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

I've often said in the past that I thought MTV was sort of evil incarnate and signified the beginning of the end. And I don't know if I'm entirely wrong about that, but they did sign my paychecks a year ago, so I guess I'm part of the problem.

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.

I never thought I'd have a daughter.

It's my mother's engagement ring so I thought it was quite nice because obviously she's not going to be around to share any of the fun and excitement of it all - this was my way of keeping her close to it all.

I always thought, it would be neat to make the Olympic team.

For every guy, there is an opportunity to be a lot better than he thought he could be. We can't all be the star of the team, but we can be a star in our life. That's where you set your goal.

I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.

I think everybody at some point in time has thought to themselves, 'I have a really great idea for a restaurant.'

Nobody ever really thought of me as sexy, right? They thought of me as smart and quirky.

The thought of my mortality - I think about it a lot. I find it motivating. It can be any time that your number's up.

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.

I was just so sick. I thought that orange juice was going to make me fat.

Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.

People ask if I miss it, but they don't understand that American culture is so ubiquitous that there's nothing to miss. I don't see myself moving back. It's not that I hate the United States. I just always thought it would be a shame not to live in a foreign country.

Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.

Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream - but create!

The Thought Police: To censor and protect.

The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?

The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.

This kid came up with Napster, and before that, none of us thought of content protection.

I would not be a good mother. I mean, I love being an aunt to my niece and nephew. And I used to want to, like, adopt 10 kids - because I had friends who were adopted, and I thought that was the coolest thing, to be chosen. But again, my job is too selfish.

I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.