Thought Quotes

I always thought that the badge a cop has was more like the shield that Captain America has. It's an obvious sign of good and something you'll protect other people with, but it will also protect you.

We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.

I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people.

A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?

I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use.

I have never thought where I will go, or forced any targets on myself.

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.

My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.

I didn't get my first pilot that I screen-tested for, and I really thought it was the end of the world. But it's fine, you know, you move on to something else.

There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.

Every New Year's Eve, I have a pact to do something I never thought I'd do. So I created this list. You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.

I'm very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock - though only if it's sophisticated and has some thought behind it.

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.

However I am is however I am. When you see me onstage or in the press, there's not a lot of thought and calculation that goes into it.

But when you lose a family member or something tragic happens, that stays with you forever. You never get over it. Knowing that you have to deal with that for the rest of your life... Football is important, but not as important as you once thought it was.

I find it almost comforting to count calories, because it makes me conscious of what I'm eating. But on Super Bowl Sunday, I thought, 'Surrender to it. It's nacho time.' Then I ate nothing but Doritos all day.

People think I'm strong, but actually I wanted to crawl away. I thought, I'm going to live in the country with my horse and I'll get a nine-to-five; I don't need this.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn.

The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.

When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before.

No, I never thought about my image. It interests me that there are people who do, that they seem to be methodical about it.

I've always thought that less was a lot more.

It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process.

I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organised, very, very good. I was very impressed.

I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.