Thought Quotes

I never thought I'd say this, what Obama needs in his personality is a little George Bush.

I became the toast of London. A lot of people I met came from these really decadent families where the married men were gay and no one thought anything about it.

I have had stalkers over the years. The police deal with it but it is very scary. One man kept turning up where we filmed 'Countdown in Leeds,' which was scary. It was sad as he'd been sectioned and thought I was talking to him through the TV.

I'm not the least bit polished, I come from a blue collar background and I never thought I could feel comfortable around the English.

So I was determined to use my last two years in college doing something I thought I would enjoy, which was acting. And it was probably because there was girls over in the drama school too, you know?

In America and in most of the industrialized world, men are coming to be thought of by feminists in very much the same way that Jews were thought of by early Nazis. The comparison is overwhelmingly scary.

But here's the thing: I had this great job, and I would still feel terribly depressed. I would just be like, 'This isn't the sweet spot. I thought this would be it, and I don't feel happy.'

I'm on the Facebook board now. Little did they know that I thought Facebook was really stupid when I first heard about it back in 2005.

When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn't I couldn't do my best.

I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.

I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them.

The Dalai Lama was once asked for his favorite chant, and he said it was better not to have a favorite anything, which I think is a great thought.

And I thought, when I have kids, that's the sort of well told, silly, and fun fairy tale that I would want to take them to. But it was an amazing experience. And I think Shrek is a real classic, a fairy tale classic.

I thought Erica Jong's Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that I've ever read in my life.

Language is froth on the surface of thought.

They wanted Bridgette to be this extremely enigmatic character. Im about the least enigmatic person on the planet, so I just thought what I did on the show was boring.

As a kid, I thought John Denver was the perfect Prince Charming.

I went through a period at boarding school when my coaches wanted me to switch to snowboarding because they thought I was no good at skiing. I was too skinny. I had terrible technique. They were saying I should be a snowboarder, and luckily, I resisted.

I spent a lot of time in the school psychologist's office. I didn't apply myself. My mother thought I had learning disabilities.

Honestly, if I was looking at myself and I cheated, then I'd just think, 'Wow, how disappointing, I actually thought you were better than that.' It's about me and about the kind of man I want to be.

Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.

I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.

On second thought, I think I am more crazy than my goat.

I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him.

I thought I had a great opportunity when I started doing my comic book in 1972. I thought there was so much territory to work in.

So I haven't thought about the critics for a long time.