Thought Quotes

When I first started out, I thought it was enough to make an angry song that pointed out the problems of the world.

That was when Neil discovered Jack Nietzsche. They went off and pretty much came up with that by themselves, but I thought it was a great song, and I was more than happy to do my harmony parts on it.

I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.

When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it there with beautiful clarity.

I never thought I would be somewhat of a gay icon.

I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again.

Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.

I chose to go to law school because I thought that someday, somehow I'd make a difference.

I thought that somehow your life would be much different when you're famous... and it's not. You just buy more stuff.

I couldn't be in a relationship and behave like somebody else or pretend I felt something I didn't feel. And that includes saying things I thought might jeopardize the relationship.

I don't know anyone at the highest levels who approved Abu Ghraib. If President Barack Obama for a moment thought that somebody at a high level had approved it, he would go after them.

When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was a minor offence compared to kissing somebody.

Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.

Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.

So many people appreciate what you've done, the doors you've opened, but some people realise they're not going to be able to make as much money as they thought possible when you first started.

It's funny, in some of the interviews I've seen that were done for the film, some people say things like, 'Oh, I was never a very big Jim Woodring fan. I've never thought his work was that great.'

I think all of us thought that by the '70s, at the latest the '80s, all the world's problems would be solved and everyone would be getting along fine. And instead we saw that Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated that year, Robert F. Kennedy died. We saw that it was going to be a lot more difficult than I think we had thought.

I had immediate success in the sense that I sold something right off the bat. I thought it was going to be a piece of cake and it really wasn't. I have drawers full of - or I did have - drawers full of rejection slips.

The first year I sold a photo to was a lady who thought I was a chef, for some reason. I've no idea why.

I can remember a reporter asking me for a quote, and I didn't know what a quote was. I thought it was some kind of soft drink.

I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite.

In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.

Only after awhile. After it came out and people began to engage in discussions about the social reflections of the film that I realized it had an importance I hadn't thought of.

I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment the sober second thought of the people.

There are lots of great movies coming out of the U.S. but it's not something I've ever really been interested in. They're great films but I much prefer the smaller independent films, which are more thought provoking and experimental.

Though it's a small price to pay, shaving my head has opened more doors than I ever thought possible.

I always said to myself that the minute I thought I'd slipped, and not be the player I wanted to be, it was time for me to go.

I always said to myself that if I thought I slipped and could not be the player that I want to be, then it was time for me to go.

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.

I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to any manly or humane man.