Thought Quotes

I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn't understand Iraqi society. They thought it was a blank slate, that they could use Iraqis as guinea pigs.

I just cleared the slate and thought of her as a mother and went from there.

I liked discussion and debate and thought that these skills fit well with law. I also had an interest in justice - and later learned that sometimes law and justice actually agree!

During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema.

The naked thing was short-lived. It was only around for about six months because we thought it was shocking. Once people expected us to do it we kind of never did it again.

I have looked back on situations and thought that I could have handled a few differently and probably better.

In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant. I think I thought it meant that I would be in a situation different than the one that I was in.

Not for models. SuicideGirls is a mystery to me because I thought only women ran the site.

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write.

I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he felt about what was going on around him. I felt the pressures that were on him. You can see what people were writing to him, how they were nudging him.

I always thought I was a little shy, especially compared to my brother and my sister, but I guess I was always the kid doing performances in the front room.

Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.

I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something of his.' The people who buy my art put a little more thought into it than that.

I never thought I would be singing for the world.

I like singing as much as I like acting, and all through high school I thought I might be a Broadway singer.

I always thought I was singing American folk music.

I never not wanted to be a singer. Since I was 3, I knew this was what I wanted to do. Well, I can't say I wanted to do it, but I fantasized and thought about it all the time. I never thought it would actually happen.

Nobody really thought I was going to make it, because I was a musician. I really wasn't a singer.

So much relies on the singer I thought the best way to avoid that problem was to become the singer!

I always thought I was a singer, but I really am not.

I thought it was respectful to each country to sing in their language.

With sincere modesty, if there is such a thing, I have never thought of legacy at all. I am always grateful if people like what I have done. A legacy is something no one can forsee.

I was running since I was 10. Since grade one at school people looked at me and thought, oh gosh she can really run, she's a natural.

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.

When I'd finished, everybody said they wanted me for this movie. At first I thought they meant a nudie flick since an awful lot of nudies are made in Houston.

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.

The artist that had the biggest impact on me was Michael Jackson. He was my Elvis and Beatles. When I was 15, I listened to a lot of Sinatra, but my jean jacket didn't have, 'I love Frank' on it, it had, 'I love AC/DC', 'Guns N Roses', 'Pearl Jam'. I thought Eddie Vedder was the second coming.

But it is possible that, in the days ahead, these years we have lived through may eventually be thought of simply as a period of disturbance and regression.

When they thought of me, they always remembered the vacuous Billie Dawn. It was as simple as that.

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.