Quotes About Thought

Fraser had the immediate thought that his was a man whom it would be easy to dislike. He did not just arouse antipathy; he almost seemed to cultivate it.

Well,' I tried, 'I suppose it's the thought that counts.' 'Yes. He thought we wouldn't notice he's a complete cheapskate

I was asleep, of course, and dreaming, but I remember wondering how he had managed to enter my world before the thought occurred to me that maybe it was I who had entered his.

What struck me more than anything was the malice that ran through the review, the sense that she had enjoyed thinking up her little bons mots and spitting them in my direction. That joke about the stool, for example. Did she really have to do that?

Mrs Blakiston had always been in a hurry. It was impossible to escape the thought. She had quite literally flung herself down the stairs, hurrying into her own death.

I think it's cool to provoke something in people.

I still believe that education is about provoking some kind of original, creative thought.

I give the name of cosmic sense to the more or less confused affinity that binds us psychologically to the All which envelops us. The existence of this feeling is indubitable, and apparently as old as the beginning of thought... The cosmic sense must have been born as soon as man found himself facing the forest, the sea and the stars.

I have not thought too much about the psychology or life of the character Jonas in some time.

I didn't intend to run for public office. I didn't really think about it.

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

The idea of being published was such an abstract thing in the beginning. It wasn't even an option in my mind.

I think that the practice of writing every day was what made me remember that writing doesn't have anything to do with publishing books. It can be totally separate and private - a comforting thought.

Of course, genes can't pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is the seat of our drives, temperaments and patterns of thought.

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.

And then ESPN fired me. I did not think that was a fitting punishment.

The pure natural scientist is liable to forget that minds exist, and that if it were not for them he could neither know nor act on physical objects.

For me, music is pure abstraction.

I have never really thought that the Left was much in 'array' as far as political purposes were concerned.

I never gave it that much thought to pursue acting or anything, but I would definitely be a Bond girl if they asked me. For sure - I would make a great evil Bond girl!

I used to tell people that in 2012 when I was trying to understand where am I most likely to be drafted and who are the three or four teams that have pursued me the most and it would make sense that they would pick me, I never thought of who would be least likely to draft me.

I never really thought about pursuing singing because my whole life was about dance and singing just kind of came with it.

It's a big plethora of music floating around in my head all the time, and I'll sit there and write a song.

If I get a commission, it's like a flood of creative thought and energy.