Quotes About Thought

Thinking about time travel may seem like something humans have been doing since the first caveman dropped the first rock on his foot. But, even to begin to imagine the possibility of time travel, your mind must be able to wrap itself around the notion of a past and a future.

My films don't have instant impact because they're dense with ideas that people have not thought about. It takes a while for the American public to wrap its head around some of the things I'm saying.

My whole reputation and creative thought as a novelist is really wrapped around Harry Bosch, so he's near and dear.

As a professional wrestler in the position I am in, I would rather have people remember my matches for an emotion or for a certain thought it evoked when they saw it.

Preparation is a mentality... With wrestling being my background, I've always learned to overwork, overwork. Work, work, work, work. It's not always the talented that wins, but it's the one who puts in the most preparation and thought into things.

Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought.

I really believe that a writer is someone who has trained their mind to misbehave.

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.

I am very willing to admit that I have some poetical abilities, and as few - if any - writers, either moral or political, are intimately acquainted with the classes of mankind among whom I have chiefly mingled, I may have seen men and manners in a different phasis from what is common, which may assist originality of thought.

I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk.

In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought.

In sheer genius Pascal ranks among the very greatest writers who have lived upon this earth. And his genius was not simply artistic; it displayed itself no less in his character and in the quality of his thought.

Writers are not meant for action.

It's true and it's easily said that language is material, and something does materialise as one writes.

I felt a little green, because Shakespeare writes the thought process within the text; it was tricky not to think of what to say and then say it, and instead just deliver the lines.

Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.

I do enjoy the form of things. I enjoy finding the form that seems best to fit what I'm thinking about. I don't set out to find a bizarre way of writing.

Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?

It usually helps me write by reading - somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.

Writing is manual labor of the mind - like laying pipe.

The cunning old cow, thought Melena. She is trying that rarest of strategies, telling the truth, and making it sound plausible.

Kendi ölümünün düÅŸünü kurabilmek, ne armaÄŸan ama...

The question ocasionally invents the answer. (142)