Quotes About Thought

Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time.

I don't know that we do. I had thought ours worked well, but I had never examined it too closely. A lot of media people will be looking for a case that might make Texas Governor George Bush think twice about what he's doing.

If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.

I thought that 'Twilight' would be a kind of girl movie, but it was cool.

You go to the marketplace and there are seventeen consciousnesses moving in and out. Sometimes you want the same shirt that I want, and our thought bubbles collide a bit and that makes plot.

If I could have one superpower, I'd want to have the power of mind over matter. I'd want to be able to move things and people with my mind.

I love dresses, and I've definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.

For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength and breath And the want Of thought is death Then am I A happy fly If I live Or if I die

The mind resorts to reason for want of training.

God is a word to express, not our ideas, but the want of them.

I thought you wanted to catch a camel," you tried again. "No." "I want to." "Well, you go then." You laughed. "I want your beautiful face where I can see it

Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.

To me, poetry is a rational act. I never write a poem if I'm not sure what I am going to say or what I want to communicate.

Whatever the style is, I want to have a sense that the writer is thinking, and really trying to get at something, and that there's a sense of discovery as the writing goes along.

Thinking is always dangerous to the status quo. [...] The moment you start thinking, you'll want to change something.

I'm not at all a linear thinker. I know the feeling I want to convey, but the form is what I struggle to find. I'm sure I'd fail if I tried to write a grant proposal or a book proposal.

You see, I get such fun out of thinking that I don't want to destroy this most pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick.

I always thought the Yankees had something to do with it.

Democracies do not go to war. War is not our expression of thought.

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

You live in a world at war. Spiritual attack must be a category you think in or you will misunderstand more than half of what happens in your marriage.

She thought it over, but couldn't see any immediate loopholes other than the threat of her inner slut emerging, and she could darned well control that little bitch.

I want your best offer. [...] - You already have it. She bit her lip, nodded. - That's what I thought. And then she walked away.

Hardly anyone believes himself to be against thought and culture," Hofstadter writes. "Men do not rise in the morning, grin at themselves in their mirrors, and say: 'Ah, today I shall torment an intellectual and strangle an idea!'"5