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Thought Quotes

Be prepared quote by Arundhati Roy

As Estha stirred the thick jam he thought Two Thoughts and the Two Thoughts he thought were these:
a)
Anything can happen to anyone.
and
b) It is best to be prepared.
Having thought these thoughts, Estha Alone was happy with his bit of wisdom.

– Arundhati Roy

The God of Small Things. Chapter 10: The River in the Boat.

I grew up being really insecure and dumped on, over-feeling certain things in a negative way. So I thought I had something to prove.

– Gilbert Hernandez

The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.

– Gustave Flaubert

I don’t know if anybody thought about how much impact the iPhone could have on society.

– Henry Samueli

Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.

– Henri Poincare

I really only worked for about a month on ‘Meatballs.’ What happened was that Ivan Reitman figured out that studios wanted to meet everybody involved with ‘Animal House’ except the producer. So he thought he’d better start directing.

– Harold Ramis

When I was little I thought, isn’t it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it’s July 4th.

– Gloria Stuart

I never thought I would end up being the Senator from New York.

– Hillary Clinton

And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didn’t.

– Harry Mathews

The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.

– Havelock Ellis

A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process.

– Henry Rollins

In order for critical pedagogy, dialogue, and thought to have real effects, they must advocate the message that all citizens, old and young, are equally entitled, if not equally empowered, to shape the society in which they live.

– Henry Giroux

I tried to stay with things until I thought they were on their feet and they learned to walk and talk.

– Glen A. Larson

Without any formal orders to retreat, what was left of the several organizations yielded to a general impulse to abandon the field. Officers and men became controlled by the one thought of getting as far as possible from the enemy.

– Henry Villard

Most of the Women’s Libbers I knew really didn’t want to have a piece of the men’s pie. They thought that pie was kind of poisonous, toxic, really full of weapons, poison gases, all kinds of mean junk we didn’t even want a slice of.

– Grace Paley

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.

– Hjalmar Branting

Acting is always something I thought I could do, and I thought I would be pretty good at it, but I thought that I missed the opportunity, that it was too late.

– Greg Poehler

My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of ‘Dawson’s Creek.’ I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, ‘Did I really have to do all that studying?’

– Gabriel Mann

I kind of thought the writers were starting to take Taylor and make her kind of down and dirty.

– Hunter Tylo

When ATM machines came out and people were prosecuted for robbing ATM machines, I don’t think anybody thought the banks were against technology because they didn’t want their ATM machines lifted.

– Hilary Rosen

I thought the war would never end. And perhaps it never did, either.

– George Grosz

I had never thought of hosting, but a really good friend of mine said, ‘This is the most empowered platform to speak to young people about the issues that you care about, which is why you’re in this in the first place.’ So I was like, ‘Yeah, no, it makes perfect sense.’ And so that’s what I started doing.

– Hannah Simone

I thought I had swell ideas, and wonderful musicians, but the hell of it, no one else did.

– Glenn Miller

Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian about it.

– Henry Flynt

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

– Harper Lee

Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.

– Henri Frederic Amiel

The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but no one was about to give me that opportunity on Animal House.

– Harold Ramis

As a boy soprano in the high school choir, I later sang a solo during the carol service at Canterbury Cathedral, but I was too young to secure the Freddy Eynsford-Hill role in our production of ‘My Fair Lady’ – and far too timid to have thought to audition for it.

– Hamish Bowles

I never thought I would get married. I didn’t think I was that type of person.

– Heather Brooke

I’ve always thought of myself as a reporter.

– Gwendolyn Brooks

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