I get the feeling a lot of politicians are there to help themselves financially, first and foremost. I don’t really need to do that, and I thought if I could do something for sport in Scotland, that would be really fulfilling. – Gordon Strachan
Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. – Henry David Thoreau
I was aware that everybody said I was going to be a vast mega-flop, and that William Hague was just oh-so intelligent, and oh such a great parliamentarian, and therefore so different from me! So I thought, I must deprive them of the satisfaction of proving themselves right. – Harriet Harman
Sadly, I’ve seen a lot of bands hit that sort of peak and then eventually start supporting again, you know, which we will never do. We always put a lot of thought into the way that we are going to go, and we always change. – Glenn Tipton
I always thought writer’s block was something that prats used as an easy excuse for not doing any work. – Geraldine McCaughrean
I was influenced by autobiographical writers like Henry Miller, and I had actually done some autobiographical prose. But I just thought that comics were like virgin territory. There was so much to be done. It excited me. I couldn’t draw very well. I could write scripts and storyboard style using stick figures and balloons and captions. – Harvey Pekar
I’ve always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that. – Harry Seidler
I thought at the time that I wanted to go into institutional sales, selling stocks and bonds to institutions. In those days, which was the 1960s, the institutional salesman was making about $100,000 a year. I thought that was just an enormous amount of money. – Henry Kravis
Mum wasn’t at all religious, but she thought that going to the theatre was as important a ceremonial, communal experience that a person could have. – Hayley Atwell
Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought. – Herman Kahn
We were saving, saving, saving then going to France and blowing the money eating. She was a nurse and had never experienced fine dining but she loved it, too. Our mates thought it absurd. – Heston Blumenthal
I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth. – Hunter S. Thompson
We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind. – Helena Blavatsky
I’ve thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn’t work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem. – Howard Nemerov
The environment in which I studied was so safe, I thought I would die from the boredom of it. – Howard Jacobson
I was in California the first time I heard Michael Jackson wanted to record with me. I was, like, ‘Nah, no way, he’s too big, it can’t be true.’ Then I got a call from Michael’s people at my hotel telling me he was interested. But I still wasn’t believing it – I thought they were setting me up for a TV practical jokes show. – Heavy D
Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, ‘It’s gonna sell.’ I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before ‘Tell No One.’ I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement. – Harlan Coben
I did not volunteer for the Waffen SS, but was, as were thousands of my year group, conscripted. I did not then know as a 17-year-old that it was a criminal unit. I thought it was an elite unit. – Gunter Grass
I was obsessed with clowns. My dad had to get rid of them. I thought there were clowns under my bed for years. – Haley Bennett
When I started in 1992, I really thought the ‘Vogue’ fashion department was one of the most frightening places on the planet. – Hamish Bowles
My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive – I think I’m one of those people who’s actually grown into their looks. – Harriet Walter
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. – Henry David Thoreau
Robert Duvall saw me playing at a restaurant in Louisiana and invited me to be an extra in his movie ‘The Apostle.’ He gave me a guitar for my sixth birthday, and I thought that was the coolest thing in the world. – Hunter Hayes
I think it was always there and it was maybe a matter of bringing it out. It was harder than I thought it would be and I had to try harder. I had to regain my confidence, maybe the most important thing. I have learned a lot to relax. I know what I can do now, and I do it. – Guy Lafleur
Scientists have always thought that because mammoths roamed such a huge territory – from Western Europe to Central North America – that North American woolly mammoths were a sideshow of no particular significance to the evolution of the species. – Hendrik Poinar
I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try. – Gale Harold
I’ve always thought that travelling every day as a journalist on the Tour’s got to be harder than actually racing. – Greg LeMond
