“I trod heaven in my thoughts, now exulting in my powers, now burning with the idea of their effects. From my infancy I was imbued with high hopes and a lofty ambition.” – Mary Shelley Frankenstein, Chapter 24. Victor Frankenstein to Walton.
In Prepared 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.
Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. – Henry David Thoreau
I think any parent, at some time or other, has thoughts of their child dying. That’s probably one of the worst things that could ever happen to a parent. – Henry Ian Cusick
At its best, Purple Ronnie puts little thoughts out there, on very high-volume selling items, that people use to make very personal connections with one another. And I’m actually very proud of that. – Giles Andreae
Anyone who has a dog knows that they have some very deep thoughts, that they have moods and emotions, they get their feelings hurt. It’s not a far reach to give them opinions and values and long-term desires. – Garth Stein
My thoughts fly to the old Icelandic storytellers who created our classics, whose personalities were so bound up with the masses that their names, unlike their lives’ work, have not been preserved for posterity. – Halldor Laxness
When people find out that I’ve written 208 novels, they ask, ‘How did you think of all that?’ Well, I answer, ‘How do you not think of it?’ I see a gum wrapper on the ground, and I think, ‘Oh, a Russian spy probably dropped that.’ I just think like that, and those thoughts go through my mind constantly. – Gilbert Morris
Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can’t communicate his thoughts except with gestures. – Garth Stein
Well, you sort of get out of the pool room, you get out of the Marine Corps, you get out and read some literature, you become involved with people who also want to know and are ready to share some ideas about literature and thoughts, and it becomes nourished that way. – Harvey Keitel
I maintain that the past record of my race is a true index of the feelings which today animate them. They bear toward their former masters no revengeful thoughts, no hatreds, no animosities. They aim not to elevate themselves by sacrificing one single interest of their white fellow-citizens. – Hiram Rhodes Revels
I was always incredibly obsessed with germs and cleaning and taking shower after shower after shower. Even when I was very young, I wouldn’t tie my shoelaces because they had touched the ground. I had continuous repetitive thoughts that I couldn’t get past. As a child, my mind was a lot busier than I was. – Howie Mandel
Now, I – for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at their decisions. – Helen Garner
I believe your thoughts are your thoughts, but are you a human being in front of the camera, or an actor? They are two different things. – Harry Lloyd
How or by what magic is it, that we convey our thoughts to one another with such case and accuracy? – Henry Martyn
The brain does not manufacture thoughts unless we stimulate it with habitual verbalizing. When we train ourselves by constant practice to stop verbalizing, the brain can experience things as they are. – Henepola Gunaratana
Science is empirical, all about physical senses that tell us about the world. But physical senses are not the only senses we have. Nobody has ever seen a thought. Nobody has ever seen a feeling. And yet thoughts and feelings are where we live our lives most immediately, and science cannot connect with that. – Huston Smith
Bruce Willis is Bruce Willis in every single movie I’ve seen him in, except ‘Death Becomes Her’ and ‘Mortal Thoughts,’ which is another movie he was in that was very different from what he normally does. – Guillermo Diaz
Like a historian, I interpret, select, discard, shape, simplify. Unlike a historian, I make up people’s thoughts. – Hilary Mantel
Within us – the heart of us, really – is a ‘ground’ that is to our thoughts and feelings, our relationships with others and ourselves, as is the Earth to the leaves that first race across her and then, no longer able to run, give themselves up to nourish her body so that she may give birth again come the spring. – Guy Finley
Maybe the Jefferson case will give members of Congress second thoughts the next time they get ready to legislate away the rights of ordinary Americans. – Helen Thomas
Now, for pure bloggers, for individual people who are just posting their own thoughts, they would still run the same risk of saying something wrong or embarrassing, but they wouldn’t harm their institutions by doing so. – Gregg Easterbrook
The whole point of diaries is that other people find them and read what you’ve put. I did once take to writing my inner thoughts on the computer at the end of other things I was writing and ended up faxing four pages of hideous stuff to my accountant so I don’t do that now. – Helen Fielding
To be able to always have a super sense of who I was and my own real identity and be petty and seem informed and always thinking in thoughts would be great. – Jeff Goldblum
Cats are anthropomorphised in art because they are so laid back that you automatically attribute human thoughts and feelings to them. – Jim Davis