All Quotes

I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.
‐‐ Bas Rutten

I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it looked like the work of a 6-year-old.
‐‐ Takeshi Kitano

I thought maybe I'd be a farmer. That was another silly notion. I think I'd last about five minutes, being a farmer.
‐‐ Matthew Rhys

I thought maybe I'd be a female sportscaster.
‐‐ Amy Landecker

I thought maybe I would become a god, or a goddess, or a president or a Nobel Prize winner.
‐‐ Amelie Nothomb

I thought maybe, just by never preaching, never doing any of that stuff because it doesn't work. By just maybe the power of example and some laughs, maybe somebody might go take a walk.
‐‐ Liza Minnelli

I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I thought it out and came up with reasons why it was a monopoly.
‐‐ Steve Wozniak

I thought 'Moulin Rouge' was inspirational, and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' I loved.
‐‐ Pierce Brosnan

I thought my Beatles LPs sounded pretty good on a record player, but that was before I had heard a CD.
‐‐ Alastair Wood

I thought my body was going to change so quickly with pregnancy that I'd freak out. But it was really gradual.
‐‐ Jenna Dewan

I thought my book was done, then we went to Hawaii and the whole last chapter happened.
‐‐ Mariel Hemingway

I thought my character definitely was very much in love with him and wanted to be with him, but I think at some point they were going to have to draw the line.
‐‐ Rosario Dawson

I thought my dad was out of work, because my friends had fathers with briefcases who'd go off somewhere with bow ties on. But my father would finish breakfast and go back to his room.
‐‐ Thomas Steinbeck

I thought: 'My education is driving a wedge between me and the people I love.' And then I wondered: 'What would happen if it were possible to increase a person's intelligence?'
‐‐ Daniel Keyes

I thought my family was really funny. Everybody in my family was funny. My mom and dad both have great senses of humor and really saw the funny in stuff, so I think that's probably where it came from. I always try to see the funny in things.
‐‐ Christine Ebersole

I thought my goal in life was to be in a successful band, and I had got that, but I was as miserable as I had ever been, and I couldn't understand why that would be.
‐‐ Trent Reznor

I thought, 'My God, I'm gonna make $15,000 a week for 13 weeks.' What would I do with that kind of money? You know, I had never seen anything like that before in my life.
‐‐ Daniel Baldwin

I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in '86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them.
‐‐ Jane Goodall

I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.
‐‐ Bill Watterson

I thought my nose was too prominent so I had this corrected via plastic surgery in 1959.
‐‐ Marie Windsor

I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson.
‐‐ Stephen Ambrose

I thought nothing would ever happen for me. My whole life had been geared toward being a singer, and it wasn't clicking.
‐‐ Vonda Shepard

I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organised, very, very good. I was very impressed.
‐‐ Nancy Reagan

I thought Obama was in a position to do some things. I thought 2008 was a turning point in history, with him and the Wall Street crash happening at the same time, but you just learn that those entrenched powers were really entrenched; those decayed institutions were really decayed.
‐‐ George Packer

I thought of a lot of people from the same era when I was making a lot of records that had continued making a lot of records. A lot of it didn't seem terribly inspired.
‐‐ Robbie Robertson

I thought of America as Natalie Wood and Bob Wagner sprawled on the edge of a Hollywood swimming pool biting into the same red apple.
‐‐ Bharati Mukherjee

I thought of Gene Krupa's drumming, his staccato drumming. I went and put 'Misirlou' to that rhythm.
‐‐ Dick Dale

I thought of my father and felt a deep sorrow that he should no longer be alive, and that I could not go to him and tell him that I had been awarded the Nobel Prize. I knew that no one would have been happier than he to hear this.
‐‐ Selma Lagerlof

I thought of myself as an outsider in a lot of ways as I was growing up. Not in a bad way; more as an observer. I often find myself thinking as an observer of science fiction rather than as a participant.
‐‐ Karl Schroeder

I thought of myself as kind of an anarchist all my whole adult life, from the days when I was 15 or 16.
‐‐ Mark Leyner

I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.
‐‐ James Weldon Johnson

I thought of school as a captive audience. It gave me a chance to work on my material.
‐‐ Bonnie Hunt

I thought of Second City as just the greatest therapeutic job anybody could ever dream of having.
‐‐ Bonnie Hunt

I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very far to pick up their know-how.
‐‐ Lionel Blue

I thought of the idea of Summly in March or April 2011. I was 15 years old and I was revising for some kind of history exam. The problem was I was trying to find information that was useful to me. When you type into Google an esoteric term, you get quite a lot of stuff that's not relevant.
‐‐ Nick D'Aloisio

I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
‐‐ Saint Teresa of Avila

I thought, 'Oh that's what happens. You put a song out and everyone likes it.' Well, then a funny thing happened: I started putting more songs out, and none of them did the same thing.
‐‐ Mike Posner

I thought, 'Oh, this is great,' because maybe someone who does look like me will watch 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' and realize that they can be an actor if they want to be, or they can be a superhero. They can have a hero that looks like them as well.
‐‐ J. August Richards

I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'
‐‐ Kara Lindsay

I thought one should have the attitude of 'What do you care what other people think!'
‐‐ Richard P. Feynman

I thought our community should have a deep dialogue to make black America better. I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.
‐‐ Tavis Smiley

I thought Out of Action was better as a catalogue than the honeycomb because the honeycomb was like walking into one compartment and then another compartment.
‐‐ Richard Serra

I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.
‐‐ Amy Adams

I thought Paulie could jump. I know he's not fleet of foot, but at least have some hops. I guess we know who is not going to win a gold glove. I was trying to become a spokesperson for the U.S. Postal Service.
‐‐ Billy Koch

I thought people cared about music in a deep way, so I was writing to that spirit in people and in myself. It was me, thinking I knew what was up. Youth, who else can change the world?
‐‐ Kevin Eubanks

I thought people would ask me really personal questions because I've shown more of myself, but it's a comedy, and people understand that it's a game we play.
‐‐ Charlotte Gainsbourg

I thought people would think I only wanted to be an actor because my dad was, rather than because I had an innate calling.
‐‐ Nina Conti

I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and they should be treated with complete respect.
‐‐ E. O. Wilson

I thought 'Pineapple Express' was hilarious.
‐‐ J. B. Smoove

I thought 'Skyfall' was a sumptuous film.
‐‐ Matt Smith