Thoughts Quotes

All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate.
Nellie Bly

Mind, Busy, After

The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I make must be used, but only when it finds my attention again.
Robert Musil

Here, Again, Used

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.
Theodore White

Men, Best, Reality

I've found it easier to write, to coalesce my thoughts, since having children. It brings you back to what you experienced yourself as a child, and you empathize with what your parents went through.
Jill Hennessy

Yourself, Children, Parents

As an African-American, I know all too well the negative thoughts and feelings hatred and bigotry cause.
Tim Hardaway

Feelings, Negative, Hatred

My weaknesses are my jumps. The reason is that although I land them in practice, when I actually compete or perform, I should let my body go and stabilize my mind better. Also, I need to work on not letting negative thoughts and emotions get to me on the ice.
Oksana Baiul

Work, Mind, Negative

When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.
Barbara Amiel

Small, Rather, Ashamed

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

Saying, Same, Wrong

To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy of pursuing ideas.
Philip Kaufman

Strength, Art, Society

A course never quite looks the same way twice. The combinations of weather, season, light, feelings and thoughts that you find there are ever-changing.
Joe Henderson

Feelings, Find, Same

Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art.
Gustav Klimt

Art, Food, Thought

A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel.
Mo Yan

Deep, Through, Writer

If there are similarities, it's simply because the same thoughts that occurred to other people also occurred to me. I'd be astonished if anyone could come up with any truly original powers that were at all interesting any more.
Brad Bird

Same, Anyone, Simply

We treat sex so casually and use it for everything but what it is-which is ultimately making another human being with thoughts and feelings and rights.
Lisa Kudrow

Sex, Human, Feelings

I get an incredible thrill and satisfaction from seeing somebody with Apple's tell-tale white earbuds. But I'm constantly haunted by thoughts of, is it good enough? Is there any way we could have made it better?
Jonathan Ive

Good, Enough, Somebody

One wants to think that - and this is really a stupid thought - that through your art or whatever you do as an actor you can actually affect someone else's lives and thoughts or whatever.
Demian Bichir

Art, Stupid, Someone

Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.
Sam Donaldson

Home, Business, Daily

Beware thoughts that come in the night.
William Least Heat-Moon

We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed; and until, by our own lives, and by converse with the thoughts they have bequeathed us, we feel that union and relationship of the spirit which we seek.
Jones Very

Greatness, Until, Lives

Writing on a computer feels like a recipe for writer's block. I can type so fast that I run out of thoughts, and then I sit there and look at the words on the screen, and move them around, and never get anywhere. Whereas in a notebook I just keep plodding along, slowly, accumulating sentences, sometimes even surprising myself.
Chad Harbach

Writing, Words, Sometimes

Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are.
Dinah Maria Mulock

Feeling, Person, Words

The interpretation of facts in a certain way stimulates other scientists' thoughts.
Robert Barany

Facts, Scientists, Stimulates

For me, for the type of addict I am, when I start getting those swirly thoughts and stuff, and they talk about slippery places, slippery people and slippery things, you know, I need to - I needed to take my cell phone and eliminate all the phone numbers, change the phone numbers so no one I knew before could call me or reach me.
Daniel Baldwin

Change, Before, Talk

This is a horrific day in Boston. My thoughts and prayers are with those who have been injured.
Deval Patrick

Prayers, Boston, Injured

We know well and we know chronically ill, but there is a whole bunch of gray in between where I think we can heal people before they become chronically sick. I believe our thoughts make us sick.
Marie Osmond

Before, Sick, Become

How utterly are one's best thoughts invaded by this going out in society.
Julia Ward Howe

Best, Society, Utterly

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

Book, Decisions, While

I wasn't thinking of competing with any artists as such, I was more thinking of being among them, and sharing thoughts with them; like sharing views, ideas, etc.
Dennis Brown

Thinking, Ideas, Artists

Most students have thoughts about emigrating to Israel. A significant number go on aliyah. We are proud of our Israel programs, which come at a considerable cost to the university.
Norman Lamm

Proud, Students, Number

I've always been a journal-keeper. I've always tried to write about how I'm experiencing life, and my feelings and thoughts.
Sue Monk Kidd

Life, Feelings, Write

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