Thought
Definition: Past and past participle of think. An idea or opinion produced by thinking, or occurring suddenly in the mind.
Number of Quotes: 17
I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas... cultures... and systems of
thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word freedom
means than I see much evidence of in America.
Douglas Adams
People wanted me to do a CD-ROM of Hitchhiker's,
and I thought, No, no.
I didn't want to just sort of reverse-engineer yet another
thing from a book I'd already written. I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.
Douglas Adams
The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.
Douglas Adams
One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.
Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Henry Adams
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
John Adams
Gratitude, warm, sincere, intense, when it takes possession of the bosom, fills the
soul to overflowing and scarce leaves room for any other sentiment or thought.
John Quincy Adams
I let previous instances creep up in my thought process sometimes. I think that's where things go awry,
and that's where the walks come in. I'm not giving up many hits, just putting them on base for free.
Jake Arrieta
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations ... The quotations when engraved upon
the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
Winston Churchill
You have certainly exceeded my expectation. I thought you would be perfect.
Robert J. Dainard
If no thought your mind does visit, make your speech not too explicit.
Piet Hein
When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the
sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That's when the sparkle started for me.
Mary Karr
We sometimes take for granted the freedom and power of independent thought and action. And only after
it's been compromised, do we fully realize how fundamental it is to the pursuit of economic opportunity.
Arthur Levitt
Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of
your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
Charlie Parker
For a long time, I thought when you do a box set, you're giving up; you're saying, OK, I don't have anything
left.
But now I've listened to some of the old stuff I haven't heard in 20 to 40 years with fresh ears. It's like,
Oh yeah, I can see where people might want to to hear some of this stuff that didn't make it onto the records.
Bob Seger
The thought of owning an island is perhaps the most romantic concept left to humankind in the 20th Century.
Caskie Stinnett
The Khomeini cry for the execution of Rushdie is
an infantile cry. From the beginning of time we have seen that. To murder the thinker does not murder the thought.
Arnold Wesker
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde
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