Well, actually, the Second City thing came about because I was taking a few improv classes there. I thought that the improv classes would help with my wrestling career, which it has. – Trish Stratus
If you’re going to play a villain, there’s no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares. – Valorie Curry
Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham. – Winston Churchill
I thought of computers as very low class. I thought of myself as a pure mathematician and was interested in partial differential equations and topology and things like that. – Whitfield Diffie
I never thought I wanted to direct. I love the control of it. I love to dream of scenes. – Salli Richardson
Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think. – Walter Smith
I couldn’t be Susan Sontag. I’m not very good with abstract thought. I always just take to the emotional core of me. – Sally Mann
There was definitely a point in my thirties when I thought, ‘Oh, wow, I’m not the youngest person on the set anymore.’ But I like it. Working with younger artists is totally exciting. – Spike Jonze
I thought it was going to be a hut in Topanga and Janis Joplin was going to come out, but it’s a real doctor… I went to Beverly Hills to meet this midwife; you’d think they’d be in nature. – Simon Helberg
When you receive God’s love and encouragement, it will empower you to do more than you ever thought possible. – Victoria Osteen
And I thought, you know, I have to say that maybe the whacked out mother is my new favorite role, but I don’t want to just do it and become Nurse Ratchett. – Tea Leoni
The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people. – W. E. B. Du Bois
I think one of the bigger lessons the Internet has taught us is that ‘niche’ or ‘subculture’ are a lot bigger than anyone ever thought. – Warren Ellis
I thought I could never write a proper book; I’d never done it before. But I thought I could write a sequence. Then I had a chapter. The next thing I knew I was turning acting down. – Tana French
To me, a feminist belongs in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don’t see why someone who’s a feminist should be thought of differently. – Suzanne Vega
I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first. – Van Morrison
The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered. – Walter Rudolf Hess
I thought the best route to being the great actor I wanted to be was to play the great classical parts. – Stephen Mangan
I never understood the point of juicing – I always thought I could get enough nutrients from eating fruit and vegetables – but now I’m a convert. – Thandie Newton
‘Downward Spiral’ felt like I had an unending bottomless pit of rage and self-loathing inside me and I had to somehow challenge something or I’d explode. I thought I could get through by putting everything into my music, standing in front of an audience and screaming emotions at them from my guts. – Trent Reznor
To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought. – Walter Pater
Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois. – Susan Sontag
I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And that’s been both a useful thing and I suspect something that’s haunted me a little bit. – Stephen Dunn
