I didn’t tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I thought if I told people, it wouldn’t happen. So I kept it all in my head for years and years. – Steven Wright
Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word? – Thomas Mann
A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another. – Sidney Poitier
I started making houses for ants because I thought they needed somewhere to live. Then I made them shoes and hats. It was a fantasy world I escaped to where my dyslexia didn’t hold me back and my teachers couldn’t criticize me. That’s how my career as a micro-sculptor began. – Willard Wigan
There’s the moment in ‘Saw’ where I get up off of the floor at the end. That was shocking, because no one expects it. I thought they did that really, really well. – Tobin Bell
‘The Simpsons’ money got bigger and bigger. When I left ‘The Simpsons’, no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It’s the cumulative effect. It’s like, ‘Oh my God, 25 years later, and it’s still coming in.’ – Sam Simon
Printed media and other media indicated that Mr. Ellison was going to use the Koran, and that generated scores and hundreds of emails to my office. And so I thought it very important to state my view. And my view is that I don’t subscribe to the Koran, and I will now be using the Bible when I take the oath. – Virgil Goode
I’ve shot a lot of places, and I’ve produced. I always thought, ‘Gosh, when you shoot in a big city, it’s so difficult.’ And New York, I always think, ‘Where are you going to park the trucks? How are you going to stop the traffic?’ – Scott Bakula
Dostoevski does not tell you what to think about his legend, but he requires that you think about it. The novelist was a deeply religious man and he always thought many readers missed that point about him. – Suzanne Fields
The funniest thing is not who influenced me positively, but who influenced me negatively. I had such an aversion to what Busby Berkeley did; in my early formative years, I thought it was terrible. Now, I think it’s wonderful. But then, I wanted to do anything but what Busby Berkeley did. – Stanley Donen
But here’s my point to the LA Times. If you had a serious story to run, if you thought there was serious misconduct, you don’t wait until the Thursday before the Tuesday. You run it early. – Susan Estrich
I really don’t think I ever thought I could be a model. I was shorter than all of the models around and certainly rounder than anybody that I had ever seen in a magazine. – Suzy Amis
Are you going to cater to the whims and prejudices of people? We draw out from other people our own thought. If, when you go out to organize, you go with a broad spirit, you will create and call out breadth and toleration. You had better organize one woman on a broad platform than 10,000 on a narrow platform of intolerance and bigotry. – Susan B. Anthony
I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded. – Simone Weil
I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something. – Stephen Fry
I was always an Olsen. I never thought of myself as a Brady. I never actually wanted to be a Brady. I always preferred my own family to the Bradys. – Susan Olsen
I was very young. I thought I knew a lot and I really didn’t. I trusted the wrong people. – Tia Carrere
I know a lot of crime writers feel very underrated, like they’re not taken seriously, and they want to be just thought of as writers rather than ghettoised as crime writers, but I love being thought of firmly as a crime writer. – Sophie Hannah
As far as everyone else’s opinion, I mean, if I would have thought that everyone was right, I probably wouldn’t have left Compton, so I don’t get too caught up on what the next person thinks. – Venus Williams
You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open, and you see if he gets shot. They thought that one up at West Point. – Samuel Fuller
The thought of my mortality – I think about it a lot. I find it motivating. It can be any time that your number’s up. – Sara Blakely
Ever since I was little, I showed traits of both masculine and feminine energies. Androgyny was never something that I thought about or tried for. – Shamir
The material I did was lasting material. A lot of people thought I wasn’t doing anything, but I was in the studio. The biggest factor is the material you choose. You hunt, you cut. – Slim Whitman
When I was younger, I thought every kid was adopted because that’s all I’ve known. I have everything I need, so I never felt the need to have answers for what happened. – Simone Biles
When I was younger I thought I was an artist, and inspiration would just come to me. – Stockard Channing
