I thought I was going to be a veterinarian. I was good in science and in math, and I loved animals. – Terry J. Lundgren
I started in the lowest league in baseball, and I worked my way all the way up to Triple A and then to the big leagues. I never reached the level that I thought I would reach as a player. But that’s the way it goes. So then I started from the bottom as a manager, and I worked my way up to managing the Dodgers for 20 years. – Tommy Lasorda
Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it. – Thales
There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave. I thought they might have a point, so I asked my orchestra. They told me overwhelmingly that they wanted me to stay. – Zubin Mehta
Puberty was not kind to me. I had acne, eczema and had a stye in my eye, so it was quite hard to go in to somewhere where the majority were boys. At that age, they were quite vocal about what they thought of your looks. – Sophie Wu
I have never thought of winning an Oscar. Rather, I never thought I would get the Padma Shri. I think God has been kind to me. I think getting Oscar award is not too far away. – Vidya Balan
The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much for her, considering the nature of the voyage. – William Bligh
I never thought I would get so much support, and it means the world to me. Nothing could ever get better than that. – Stipe Miocic
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. – Soren Kierkegaard
But my mom was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little kid and having all these other kids come to my house twice a week. I thought it was a big party. – Vanessa Carlton
I went to film school at Columbia and did that for a couple years, and really thought I was going to be a filmmaker, and then I kind of drifted over to the acting side after that. – Scott Adsit
It’s a good giggle to look back at yourself in your 20s. You thought you were so fierce and fabulous, and it’s just embarrassing. – Tabatha Coffey
I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense. – Wayne Brady
Since I stayed in a colony where either one was an engineer or a scientist, everybody thought I would be a scientist. This was the expectation everybody had apart from my parents. Honestly, I, too, wanted to be a scientist. I think it was the way Dad would explain us scientific theories and concepts that made the subject more intriguing. – Shreya Ghoshal
And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again. – Wavy Gravy
I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true. – Sam Sheppard
I like singing as much as I like acting, and all through high school I thought I might be a Broadway singer. – Zooey Deschanel
The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom. – Sun Tzu
All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought. – Walter Mosley
I never had the desire to get in front of the camera. It never occurred to me! I always thought I’d be a theater actor. – Tim Daly
In school the kids thought I was freaky because I made straight A’s and daydreamed a lot. – Shelley Duvall
We thought about it, what we want to tell, and I didn’t want to move it directly into the Nazi times. I thought it’s much more interesting to see how BloodRayne became BloodRayne. – Uwe Boll
We never thought it would be something everyone would listen to. We never thought people who listen to Britney Spears would run to listen to it. It was intended for people on the fanatical side of production and hi-fi. – Wayne Coyne
I was told that if I wanted to be a leading man in Hollywood, I couldn’t possibly be thought of as gay. – Sean Maher
