Collect My Thoughts Quotes

#1. I collect my thoughts as if they will stain me, murder me, and then resurrect me.
Markus Zusak, When Dogs Cry

Markus Zusak

#2. It can be frightening to spend 5 weeks alone in a cabin in the wilderness. I was able to collect my thoughts and worked a lot - because I couldn't do anything else.

Wanda Koop

#3. I collect my thoughts, I choose my words,
Whenever I decide to talk to you.

But...

I feel like a dumb, without a tongue,
Whenever I reach in front of you.

I wonder why it happens to me?
even when my feelings are genuine and true.

Saad Salman

#4. The only way to compose myself and collect my thoughts," he wrote in his diary,"is to set down at my table, place my diary before me, and take my pen into my hand.

David McCullough

#5. Listen! This is where it began but I keep getting muddled ... The fact of the matter is that I now want to recall everything, every trifle, every little detail. I still want to collect my thoughts and - I can't, and now there are these little details, these little details ...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#6. Umpires are most vigorous when defending their miscalls.

Jim Brosnan

#7. If you stay passionate and committed, mediocrity will never be eager to befriend you.

Israelmore Ayivor

#8. I know," Kahlil said. "You're probably the only man who would compare me to a fungus and mean it as a compliment.

Ginn Hale

#9. Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.

Anton Webern

#10. Words are like planets, each with its own gravitational pull.

Kenneth Burke

#11. When sitting down to write a letter, it always pays to calm one's mood, collect one's thoughts, and have a plan.

Fennel Hudson

#12. He sat down and collected his thoughts. They were quite easy to collect, because there weren't very many of them, and they all concerned the same subject
what a burden his life was.

Philip Pullman

#13. At times we're going to get angry. Anger is an emotion God built into us. But we don't have to blow up and say hurtful things that are going to damage our relationships. Learn to take a step back, collect your thoughts, and think about what you want to say.

Joel Osteen

#14. Down with tyranny!' Bramble cried. 'Aristocracy! Autocracy! Monocracy! Other ocracy things! You are outnumbered, sir! Surrender!

Heather Dixon

#15. Collect memories, not things.
Fill-up dreams, not pockets.
Rise above your calling and be the person you always wanted to be.

Akash Lakhotia

#16. How is selfworth measured today? By the amount of likes a post gets, by how many friends we collect, by how many retweets we accumulate? Do we even know what we really think until we post our thoughts online and let others tell us if they are worthy?

Kasie West

#17. My mom gave me one of those cloth calendars for the kitchen. It took me three hours to sew in a dental appointment.

Emo Philips

#18. Honey Boo Boo is a handful, baby. She says what she wants to say, does what she wants to do. I've only seen, like, snippets, like one or two or three, you know, little shots of her, but yeah, she's a handful, baby.

Ashanti

#19. When I listen to music - I don't particularly do it for fun all that much. It's not a big part of my life, and I'm not really on top of what's happening in the world of music in the way I was when I was a teenager.

John Hodgman

#20. I'm part of this show called "Shots Fired" that is premiering on FOX. It's right after the Super Bowl. It's a pretty incredible show. I'm pretty much the voice of the show, so the voice of the opening credit record and the songs in between is pretty much my voice.

B.J. The Chicago Kid

#21. If we purchase items made by underpaid and abused workers, we participate in their exploitation.

Julie Clawson

#22. Young Langlois had sat down and gathered that power to him. The power that came from having information, knowledge, thoughts, and a calm place to collect them.

Louise Penny

#23. If life is a journey, time should pull over at a rest stop sometimes - we should all be given a chance to get off and stretch our legs, collect our thoughts and reorganize.

Rob Payne

#24. He endeavored to collect his thoughts, but did not succeed. At those hours especially when we have sorest need of grasping the sharp realities of life do the threads of though snap off in the brain.

Victor Hugo