Top 100 Thought It Quotes
#1. I don't know, Y'know, I always wanted to be one of those cheerleader girls and I never was that, and I was never sort of cute and perky, and I always thought it was fun to be cute and perky, and those, I don't know what those girls are doing now.
Katey Sagal
#2. Degree actually came to me and asked me if I wanted to be a part of their campaign, and I thought it was just really exciting and important, obviously to my fans, and growing up I had tons of OMG moments. I get to share my own moments through video blogs.
Ashley Tisdale
#3. That execution will take place here." She runs her fingertips over the table beneath her. "On this table. I thought it would be interesting to show you."
"I knew what would happen when I came here," I say. "It's just a table. And I'd like to go back to my room now.
Veronica Roth
#4. I feel like some of the best talent is on TV right now, with the writing, acting and great directors. I've also been looking for the consistency of work that TV provides for you. And, I always thought it would be really interesting to live with a character for months, if not years.
Christina Ricci
#5. On her Slave For You video: It's a very sensual video so I thought it was a good reflection of the song. My Mum thought it was ... different.
Britney Spears
#6. Painting comes to reality through illusion. An illusion that allows us to make a leap of faith; to believe. To believe in a blue that can be the wing of a bug or a thought. It makes our invisible visible.
Squeak Carnwath
#7. I grew up watching stand-ups and thought it was so entertaining and unique - you didn't see that as a job description anywhere.
Kevin Nealon
#8. Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together, and that's how I started doing children's books.
Dick Bruna
#9. I was pretty sure I would never have to worry about finding the right guy. I thought it would happen for me the way it happened for my parents and for my grandparents. They got to the right age, they found the right person, they got married, they had kids.
Rainbow Rowell
#10. Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do ... I am not a hero, it is true ... But I am not a bad person, either.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#11. Sometimes I thought it might be nice not to make any choices. If I never had one, I could never screw it up.
Jim Butcher
#12. I never thought it was possible to overlook your own death, but apparently it is.
Mira Grant
#13. I thought it was her wicked stepmother who poisoned her ... '
' ... Turned out the wicked stepmother had an alibi.'
' ... Seems she was off poisoning someone else at the time. Chance in a million, really. It was just bad luck.
John Connolly
#14. You want some more?" Christa asked, her right eye drooping like an old lady's pantyhose. It was a sign that Christa was drunk. She said it was a form of lazy eye; I just thought it was hysterical and laughed although I tried to hide it with an inconspicuous cough.
H.P. Mallory
#15. Plants can feel pressure and emotion. When something is said or done with intention, a plant can respond. So every day we tell our tree that it is beautiful, it will get more and more beautiful. I hope that tree knew how beautiful I thought it was.
Kate McGahan
#16. I thought it was only in revealed religion that a mistranslation improved the sense.
W. Somerset Maugham
#17. At some point in my life I thought it was good to specialize, but now I think it's good to build a bigger product than just music.
Ashkan Kooshanejad
#18. I thought it was a good question. I mean I didn't lock myself in the Chaos Compound. I didn't do a drive-by on my house. I just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and unfortunately that place was my own house.
Kristen Ashley
#19. I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh.
Dick Bruna
#20. She went around with a broken heart, and she wasn't sure who'd broken it. She thought it was herself, mostly.
Ann Brashares
#21. I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.
Mahatma Gandhi
#22. I did not find him absurd. I saw he was kind, that he was on the verge of real love. I thought it would be nice for me to be in love with him, too.
Francoise Sagan
#23. If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly ever the way you thought it would be, and the endings aren't always happy ones.
Jennifer Weiner
#24. I liked when I was naive and I thought it was just about making good music.
Sia Furler
#25. I must say, it was a lot easier writing novels than I thought it would be. I think it's because I'm a novelist at heart, and it took me a while to figure that out.
Maria Semple
#26. I don't really read 'business books,' and I didn't think 'The Paradox of Choice' was a business book. I'm very surprised and gratified that the business world thought it was one.
Barry Schwartz
#27. I thought it was real. But by morning, all I had left were fragmented pieces, shifting images with no beginning or end.
Alyson Noel
#28. Flops are always disappointing, but 'High Fidelity' was devastating. Not that I thought it was going to make me a big star, but I did think it was going to run longer than a week and a half.
Will Chase
#29. I always thought it was funny that my grandparents had bought a ticket to New York and ended up in Glasgow.
Peter Capaldi
#30. Once I moved to London I thought it was unbeatable. I work a lot in L.A. and love it, but would never give up London. It's a true world city, with an energy that's unique.
Bruno Tonioli
#31. I used to like fishing because I thought it had some larger significance. Now I like fishing because it's the one thing I can think of that probably doesn't.
John Gierach
#33. LOSER! You English lose ... I suppose he thought it was the most grievous insult he could hurl. But such a curse doesn't really have any effect on an English person - or a European - it seems to me. We know we're all going to lose in the end so it is deprived of any force as a slur.
William Boyd
#34. The object Rusty found on Black Ridge looked so much like his Apple TV addon that he at first thought it actually was one ... only modified, of course, so it could hold an entire town prisoner as well as broadcast The Little Mermaid to your television via Wi-Fi and in HD.
Stephen King
#35. Once a suggestion has entered the general atmosphere of human thought, it is very difficult to neutralise it.
Patricia Wentworth
#36. Well Getaway was a script that was submitted to us for production and I read it and thought it would be a cool movie to make.
Courtney Solomon
#37. I thought it'd be interesting to play an off-centre character who doesn't have to be pretty.
Lily James
#38. I understood your every thought. It was as if you knew me before I knew myself." Sanary-Samy
Nina George
#39. I just thought it was unconscionable for the Congress to insert itself into this debate. We are particularly unqualified to make that decision and to intrude ourselves into the lives of this family.
Gary Ackerman
#40. Nobody cared about the riot until they thought it might spill into their nice neighborhoods. Then they got scared and called the National Guard.
Snoop Dogg
#41. I know I didn't like that dress 'cause it didn't fit but I thought it was a great picture. We weren't the first band to do a picture in drag; The Rolling Stones were. If it was good enough for them then it had to be good enough for us.
Jimmy Carl Black
#42. When Time got rid of my column, I thought it was all over. It was really sad. And then, I just started pushing it to lots of places. And I thought someone would run my column, I thought it was popular, and no one wanted it.
Joel Stein
#43. But then again (and this is one of my main complaints about the human consciousness): once you think a thought it is extremely difficult to unthank it.
John Green
#44. If humans were good at anything, he thought, it was sure as hell good old running.
Gregory Benford
#45. The 'Downward Spiral' album was a record all about beating everybody up - and then 'Hurt' was like a coda saying maybe I shouldn't have done that. But to make the song sound impenetrable because I thought it was a little too vulnerable, I tried to layer it in noise.
Trent Reznor
#46. After each of my books about the war has appeared, I thought it might be the last, but I've stopped saying that to myself. There are just too many stories left to tell - in fact, more all the time.
Tim O'Brien
#47. When I was a child, if someone had talked to me about buying water, I would have thought it was a joke.
Assata Shakur
#48. We have more experience of movement and more capacity for it than of feeling and thought ... We know much more about movement than we do about anger, love, envy or even thought. It is relatively easy to learn to recognize the quality of movement than the quality of other factors.
Moshe Feldenkrais
#49. There was a lot of stuff [in Rock of Ages] that had effects in it and I thought it was too smooth. I thought it would be sexier if it were in-camera cuts. So I did that.
Adam Shankman
#50. I remember my wife in white.' It just made people weep to hear it ... Everybody just thought it was the saddest sentence that was ever written. And it didn't matter if I never wrote another word. This one sentence had put an end to the need for any future sentences. I had said it all.
Carolyn Parkhurst
#51. My heart is heavy, she thought. It's not just a saying. It is what is - heavy, a great stone lodged in my breast, pressing down my whole being. How can I even stand straight and look out upon the world? I am doubled over into myself and, for all the weight, find only emptiness.
Katherine Paterson
#52. I have to admit I was dismayed when I found out 'type A' refers to a category of risk for heart disease - I thought it was just a nickname my mom gave me!
Reese Witherspoon
#53. The scent of a flower is a very close and intimate thing, she thought. It can seem to be a part of your body and blood.
Elizabeth Goudge
#54. All the music I loved as a child, people thought it was junk. People were unaware of the subtext in so many of those records, but if you were a kid, you were just completely tuned in, even though you didn't always say - you wouldn't dare say it was beautiful.
Bruce Springsteen
#55. The monster you lie with is your own. The struggle is endlessly private. I thought it was over. That one night the beast at my back would squeeze more tightly and I would cease breathing. What remained of me hoped for it.
Adam Haslett
#56. Change happened and you thought it was forever, and immediately there were all the enemies of that change making common cause and meeting in the cloakrooms.
C.J. Cherryh
#57. My life is so much better than I thought it was going to be.
Mary Gordon
#58. In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: it's the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance.
Cynthia Ozick
#59. You thought you knew what food was, you thought it was elemental. You forgot how much restaurant there was in restaurant food and how much home was in homemade.
Jonathan Franzen
#60. The Law is hard, but it is the Law." "I thought it was 'the Law is annoying, but it is also flexible.'" "That
Cassandra Clare
#61. You talk about Steve Jobs when he came out with the iPhone, and everyone thought it was amazing: you touch it and move the screen.
Dana Brunetti
#62. I would have thought it possible to choose delegates for these larger conferences who, even if they could not speak the principal languages, could at least understand them or could have friends seated beside them who could keep them informed on essential points.
Fredrik Bajer
#63. I was 47 when I got pregnant. I'd been trying for a couple of years and thought it would never happen.
Nancy Grace
#64. In 2007, in the early 2007, everybody saw the housing market was falling, and at any given moment a lot of people thought it was going to fall more, and a lot of people thought it was going to rebound. You just didn't know.
Lloyd Blankfein
#65. After a while I thought it didn't make any sense to use a pick. It's kind of like typing with one finger on each hand instead of using all your fingers.
Kevin Eubanks
#66. I thought it was just a picture of madness. But that wasn't. It was a message, it has to be, those words are too specific.
Scott Frost
#67. Come here, female! a thundering voice called out to Sorvus. A thrill of excitement at this male's voice instantly shot up her spine. It is him, she thought. It is my Destoul.
Madison Thorne Grey
#68. I guess I always knew there was something wrong with me, but I thought it was because of my father, or my mother, and the pain they bequeathed to me like a family heirloom, handed down from generation to generation.
- Tobias Eaton
Veronica Roth
#69. I tried heroin. I shot up in high school, but I just thought it was so dreary: puking and nodding.
John Waters
#70. She had spent so much time thinking about what it would be like to finally come home and how much she missed everybody - she thought they'd throw her a ticker tape parade. She thought it would be a big hugfest.
Rainbow Rowell
#71. I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent.
Colin Firth
#72. In you, as in each human being, there is a dimension of consciousness far deeper than thought. It is the very essence of who you are. We may call it presence, awareness, the unconditioned consciousness.
Eckhart Tolle
#73. Carmen hated the 'life is too short" rationalization. She thought it was one of the lamer excuses in the history of excuse-making. Whenever you did something because "life is too short not to," you could be sure life would be just long enough to punish you for it.
Ann Brashares
#74. I suddenly saw her quite differently. I saw that she was a person. Not my mother. She had thought it all out. She had wanted to commit suicide. She would never commit suicide. On that night I grew up. Or so I would like to believe.
Doris Lessing
#75. Spending is worse than pain, she thought; it lasts longer.
Rita Mae Brown
#76. The boy thought it a strange question. But he trusted in the old man, who had said that, when you really want something, the universe always conspires in your favor.
Paulo Coelho
#77. Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
Humphry Davy
#78. Because now, I didn't care what they thought. It wasn't new, this realization that I would never be like them. What was different now was that I was glad.
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Sarah Dessen
#79. It was possible he had no idea his head was gathering material fit for a squirrel's nest; it was also possible he knew and thought it made him more attractive in a rustic, manly sense
Michael J. Sullivan
#80. If it was killing-and it was- then I thought it not murder, but a justifiable homicide, undertaken in desperate self defense.
Diana Gabaldon
#81. Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn't an issue. No one would get into doing a black-and-white comic because they thought it might be a route to riches.
Adrian Tomine
#82. He took one look at my macabre makeup job, and his jaw dropped. "Goddamn, you are hideous. Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse." His reaction brought me a twisted sense of joy. Having him call me a zombie when we were locked up together had definitely inspired my look.
Trina M. Lee
#83. She thought it was too bad it didn't work the other way around, so you could get braver and smarter as you move up in years. But
Peter Straub
#84. I thought it would be an enormous amount of fun to make a movie that heads out into space, which is something that we had never done before.
Jonathan Nolan
#85. My teammates would never say anything bad about me, even if they thought it. That's the kind of locker room we have.
Richard Sherman
#86. Last Halloween a kid tried to rip my face off. He thought it was a mask. Now it's different when I open the door the kids hand me candy.
Rodney Dangerfield
#87. When I was in Chicago, I was working as a carpenter while I was doing plays. I thought it'd be a fun set construction job, but it turned up to just be a straight-up factory.
Timothy Simons
#88. Usually you're in movies with a lot of dissolves and things, but this was kind of quick, more jarring than usual. I thought it would be fun to be in a movie that's unconventional. Then I met Guy and I liked him. I think he's a good man.
Dennis Farina
#89. I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.
Noam Chomsky
#90. I didn't wake up one day and think, 'I'm not going to have children.' My mother was a housewife and brought up three children, so I just thought it would happen.
Michelle Paver
#91. She had never been taught to ask permission to do things, and she knew nothing at all about authority, so she would not have thought it necessary to ask Mrs. Medlock if she might walk about the house, even if she had seen her.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#92. Having survived something like that, it shows a person they can take more than they thought. It tempers the soul, and if it doesn't destroy you, it can make you stronger.
Sometimes the old cliches weren't just bullshit.
Tymber Dalton
#93. I am off to Paris by the midnight train, and I wanted particularly to see you before I left. I thought it was you, or rather your fur coat, as you passed me. But I wasn't quite sure.
Oscar Wilde
#94. I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body.
Ernest Hemingway,
#95. But he did not believe ordinary citizens created art. True art was anomalous; it was a rare mutation. It didn't happen simply because one willed it so. He thought it an utter and exasperating waste of an ordinary man's time.
Lily King
#96. Clinton had displayed his lifelong tendency to make enemies of all his superiors, who never seemed to appreciate his advice as much as he thought it deserved.
Joseph J. Ellis
#97. There is generally not any conscious thought; it's all instinct, and practice takes over.
Cindy Nelson
#98. I thought it was too 'glam rock' to practice. The problem is that now I'm a pretty bad guitar player.
Laurent Brancowitz
#99. Jasmine apologized and said she was sorry and said she loved me, she couldn't believe it and said she thought it would be her. All of them were really, really sorry that it happened to me.
LaToya London
#100. And who thought it was a good idea to rent bicycles to Italian adolescent language students? If hell did exist, which Jackson was sure it did, it would be governed by a committee of fifteen-year-old Italian boys on bikes.
Kate Atkinson
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