Top 100 Thought My Quotes
#1. Tick, breath, tick, breath, tick, breath.
And then I woke, sudden and with a gasp.
"What?" someone murmured. Perhaps Kent in his blankets.
"Nothing," I said. The dream still tangled me. "I thought my watch stopped."
But it wasn't the watch.
Mark Lawrence
#2. I threw so hard (after striking out Art Fletcher & Doc Crandall in the 9th inning of Game 1 of the 1912 World Series) I thought my arm would fly right off my body.
Smoky Joe Wood
#3. You see the fairy tale - four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake after that.
Dorothy Hamill
#4. It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this.
Isidor Isaac Rabi
#5. The stress and despair mounted, until I thought my nerves would explode.
Lisa Osteen Comes
#6. There was a long time in my life where I made music that I thought my friends would like, or that I thought would get me a record deal, or what I thought I was supposed to make because that's what I was seeing in mainstream. I didn't know myself; I didn't find myself musically or, in real life.
Danny Brown
#7. I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home.
Quentin Tarantino
#8. I never thought my private life would be newsworthy.
Annette Bening
#9. That was a weird thought. My straight-up mother being bothered by faeries? Delia was even weirder. I could picture the scene. Faerie: Come away, human. Delia: Why? Faerie: Untold delights and youth forever. Delia: I'm holding out for a better offer. Ta.
Maggie Stiefvater
#10. I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.
Bill Watterson
#11. You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.
Gary Larson
#12. When I was little, I was actually really shy. I really enjoyed doing school plays, but I found the whole thing terrifying. I cried myself to sleep once because I thought my teacher was going to give me the lead role. I never imagined acting was a viable career.
Emily Berrington
#13. And I thought, my God, there's an off chance that they will say something that's really worth preserving and there is one way to do that and I knew what it was because I come from television.
James Lipton
#14. At 40, I went to bed for three days. I thought my life is over.
William Shatner
#16. I never thought my life would end like this. Being hunted by mythological creatures in my pajamas. Honestly, it never entered my mind.
Amanda Carlson
#17. I thought my entire life was coming apart, but I think I just realized that sometimes the thing you think is going to ruin your life is the thing that saves you.
Jane Green
#18. I always thought my family was so bizarre, so when people started coming up to me and saying, 'My family was exactly like yours,' I was completely knocked out.
Mary Karr
#19. It is the most horrific thought - my husband died among strangers.
Joyce Carol Oates
#20. I honestly thought my marriage would work because me and the wife did share a sense of humour. We had to really, because she didn't have one.
Frank Skinner
#21. I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong.
Mickey Rourke
#22. I always thought my jaw line was manly. I have this pockmark on my chin from when I was 9. I used to get freaked out about it because people thought it was a pimple. But those are the things I've become really comfortable with as I've gotten older. My scars.
Rosario Dawson
#23. Till I was 13, I thought my name was 'Shut Up.'
Joe Namath
#24. I thought, my love is so good, why isn't it calling the same thing back.
Amy Hempel
#25. And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.
Jackson Browne
#26. I've always thought my attraction to water was because it offers an unending source of renewal. It's there with each wave - with each tide. Always wiping the shore clean of all imperfections in time for the next tide.
Karen White
#27. I never thought my face would be on the cover of a Red Bull Six Pack.
Lindsey Vonn
#28. I think a lot of people thought my career started with Butch Cassidy.
Robert Redford
#29. I was very, very shocked about Cooperstown. I thought my chances were fairly good, but I tried to stay low key about it, not too high and not too low. That was the way I played, too.
Al Kaline
#30. I couldn't wait to look at someone who shared my genes. I thought my baby was going to provide a decoder key to my past. But then I looked at Pippa and realized, no, she's actually the key to my future.
Emily Procter
#31. I can remember somebody once saying to me that they thought my life must be less real than these other people that they were writing about, which I found a very peculiar thing 'cos all our lives are equally real, and it's just a matter of depicting them and talking about them.
Ronald Frame
#32. I want to see your tailpipe fading off into the sunset. Good luck, I thought. My tailpipe was somewhere on Route 1, along with my muffler.
Janet Evanovich
#33. I was filled with dread at the thought my mind had skipped town and left me behind to pay the rent.
Dexter
Jeff Lindsay
#34. Personally, I have had sometimes moments where I thought my idea behind the idea of a collection - the concept maybe - something that we don't see at the end on the catwalk, I think the way it was, the genesis in my mind, was probably artistic, an artistic approach.
Olivier Theyskens
#35. I never learned management. I never went to business school. I'm an artist. I happened to have really clear ideas of what I thought my business should be.
Bobbi Brown
#36. No, it can't," I say. "It's - it's the kind of thing you want to say, that you want to believe, but it isn't - I know isn't true. I thought my heart knew things, but what I thought was real turned out to be a lie, and now I don't -
Elizabeth Scott
#37. And for anyone who ever thought that Ellen and I broke it off because of sexuality, you couldn't be more mistaken. And for anyone who thought my mother's prayers had anything to do with me marrying a man, forget it.
Anne Heche
#38. If you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it. I had a life partner who thought my work was as important as his, and I think that made all the difference for me.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
#39. I've always defined myself not as a cartoonist, but as an entrepreneur. That was true before I tried cartooning. I always imagined cartooning would be how I got my seed capital. I always thought my other businesses would be the less dominant part of my life.
Scott Adams
#40. You don't struggle with these questions?"
"No. But I've always thought my opinion was the right one. It's a small flaw I have."
"An American flaw.
Lily King
#41. I never thought my marriage could be stronger, or I could be closer to Bill. We prayed on our own, but now we prayed together and you'll never know how much that means until you do it.
Giuliana Rancic
#42. I saw the other loners the way everyone else did-as unappealing, as to be avoided at all costs. If I hung out with one of them, I thought, my unpopular status would get worse, not better, because it would be magnified by association.
Gail Carson Levine
#43. It's temporary, Maddie. This is all very temporary.
Great, I thought. My life will suck, temporarily. For the time being, my life is going to be claustrophobic and awful and lonely and desolate and depressing. Temporarily.
Katie Kacvinsky
#44. I've done tangos with men who thought my ass was a squeaky toy.
Seanan McGuire
#45. All this time I had thought my son was striving to be my mirror opposite, but he wasn't - he had become my polar opposite instead, and that had sent him careering away.
Steve Toltz
#46. Make my breast transparent as pure crystal, that the world, jealous of me, may see the foulest thought my heart does hold.
George Villiers
#47. When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years.
Frank Butler
#48. Power Thought: My thoughts are not hidden from God. I know I can change with His help.
Joyce Meyer
#49. Sex in a dance is in the eyes of the beholder. I never thought my dances sexy. I suppose that's because I see myself with my face washed, and to me I look like a rabbit.
Gwen Verdon
#50. Growing up in Holland, I always thought my name was boring, but in the U.S., all of a sudden I have a very cool name.
Michiel Huisman
#51. How do you know, poor fool? Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence'; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
Francesco Petrarca
#52. I actually got to perform for Queen Elizabeth, and I got to meet her after the show. She said she thought my performance was beautiful and I got to shake her hand and it was just an incredible moment.
Jake Shimabukuro
#53. I love the way you taste, Rebecca," he said, his voice rubbing over my exposed flesh. "I dream about it every night." Then he lifted his eyes and met mine with a gaze so arresting I thought my heart would stop. A wicked smile sliced over his lips. "And now I'll get to taste it every morning.
Ava Lore
#54. I've always thought my poems told stories.
Douglas Dunn
#55. Wrote my way out of the hood ... thought my way out of poverty! Don't tell me that knowledge isn't power. Education changes everything.
Brandi L. Bates
#56. I thought my inner voice was telling me it was time to sell my house and get rid of everything that I had. But what I was told was to just make my load lighter.
Echo Bodine
#57. I never thought my cotton gin would change history.
Eli Whitney
#58. I always thought my genitals were the result of some crude practical joke.
Steven Morrissey
#59. Jack made a pass at me, too. He thought my riding crop was alluring until I smacked him across the face with it."
"Good Grief," I said. "Is any woman safe from him?
"If I were Horace Malvern," said Emma, "I'd hide the cows.
Nancy Atherton
#60. I thought I was happy. I thought my life was fine. And then you came along, and nothing . . . nothing makes sense anymore.
Jojo Moyes
#61. It's so mental how I looked in the '90s. The fact that I thought my ponytail was a good thing - it was just terrible. Cutting it off was so monumental.
Andy Cohen
#62. I thought my friends were damn fools, because they didn't know any better way of conducting their lives. Still they conformed better than I to a code. I wanted to conform but I couldn't so I wrote my poetry.
William Carlos Williams
#63. My father was a television director, and I always knew I wanted to be in the industry, but I had thought my role was behind the camera as opposed to in front.
Philip Glenister
#64. There were the fairy tales my father told to me at bedtime. All the standards. I thought my father invented wolves.
John Dufresne
#65. I never ever gave ownership a thought. My thoughts before I retired were coaching and broadcasting.
Steve Kerr
#66. I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. Really, I thought my goal in life was to be an inventor, a problem solver, so I thought I needed a Ph.D. to be good at inventions, but it turns out that you don't.
Aaron Patzer
#67. I thought my body was going to change so quickly with pregnancy that I'd freak out. But it was really gradual.
Jenna Dewan
#68. grocery lists. That was back when I thought my
Emily Giffin
#69. She helped me find my heart when I thought my heart was gone.
Stephen King
#70. I was so scared I thought my asshole was going to swallow me whole.
Mark Tufo
#71. Well I thought my pickin' would set them on fire, but nobody wanted to hire a guitar man.
Jerry Reed
#72. Depressing thought: my friends were the girls I ate lunch with, all buddies from kindergarten who knew one another so well we weren't sure if we even liked one another anymore.
Lauren Groff
#73. He passed out in my arms. I don't know how long we stayed like that with my hands tangled in his knotted hair like I was trying to pray. I couldn't tell if I was sleeping; it was so dark, I thought my eyes were closed even when they were open.
Raziel Reid
#74. At one point, I even thought, 'Oh, I'll take diet pills.' I tried it for one day, and I thought my heart was going to explode. It's awful, and I would never, ever recommend it.
Jenna Ushkowitz
#75. When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined.
Leslie Caron
#76. I don't know if I was funny as a child, though I always thought my parents really enjoyed listening to me sing.
Pippa Evans
#77. I've worn my share of leopard pink boots to premieres or belts the size of cars. I thought my pink leopard boots were so cool.
Brittany Snow
#78. President Bush called Arnold to congratulate him today, and after he got off the phone, Arnold said, 'I thought my English was bad.'
Jay Leno
#79. My son is not that emotional. He thought my trip to India is just another conference, But when he hearing about my visit on TV, he too got moved.
Kamla Persad-Bissessar
#80. I busted my chin open trying to be Evel Knievel on my bike. When it happened, you could see straight through to the bone, I thought my dad was going to pass out. It left a scar that I still have now.
Karin Slaughter
#81. I had never classified myself with other girls. I was not of their species; I was different. I had never thought my future would be like theirs.
Jacqueline Kelly
#82. I'm not sure yet what my higher mission is, but I have a feeling it might be great. Before, I thought my mission was death, but now my mission is life.
Marianne Faithfull
#83. At 30 I thought my life was over. I thought I'd have made something of myself by then, that life would somehow have made the necessary arrangements - but actually I had nothing.
Marian Keyes
#84. I thought my Beatles LPs sounded pretty good on a record player, but that was before I had heard a CD.
Alastair Wood
#85. I thought my song was beginning that day, but it was almost done.
George R R Martin
#86. And I thought my loss my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic.
Birch Bayh
#87. I thought my dad was out of work, because my friends had fathers with briefcases who'd go off somewhere with bow ties on. But my father would finish breakfast and go back to his room.
Thomas Steinbeck
#88. Well I thought my razor was dull until I heard his speech, and
that reminds me of a story that's so dirty I'm ashamed to think of
it myself.
Groucho Marx
#89. A lot of people thought my career was over. If you're not releasing records, then something must be wrong. Either the record company doesn't like your music, or you've been dropped. It has to something negative. It's not like you wanted to take a break, or want some balance, or smell the roses.
Maxwell
#90. Despite being in public life, I value my own privacy immensely and would be as concerned as anyone else if I thought my mobile phone records could be easily available to officials across government.
David Blunkett
#91. My father confused me. From the ages of one to seven, I thought my name was Jesus Christ!
Spike Milligan
#92. I always thought my records were number one; it's just the charts didn't think so.
Nick Cave
#93. Just when I thought my life would never be anything but misery, everything changed.
Gina Holmes
#94. I went through a long period when I thought my photographs were not visible - on the wall, but not visible.
Jack Welpott
#95. When I was a kid, I thought my dad was a little bit harsh with me at times. Sometimes I needed an arm around me instead of my dad telling me what I did wrong, but it obviously worked.
David Beckham
#96. For years I thought my work still lay ahead, and now I find it is behind me: there was no moment when it took place.
Simone De Beauvoir
#97. I thought: 'My education is driving a wedge between me and the people I love.' And then I wondered: 'What would happen if it were possible to increase a person's intelligence?'
Daniel Keyes
#98. I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
Randy Newman
#99. I would never have thought my collection of short stories would win the Giller.
Lynn Coady
#100. I aspired to be a writer and then I just started getting acting work. I really didn't have a direct goal, I just knew I wanted to be in this industry telling stories and doing this for a job. I thought my path was going to be as a writer, but I'm pretty happy doing it as an actor.
Jake M. Johnson
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