Top 100 Thought Out Quotes
#1. The writers keep managing to turn the show in on itself, coming up with something that's well thought-out and miraculous.
Kiefer Sutherland
#2. A well-thought-out story doesn't need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story.
Isaac Babel
#3. They cursed us - not with a common cursory curse, but with long, carefully-thought-out, comprehensive curses, that embraced the whole of our career, and went away into the distant future, and included all our relations, and covered everything connected with us - good, substantial curses.
Jerome K. Jerome
#4. Pray with your intelligence. Bring things to God that you have thought out and think them out again with Him. That is the secret of good judgment.
Charles Brent
#5. The initiate, however, uses a symbol-system differently; he uses it as an algebra by means of which he will read the secrets of unknown potencies; in other words, he uses the symbol as a means of guiding thought out into the Unseen and Incomprehensible.
Dion Fortune
#6. Love, Ada thought out on the lake that first spring afternoon, is largely a matter of paying attention and good timing.
Alice Randall
#7. These values are 'distinctly European' because they were thought out, articulated and refined in the part of the planet that tends to be described as 'Europe proper', and their articulation and refinement cannot be separated from the course of Europe's history.
Zygmunt Bauman
#8. When you have well thought out your subject, words will come spontaneously.
Horace
#9. No," she said with a soft chuckle. "I'm afraid he will sever the spine of any boy who breaks our girl's heart."
"Oh," I said, relief flooding me. But she had an incredibly well thought-out point.
Darynda Jones
#10. Even now, we make no apologies for the choice we made. The sacrifices we made were selfless. The options we offered were patriotic while the paths we chose were well thought out.
Ibrahim Babangida
#11. I thought out a splendid prayer after I went to bed, just
L.M. Montgomery
#12. Almost, I thought. Out loud I said, Just because we don't see eye to eye on everything doesn't mean we can't be close.
Auden
Sarah Dessen
#13. I used to sketch - that's the way I thought out loud. Then they made a book of my sketches, and I got self-conscious, so now I don't do it much.
Frank Gehry
#14. If there's an original thought out there, I could use one right now.
Bob Dylan
#15. War is a dumb game thought out by men when they become too old to play cowboys and crooks.
Irma Joubert
#16. If you jotted down all of my ill-thought out comments, you could write a book entitled, Guide to Getting Punched in the Throat for Boneheads-Mad Hatter in "Death of the Mad Hatter" (Coming Soon!)
Sarah J. Pepper
#17. Style for me is a casual way of putting something on. It's not thought out but needs to suit your way of life. Now I like wearing the same sweater over and over again, then taking it off when it's smelly.
Charlotte Gainsbourg
#18. We get too caught up in the moneymaking part of life. My own biggest concerns are to stay healthy and happy. I think the business will take care of itself and, when I put that thought out into the world, it happens. My company is absolutely growing and growing and growing.
Louise Hay
#19. A text pops up on the screen. It's from Luis. I can't help but grin when I read his perfectly thought-out message.
Luis: Hey
Simone Elkeles
#20. Remorse has no place in a warrior's mind ... A war is like a game of chess, Nicholaa. Every battle is like a well-thought-out move on the board. Once it begins, there shouldn't be any emotion involved whatsoever.
Julie Garwood
#21. Thought fights with thought; out springs a spark of truth From the collision of the sword and shield.' W. S. LANDOR.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#22. I started writing novels by not thinking about actually writing a whole novel - that felt altogether too daunting. I thought out a rough idea, then wrote chapter by chapter, and then by the time I'd hit 40,000 words, it was a challenge just to see if I could get to the end.
Jojo Moyes
#23. The dreamers, those who misread the actual state of affairs and act upon their emotions, are often the source of the greatest mistakes in history - the wars that are not thought out, the disasters that are not foreseen
Robert Greene
#24. Nothing I do is thought out or planned or premeditated. It's just that I'm breathing and living! You just have to breathe and live.
Banks
#25. The realization of 'La ilaha illa Allah' is one of the states of the heart that can be neither expressed by the tongue nor thought out by the mind.
Ibn Ata Allah
#26. Jay-Z is like a rap-savant, he doesn't have to write the rhymes down, he can create complex raps in his head. I mean he does memorize it, he just doesn't write it down on paper. He doesn't freestyle onto the track, it's all thought out.
Ice-T
#27. My love can't be purchased ... Best gifts have been well-thought-out surprises.
Nina Dobrev
#28. It just seemed like Buddhism, especially Tibetan Buddhism - because that's mainly what I've been exposed to - was a real solid organization of teachings to point someone in the right direction. Some real well thought out stuff. But I don't know, like, every last detail about Buddhism.
Adam Yauch
#29. How love builds itself unconsciously, he thought, out of the momentous ordinary.
Susan Vreeland
#30. It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people then to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.
Alex Karras
#31. A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat.
Rex Stout
#32. A little bit of gratuitous violence in a well-thought-out story is fine.
Ray Wise
#33. Why are other people's prejudices so strange, while our own are so thought-out and reasonable?
Donna Leon
#34. Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A lot of people have given their time and their skill, and a good deal of wit, and Anchorage has made us extraordinarily welcome.
Anne Perry
#35. Art tries, literally, to picture the things which philosophy tries to put into carefully thought-out words.
Hans Rookmaaker
#36. I thought Out of Action was better as a catalogue than the honeycomb because the honeycomb was like walking into one compartment and then another compartment.
Richard Serra
#37. In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence, for he finds it impossible to imagine that he is the first to have thought out the exceedingly delicate threads that connect his perceptions
Albert Einstein
#38. I really loved 'Fast Five.' I thought it was a brilliant movie. I thought it was so well done, well directed. The action sequences were really well thought out. It looked fantastic.
Luke Evans
#39. There is really no substitute for a well thought out and perfectly executed plan of action.
Steven Redhead
#40. A painting is not thought out in advance. While it is being done, it changes as one's thoughts change. And when it's finished, it goes on changing, according to the state of mind of whoever is looking at it
Pablo Picasso
#41. I usually carried with me six loaded plates, which allowed me only six exposures, so that clicking the shutter even once was a serious business that had to be carefully thought out beforehand.
Roald Dahl
#42. And he sang to them, now in the Elven tongue, now in the speech of the West, until their hearts, wounded with sweet words, overflowed, and their joy was like swords, and they passed in thought out to regions where pain and delight flow together and tears are the very wine of blessedness.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#43. Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal. Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That's where the real danger lies.
Alan Dean Foster
#44. Basically I'm pretty sure my mom thinks a well-thought-out list has the power to make time her personal bitch.
Susan Ranelle Amari
#45. When I recorded Contra la Puerta, I never really thought out doing the material live. Mostly because I haven't really seen any electronic music performed live in an interesting way.
Jim Coleman
#46. Tanith: Serpine is used to the Elders taking forever to make their calm, thought-out decisions. So he won't be expecting anything as amazingly rash and reckless as this
Ghastly: That'll teach him to underestimate stupid people.
Derek Landy
#47. I'm not going to do anything stupid. And even if what I plan is risky and insane, it's a well-thought-out level of stupidity.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#48. He held the flag like a banner of defiance. 'You can take our lives but you'll never take our freedom!' he screamed.
Carcer's men looked at one another, puzzled by what sounded like the most badly thought-out war cry in the history of the universe.
Terry Pratchett
#49. These narrative structures have to be thought out beforehand, you see--strategized, methodically according to content. Because a story, in the main, dictates its own telling.
Gemma Files
#50. The process that we go through in recording with Tool is very organic, but at the same time it is very thought out. There is a very left-brain process of dissecting what we're doing and drawing from source material; it's very research oriented and esoteric.
Maynard James Keenan
#51. He made disgusted noises every time I touched him, so I fell entirely against him. He yelled and I ended up on the floor. It was not my most well-thought-out plan.
Amy Tintera
#52. There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.
Natalie Clifford Barney
#53. That moment was very important because it was political. That's what has to be done, so they struck a deal. She figures his is a well-thought-out motivation that she felt was worthy trade-off. The motivation here is survival, and she has to think like a leader.
Mary McDonnell
#54. Experience has taught me choosing the right people to have in your life should be a well thought out, deliberate process.
Carlos Wallace
#56. I think the album 'Nothing Personal' is a lot more grittier and a lot more honest from a lyrical standpoint. Also, musically it's the most intricate and most thought-out record that we've ever recorded.
Jack Barakat
#57. If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out. In a poem, the pen is more like a flashlight, a Geiger counter, or one of those metal detectors that people walk around beaches with.
Billy Collins
#58. Braxton Cosby's stories feel personal and well thought-out. I'm happy to welcome this entertaining writer to the YA science fiction field. I look forward to more of his work!
Tananarive Due
#59. The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair.
Leo Fender
#60. Mr. Thomas Marvel hated roomy shoes, but then he hated damp. He had never properly thought out which he hated most
H.G.Wells
#61. One thing I've learned, Sasha," said Rex, "is that no matter how poorly thought out a plan is, there's always a chance it will succeed unless I'm directly involved." "You
Robert Kroese
#62. What I have set down in a moment of ardour I must then critically examine. Sometimes I must do myself violence before I can mercilessly erase things thought out with love.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
#63. But would you believe it? I couldn't remember one word when I woke up this morning. And I'm afraid I'll never be able to think out another one as good. Somehow, things never are so good when they're thought out a second time. Have you ever noticed that?
L.M. Montgomery
#64. Brains will always conquer brawn, in the end. The soldiers can flex their muscles all they want, but the well-thought-out tactics of the generals are what win the war.
Patrick Hall
#65. As an actor, there's always that fear. You don't know where the next job's coming from, so you say, 'I'll do that, I'll do that, I'll do that'. Your choices are not always clearly thought out, and you can end up taking mis-steps.
Dexter Fletcher
#66. Every time you try to block a thought out of your mind, you drive it deeper into your memory. By resisting it, you actually reinforce it.
Rick Warren
#67. The gods listen, Rain. Put a thought out there often enough, and they'll think it's what you want.
C.L. Wilson
#68. I try not to take people who haven't really thought out what they're doing too seriously. I try not to let them get in the way of what I feel I need to do.
Gil Scott-Heron
#69. Every well-thought-out rebuttal to dogma, every scrap of intelligent logic, every absurdist reduction of some bullying stance is the antidote.
George Sanders
#70. Some people don't like my songs because they think they're too simple or easy or not that thought-out. I feel like the way I write is pretty simple, in some ways, because I'm trying to connect. I want a lot of people to hear it, and be moved in some way.
Langhorne Slim
#71. A propositional sign, applied and thought out, is a thought. A thought is a proposition with a sense.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#72. The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions ... answering them in advance.
Arthur Helps
#73. THE NAME THOUGHT OUT TO BE SPOKEN
Myself
#74. I'm not setting 'Jericho' up to be anything other than what it is, which is, you know, a piece of good, well thought-out, well put-together TV and entertainment.
Lennie James
#75. The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out.
Billy Collins
#76. In computer animation, every detail has to be thought out, designed, modeled, shaded, placed and lit. The more you add, the more computer memory you need.
John Lasseter
#77. No matter how well thought out it is, and regardless of which "best practices" it includes, no method can replace thinking.
Anonymous
#78. Sketching is like dancing. It's process as much as product. You can turn your head off and just sort of dissolve into the now. Doing a giant, super thought-out painting is the opposite of that.
Molly Crabapple
#79. My route so far through life hasn't been particularly logical, or even thought out.
Jarvis Cocker
#80. Everything has to be well thought out - what do you really need, when can you do with less coverage.
Debbie Allen
#81. I've had encounters with animals that have been really mystical. I've always been really into animals. But the way they appear in the paintings, they come from my mind's eye more than: 'I'm gonna draw a dog now.' It isn't thought out: 'Now I'm gonna draw a bird.' They just appear.
John Lurie
#82. Orchestration is part of the very soul of the work. A work is thought out in terms of the orchestra, certain tone-colors being inseparable from it in the mind of its creator and native to it from the hour of its birth.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
#83. The big "WHEN" about change is not just a particular moment, but a thought-out planning with clear defined timelines.
Pearl Zhu
#84. I will never compromise on my poorly-thought-out, internally-inconsistent,
quasi-irrational principles. That's just how I roll.
Jessica Park
#85. Why is it that other people's plans so often seem ill thought out while our own make so much sense? I
Sue Grafton
#86. Be open to surrendering all preconceived notions, well-thought-out plans and annual to-do lists.
Pooja Ruprell
#87. And yet there's one question whose answer I have thought out, and it suddenly comes to mind ... 'Stay with me.
Garret Freymann-Weyr
#88. I feel Man would be wise to work at correcting his own mistakes instead of waiting for intervention from on high, and should replace faith in an unknowable divine plan with a well-thought-out scheme of his own.
Mark Hodder
#89. I'm in the middle of another poorly thought-out, harebrained scheme that risks not only my life but all the other lives around me. How
Susan Ee
#90. Unless an action is rightly thought out and its steps rightly planned, every stage of its performance will probably remain vague and therefore unsatisfactory for the doer and all those concerned.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#91. Spare me the carefully thought out accessorising that is supposed to look casually thrown on, while in actuality, hours have been spent on the picking and choosing of said jewellery, scarves, etc. Unless you are Keith Richards and can absolutely pull it off, less is more.
Emma Ishta
#92. Firmly, Luke put the thought out of his mind. Mourning the loss of a friend and teacher was both fitting and honorable, but to dwell unnecessarily on that loss was to give the past too much power over the present. The
Timothy Zahn
#93. Without a shadow of doubt, God created man. Man was designed, planned, and well thought-out. He was a deliberate part of God's plan, not a last-minute addition.
Pedro Okoro
#94. Central depth of purple, Leaves more bright than rose, Who shall tell what brightest thought Out of darkness grows? Who, through what funereal pain, Souls to love and peace attain? - Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt
Leigh Hunt
#95. Metaphors are one of the most powerful weapons in your arsenal as a presenter. In today's fast-paced world of communication, a well-thought-out metaphor acts as a shortcut to meaning.
Bruna Martinuzzi
#96. Will America be the death of English? I'm glad I asked me that. My well-thought-out mature judgment is that it will.
Edwin Newman
#97. What we assume, what we have never clearly thought out, controls us.
Morton T. Kelsey
#98. a good idea is only good if there
is a well-thought-out plan to
make it a reality.
Norma Kamali
#99. Oh, hell, no. We want you," Blade declared. A jolt of pure need slammed into her, knocking every sane thought out of her head. "You've got me." "Not yet, we don't," Lance muttered. "What
Susan Hayes
#100. No earnest thinker is a plagiarist pure and simple. He will never borrow from others that which he has not already, more or less, thought out for himself.
Charles Kingsley
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