The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.
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.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are you would never think a negative thought.
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena Queen of the Jungle.'
I was always a dreamer in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.
I'm amazed. When I was 40 I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60 I was still going strong and enjoying everything.
Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?
I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father.
When I was little I thought isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it's July 4th.
It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.
Old age comes on suddenly and not gradually as is thought.
I don't find the technology threatening. A lot of people my age my generation find it difficult to immerse themselves. But I would never preclude the idea of using any technology if I thought it suited the end result.
Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil they were bullies and they didn't know anything.
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair.
But look I was born in 1956 the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and by and large people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
A pun is the lowest form of humor unless you thought of it yourself.
I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
If instead of a gem or even a flower we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend that would be giving as the angels give.
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living we may repair to the dead who have nothing of peevishness pride or design in their conversation.
A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
Thank God I never got in a fight. All of the jock dudes hated me but all of their girlfriends thought I was nice so they wouldn't touch me. It was infuriating to them.
Every goal every action every thought every feeling one experiences whether it be consciously or unconsciously known is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.
Never say never but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.
God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
I was dating this guy and we would spend all day text messaging each other. And he thought that he could tell that he liked me more because he actually spelt the word 'YOU' and I just put the letter 'U'.
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
When a thought takes one's breath away a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.
I thought you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle but if you don't move if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate.
I started dating older men and I would fall in love with them. I thought they could teach me about life.
Experience is the child of thought and thought is the child of action.
I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
For my confirmation I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.
As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.
While I thought that I was learning how to live I have been learning how to die.
There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars mansions cars nice clothes beautiful women and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.
Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out about a century ago that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.
I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation.
I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.
I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.
My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.
I told my mom 'I'm not buying another magazine until I can get past this thought of looking like the girl on the cover'. She said "Miley you are the girl on the cover' and I was like 'I know but I don't feel like that girl every day.' You can't always feel perfect.
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
First comes thought; then organization of that thought into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning as you will observe is in your imagination.
I always thought we had an environmental problem but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left.
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
On my wedding day. I didn't want a natural blushing-bride look - I had a full-on hairdo and red lips. I thought it would be disingenuous to do the whole virginal look so even though I had the white dress I had pink net underneath.
I thought that once we were out of the baby stage parenting would be a breeze.
Well I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger which I think without flattering myself I did but I think I certainly have as George Orwell says people do after a certain age the face they deserve.
People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger which I think without flattering myself I did but I think I certainly have as George Orwell says people do after a certain age the face they deserve.
'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being if anything bombed out of the Stone Age.