Famous Quotes: Thought

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
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Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
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The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.
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Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
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All morning they watched for the plane which they thought would be looking for them. They cursed war in general and PTs in particular. At about ten o'clock the hulk heaved a moist sigh and turned turtle.
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There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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My mom would give me a piece to play, but I wouldn't do any theory because when it came time to do it I would sneak back upstairs and watch TV. So, I had these kind of nonchalant lessons for years, then it just started soaking in.
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As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.
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As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.
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When somebody has an enormous success in this culture, people start asking two questions, which are 'What are you doing now?' and 'How are you going to beat that?' And I have to say, I love the assumption that your intention is to beat yourself constantly - that you're in battle against yourself.
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Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
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The most important thing in my father's life? World peace. Me and my brother. My mom.
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I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
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Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.
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Growing up, I didn't give my grandfather's photography a second thought. I wasn't involved in his work, except that I helped my dad print his negatives.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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I just want to make music and make a living. I just have to find the means of doing that.
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