The ideal of progress, freedom of thought, and the decline of ecclesiastical power go together.
And here I always thought morality was useless
Writing distills, crystallizes, and clarifies thought.
I never thought heroin was very chic.
It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.
I was teaching drum lessons at a few high schools - everything from marching to classical to rock and jazz. I found that really rewarding, having to explain my thought process, having to think about stuff that I take for granted or as second nature.
I've always thought you should concentrate on paddling your own canoe.
I think since I was kid people told me that they thought I was funny.
I sat in the dark and thought: There’s no big apocalypse. Just an endless procession of little ones.
. . . he thought of dying as a kind of adventure, something new that he hadn't yet experienced. Like an unusual vacation trip.
Every thought of yours is a real thing - a force.
An idea so luminous flashed across her brain that she almost thought the room had leaped into light.
Love has its own qualities and one of the qualities is that love understands. Its understanding is not in words, not in thought, but it understands within. It can feel within, which is very important.
During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema.
I felt like on one hand the clarity of thought was amazing, but on the other we went during Antarctic summer, so the sun didn't set the whole time we were there.
Life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is far superior to that of muscle and sinew.
The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair.
I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.
Boys ignored me. I never thought I was gorgeous.
I think that when we start thought-policing people and idea-policing people, then that's crossing a line. And I think, you know, everybody's so afraid of this imaginary line of thought police that they forget their own personal safety.
