The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

No, I never thought about my father's money as my money.

Hawaii's the 50th state? I thought it was a suburb of Guam.

I've always had a fascination for animals. I loved watching them, and even then I thought of them as beings rather than pets. I call it a birth affect!

People teach their dogs to sit; it's a trick. I've been sitting my whole life, and a dog has never looked at me as though he thought I was tricky.

Before, I just spewed whatever it was I thought about everything. I tend to be more contemplative now.

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.

There are two methods for the literary study of any book - the first being the study of its thought and emotion; the second only that of its workmanship. A student of literature should study some of the Bible from both points of view.

When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation.

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

So I became a producer because I knew one of the reasons was they didn't do them the way I thought was right.

I got one letter at the very beginning, like, in the first season, saying - from a woman who was very religious, very Christian, saying how wrong she thought the show was, but she thinks it's the funniest show on television.

I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct).