Quotes with thought-tyrants

Quotes 701 till 720 of 849.

  • Virginia Woolf Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; and thought.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Bjorn Ulvaeus Touring we thought was a waste of time. It was much more productive and much more creative to write and record. I am glad today that we didn't tour. We knew it begins and ends with a song. Back then the entire business revolved around the song.
    Daily Telegraph, 5 Jul 2008
    Bjorn Ulvaeus
    Swedish songwriter, producer, member of ABBA (1945 - )
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  • Stendhal True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
    Stendhal
    French writer (ps. of Marie Henri Beyle) (1783 - 1842)
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  • Bruce Lee True thusness is the substance of thought, and thought is the function of true thusness. There is no thought except that of true thusness. Thusness does not move, but its motion and function are inexhaustible.
    Striking Thoughts (2000)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Bruce Lee True thusness is without defiling thought; it cannot be known through conception and thought.
    Striking Thoughts (2000)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Alexander Pope True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Fredrich Halm Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one.
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  • Andrew Lloyd Webber Two years ago I hadn't even thought of the Woman in White, and I was doing a television show and I said I hadn't found a story and the next day somebody rang me and said have you ever thought of the Woman in White.
    Andrew Lloyd Webber
    English composer and impresario (1948 - )
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  • Billy Joel Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Edmund Burke Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Paul G. Thomas Until input thought is linked to a goal purpose there can be no intelligent accomplishment.
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  • Birgitte Hjort Sorensen Usually, when you get early versions of scripts, they are not very good. I found 'Borgen' amazing from the very first read-through because of how fast-paced and gripping it was. It felt more international because of the way it didn't dwell on the characters' personal lives as many Danish shows used to, but still, nobody thought it would travel.
    Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
    Danish actrice (1982 - )
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  • Britt Daniel Usually, whenever my mom would come over I would try and put on music that I thought she would like just to make her feel more at ease.
    Britt Daniel
    American musician (1971 - )
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  • Barbara Deming Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.
    We are all part of one another
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • T. S. Eliot Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Walking around on the moon was significantly easier than we'd thought it would be. There weren't any balance problems, so you weren't tumbling over.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Joan Didion Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Bergen Evans Was written in 1817, when Bryant was 23. Had he died then, the world would have thought it had lost a great poet. But he lived on.
    Dictionary of Quotations
    Bergen Evans
    American professor and television host
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  • Bobby Heenan WCW wasn't what I thought it should be. I thought it could be better. I would make suggestions, but nobody would want to hear them. They think you want their job. Please. It would be easier doing their job because they're used to doing nothing.
    Bobby Heenan
    American professional wrestler (1944 - 2017)
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  • Bob Inglis We added Medicare Part D to a system facing bankruptcy and gave no thought to means testing it.
    Bob Inglis
    American politician (1959 - )
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