#thought

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of "speculation"; but which ought to be called Gambling. ↗

— William Cobbett

#arising #been #called #desire #destructive

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#children #human world #i #inhuman #melancholy

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line or thought more inspires or informs my work. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#darkness #informs #inspires #into #line

I don't understand art-speak. My pictures are big doodles. I'm amazed what people come up with when they look at them. There's one of a figure with two heads that somebody thought must be a comment on the state of matrimony. None of it is a comment on anything. ↗

— Billy Connolly

#anything #big #come #comment #figure

I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like you thought he was Daddy, but he didn't treat you like Daddy at all. ↗

— Jackie Cooper

#father #i #i remember #like #liked

They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it. ↗

— Jackie Cooper

#box office #had #office #started #terms

So he said 'I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library.' I thought 'That's a turn-up for the books.' ↗

— Tommy Cooper

#bottom #chop #going #i #legs

In the studio, I do try to have a thought in my head, so that it's not like a blank stare. ↗

— Cindy Crawford

#head #i #i do #like #stare

In a very simple sense I want everything that's in a work to be there for the reason that it's needed. It's not an ornamentation. It's not there because I thought it looked nice but because it has to be there. ↗

— Paul Cullen

#everything #i #looked #needed #nice

When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie. ↗

— Ice Cube

#did #enough #grew #hood #how