#thought

Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#come #how #i #i do #inseparably

I thought I'd do something nice for the band... I'll hang myself. ↗

— Jason Newsted

#hang #i #myself #nice #something

I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#bald #early #else #everything #i

I have always thought that the rapid economic development of South Africa would in the long run prove to be incompatible with the government's racial policies, and recent events have tended to confirm my opinion. ↗

— Harry Oppenheimer

#always #confirm #development #economic #economic development

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot. ↗

— George Orwell

#fire #hot #kind #know #left-wing

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. ↗

— George Orwell

#corrupt #corrupts #language #thought

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought. ↗

— William Osler

#given #grunt #look #nothing #say

I enjoyed the Hee Haw people, but from 1980 on I didn't enjoy it and thought about leavin', and thought, hell, it's an easy job and pays wonderful. I kinda just prostituted myself for their money. ↗

— Buck Owens

#easy #enjoy #enjoyed #haw #hee

I always thought that Elvis could have been a great actor, and that he was put in a lot of unimportant movies when he could have done a lot of great ones. ↗

— Patti Page

#always #been #could #done #elvis

Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#anything #best #bullies #completely #devil