My Thoughts Quotes - Page 12

• These days I keep a journal, so I'm constantly sketching down my thoughts, or lines that come to me...ideas for songs. And then when I have a moment to myself, I'll sit down with my guitar and open my journal, and start kind of massaging things together, and see if a song takes shape. Or sometimes, I'll just be hanging out with my guitar and come up with a chord progression or a lick, and that'll sort of sit around for a while waiting to marry itself to some words. So it's sort of haphazard and it's like...junk culture. I go around finding shiny objects and I glue them together laughs.

  Ani DiFranco

  Song, Writing, Guitar

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• I wish more people knew Steve Howe the way I knew him. His struggles in life were well documented, but he always tried to fight through them and I will always respect that. My thoughts and prayers go out wife Cindy and his family.

  Brian Cashman

  Prayer, Struggle, Fighting

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• I felt impotent and out of control, which I really, really hate. I had to find sanctuary in a place where I could gather my thoughts and regain my strength.

  Cher

  Hate, Clueless, Sanctuary

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• My thoughts on gay marriage are that everyone has the right to love and be loved, and that's the position I take.

  Nick Jonas

  Love, Gay, Age

  "The A-List Interview: Nick Jonas". Interview with Brandon Voss, www.advocate.com. January 18, 2012.

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• I lost a friend I was blessed to have. My thoughts are with the family of President Chavez and the people of Venezuela.

  Sean Penn

  Blessed, People, President

  "Sean Penn on Hugo Chavez's Death: 'I Lost a Friend'". www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 5, 2013.

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• I sincerely apologize to anyone who was offended by my attempt at humor regarding the tragedy in Japan. I meant no disrespect, and my thoughts are with the victims and their families.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Japan, Disrespect, Tragedy

  "Gilbert Gottfried Apologizes for Tsunami Tweets" by Dahvi Shira, people.com. March 15, 2011.

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• When I get an idea I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and operate the device in my mind. It is absolutely immaterial to me whether I run my turbine in my thought or test it in my shop. I even note if it is out of balance.

  Nikola Tesla

  Running, Ideas, Imagination

  Nikola Tesla (2016). “My Inventions: And Other Writings”, p.6, Courier Dover Publications

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• Like many Americans my thoughts and prayers are with the people of London. My deepest sympathies are extended to those who lost a loved one in the recent terror attacks.

  Doc Hastings

  Prayer, Terror Attacks, People

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• Great God! What have I turned into? What right have you people to clutter up my life, steal my time, probe my soul, suckle my thoughts, have me for your companion, confidant, and information bureau? What do you take me for? Am I an entertainer on salary, required every evening to play an intellectual farce under your stupid noses? Am I a slave, bought and paid for, to crawl on my belly in front of you idlers and lay at your feet all that I do and all that I know?

  Henry Miller

  Stupid, Play, Feet

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• The devil told my mind that my thoughts held no power; and this seemed true until my thoughts I began to speak.

  Stefanie Schneider

  Deep Thought, Mind, Devil

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• The end of suffering happens in this very moment, whether you're watching a terrorist attack or doing the dishes. And compassion begins at home. Because I don't believe my thoughts, sadness can't exist. That's how I can go to the depths of anyone's suffering, if they invite me, and take them by the hand and walk them out of it into the sunlight of reality. I've taken that walk myself.

  Byron Katie

  Believe, Taken, Sadness

  "Compassion: The Less You Suffer, the Kinder You Naturally Become" by Byron Katie, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2015.

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• I suffered no pain, my hunger had taken the edge off; instead I felt pleasantly empty, untouched by everything around me and happy to be unseen by all. I put my legs up on the bench and leaned back, the best way to feel the true well-being of seclusion. There wasn't a cloud in my mind, nor did I feel any discomfort, and I hadn't a single unfulfilled desire or craving as far as my thought could reach. I lay with open eyes in a state of utter absence from myself and felt deliciously out of it.

  Knut Hamsun

  Pain, Taken, Eye

  Knut Hamsun (1999). “Hunger”, p.39, Canongate Books

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• They said that I had sold out and (am an) Uncle Tom. And I said well, they deserve to have that view. But I have my thoughts. And I think they're race-hustling poverty pimps.

  J. C. Watts

  Uncles, Thinking, Race

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• There's a place beyond words where experience first occurs to which I always want to return. I suspect that whenever I articulate my thoughts or translate my impulses into words, I am betraying the real thoughts and impulses which remain hidden.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Real, Want, Firsts

  Jerzy Kosinski (1975). “The devil tree”

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• I do have a journal, that I write all my thoughts in every day. So that's kind of something. I also have a burn box where I write secrets down and put it in a box.

  Miranda Cosgrove

  Writing, Secret, Down And

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• Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems

  Walt Whitman

  Shade, Lasting, Strongest

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.407, NYU Press

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• My heart sings of your longing for me, and my thoughts climb down to marvel at your mercy. I do not fear as you gather up my days. Your name is the sweetness of time, and you carry me close into the night, speaking consolations, drawing down lights from the sky, saying, See how the night has no terrors for one who remembers the name.

  Leonard Cohen

  Heart, Night, Sky

  Leonard Cohen (2010). “Book of Mercy”, p.31, McClelland & Stewart

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• We're talking about a militant terrorist situation, which I believe it isn't a widespread thing, but it is enough that we need to address, and we have been addressing it. My thoughts are these, first of all, Dearborn, Michigan, and Frankford, Texas are on American soil, and under constitutional law. Not Sharia law. And I don't know how that happened in the United States. It seems to me there is something fundamentally wrong with allowing a foreign system of law to even take hold in any municipality or government situation in our United States.

  Sharron Angle

  Believe, Government, Texas

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• I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment.

  Maria Monk

  Fear, Moments, Strikes

  Maria Monk, Theodore Dwight, John Jay Slocum, William K. Hoyte (1836). “Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk: As Exhibited in a Narrative of Her Sufferings During a Residence of Five Years as a Novice, and Two Years as a Black Nun, in the Hotel Dieu Nunnery at Montreal”, p.80, New York : Howe & Bates

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• I am not my thoughts, feelings, circumstances of changing events in life, I am the awareness, the alertness, the changeless which remains present behind it.

  Marcus Thomas

  Events In Life, Feelings, Alertness

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• Well my thoughts on American swimming are that our prospects look favorable, but we may not have as strong a showing in the gold medal count as in previous Olympics. But I am not coaching

  Mark Spitz

  Sports, Strong, Swimming

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• If thou hadst thy will what wouldst thou reserve?" said Manwe. "Of all thy realm what dost thou hold dearest?" All have their worth," said Yavanna, "and each contributes to the worth of the others. But the kelvar can flee or defend themselves, whereas the olvar that grow cannot. And among these I hold trees dear. Long in the growing, swift shall they be in the felling, and unless they pay toll with fruit upon their bough little mourned in their passing. So I see in my thought, would that the trees might speak on behalf of all things that have roots, and punish those that wrong them!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Roots, Long, Tree

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.35, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I wasted time, and now doth time waste me; For now hath time made me his numbering clock: My thoughts are minutes; and with sighs they jar Their watches on unto mine eyes, the outward watch, Whereto my finger, like a dial's point, Is pointing still, in cleansing them from tears. Now sir, the sound that tells what hour it is Are clamorous goans, which strike upon my heart, Which is the bell: so sighs and tears and groans Show minutes, times, and hours.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Eye, Heart

  William Shakespeare, William Harness (1825). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Comedy of errors. Macbeth. King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV, part 1”, p.318

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• I think most people dont like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly dont want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.

  Marguerite Young

  Thinking, Hands, Voice

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• They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend. I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance.

  Joseph Conrad

  Stupid, Safety, Perfect

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Heart of Darkness”, p.77, Xist Publishing

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