I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.
Only a tiny portion of music history involves a singer and a lyric. Songs in music are generally thought to be a minor form.
The first real thought that I had of something that I might do was to write for car magazines, because I always had a car thing.
Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.
My mom always liked the idea of us acting - me and my sister - like, one of us trying it. But my dad always thought it was a joke.
I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.
If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.
As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.
Whether you're on a diet, or you're looking for a go-to one bowl dinner recipe, salads should be thought of as crowd-pleasers, not a dreaded component of a meal.
An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of soul, deprivation of God's recreating, loving peace.
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.
I always thought of indie-rock as being rock music by bands that were on independent labels, and that's a great thing.
Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.
The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Holiday?'
Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.
I've been to Bali twice and Marrakech twice. I thought Vienna was great. I will take girlfriends to places they've never been before.
You bring out a lot of your own thoughts and attitudes when acting. I think a great deal of it has to do with the inner you.
