Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us.
I moved from Philadelphia to California when I was 25, after traveling abroad for a year. I thought I'd come home eventually and settle down, but I didn't.
In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.
If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in this or that country but in the world, any thought of centralization must be a monstrosity.
I thought that I held the record of most appearances on the Bob Hope Show, but I think - It's Brooke Shields.
Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better.
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.
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.
My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.
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.
