Perhaps, thought Nanny, little green Elphaba chose her own sex, and her own color, and to hell with her parents.
For a fortnight nobody at all emailed me, or posted a follow-up. Doesn't anyone care, I thought? It turned out my newsreader was broken, and hadn't posted at all.
So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.
We are not interested in those stupid crimes you have committed. The Party is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about.
When I was growing up in the United States and Sweden, I never thought about becoming a politician.
I thought Godzilla was a mess, the monster had no character and the humans didn't either. They forgot to make the movie that went along with all these wonderful effects.
One of my first thoughts I had when I started considering the mastectomy was, 'What am I going to look like?' And then, 'What will my husband think?'
I think they're being cheap with their lives, that's why. So they seem ravenous for the worst thoughts I can have.
I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I never thought that people are actually buddies.
A couple of my friends started having babies, and I thought, 'Maybe one day, with the right guy.' I have to find the guy first.
Make my breast transparent as pure crystal, that the world, jealous of me, may see the foulest thought my heart does hold.
The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win.
Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
I started looking at fashion magazines, specifically 'British Vogue.' I was reading a lot about Cecil Beaton. Then I thought maybe I should start collecting.
I never thought that the long haired, bearded guy I married in law school would end up being President.
I've always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young man who wants the field to himself.
As soon as I started writing, other writers stopped wanting me acting in their shows - maybe they thought I was going to rewrite them.
Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian about it.
Being silly is still allowed, not excluded by adulthood. What's excluded by adulthood is thoughtlessness, so be thoughtful and silly
Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought.
