#ought

We will not have peace by afterthought. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#peace #will

I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again. ↗

— Noel Coward

#i #marrying #sometimes #then #thought

Showing up to games year after year, no matter what the product on the field gives you back, is a learned behavior - sort of like rats in a maze searching for cheese. The rat learns the maze, learns where the cheese is placed and eventually goes to it without thought, even when the cheese is taken away. The rat doesn't know anything else. ↗

— Joe Cowley

#anything #away #back #behavior #cheese

I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm. ↗

— Edgard Varese

#dream #exigencies #i #i dream #inner

Charles Laughton, who's a great hero of mine, only ever made one film and it happens to be one of the great films ever, which is 'The Night of the Hunter.' It's full of his kind of imagination and creation and how you do things and just in the way he used the studio, I just thought it was a fantastical way of using the studio. ↗

— Brian Cox

#creation #ever #film #films #full

I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2001 before I had cleaned up. ↗

— Graham Coxon

#acoustic guitar #becoming #before #bought #cambridge

He who has the audacity to stop you from dreaming is he who had given you the imaginations to think, but not those who watch you as you explore the dreams! ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#big-dreams #creator #dream #dream-big #dreaming

One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought! ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#life #never #style #thought #tires

I knew it was going to be enormous because of the number of people who bought the books, but, to be honest, I never thought it would be bigger than Bond. Never in a million years. ↗

— Robbie Coltrane

#bigger #bond #books #bought #enormous

The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#effect #faster #more #sticks #thought