#thought

I never thought I could win the French Open. ↗

— Li Na

#french #french open #i #never #open

Till I was 13, I thought my name was "Shut Up." ↗

— Joe Namath

#name #shut #shut up #thought #till

I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#became #discovery #i #interested #islamic

You would have thought that after 9/11 the president would have finished the job in Afghanistan, and kept the focus on capturing Bin Laden and his al-Qaeda deputies, but he and his team gave top priority to their original plan to invade Iraq. ↗

— Bill Nelson

#after #al-qaeda #bin #capturing #deputies

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. ↗

— Graham Nelson

#broken #care #emailed #follow-up #fortnight

I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented. ↗

— Ted Nelson

#could #felt #field #filmmaker #going

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results. ↗

— Willie Nelson

#having #negative #negative thoughts #once #ones

I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#because #i #last #line #much

Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#come #how #i #i do #inseparably

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#even #explanations #mystical #shallow #thought