#thought

When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country. ↗

— Bobby Fischer

#championship #country #football #had #i

I don't want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in difficult situations to show off that particular gift, and I'm not interested in doing that anymore. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#because #continue #difficult #doing #getting

I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn't understand Iraqi society. They thought it was a blank slate, that they could use Iraqis as guinea pigs. ↗

— Juan Cole

#argued #blank #blank slate #bush #bush administration

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#children #human world #i #inhuman #melancholy

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago? ↗

— Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

#already #century #consists #creativity #did

It's no fun feeling your thoughts are being controlled by an electrode, and someone else is holding the clicker. ↗

— Alice Weaver Flaherty

#controlled #else #feeling #fun #holding

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