I get a lot of people that say, 'You know what, I heard that you're a painter, and I thought, 'Oh, another model who is saying she's an artist.' They assumed it was going to be a few splashes on a canvas.
Tali Lennox
PeopleSayingThoughtYouArtist
An Oscar nomination? That would be a very satisfying thing, I'm sure. I would appreciate the thought. It would be like taking your hat off as an actor to all the people who walk through you.
Ruby Dee
WalkHatPeopleThoughtAppreciate
A sword, a spade, and a thought should never be allowed to rust.
James Stephens
ThoughtSwordNeverRustSpade
When my publicist told me I was going to be in 'People''s Ones to Watch as Maybelline's honoree, at first I was in shock. Then I thought, 'Wow. This is really happening.' I just feel so happy and honored that they would choose a boy in beauty.
Manny MUA
BeautyHappyMeThoughtFeelChoose
Back when I was an Islamist, I thought our ideology was like communism - and I still do. That makes me optimistic. Because what happened to communism? It was discredited as an idea. It lost.
Maajid Nawaz
MeCommunismThoughtBackLostIdea
Until 1954, I'd only ever thought of being a painter, but I earned my money when and where I could. You could say I drifted into writing.
John Berger
MoneyWritingThoughtYouSayWhere
As long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.
Jules Verne
HeartManThoughtLongWillDespair
My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.
George Steiner
FatherMusicPoetryDeepThoughtHe
I always thought of myself as an amateur stunt man.
Casey Neistat
MyselfManThoughtAlwaysStunt
I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction.
Gabriela Sabatini
MeThoughtSatisfactionNeverTennis
I've certainly experienced racism, but it has not made a great impact on me. I have always thought, as I got older and older, I was more in charge of who I was. What someone thought about me or said about me made less of an impression on me at very vulnerable times.
Robert Guillaume
GreatRacismMeThoughtImpactSaid
I never thought I was doing the same thing as directors like John Carpenter, George Romero, and sometimes even Hitchcock, even though I've been sometimes compared to those other guys. We're after different game.
David Cronenberg
GameThoughtDoingSometimesNever
Before 1915, space and time were thought of as a fixed arena in which events took place, but which was not affected by what happened in it. Space and time are now dynamic quantities... space and time not only affect but are also affected by everything that happens in the universe.
Stephen Hawking
TimeSpaceThoughtUniversePlace
Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.
Albert Camus
WorldRevolutionThoughtNameBecome
I thought Twitter was a joke. I really thought it was a gag. I thought it was like National Lampoon or the Onion.
Walter Becker
ThoughtJokeOnionLikeTwitterGag
I didn't plan on rock-n-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-roll with jazz, and I thought I could make some money playing music.
Robby Krieger
MusicMoneyPeopleThoughtLearn
There was a time when the government cut off funding to SETI, basically, and I thought it was something that should continue, and it was a very interesting scientific question.
Paul Allen
TimeGovernmentThoughtInteresting
I never, ever thought I would get to say I was opening a show for the Bay City Rollers.
Paolo Nutini
CityThoughtSayNeverOpeningGet
I've got a poem that's in a lot of international anthologies called 'After the Anonymous Swedish' and I thought, 'Well, I'm a Swede. I can make up a Swedish poem.' It turned out pretty good.
Jim Harrison
GoodThoughtI CanOutUpPretty
It was an event whenever 'CHiPs' would come on in my house. There wasn't a lot of Latin people being hired to star in TV shows or movies back in the day. Not only was it a fun show, there was a Latino starring in it - so we thought it was extra cool.
Michael Pena
DayFunPeopleCoolThoughtHouse
To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.
Henry Miller
LiveMenWorldThoughtEnoughLong
When we first played Max's, people thought Cindy and I were drag queens - we wore these gigantic wigs that sort of his our faces.
Kate Pierson
PeopleThoughtFirstDragFacesOur
I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.
Ian Rankin
HomeMeBondReadingThoughtSaid
I do think the BBC could do more, but I've always thought the BBC could do more - I think there should be more arts programmes full stop.
Melvyn Bragg
ThinkThoughtStopMoreAlwaysArts
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