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“I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below.”

Author:Josh Lanyon

Source: A Dangerous Thing

“I think it was Milosz, the Polish poet, who when he lay in a doorway and watched the bullets lifting the cobbles out of the street beside him realised that most poetry is not equipped for life in a world where people actually die. But some is.”

People Thinking World Dies Streets Poet Lays Poetry Is Bullets Polish Realised Lifting Doorways

Author:Ted Hughes

“I think it was much better when you got on your horse and rode two miles to talk to your neighbor.”

Thinking Two Horse Neighbor Miles

Author:Laura Schlessinger

“I think it was my mom's attitude about art and being part of the narcissistic digital generation or whatever that made me think anyone would care what I had to say about anything!”

Thinking Art Made Care Attitude Generations Mom My Mom Digital Narcissistic

Author:Tavi Gevinson

“I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.”

Thinking Sides Party Study Democratic Average Convinced Democratic Party

Author:George McGovern

“I think it was not a bad idea to wrap Barack Obama in the mantle of Teddy Roosevelt. He`s been assuming a sort of progressive mantle, and he ticked off some large and systemic problems that this country faces.”

Thinking Ideas Country Problem Faces Assuming Barack Progressive Wraps Bad Ideas Teddy

Author:Barack Obama

“I think it was not by a serpent, but by paper and ink that evil came into the world.”

Writing Evil

Author:Hilary Mantel

Source: The Mirror & the Light

“I think it was one of the better meetings that I've had with those guys, because I was honestly able to say everything I wanted to say, and I pretty much aired out the dirty laundry. So from that point on, I thought all of that was behind us.”

Thinking Able Wanted Guy Sports Behinds Meetings Honestly Dirty Laundry Dirty Laundry

Author:Latrell Sprewell

“I think it was Osama bin Laden's [idea to start a pre-emptive war in Iraq].”

Thinking Ideas War Iraq Bin Laden Osama Bin Laden

Author:Karl Rove

“I think it was pretty obvious early on that we had both come with kind of the same attitude of "Let's just [jump] in," and neither of us was going to be precious about it. I feel like the thing that we learned is, weirdly, the most intimate thing or a very intimate thing you can do to somebody is hold their tongue with your fingers. When Paul [Dano] is making me talk [in Swiss Army Man].”

Thinking Men Feels Kind Can Do Attitude Army Fingers Obvious Tongue Intimate Swiss

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“I think it was probably down to the fact that we weren't together personally as a band. We weren't pulling in the same direction. I always feel if you're having a good time in the studio it actually comes across on the tape and that was a bit of a miserable album for us.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Facts Together Time Bits Band Albums Studios Miserable Good Times Tape Pulling Having A Good Time

Author:Roy Wood

“I think it was rather an advantage not having any living poets in England or America in whom one took any particular interest. I don't know what it would be like but I think it would be a rather troublesome distraction to have such a lot of dominating presences, as you call them, about. Fortunately we weren't bothered by each other.”

Thinking Knows Would Be America Poetry Interest Particular Poet Advantage England Distraction Bothered Troublesome Dominating

Author:T. S. Eliot

“I think it was really crucial that the actress was age appropriate. There are films, such as An Education, where that wasn't the case, and I think that really affects how you receive what you're watching.”

Thinking Age Film Cases Actresses Appropriate Crucial

Author:David Schwimmer

“I think it was right to remove Saddam Hussein. I think it was the right decision then and I still think it was right now.”

Thinking Stills Decision Right Now Remove Saddam Hussein Right Decision

Author:David Cameron

“I think it was Roger Fry who first coined what he took to be a final definition of a work of art, whether it was a painting, building, poem or Hepplewhite chair. He said that the best works of art are finished products that preserve 'a valuable state of mind'.”

Thinking Mind Firsts Art Said States Building Painting Products Finals Definitions Valuable Finished Preserves Chairs Works Of Art State Of Mind Best Work Roger

Author:Alistair Cooke

“I think it was Rose Macaulay who said, "A house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived."”

Thinking House Rose

Author:Maggie O'Farrell

“I think it was Samuel Johnson who said, "There are two kinds of information in this world: that what you know and that what you know where to get." The tools help the latter, and that's what keeps us from going nuts. The sense of overload comes from the gap between that sudden jump in volume (of information) and the tools we have to make sense of it.”

Thinking Knows World Kind Said Two Helping Information This World Tools Make Sense Latter Gaps Nuts Volume Johnson Overload

Author:Paul Saffo

“I think it was seen as a symptom that the Chinese leadership may be really scared about their economy.Why would you want to depend more on exports if you're a country that has a stated policy of relying less on exports and more on consumer spending, domestic spending?”

Ifs Thinking Want May Country Economy Policy Depends Scared Spending Chinese Consumers Symptoms

Author:David Wessel

“I think it was simply word of mouth that made it a New York Times bestseller for more than 60 weeks, over a year. People being moved and changed and transformed by the book [ One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are] and wanting to share that with hurting people all around them.”

People Thinking Years Made Book Hurt Week Share New York Changed Thousand Mouths Moved Dare Made It Where You Are Transformed New York Times Word Of Mouth Hurting People One Thousand Gifts

Author:Ann Voskamp

“I think it was simply word of mouth that made it a New York Timesbestseller for more than 60 weeks, over a year. People being moved and changed and transformed by the book [One Thousand Gifts] and wanting to share that with hurting people all around them.”

People Thinking Years Made Book Hurt Week Share New York Changed Thousand Mouths Moved Made It Transformed Word Of Mouth Hurting People One Thousand Gifts

Author:Ann Voskamp

“I think it was so unfair that people attacked Freida Pinto for being an Indian, playing a Palestinian.”

People Thinking Indian Palestinian Unfair

Author:Julian Schnabel

“I think it was something I inherited from my mother, who learned to do it. You know, I, like a baby duckling, was merely mimicking the survival traits that my mother possessed. And I came to learn very quickly that language was a powerful, powerful tool.”

Thinking Knows Mother Language Powerful Baby Survival Tools Traits Possessed Mimicking Ducklings

Author:Trevor Noah

“I think it was somewhere around age 3 when I fell down the stairs at my house, and I got up and did a Jerry Lewis impression and got a big laugh. And I thought, "Oooh, I like that. I think I need to do this for a living!"”

Thinking Needs Bigs Age House Laughing Impression Stairs Jerry

Author:Brent Spiner

“I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before it’s understood. I believe that. There are some bands where I love their lyrics but I don’t have a clue what they’re on about.”

Thinking Believe I Believe Felt Band Understood Poetry Is Clue Eliot Good Poetry

Author:Marcus Mumford

“I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.”

Thinking Different Culture Serious Musician Roots Rock N Roll Different Cultures

Author:Jimmy Page

“I think it was the beginning of Mrs. Bond's unquestioning faith in me when she saw me quickly enveloping the cat till all you could see of him was a small black and white head protruding from an immovable cocoon of cloth. He and i were now facing each other, more or less eyeball to eyeball, and George couldn't do a thing about it. As i say, I rather pride myself on this little expertise, and even today my veterinary colleagues have been known to remark, "Old Herriot may be limited in many respects, but by God he can wrap a cat.”

Thinking May Littles Has Beens Today Black White Known Saws Pride Cat Black And White Colleagues Remarks Wraps Expertise Cocoons Eyeballs

Author:James Herriot

Source: Three James Herriot Classics: All Creatures Great and Small, All Things Bright and Beautiful, and All Things Wise and Wonderful

“I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically.”

Thinking Writing Made Facts

Author:James Herriot

“I think it was the first time in my life I ever felt like I looked “good”. Do you know what I mean? That nice feeling when you look in the mirror, and your hair’s right for the first time in your life? I don’t think we should base so much on weight, muscles, and a good hair day, but when it happens, it’s nice. It really is.”

Thinking Knows Should Firsts Looks Mean Feelings Happens Felt Nice Hair First Time Weight Mirrors Muscles Do You Know Nice Feeling Good Hair

Author:Stephen Chbosky

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition

“I think it was the institution...I was trying to master it.”

Thinking Trying Masters Institutions

Author:E. Lockhart

“I think it was the occasion of the final psychological break with Great Britain, in a way that had clearly not happened to that date, especially in New England and to som degree in the South.”

Thinking Way Break Happened Degrees England South Finals Psychological Occasions Britain Great Britain New England

Author:Charles R. Morris

“I think it was the one thing I didn’t like about him or about guys in general: when a girl says she doesn’t want to talk about it, the truth is that she usually does. I wanted him to pry it out of me. Of course, I would’ve pretended to be a little angry that he didn’t just leave me alone, but eventually I would’ve told him, when I was tired of pretending.”

Thinking Want Littles Doe Wanted Guy Girl Courses One Thing Truth Is Angry Tired Pretending Leaving Me Me Alone Leave Me Alone Just Leave Me Alone

Author:J.A. Redmerski

“I think it was the perfect gestation time for this particular piece [ Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song]. One of the songs that I considered talking about was "Manhattan," because it was chronicling the end of a long relationship that was part of the reason why I moved from Los Angeles to New York, which was such a life-changing decision. I don't regret that it's not in there, but that's one that I considered diving into, and I have little piecemeal snippets of writing about that floating around”

“I think it was the preparation and every thing Lombardi represented, you know, about hard work and that every game was important. So when you get to the real important games, you were ready to go.”

Thinking Knows Important Real Hard Games Ready Hard Work Preparation Nfl Lombardi

Author:Ray Nitschke

“I think it was the right decision to disarm Saddam Hussein. And when the president made the decision, I supported him, and I support the fact that we did disarm him.”

Thinking Made Facts President Decision Support Iraq Saddam Hussein Right Decision

Author:John F. Kerry

“I think it was the right time for me to retire because nowadays tennis is too incredibly fast and you can say that my style tennis went out of fashion.”

Thinking Fashion Style Tennis Retiring Right Time

Author:Jana Novotna

“I think it was the same thing that really makes the premise of this film [Women of Wall Street] compelling: the idea of a woman negotiating issues around power and money, which are two things that have historically been denied to women. To see a woman operate successfully, but still find those barriers a result of that historical and systemic bias in her pursuit to the top, is a really interesting struggle.”

Thinking Stills Two Ideas Film Interesting Results Struggle Issues Streets Wall Historical Pursuit Two Things Barriers Denied Compelling Bias Premises Really Interesting Negotiating

Author:Meera Menon

“I think it was the sense that Turn is a spy thriller, and that's a genre that really fascinates me, in general.”

Thinking Turns Genre Spy Thrillers

Author:Jamie Bell

“I think it was there before, but - because of social media, too - there are these people who fancy themselves as tolerant, and don't see the hypocrisy and double standard of how they're not tolerant at all, and they're just strident and they don't listen. There's no dialogue anymore. That's maybe, truly, the worst part of Trump's legacy is just people yelling at each other.”

People Thinking Social Worst Media Trump Standards Social Media Dialogue Legacy Fancy Hypocrisy Yelling Double Standard

Author:David Cross

“I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.”

Thinking World Interest Natural Curiosity Natural World

Author:Paul Nurse

“I think it was Tommy who told me, 'When your song is called 'XYZ' or whatever, every line has got to make sense against your title.' He showed me little methods of proving to yourself whether the line belongs, and ways of finding out whether you were able to get more out of a line if you tried.”

Ifs Thinking Way Littles Able Song Lines Prove Findings Method Make Sense Titles Songwriting

Author:Merle Haggard

“I think it was very informative, but a lot still needs to be done.”

Thinking Needs Stills Done Informative

Author:Pablo Neruda

“I think it was W.H. Auden who said he was lucky that his first favorite poet was Thomas Hardy, who was a good but not a great poet, because if you are exposed to the greats too soon it can just squash you as a writer.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Said Poet Lucky Exposed Hardy Great Poet Squash Auden

Author:David Duchovny

“I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts.”

Thinking Literature My Own Talking Empty I Realized Ran Skulls Burroughs

Author:Allen Ginsberg

“I think it was when I was 12 when I entered a singing competition. I sang my own original song for an audience of 1,000 people.”

People Thinking Song My Own Audience Singing Originals Competition

Author:Birdy

“I think it was when I was nineteen, by that time the Jewish laws were already in force and the split was beginning to come about which isolated the Jewish culture.”

Thinking Law Culture Force Isolated Splits Nineteen Jewish Culture Jewish Law

Author:Gyorgy Ligeti

“I think it was wishful thinking of me to dream of being an NBA player. And once I made the NBA I dreamed of being an All-Star, but I never dreamed of being an MVP.”

Thinking Made Dream Stars Player Basketball Nba Wishful Thinking Mvp Nba Player All Stars

Author:Steve Nash

“I think it was wonderful when Princess Di died so that everyone could cry in unison. I thought that the crying together was the most powerful gift that she gave in her death.”

Thinking Together Powerful Wonderful Cry Died Most Powerful Princess Unison

Author:Sark

“I think it wasn't so much that the White House altered me in any essential way as that I found the resources with which to respond to a series of challenges. You never know what you can do until you have to do it. In the beginning, it was like going to a party you're terrified of, and finding out to your amazement that you're having a good time.”

Thinking Knows Way Found House Can Do Challenges White Party Essentials Findings Resources Series Good Times White House Terrified Having A Good Time Altered Amazement

Author:Betty Ford

Source: The times of my life

“I think it went really well. There was part of me that really wanted to go with the rabbit. But, honestly one thing that I struggle with a lot is really just competing...being in a pack, running with a lot of bodies. I'm 17 and I'm still not really used to it, so the goal today was to just race.”

Thinking Wells Stills Body Running Today Wanted Used Goal Race Struggle One Thing Athlete Honestly Packs Competing Rabbits

Author:Mary Cain

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