“Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.”
Wendell Berry (1934) author
Source: Jayber Crow
“I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
John Locke book An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Book 1, Ch. 3, sec. 3
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)
Variant: The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
“My thoughts, I guess, are bitter; who but the bitter have thoughts?”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
Alexander Hamilton (1757–1804) Founding Father of the United States
Letter written the night before his duel with Aaron Burr (10 July 1804)
“I will not waste time on second thoughts. My life will not be an apology. It will be a statement.”
Andy Andrews (1959) author and corporate speaker
Source: The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success
Linus Torvalds (1969) Finnish-American software engineer and hacker
Torvalds to his mother, about his sister
2000s, (2001)
“First thought: It was a dream
Second thought: No it wasn't
Third thought: Crap”
Laurie Halse Anderson (1961) American children's writer
Source: Twisted
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929–1994) public figure, First Lady to 35th U.S. President John F. Kennedy
A variant reading of White's notes exists: Then later I said to Bobby — what's the line between histrionics and drama. I should have kept the blood on. but in White's own published memoir In Search of History: A Personal Adventure (1978) this is rendered "what's the line between history and drama?"
The "Camelot" interview (29 November 1963)
Context: History!... Everybody kept saying to me to put a cold towel around my head and wipe the blood off... later, I saw myself in the mirror; my whole face spattered with blood and hair... I wiped it off with Kleenex... History! … I thought, no one really wants me there. Then one second later I thought, why did I wash the blood off? I should have left it there, let them see what they've done... If I'd just had the blood and caked hair when they took the picture … Then later I said to Bobby — what's the line between history and drama? I should have kept the blood on.