“Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.”

Book 1, Ch. 3, sec. 3
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)
Variant: The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

No Country for Old Men (2005)

Explaining why she changed her name.
A Character Star Gets Her Perks Playing Coffee's Mrs. Olson (April 30, 1979)

The Confession (c. 452?)
Context: For some time I have thought of writing, but I have hesitated until now, for truly, I feared to expose myself to the criticism of men, because I have not studied like others, who have assimilated both Law and the Holy Scriptures equally and have never changed their idiom since their infancy, but instead were always learning it increasingly, to perfection, while my idiom and language have been translated into a foreign tongue. So it is easy to prove from a sample of my writing, my ability in rhetoric and the extent of my preparation and knowledge, for as it is said, 'wisdom shall be recognized in speech, and in understanding, and in knowledge and in the learning of truth.

&quot;The Best Fun I Ever Had&quot; (song) <br class="br">Song lyrics <br class="br">Source: Gilbert O&#x27;Sullivan, &quot;The Best Fun I Ever Had&quot; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY2zGAXEkmg (song on YouTube)

&quot;Whatever happened to Edie Brickell?&quot; CNN.com (7 January 2004) http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/01/07/music.edie.brickell.ap/

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

in an interview with a reporter from the Daily New Mexican after his capture at Stinking Springs.
The West of Billy the Kid, by Frederick Nolan, page 323. ISBN 0-8061-3082-2

"Epitaph" from Smart Set (December 1921)
1920s