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History (play)2 quotes
O, who can hold a fire in his hand
By thinking on the frosty Caucasus?
Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite
By bare imagination of a feast?
Or wallow naked in December snow
By thinking on fantastic summer’s heat? — William Shakespeare · 1595My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel. — William Shakespeare · 1592Tragedy (play)2 quotes
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. — William Shakespeare · 1616Make not your thoughts your prisons. — William Shakespeare · 1607Autobiography and memoir1 quote
Life does not consist mainly—or even largely—of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head. — Mark Twain · 1910Comedy1 quote
My mind is a raging torrent flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives. — Hedley Lamarr · 1974Comedy (film)1 quote
My mind is a raging torrent flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives. — Hedley Lamarr · 1974Political literature1 quote
It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think. — Matthew Arnold · 1861Religious literature1 quote
A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes. — Mahatma Gandhi · 1922Western1 quote
My mind is a raging torrent flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives. — Hedley Lamarr · 1974Western (film)1 quote
My mind is a raging torrent flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives. — Hedley Lamarr · 1974