“People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise. Between Barbicane's proposition and its realization no true Yankee would have allowed even the semblance of a difficulty to be possi…”— Jules Verne, amazon.com
“Now when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted.”— Jules Verne, amazon.com
“Being in love is a very strange thing. Your thoughts constantly drift towards this other person, no matter what you’re doing. You could be reaching for a glass in the cupboard or brushing your teeth or listening to someone tell a story, and your mind will just start drifting towards their face, thei…”— Pittacus Lore, amazon.com
“As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts.”— David Sedaris, amazon.com
“When you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. Forever.”— Alan Moore, amazon.com
“If you really think about it, everything is wonderful in this world, everything except for our thoughts and deeds when we forget about the loftier goals of existence, about our human dignity.”— Anton Chekhov, amazon.com
“I just want to think deeply about things. Contemplate ideas in a pure, free sort of way. That’s all.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them.”— Machado de Assis, amazon.com
“I find myself daydreaming about him when I wake up in the morning, in school when something reminds me of him, and when I fall asleep at night”— Simone Elkeles, amazon.com
“In loving thou dost well, in passion not, Wherein true love consists not: Love refines The thoughts, and heart enlarges; hath his seat In reason, and is judicious”— John Milton, amazon.com
“I am a collection of thoughts and memories and likes and dislikes. I am the things that have happened to me and the sum of everything I’ve ever done. I am the clothes I wear on my back. I am every place and every person and every object I have ever come across. I am a bag of bones stuck to a very la…”— Macaulay Culkin, celebriot.com
“And I realize that no matter where I am, whether in a little room full of thought, or in this endless universe of stars and mountains, it’s all in my mind.”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com