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I Thought Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer
- For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of time.
- We slept in the same bed. There was never a right time to say it. It was always unnecessary. The books in my father's shed…
- Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn't someone, somewhere,…
- I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
- You're incredibly beautiful,' I told her, because she was fat, so I thought it would be an especially nice compliment, and also make her like…
- I flipped back through the pad of paper while I thought about what Stephen Hawking would do next.
- When I heard your organization was recording testimonies, I knew I had to come. She died in my arms, saying 'I don't want to die.'…
- I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going to die, whether it's in a…
- But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking, I became a…
- I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life, because if I'd…
- I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.
- I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
- Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do… I am not a hero, it is true… But I…
- It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor Rigby.” It’s true, where do they…
- I asked my schoolmate Mary to write a letter to me. She was funny and full of life. She liked to run around her empty…
- A map such as that one is worth many hundreds, and as luck will have it, thousands of dollars. But more than this, it is…
- The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless,…
More I Thought Quotes
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's… — Lance Armstrong
- I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium. — Neil Armstrong
- I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling as I… — Rowan Atkinson
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
- I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me… — Margaret Atwood
- I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many… — Teresa of Avila
- I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and… — Michele Bachmann
- (On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car. — Tallulah Bankhead
- Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought. — Joseph Barbera
- I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to… — Erykah Badu
- I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet. — Amy Adams