Spontaneous Thought Quotes

Something will pop up in my head. It could be like the weirdest thing. Like all'a sudden like I have like a jumping banana in my head.

Ideas often flash across our minds more complete than we could make them after much labor.

Some people compose their thoughts in front of a typewriter but I find that I am better at composing my thoughts in front of an audience.

I have a phrase I say: 'What the damn?' It's my favorite. It just came to me one day.

Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made them by muchart and study.

Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.

Comedy writing is taking the brief thought and going with it.

Consciousness is, among other things, a spontaneous exercise in creativity.

Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, and all flock to their aid.

It's funny because sometimes one doesn't actually consider these things for one's self until one's in a situation like this press conferece where one has to kind of think about it.

One hears but one does not seek; one takes -- one does not ask who gives; a thought flashes up like lightning, it comes of necessity and unfalteringly formed.

The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness ; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience .

The first thought is often the best.

Allen Ginsburg was wrong about a lot of things, but especially when he said, 'First thought, best thought.'

We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful.

Each person has a literature inside them. But when people lose language, when they have to experiment with putting their thoughts together on the spot-that's what I love most. That's where character lives.

You can't think on purpose about somebody or something. Either you think about them naturally or you don't think at all.