The Mind Quotes
It would be great if I woke up tomorrow and could speak Persian. Wouldn't you love to wake and have a language in your mind that wasn't there the night before?
My mind struggled to formulate a coherent though, any thought. I opened my mouth. "Your pajamas have Eeyore on them." "I like Eeyore. He's sensible. A sober outlook on life never hurt anyone.
Because you are the one. You are better than me in some things, and I am better than you in others...I don’t mind being a bit like you. I hope you don’t mind being a bit like me.
Are you out of your mind?" It's not polite to lie to your best friend. "It's a possibility.
I'm not trying to plant the seed that I'm the most fashionable NBA guy - of course, I think that in my own mind.
It's in my music, and its on my mind all the time. To spread love, healing peace and joy is my mission in life - and so I speak up.
Little by little I changed my mind, and when I was about eighteen, I began to consider the possibility of getting married. Not to have a husband, but to have children.
This damned ranting about doom. Is that food for the minds of modern people? Do they really expect us to take them seriously?
any writer is inevitably going to work with his own anxieties and desires. If the book is any good it has got to have in it the fire of a personal unconscious mind.
Here ah am in the junky's limbo; too sick tae sleep, too tired tae stay awake. A twilight zone ay the senses where nothing's real except the crushing, omnipresent misery n pain in your mind n body.
No one has ever seen the self. It has no visible shape, nor does it occupy measurable space. It is an abstraction, like other abstractions equally elusive: the individual, the mind, the society
His mind was like a soup dish, wide and shallow; it could hold a small amount of nearly anything, but the slightest jarring spilled the soup into somebody's lap
Even though being a kid is kind of a carefree sort of thing for the most part, I guess there are definitely a lot of things that stick in kids' minds.
In the presence of total Darkness, the mind finds it absolutely necessary to create light.
Talking over the things which you have read with your companions fixes them on the mind.
Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination.
When two or three sciences are pursued at the same time if one of them be dry, as logic, let another be more entertaining, to secure the mind from weariness.
Fiction happens in the womb. It doesn't get processed in the mind until you do the editing.
As we grow old we slowly come to believe that everything will turn out badly for us, and that failure is in the nature of things; but then we do not much mind what happens to us one way or the other.
In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect.
Human talk is a centrifugal function, ever in flight outwards from what is on the talker's mind.
You should not want to know the things in people's minds. If you were meant to hear them, they would be said.
You are the only one who can do it like you do it. You are the best. You have what it takes. You have the power. When you put your mind to something, you get it done. So what are you waiting for?
My vision is to elevate the consciousness of humanity one mind, one heart, one life, one spirit at a time. They are married.
A synopsis is a cold thing. You do it with the front of your mind. If you're going to stay with it, you never get quite the same magic as when you're going all out.
Most writers enjoy two periods of happiness when a glorious idea comes to mind and, secondly, when a last page has been written and you haven't had time to know how much better it ought to be.
I'm nice with damn kids, man. Kids love me. I can bounce back and forth. I can discipline kids and I can get into the mind of a kid.
After I go out this door, I may only exist in the minds of all my acquaintances…I may be an orange peel.
I feel that the surrealists have created a series of valid external landscapes which have their direct correspondences within our own minds.
The Magistrate suffered from the disability of a free-thinking turn of mind and from a life that was barren and dreary to match.
if have got my spindle and my distaff ready--my pen and mind--never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax.
I have to write the story I want to write. I never wrote them with a focus group of 8-year-olds in mind. I have to continue telling the story the way I want to tell it.
For me, there's nothing sexier than a woman who can argue me into the ground and outsmart me...a woman who knows her own mind and isn't afraid to speak it.
I've changed my mind. I've decided that at the end I want to be cremated and my ashes scattered over someone I don't like.
I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.
And the Ring is so heavy, Sam. I begin to see it in my mind all the time, like a great wheel of fire.
Orcs, and talking trees, and leagues of grass, and galloping riders, and glittering caves, and white towers and golden halls, and battles, and tall ships sailing, all these passed before Sam's mind.
An Active mind didn't need distraction in its physical environment. It needed a collection of outstanding books and a good lamp. Maybe some cheese and crackers.
The Brother's eyes narrowed. "But here's something to keep in mind. You ever hurt him on purpose and I will consider you my enemy.
Working under the Soviet system made you very paranoid - people were afraid of everything - and this paranoia is still in people's minds.