top of page
.png){kind=small}
Mind Quotes
"Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind."
9
"Gilligan's Island is wherever you want it to be in your mind."
9
"What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to be misrepresentative of what I'm about as a person and as a writer."
9
"Still less could I be afraid of those ghosts who touch my thoughts in passing. Any library is filled with them. I can take a book from dusty shelves, and be haunted by the thoughts of one long dead, still lively as ever in their winding sheet of words."
9
"We're all dreaming, Arctor said. If the last to know he's an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected. He wondered how much of the garbage that Donna had overheard he had seriously meant. He wondered how much of the insanity of the day--his insanity--had been real, or just induced as a contact lunacy, by the situation. Donna, always, was a pivot point of reality for him; for her this was the basic, natural question. He wished he could answer."
9
"A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk."
9
"Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis."
9
"In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be."
9
"To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks."
9
"A good stance and posture reflect a proper state of mind."
9
"Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence."
9
"I didn't mind if they yelled at me, but when they came on the field, it was a different story."
Mind,
9
"A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript."
9
"The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one."
9
"Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission."
9
"As soon as he thinks about the record, he's finished. The secret is to put it out of your mind."
Mind,
9
"And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind."
9
"Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable."
Mind,
9
"Once you start thinking about it in a mercenary frame of mind, then you're finished. You're a joke, because there are too many mercenaries out there already."
8
"One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do."
Mind,
8
"I can cross my arms and I can cross my legs, but nothing seems to cross my mind."
8
"Analysis is soul of thought and ghost of wit."
8
"Can our mind evolve to be something other than an extension of our animal needs?"
8
bottom of page