A Piece Of Mind Quotes

#1. When I got out of my Twenties I stopped playing women that were victims. I like playing women who are strong and have a piece of mind.

Kim Cattrall

#2. A student comes to me with a piece of writing, holds it out, says, 'Is this good?' A whole sequence of emergencies goes off in my mind. That's not a question to ask anyone but yourself.

William Stafford

#3. That's brain tissue. How can you-?" Claire shut her mouth, fast. "Never mind. I don't think I wanna know."
"Truly, I think that's best. Please take it." He showed his teeth briefly in a very unsettling grin. "I'm giving you a piece of my mind."
"I so wish you hadn't said that.

Rachel Caine

#4. Once you are present in the Energyfield of Self-discovery, it's like you are a piece of ice in warm water. The warm water is the Self. The ice is the mind. The warm water is not fighting with the ice. The ice can not resist the melting. It is a natural and fatal attraction.

Mooji

#5. You might of put Travis from your mind, but I still think he claims a piece of your heart.

Karen Witemeyer

#6. I'm just a fucked up girl looking for my own piece of mind.

Kate Winslet

#7. Peace of mind is much better than giving them a piece of your mind.

J. P. McEvoy

#8. Imagine a famine. Now imagine a piece of bread. Both of these things are real but you happen to be in the same room with only one of them. Put yourself into a different room, that's what the mind is for.

Margaret Atwood

#9. I am slow to learn and slow to forget that which I have learned. My mind is like a piece of steel, very hard to scratch any thing on it and almost impossible after you get it there to rub it out.

Abraham Lincoln

#10. I always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind.

Patrick Dennis

#11. Always remember: a brand is the most valuable piece of real estate in the world; a corner of someone's mind.

John Hegarty

#12. If I have a blank piece of paper and I draw a red figure, immediately this brings sounds and shapes to my mind. I tried to make a film in which every component supports the others while giving each other space and stimulating the creation of what's yet to come.

Alex Abreu

#13. It is better to give others a piece of your heart than a piece of your mind.

Suzanne Woods Fisher

#14. A black belt is nothing more than a belt, a piece of cloth. Your ultimate goal should not be to get your black belt. Your ultimate goal should be to be a black belt. Being a black belt is a state of mind, a way of life.

Bohdi Sanders

#15. So I saw Beth today. She asked me how you were doing. Sounded like she wants you back."
"We were over months ago."
"You mind if I ask her out, then?"
"You mind if I spray a piece on the side of your gran's house?

Cath Crowley

#16. Most of the time, it seemed as if the piece was fully formed in his mind. He was not one for improvising. It was more a question of executing something he saw in a flash.

Patti Smith

#17. Right away he'd cuss me out, tell me I was a worthless piece of shit. But I never got pissed at David. In my mind, I thought, I'm better than that and I'll show you. As it happens,

Chris Kyle

#18. I have an image in my mind of what I want, whether it's a light jacket or a one-piece. I can tell if what I want is in the store right away.

Marie Kondo

#19. Seeing you puts me in mind of a piece of French chocolate." She swallowed and took another step backward. "If one wants to discover what is inside, one must first remove the foreign wrapping.

Julie Klassen

#20. Every piece of writing ... starts from what I call a grit ... a sight or sound, a sentence or a happening that does not pass away ... but quite inexplicably lodges in the mind.

Rumer Godden

#21. A piece of writing is the product of a series of explosions in the mind.

Ellen Gilchrist

#22. All her life, Sophie had been taught that books are precious. Each one holds people and worlds. Each one is a piece of someone's heart and mind that they chose to share. They were shared dreams.

Sarah Beth Durst

#23. Before, when I looked at a piece of blank paper my mind was filled with ideas. Now all I see is a blank piece of paper

Paul Erdos

#24. Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade.

Charles Dickens

#25. Nan was shocked. "What a jerk! Mina, you must feel awful. He didn't try to take advantage of you, did he? I'm so mad- I want to go searching for him and give him a piece of my mind, and a kick in the rear. And Brody, why did you bring such a loser for Mina to date?

Chanda Hahn

#26. A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

John Henry Newman

#27. And if I ever DO see [Kenny G] anywhere, at any function - he WILL get a piece of my mind, and maybe a guitar wrapped around his head.

Pat Metheny

#28. That was all part of giving someone a piece of your heart; they ended up taking a whole chunk of your mind and reserving it all for themselves.

Cecelia Ahern

#29. In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#30. Why Lila glaring at you, hombre? " asked Rico. "Though I wouldn't mind a hot piece of culo like that acknowledging my existence." Rico puckered his lips, sending a mock kiss in Lila's direction. I laughed when she flipped her golden hair over her shoulder and stared at the dry-erase board.

Katie McGarry

#31. My anger with him had grown as the hours had passed. I'd convinced myself when he came to get me i would really give him a piece of my mind. Of course - it's easy to be brave when the object of your fear isn't holding your sore nipples hostage. ~ Livvie

C.J. Roberts

#32. The mind has been likened to a piece of paper that has been folded. Ever afterwards it has a tendency to fold in the same crease-unless we make a new crease or fold, when it will follow the last lines.

William Walker Atkinson

#33. I learnt very early in life that whenever there is a choice between peace of mind and piece of ass, go for the former.

Shahrukh Khan

#34. I've already lost a piece of my mind. I can't trust you with what's left.

Katie McGarry

#35. That is the trouble, everybody is giving everything in the world a piece of their minds. Whereas what we want is not a piece of somebody's mind, even the best mind, so much as an open heart and an open spirit.

Laurens Van Der Post

#36. If I could just write it down in a piece of paper, then maybe she could get a decent night's sleep, eat a little of her dinner. Maybe she could have a minute's worth of peace.

Wally Lamb

#37. Anyhow, be happy. I get the feeling a lot of shit is going to come your way, but you're a stubborn son of a bitch, I'm sure you'll handle it. Mind if I give you one piece of advice?" "Sure, go ahead." "Don't feel sorry for yourself," he said. "Only assholes do that.

Haruki Murakami

#38. When it came to spankings, my dad never used a belt. One time he grabbed a piece of my Hot Wheels race car track. In my mind I'm thinking, 'Great, now I'm being beaten with my own toys ... ' Thank God I didn't get that wood burning set I wanted.

Scott Wood

#39. To deserve this fate what have I ever done? ... All I want is just a little piece of mind but the angels won't have it.

Melissa Etheridge

#40. There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land

Harriet Martineau

#41. I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.

Steve Hackett

#42. Just a glass of beer, a piece of dry bread - and in one moment the brain is stronger, the mind is clearer and the will is firm! Phew, how utterly petty it all is!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#43. A fellow with the smallest mind is the one who is usually most willing to give someone a piece of it.

Croft M. Pentz

#44. Name. "Mr. Scrooge!" said Bob; "I'll give you Mr. Scrooge, the Founder of the Feast!" "The Founder of the Feast indeed!" cried Mrs. Cratchit, reddening. "I wish I had him here. I'd give him a piece of my mind to feast upon, and I hope he'd have a good appetite for it.

Charles Dickens

#45. The creative mind can turn chaos into a master piece and call it Art.

Nikki Rowe

#46. The greatest compliment that anyone can pay me is that after I say something, they remember it. I'll go over a piece of copy until I've gotten the essence of what the writer had in mind - every nuance.

Casey Kasem

#47. Their screams would echo through the house and reverberate against my eardrums until my mind would fracture. Years went by and with each fracture; I lost a piece of my soul until I became lost and empty inside.

J.D. Stroube

#48. Do not give them a piece of your mind but a piecepiece of God's LOVE

Ikechukwu Joseph

#49. Nostalgia. It haunts us, it destroys us, and sometimes, its sentimentality consumes us piece by piece so that we may realize our once-familiar circumstance may never again return. It is a state of mind best indulged infrequently.

Bryant A. Loney

#50. I know a famous violinist who told me he can't compose because he knows too many pieces. So, when he starts thinking of a note, an existing piece immediately comes to mind. Just starting out, one of your biggest strengths is not knowing how things are supposed to be.

Natalie Portman

#51. It's just that it's impossible to be a broken or whole person. You can only be a person. You can only exist, you can only belong to yourself, and you can only be responsible for your own happiness or belonging or whatever. That broken-part-piece-whole thing is just a trick of the mortal mind.

Jackson Pearce

#52. Part of me wanted to give him a piece of my mind. He didn't get it as a whole, so I will keep my peace.

Amanda Mosher

#53. Wow. Sumi sat back in total stupor. So no one had ever climbed aboard that giant piece of sexy male and taken him for a ride. Unbelievable. Who in their right mind would bypass that opportunity? She didn't know who this Dariana was, but the female had to be the dumbest cow ever bred. It

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#54. A narrow and distorted picture of America often emerges from the televised news. A single dramatic piece of the mosaic becomes, in the minds of millions, the entire picture.

Spiro T. Agnew

#55. She looked like someone he must have known all his life. She looked like a little piece of home - whatever the devil his mind meant by presenting him with that odd idea.

Mary Balogh

#56. If you can't give people a piece of your mind, they probably don't deserve the whole of your heart.

Robert J. Braathe

#57. Hop in? Dude, are you out of your ever-loving mind? I can't touch this. I might leave a fingerprint or something. (Nick)
Oh the horror. Guess I'll have to trade the piece of junk in and get a new one if that happens. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#58. You've got a chemistry class; I want a piece of your mind;
You don't know what you started when you mixed it up with mine ...

Elvis Costello

#59. Of course, it took a while to learn all this. Anytime I messed up, my boss would let me know. Right away he'd cuss me out, tell me I was a worthless piece of shit. But I never got pissed at David. In my mind, I thought, I'm better than that and I'll show you. As it happens, that's exactly the

Chris Kyle

#60. When you move so quickly from innocence to a world of fear, pain and loss, it's as if the flesh of your heart and mind gets cut away, piece by piece, like slices taken off a ham. Finally, there is nothing left but bone.

Leymah Gbowee

#61. I know. But I don't want her (Lissa) to get in trouble." (Rose)
He (Christian) snorted. "But you don't mind if I do?"
I shrugged. "Not really."
"You're a piece of work, you know that?"
"Yeah. I do, actually."
(pg 242)

Richelle Mead

#62. If you focus the rays of the sun through a lens, they can burn cotton or a piece of paper; but, the scattered rays cannot do this act. If you collect the dissipated rays of the mind and focus them at a point, you will have wonderful concentration.

Sivananda

#63. made from a lovely piece of Liberty fabric ordered years ago, not because Saffy had a project in mind, but because it was simply too beautiful not to possess.

Kate Morton

#64. Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.

Louis Kahn

#65. Wyatt gave him a look, making it obvious he thought Clay had lost his mind. "You telling me you think a piece of pie's gonna fix my problems?"
"Why not?" Clay laughed. "Fixed mine.

Kele Moon

#66. The principal function of form is to advance our understanding. It is the organization of a piece which helps the listener to keep the idea in mind, to follow its development, its growth, its elaboration, its fate.

Arnold Schoenberg

#67. His expression was somehow both cruel and dripping with affection. Devastating. And I thought perhaps I'd lost a piece of my mind, a part of my soul, because my mouth watered and my body hummed with need that bordered on unhealthy. Vivid. Violent. Dangerous.

A.L. Jackson

#68. You couldn't make yourself stop feeling a certain way, no matter what the other person did. You had to just wait. Eventually the feeling went away because others came along. Or sometimes it didn't go away but got squeezed into something tiny, and hung like a piece of tinsel in the back of your mind.

Elizabeth Strout

#69. On a piece of wasteland in Leeds I once saw a used condom in the grass. A dead and sordid thing. And yet to my thirteen-year-old mind the whole mystery of life seemed to stream through it. Nothing I've seen since has been so eloquent of the thrilling and terrifying mysteries of life.

Glenn Haybittle

#70. I'm folding my emotions like a piece of paper - a tiny square, into a tiny square, into a tiny square. When they're folded up enough I can leave them in a corner of my mind somewhere, to be forgotten.

Tarryn Fisher

#71. The pun is the dung of the mind which soars. The jest falls, no matter where; and the mind after producing a piece of stupidity plunges into the azure depths.

Victor Hugo

#72. You can think of a thread as an actual, physical piece of thread that strings together a sequence of instructions. In my mind, the instructions are marshmallows, because marshmallows are delicious.

Daniel Higginbotham

#73. I have heard of a man who had a mind to sell his house, and therefore carried a piece of brick in his pocket, which he shewed as a pattern to encourage purchasers.

Jonathan Swift

#74. He wanted to crumple her up and toss her from his mind like a scrap piece of paper filled with nonsensical doodles or dissonant words that formed unbalanced rhymes. Yet, he refused throw her away.

Emmie White

#75. Instead of giving someone a piece of your mind, it turns out far better if you give them a piece of your heart.

Ann Voskamp

#76. When that little clock on my wall says "Olaotan! Olaotan!! Olaotan!!! It's half past time to write", I only have three things at my disposal: A pen, A piece of paper, and a crowded mind.

Olaotan Fawehinmi

#77. When someone wants to give you a "piece of their mind," ask them to give you "peace from their heart" instead.

Molly Friedenfeld

#78. I have been much amused at ye singular phenomena resulting from bringing of a needle into contact with a piece of amber or resin fricated on silke clothe. Ye flame putteth me in mind of sheet lightning on a small-how very small-scale.

Isaac Newton

#79. He must know he held a devastating piece of information in his hands. Somewhere behind those fathomless black eyes, his sharp mind was clicking away rapidly, trying to decide how best to use what he knew.

Cassandra Clare

#80. A piece of advice his father had given him surfaced in Edgar's mind. Sometimes, he had said, it's better just to keep quiet and think with your heart.

Sharan Newman

#81. I've forgotten more about bad putting than all the lousy putters in the firmament combined. My mind has been twisted into an incurable, disturbing venue of bad speed and inadequate line. I just want to go out and not feel like I'm putting a Rubik's Cube with a flimsy piece of rope.

Gary McCord

#82. Every one is as much bound in thought, word, deed, and mind, as a piece of stone or this table. That I talk to you now is as rigorous in causation as that you listen to me. There is no freedom until you go beyond Maya. That is the real freedom of the soul.

Swami Vivekananda

#83. By writing out your desires and goals on a piece of paper, you send a red flag to your subconscious mind that these thoughts are far more important

Robin S. Sharma

#84. There are ghosts of yourself scattered everywhere,
Whispers of a moment suspended in time,
Where every life that you've brushed up against
Now lives with a piece of you trapped in their mind.

Erin Hanson

#85. The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see.

Philip Guston

#86. Romeo: You couldn't put a price on piece of mind.

Cambria Hebert

#87. A writer needs certain conditions in which to work and create art. She needs a piece of time; a peace of mind; a quiet place; and a private life.

Margaret Walker