In My Mind Quotes

#1. It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.

Thomas Jefferson

#2. Now I know it's because somewhere in my mind, I still harboured hatred and fear for that man, so it was just easier to erect the brick wall and never look back.

Colleen Hoover

#3. Turning all this over in my mind, I started to imagine another me somewhere, sitting in a bar, nursing a whiskey, without a care in the world. The more I thought about it, the more that other me became the real me, making this me here not real at all.

Haruki Murakami

#4. There's no point in arguing with me- in my mind, I'm always right.

Laura Schlessinger

#5. There are a lot of unseen projects. When a project is finished, I often physically, and in my mind, set it aside, intending something to happen with it, something that does or does not always happen. Now, a lot of these are being resurrected for the public.

William Eggleston

#6. I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.

Mandy Moore

#7. It all began with the word itself. "Grass. Gramina. The family Gramineae. Grasses." "Oh," I responded doubtfully. The picture in my mind was only of a vague area in parks edged with benches for the idle.

Ward Moore

#8. I didn't write poems for a number of years after graduate school because the criticisms of other students in the workshops wouldn't quiet down in my mind when I tried to work.

Kevin Keck

#9. But I'd come to a time when I couldn't deal with these broken things anymore. There were too many of them. I couldn't fix them. I didn't have the strength. I couldn't hold them in my mind. I didn't even want to know about them.

William Loizeaux

#10. Butterflies doing strange things in very beautiful ways were in my mind when I sat down, but by the time my pen was uncapped my thoughts had shifted to rocks.

William Beebe

#11. I think I had a tendency to get stuck inside my head and go to some very dark places in my mind, and get stuck there. I couldn't see a way to get out.

Joan Osborne

#12. On a good night, I'm just into the flow and seeing the pictures and words in my mind clearly before I say them. On a bad night, which to be honest are nowhere near as bad as when I was starting out, I just concentrate on performing the routines correctly. I focus on my delivery.

Franklyn Ajaye

#13. You are my light! In my mind, in my heart, and in my eyes. If you're not, then how can I see you?

Debasish Mridha

#14. Even with the sun beaming down on me I'm not sweating in my mind. I'm not sweating in my heart or in my career.

Ricky Skaggs

#15. The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.

Hortense Calisher

#16. I put my hands behind my head and lay on my back, trying to hold on to the memories of my family. Their faces seemed to be far off somewhere in my mind, and to get to them I had to bring up painful memories.

Ishmael Beah

#17. I carry themes in my mind for years before I will try to compose them. I've got themes that will last me now 'til I die.

R. B. Kitaj

#18. But in my mind I've always been a solo artist- I've just been working with a lot of great people like Kanye and Alicia Keys and Jay-Z.

John Legend

#19. A poet in my mind, needs to make a difference or his words don't mean a damn thing.

Jose Gouveia

#20. I have seen the truth. It is not as though I had invented it in my mind. I have seen it, SEEN IT and the living image of it has filled my soul forever ...

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#21. I'm in my mind a lot. I live there.

Charlie Kaufman

#22. Still in my mind the old days scenario is playing

OVER AND OVER

Deyth Banger

#23. I have confidence that whatever I set in my mind will happen. Everything I strived for I reached.

Mark Teixeira

#24. I've got quite a memory. Engraved in my mind, things are. I can't forget anything ... It's not a sign of intelligence ... Nothing to boast about, memory ... that's just how it is ...

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#25. Though I still occasionally questioned my desire to be the princess, there was no doubt in my mind that I wanted to be Maxon's.

Kiera Cass

#26. After eighteen long months covering this dreary business, the whole campaign appears in my mind's eye as one long, protracted scratch-fight over Internet-fueled nonsense.

Matt Taibbi

#27. The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy. In my mind it's a little bit of both, and no matter how you choose to view it in the end, it does not change the fact that it involves a great deal of my life and the path I've chosen to follow.

Nicholas Sparks

#28. As an adult, I have often been deep in serious conversation with someone I've highly respected and seen them roll an eye as my mouth has mangled yet another magnificently conceived, clumsily articulated sentence. In my mind, the words are mellifluous as honey. In my mouth, they are shards of glass.

Kate Forsyth

#29. A secret is a secret in my mind.

Daniel Craig

#30. In my mind, the function of the bank is to save your money. The bank should not cost you money.

Celso Cukierkorn

#31. As a rule, I had murder in my mind. That day, I had it in my heart.

Jane Casey

#32. For me photography is just a way to collect material to realize the ideas in my mind. I get inspired by things around me in my daily life and all kinds of things I see. Every new project is a new challenge and my goal is to realize them as realistic as possible.

Erik Johansson

#33. I never, ever had it in my mind that I wanted to be in the record industry, because I still contend that the record industry is an insidious affair. It's this terrible collision between art and commerce, and it will always be that way.

Ian MacKaye

#34. Your face is engraved in my mind. I can't erase it. I don't want to. Because as much as I hate you, I love you. And I love you unforgettably.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#35. I had no doubt in my mind that I loved Alice (Tom Ward).

Joseph Delaney

#36. She was a music I no longer heard, that rang in my mind, itself and nothing else, lost to all sense, but not perished, not perished.

Marilynne Robinson

#37. When I was nine - before I grew up and became a scientist - I thought I knew everything, or at least I wanted to know everything, and in my mind there was no difference between the two. At

Jodi Picoult

#38. So be it. In my mind the beginning of a life, especially if it seems destined to be a challenging one, deserves the most promising name you can come up with. A beginning kind of name. Like Dawn, Or Hope. Or Aurora.

Sarah Weeks

#39. It's funny what memory does, isn't it? My favorite holiday tradition might not have happened more than once or twice. But because it is such a good memory, so encapsulating of everything I love about the holidays, in my mind it happened every year. Without fail.

Molly O'Keefe

#40. It was definitely in my mind to do a solo album, but I didn't know it would take this long.

Britta Phillips

#41. There seems to be a firewall in my mind against ideas expressed in numbers and graphs rather than words, or in abstract words such as Sin or Creativity. I just don't understand. And incomprehension is boredom.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#42. I see you in my mind crisp and concise and I will stop at nothing to make the vision reality.

Robert McGinley

#43. Now my uncle knew many of them personally, and also ladies of another class, not clearly distinguished from actresses in my mind. He used to entertain them at his house.

Marcel Proust

#44. Lotus-land as it appears in 'Free Will' is simply a metaphor for an idealized background, a 'land of milk and honey.' It is sometimes also used as a pejorative name for Los Angeles, though that was not in my mind when I wrote it.

Neil Peart

#45. It hit me right there and then that these antifragile hormetic responses were just a form of redundancy, and all the ideas of Mother Nature converged in my mind. It is all about redundancy. Nature likes to overinsure itself.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#46. I feel like I have so many stories basting in my mind, and they come busting out when they're ready.

Maggie Stiefvater

#47. One half-conscious thought was burned in my mind: stay on your feet.

Gene Tunney

#48. I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that the intelligence was genuine.

Tony Blair

#49. I love you, in my mind where my thoughts reside, in my heart where my emotions live, and in my soul where my dreams are born. I love you.

Dee Henderson

#50. I want to wake up every day and do whatever comes in my mind, and not feel pressure or obligations to do anything else in my life.

Michael Jordan

#51. In bed at night, I could be reading some book, and I'll come across a sentence that's totally unrelated to some scene I did years ago. But I'll play the scene back in my mind and think, I did that wrong - I should've opened the door more slowly.

Liam Neeson

#52. I don't feel as though I've graduated from commercials or music videos. In my mind, they aren't compartmentalised.

Jonathan Glazer

#53. There's in my mind a ...
turbulent moon-ridden girl
or old woman, or both,
dressed in opals and rags, feathers
and torn taffeta,
who knows strange songs
but she is not kind.

Denise Levertov

#54. The joyous clamor in my mind drowned out the strange sound outside the car: a humming noise that was gathering speed and growing louder, a roar that was not the waves curling up the beach.

Padma Venkatraman

#55. I much prefer the colors dancing in my mind.

Carrie Ryan

#56. Haze all clouding up in my mind in the daze of the why it could've never been.

Tori Amos

#57. A crazy place in my mind laughs to keep the world and my heart from breaking in two.

Tim Miller

#58. I release all fears and doubts. I accept myself and create peace in my mind and heart. I now choose to free myself from all destructive fears and doubts. I am loved and I am safe.

Louise Hay

#59. I had this image stuck in my mind. I was four and I was walking down the street, holding my brother's hand. I wondered if it was a memory or a dream. Or a hope.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#60. I can't picture in my mind three hundred and sixty thousand dollars ... When I think of it, all I can see in my mind is a big nickel.

Harlan Ellison

#61. Wait. Somehow the word chicken struck a chord. I played with it in my mind. Rolled it over my tongue. Then came to a conclusion; It was me. I was a chicken butt.

Darynda Jones

#62. I keep my eyes closed as tightly as I can, but in my mind, everyone in the square looks like my father and they all have his voice. I hate you all. I imagine my hands at their throats, choking, silencing them, one by one.

Marie Lu

#63. 'I Am Legend' is quite unusual for its time. I just wanted to write a story about female boxers, and I couldn't get that going in my mind. I don't know exactly where the idea of just a man pitting himself against a robot boxer came from.

Richard Matheson

#64. I wish I would have kept the big picture in my mind at all times - what it most important? That my kids seek to please God and learn about their Creator.

Mary Engelbreit

#65. In my mind my obituary is done.It is done and it is right. It tells the truth and as awful as it can be, the truth is what matters. It is what I should be remembered by, if I'm remembered at all. Remember the truth. that is all that matters

James Frey

#66. Even when not in the act of writing Muscatine a letter, I was often composing one in my mind, situating the words just so, plunking one here, then one there, gauging how to sound worthy of his regard.

Timothy Schaffert

#67. Psychologically, I will not have to seek far if I decide to kill myself, because in my mind and heart I am more ready for this than for the unplanned daily tribulations that mark off the mornings and afternoons.

Andrew Solomon

#68. Let go of everything else, he urges in my mind. Just be here. With me.

Cynthia Hand

#69. My Dad hated his job. He sold overcoats, but he wanted to make movies. He had a failed career working with the Ritz Brothers - they were like the Marx Brothers, only a tier below. I always had a picture in my mind of him in a straw hat.

Steve Sabol

#70. There are a lot of stories I remember with 'Wolverine.' 'Days of Future Past' is one that jumps out in my mind.

Cullen Bunn

#71. As a fact it was, in my mind, at one and the same time absolutely true and obviously untrue, and perhaps only children are able to accommodate double-faced facts like these.

Zadie Smith

#72. My stories wrap around me like a cozy quilt, and sometimes I long to pull that quilt over my head and pin the blanket shut, allowing me to immerse myself in the world vivid in my mind.

Nancy Moser

#73. we knew the Witch Doctor was busy in the village. I've got the spot marked to a certainty in my mind, and all of you notice that there's the finest cedar growing directly above him on the top of the wall,

Frank Fowler

#74. Arms, ankles turning as I stepped in holes and stumbled on rocks. I had no room in my mind for any form of rational thought; I wanted only to get away from him. A heavy weight struck me hard in the

Diana Gabaldon

#75. I didn't have statistics in my mind when I was racing. It was always a consequence - a nice consequence. I enjoyed it, but it wasn't the reason I was racing.

Michael Schumacher

#76. Kids made fun of me because I was dark skinned, had a wide nose, and was dyslexic. Even as an actor, it took me a long time to realize why words and letters got jumbled in my mind and came out differently.

Danny Glover

#77. I've always been drawn to writing for young readers. The books that I read growing up remain in my mind very strongly.

Meg Wolitzer

#78. The first thing I do when I get up is I look out the window. I've been looking at the same image for six years. It's imprinted in my mind like an afterimage template.

Chris Ware

#79. I don't think that trauma is an illusion; there is no question in my mind that circumstances beyond our control can shape and define us. But ultimately, we make choices about letting ourselves be defined by our pasts.

Christina Baker Kline

#80. It is just like your tape-recorder. It records, it reproduces - all by itself. You only listen. Similarly, I watch all that happens, including my talking to you. It is not me who talks, the words appear in my mind and then I hear them said.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#81. My blood cries out that it belongs to her, and struggles to return to her, and I hear her words in my mind as I run, telling me to be brave.

Veronica Roth

#82. I saw a birthday card the other day, and it said, "If you didn't know how old you were, how old would you think you were?" I started changing it in my mind right away to, "If you didn't know how sick you were, how sick would you think you were?"

Michael J. Fox

#83. I sometimes shock the people around me with how I see things. I come up with very unique solutions to things. As I can picture things in my mind and move them around to design and understand them.

Tina J. Richardson

#84. I like to know what's happening to prepare myself. I make up scenarios in my mind about what may happen. This helps me cope.

Tina J. Richardson

#85. In my mind I'm going to Carolina. Can't you see the sunshine, can't you just feel the moonshine? Ain't it just like a friend of mine, to hit me from behind, and I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind.

James Taylor

#86. I know it won't be eight medals again. If you want to compare me to that, that's your decision, not mine. I'm going out there to try to accomplish the things that I have in my mind and in my heart.

Michael Phelps

#87. I then wrought at my trade as a tailor; carefully attended meetings for worship and discipline; and found an enlargement of gospel love in my mind, and therein a concern to visit Friends in some of the back settlements of Pennsylvania and Virginia.

John Woolman

#88. In my mind, I'm always the best. If I walk out on the court (and) I think the next person is better, I've already lost.

Venus Williams

#89. I'm thinking about babies. Emma's baby. Jack and my baby. Growing in my mind, if not in my womb.

Steven Herrick

#90. I don't have any doubt in my mind that there will come a time when we will see violence against animal rights abusers.

Jerry Vlasak

#91. After reading some of my stories, I once had a friend say to me, "I'd love to spend five minutes in your head to see what's going on in there." I warned them, "If you spent five seconds in my mind you'd probably run out screaming and never speak to me again.

Mark W. Boyer

#92. I have one thing in my mind. How can I get people to start taking care of themselves? That's all I think about.

Jack LaLanne

#93. Most of us have collections of sayings we live by ... Whenever words fly up at me from the printed page as I read, I intercept them instantly, knowing they are for me. I turn them over carefully in my mind and cling to them hard.

Ray Stannard Baker

#94. In my mind's eye, my chess pieces had grown into lines of dark-skinned men marching forward, being beaten by a white army and crumpling one by one into my father's waiting arms, bloodstains blossoming across their shoulders. (32)

Padma Venkatraman

#95. If you can help other people understand those truths - and in my mind, the only way I know to do that is with large scale, multi-year research projects, where you start with a question and then very rigorously and comprehensively answer that question.

James Collins

#96. I'm such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and that that's a rigorous state of journeying for me. My body isn't that interested in moving from place to place.

Bell Hooks

#97. A true artist, in my mind, is willing to fail sometimes, because if you're not brave enough to say yes and follow your gut, it's never going to be good.

Alexander Skarsgard

#98. I have an unconscious burglar living in my mind: If I read something, it's mine.

David Eddings

#99. When I encounter a problem - something that's not quite right with a product - I enjoy breaking it down in my mind and exploring possible alternative solutions: Why this? Why not that? I apply the latest in technology and design to reinvent that product and solve my frustrations.

Tony Fadell

#100. I could quite happily just make music because it conjures up a whole visual world for me in my mind.

Gotye