Interior Monologue Quotes

#1. Are you okay?' 'What do you mean?' 'You stopped talking. Just sat there looking intense.' 'Sorry. I had a stretch of interior monologue. Slightly lyrical. Takes a while to get through.

Michael Marshall Smith

#2. Just as blueprints don't necessarily specify blue buildings, selfish genes don't necessarily specify selfish organisms. As we shall see, sometimes the most selfish thing a gene can do is build a selfless brain. Genes are a play within a play, not the interior monologue of the players.

Steven Pinker

#3. Everything we do, our entire interior monologue, is prayer.

Madeleine L'Engle

#4. I don't think I have ever really gotten Leopold Bloom's interior ramblings out of my head! I am sure that voice continues to inspire the walking consciousness in my work - that is, the way I carry on an interior monologue as I walk through this city.

Stephen Vincent Benet

#5. A teenager who pretends to be an adult is still a teenager. If you imagine that getting high at a party and sleeping around is going to propel you into a state of adulthood, that's like thinking that dressing up as an Indian is going to make you an Indian.

Muriel Barbery

#6. Someone said you can't trust happiness.' 'Who was that idiot?' I shrugged. 'Let yourself be happy, Neal.

Barbara Morgenroth

#7. What I try to do is a good bad picture. I work it out very carefully, and then I do something that looks as if it went wrong.

Helmut Newton

#8. I try never to take myself for granted as somebody who should be out there speaking. Rather, I'm doing it only because I feel there's something important that needs to be conveyed.

Angela Y. Davis

#9. I'm a terrible person. I should have stayed in college. I should have gone skydiving while I had the chance. I should have gone swimming with dolphins. I should have seen The Spice Girls perform on their reunion tour!

Jillianne Hamilton

#10. He has the valuable quality of being fond of people without wanting to turn them inside out.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#11. My name might be Arrow, but it was Hopp who'd pierced my heart like one. I

Cambria Hebert

#12. If you get deep enough, you get trapped. Stop calling yourself a user. You are being used.

Jaron Lanier

#13. One thinks of the failure of representation since 9/11, the proliferation of novels, the media glut, the surfeit of images that somehow slide too easily into a banal repertoire, commodified shock.

Maureen N. McLane

#14. The greatest good is what we do for others.

Mother Teresa

#15. I bought my mother-in-law a beautiful chair for Christmas, but she won't let me plug it in.

Milton Berle

#16. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.

Anais Nin