Internal Monologue Quotes

#1. Don't start with me right now, internal monologue.

J.A. Huss

#2. Hello?' said the taxi driver, and I realized that it's all very well having an internal monologue, but it does tend to leave the other person a bit stranded, conversationally.

Danny Wallace

#3. The word 'question' is derived from the Latin quaerere 'to seek,' which is the same root as the word for quest. A creative life is a continued quest, and good questions are useful guides.

Paul A. Kaufman

#4. Life is not a continuous process, there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life.

Bill Gates

#5. Nothing is less efficient than perfectionism.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#6. Her life had been too safe to need courage, and too easy to develop resolve.

Stephen T. Harper

#7. It's hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq than it would take to conduct the war itself and secure the surrender of Saddam's security forces and his army. Hard to imagine.

Paul Wolfowitz

#8. I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.

Eddie Van Halen

#9. Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of a page has to be delivered in a matter of seconds on the stage.

Terry Pratchett

#10. I love this book it is the best of both world love romance

Yuu Watase

#11. I had to learn how to motivate myself and others; to give inspiration as well as keep pathways in my mind open so inspiration could find me.

Giles Long

#12. It's no wonder human beings are so narcissistic. The way our ears are constructed, we can hear only what is right next to us or else the internal monologue inside.

Gretel Ehrlich

#13. Genius. Don't you wish you could give it to me, Laurie?" And she slyly smiled in his disappointed face.

Louisa May Alcott

#14. The word rattled in my head like rocks in an oatmeal box.

Janet Fitch

#15. Every morning, I wake up and think about 10 different things I'm thankful for, and I continue to spread that love throughout the day, always visualizing, meditating, and growing.

Shameik Moore

#16. No, no, notthis one. She's a bad egg, she'd say until she was red in the face.

Amanda Hocking

#17. The young man only looks to the future because he has lived little; the old man looks to the past because he has little left to live.

Fennel Hudson

#18. Screenwriting is always about what people say or do, whereas good writing is about a thought process or an abstract image or an internal monologue, none of which works on screen.

David Nicholls

#19. I have no policy, for or against: only a personal style. Which is to say, I use them when I think it's appropriate to; for example, an internal monologue by a locquacious and verbose narrator is more likely to be larded with adverbs than an exchange of instant messages between cops at a crime scene.

Charles Stross

#20. Oh, I am very familiar with the internal monologue.

Robin Sloan

#21. Then I left school at 16 and worked in Perth Repertory Theatre, which was quite nearby where I lived. And I worked there for about six or seven months, as part of the stage crew.

Ewan McGregor

#22. You are not prime minister of Australia because of some kind of process of divine selection. You are prime minister of Australia through the gift of the Australian people.

John Howard

#23. You cannot punch Tegan in th face, you cannot punch Tegan in the face, I kelp repeating over and over in my head. It had basically been my mantra since I started here, but it was getting harder and harder to uphold.

Amanda Hocking

#24. Nerds obsess. We zealously deconstruct. We have a very active internal monologue (which may feel more like a dialogue sometimes). I think that so many of the things we undertake are a partial attempt to distract this monologue. We are hyper-self-aware. We have difficulty chilling out.

Chris Hardwick

#25. My thing is, I like playing guys who have a really interesting internal monologue.

Lennie James

#26. Joblessness sets you free

Sunday Adelaja

#27. In a word, poetry can not exist without emotion, or, if you will, without a movement of the soul which regulates the words.

Paul Claudel