Occupying My Mind Quotes

#1. There is nothing more abominable than being in a state of bodily exhaustion and mental irritation; I was too lethargic to get up and seek some means of occupying my mind, but I was too uneasy to fall asleep.

Elizabeth Peters

#2. Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.

Elyn Saks

#3. But a human mind is a great sullen lightning-filled cloud of thoughts, all of them occupying a finite amount of brain processing time. Finding whatever the owner thinks they're thinking in the middle of the smog of prejudices, memories, worries, hopes and fears is almost impossible.

Terry Pratchett

#4. If ever I did a good deed in my life - if ever I thought a good thought - if ever I prayed a sincere and blameless prayer - if ever I wished a righteous wish, - I am rewarded now. To be your wife is, for me, to be as happy as I can be on earth.

Charlotte Bronte

#5. Most of the problems with the bodies and minds of the folks occupying the current culture involve an unwillingness to do anything hard, or anything that they'd rather not do. I applaud your resolve, and I welcome you to the community of people who have decided that EASY will no longer suffice.

Mark Rippetoe

#6. You've got to keep your finger on the pulse of what your audience is thinking, and know what they'll accept from you.

Dwayne Johnson

#7. I don't love horror movies with something surreal happening. That doesn't work for me. What's terrifying is something that could actually happen to me and what I would do. I don't know how to throw a punch, and I've never had to do it.

Katie Aselton

#8. They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

Khalil Gibran

#9. Everyone now agrees that a physics lacking all connection with mathematics ... would only be an historical amusement, fitter for entertaining the idle than for occupying the mind of a philosopher.

Franz Karl Achard

#10. As a writer, I can live somewhat independently, occupying nooks and crannies and finding meaning there. I can even live in my mind a good portion of most days.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

#11. Love finds me difficult.

Martin Amis

#12. The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

Walter Lippmann

#13. The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion

Donna J. Haraway

#14. When I'm not working, I want to be the version of the person that I was born to be. I was born with curly hair. It fits my personality, and it's totally who I am. I am rough around the edges, and I am not a polished girl.

Erin Wasson

#15. Sarah often thought it funny how she would think of the characters as if they were real people who had really lived, occupying this very world with the same strength of mind and passion as their creator.

Victoria Connelly

#16. I heard Amos yell, "For Brooklyn!"
It was an odd battle cry.

Rick Riordan

#17. To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.

Dogen

#18. He bowed, still holding her hand, and then, without a word, released it, and marched out, very dignified. It was another fine tragic effect, but Cleone, when the door closed behind him, broke into an hysterical laugh. She was rather amazed, and a little apprehensive.

Georgette Heyer