Top 100 Of My Mind Quotes
#1. What's happened to you? You're swearing like I do." He lowered his head so he was speaking directly into her ear. "You happened to me. You make me crazy and frantic and out of my mind with fear and desire all in the same day.
Marie Force
#2. It is myself I have never met whose face is pasted on the underside of my mind
Sarah Kane
#3. I have salted my hatred and cured it, stored it in a dark cellar of my mind against the day when I could let it be my only nourishment. The day is finally come, and I will tear into this meat and savor its taste.
Kevin Hearne
#4. One glance at her, even now in the glass of my mind, and I want to take off and travel with her.
Mark Z. Danielewski
#5. ...my ability to trust had been shattered into splinters, its fragmented shards slicing through every darkened recess of my mind, his absolution won my over all the more.
Jake Wood
#6. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
Paavo Nurmi
#7. I [who] am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement ...
Virginia Woolf
#8. I have always loved astronomy, and being an astronomer once lurked in the back of my mind. But I was never good at algebra. In fact, I flunked it twice in high school.
Natalie Babbitt
#9. I pride myself in taking care of my mind, body and soul, and not just through exercise.
Stacy Keibler
#10. My words are my children. I am eternally grateful to the womb of my mind for conceiving them.
Munia Khan
#11. But now, well, he keeps telling me that solitude is the foundation of true wisdom, that all the brilliant thoughts in this house come as the desperate cry of one human being to another, saying, Know me, live with me in the world of my mind.
Orson Scott Card
#12. I meet people who say, "Girl, I watch every match, and I pray for you." I feel that energy and those prayers. Sometimes when I'm down on the court, in the back of my mind, I'm thinking, "They want me to win. Is there anything else I can give?" It encourages me to do better, to fight harder.
Serena Williams
#13. I've been told I'm out of my mind since I was 11.
Taylor Momsen
#14. I thought about it for awhile, hiding it from the rest of my mind. But I didn't ruin my birthday by secretly thinking about it too hard
Richard Brautigan
#15. A pang of deep longing ripples through me. I'm torn between my promise to send Aydan to the Abyss and my need to keep him safe. The opposing forces fragment what remains of my mind, breaking me down once again.
Christine Fonseca
#16. since my logic is simply lacking logic, and yet, I still keep doing it in order to satisfy some weird, twisted part of my mind.
Lena Mikado
#17. Worpswede, Worpswede, I cannot get you out of my mind ... Your magnificent pine trees! I call them my men
thick, gnarled, powerful, and tall
yet with the most delicate nerves and fibers in them.
Paula Modersohn-Becker
#18. You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired.
Sergey Brin
#20. When anything is easy, it becomes very monotonous for me. But, if I can find something that is really going to take all of my body and all of my mind to really even come close to pulling off, that sounds like fun.
Dane DeHaan
#21. Besides, what would you do with the body, if you killed him? the logical side of my mind inquired. He wouldn't fit in the cupboard, let alone the hidey-hole.
Diana Gabaldon
#22. I have this desire in the back of my mind now of making music and film at the same time - putting the two together.
Kate Bush
#23. You are the silence and madness of my mind.
Nessie Q.
#24. I have some memories of certain things that happened in high school when I was stoned out of my mind, but I talked with other people about them, and I trusted the aggregated memories.
Gary Shteyngart
#25. I lay still for a while, picking up the scattered garments of my mind and trying to assemble some kind of reasonable outfit from them.
Richard K. Morgan
#26. Whenever anyone criticized me I felt certain that I had been living under the most dreadful misapprehension. I always accepted the attack in silence, though inwardly so terrified as almost to be out of my mind.
Osamu Dazai
#27. Your words are fire giants besieging the Asgard of my mind.
Brian Clevinger
#28. I do worry that it's impossible to write something original, that there's nothing that a human hasn't already thought of. But I can put it out of my mind and get on with what I'm doing.
Arthur Phillips
#29. The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
Maya Angelou
#30. I don't see how I could possibly move a napkin with the power of my mind," I say.
"All will be revealed."
"Did you just say, 'All will be revealed'?"
He looks up. "Yes."
"Who says, 'All will be revealed'?"
"I do," Packard says. "Just perform the task.
Carolyn Crane
#32. How awful is it to be sane enough to be fully aware of the day you realize you are completely losing your grasp on reality. I'm crazy. Not just a little bit, but rubber room ready out of my mind fucked up.
Poppet
#33. If I'm working on a poem, it's at the forefront of my mind; I'm working on it when I'm cooking dinner or stretched out on the sofa. But if I don't really have it by the 10th draft, I know it just isn't going to jell.
Maxine Kumin
#34. Would you believe that I once entered a beauty contest? I must have been out of my mind. I not only came in last, I got 361 get-well cards.
Phyllis Diller
#35. I'm mad in the front of my mind, but business-minded in the back.
Alexander McQueen
#36. I didn't sit down then and start writing poems, but it was in the back of my mind.
Edward Hirsch
#37. I hear a small voice
in the back of my mind
and it is chanting a prayer:
'Please don't fall in love again,
please don't fall in love again.'
Maybe this time I will listen.
Maybe this I will learn.
Tina Tran
#38. It was as if I had been looking at the whole thing clearly on the blackboard of my mind, but when I turned to read it, part of it had been erased and the rest didn't make sense.
Daniel Keyes
#39. I was thinking about all these things and more, but I wasn't really thinking about them at all. They were just there, floating around in the back of my mind, thinking about themselves. What I was really thinking about, of course, was Lucas.
Kevin Brooks
#40. I love clothes, I love the world of fashion, I'm really fascinated by it. It's something that's always been in the back of my mind, and if time, energy and money permits, I would absolutely love to design a line someday.
Ryan Follese
#41. I'll teach you how to do it later. I just had to see you experience it," he said softly in Matt's ear. "I haven't been able to get you out of my mind since I first saw you.
Dan Skinner
#42. I would think Until I found Something I can never find; - Something Lying On the ground, In the bottom Of my mind.
James Stephens
#43. I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini.
Paul Desmond
#44. The knowledge that life is finite was always in the back of my mind.
A.V. Roe
#45. I wish you wouldn't walk in and out of my mind as though it was a railway station!
Charlotte Lamb
#46. I could not discuss what had happened to me with anyone, I could not even admit it to myself; and, while I never thought about it, it remained, nevertheless, at the bottom of my mind, as still and as awful as a decomposing corpse. And it changed, it thickened, it soured the atmosphere of my mind.
James Baldwin
#47. I find the rational part of my mind curled up in a corner of my head and convince it to talk to me.
Tony Talbot
#48. The sweetness of this content overflowing runs down the walls of my mind, and liberates understanding.
Virginia Woolf
#49. Doubt is like frostbite, shivering at the edges of my mind.
Jodi Picoult
#50. Leary can get a part of my mind that's kind of rusted shut grinding again, just by being around him and talking.
Ken Kesey
#51. I remember seeing the full Daft Punk pyramid show in 2007. I went alone, drove up in my Honda Fit, bought a ticket off a scalper for $150, got on the floor, and had the best time of my life. I didn't have a drink, no drugs. But I was high out of my mind. It changed my life.
Skrillex
#52. My brain tends to take the scenic route. Things come to the forefront of my mind sooner or later, it just takes time.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#53. I was obviously out of my mind. It was your job to talk me down off the ledge, not hand me a cape and tell me I could fly.
Abigail Strom
#54. In the inner courtroom of my mind, mine is the only judgment that counts.
Nathaniel Branden
#55. Some days my thoughts are just cocoons
all cold, and dull, and blind, They hang from dripping branches in the grey woods of my mind; And other days they drift and shine
such free and flying things! I find the gold-dust in my hair, left by their brushing wings.
Karle Wilson Baker
#56. He smiled and extended a hand. "I knew you would do it, ma petite."
"You arrogant son of a bitch." I smashed the shotgun butt into his stomach. He doubled over just enough. I hit him in the jaw. He rocked back. "Get out of my mind!
Laurell K. Hamilton
#57. Recognizing that the power of will is the supreme court over all other departments of my mind, I will exercise daily when I need the urge to act for any purpose; and I will form habits designed to bring the power of my will into action at least once daily.
Bruce Lee
#58. The lake of my mind, unbroken by oars, heaves placidly and soon sinks into an oily somnolence.' That will be useful.
Virginia Woolf
#59. The thought grew strong in me that since I had gone to the trouble of being born, I might as well be useful in helping people live long and healthy lives. And this thought has always resided in the back of my mind.
Koichi Tanaka
#60. What cracks me up is people who think I don't take baseball seriously. It's the most important thing in my life. They don't know how hard it is for me to get a bad game out of my mind. I still can't, but I'm getting better.
Brady Anderson
#61. Poetry in the darkest realm of my mind, blossoms into creations late at night when it is only me of the human kind and my felines sleeping just out of my sight.
Lyn Crain
#62. There are no memories which I wanted to blot out of my mind. Always, I have been rather objective in my point of view, able to stand off and observe myself and my surroundings in a rather impersonal fashion. The actual sight of my first casualty was not nearly as bad as I had imagined.
James Carl Nelson
#65. Gradually, without my noticing, my grief has changed shape; from a raw, jagged pain that won't be silenced to a dull, rounded ache I'm able to lock away at the back of my mind.
Clare Mackintosh
#66. Someone was playing piano nearby and the music drifted slowly in and out of my mind like the ebb and flow of ocean surf. i almost recognized the melody, but i could not be sure, it slipped like a cool and silken wind from my grasp.
Chaim Potok
#67. The pain was so deep and so raw. There were days I would have died just to forget. The problem was, I couldn't figure out how to get her out of my mind. How do you kill that kind of pain?
Ted Dekker
#68. Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.
John Milton
#69. I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.
John Hurt
#70. When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so that I usually don't write, or take notes. And I certainly don't begin. I just allow things to percolate for a while.
Richard Russo
#71. After I had chased the ghastliness of Fancha out of my mind, I settled down to some planning. A trip out to Leavenworth had a deceptive plausibility.
John D. MacDonald
#72. There are times when I just can't bring myself to sit down and write and I'm never sure whether it's pure laziness or lack of courage - there's always the thought in the back of my mind that my writing won't be good enough.
Kate Cary
#73. I felt old when I was young and I feel younger now. Maybe that's a trick of my mind, but I'm springier and lighter.
Jane Siberry
#74. In my opinion, the power of the mind in sport is vital. If you can overpower those physical risks mentally, you can get your body round it physically. I've made my body do things because of my mind that it shouldn't have been able to do.
Tony McCoy
#75. I think aerobics are great, of course, but it just bores me out of my mind.
Peter Steele
#76. As an artist, even if you are putting out something really dark and disturbing, that's good because it's opening a discussion. Always in the back of my mind is this thought that the world has to be a better place with you in it.
Shaun Tan
#77. In the real world, he and I could never work. I kissed him just that much harder and pushed all thoughts of why this was wrong to the back of my mind and surrendered to all the reasons it felt right.
Braxton Cole
#78. You are the song of my mind, melody of my soul, dance of my spirit, and the indescribable ecstasy of my life.
Debasish Mridha
#79. I like to pretend that you belong to me, just to play with the idea, but of course I know you don't. I'm alone, really
with my back to the wall fighting the world
and I get sort of gaspy when I think about it. I put it out of my mind, and keep on pretending; but don't you see, Daddy?
Jean Webster
#80. If I weren't out of my mind at this second, I would've sworn he nuzzled my temple.
Piper Shelly
#81. Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime.
Margaret Cavendish
#82. I had a novel in the back of my mind when I won an Ian St James story competition in 1993. At the award ceremony an agent asked me if I was writing a novel. I showed her four or five chapters of what would become 'Behind the Scenes at the Museum' and to my surprise she auctioned them off.
Kate Atkinson
#83. I never find words right away. Poems for me always begin with images and rhythms, shapes, feelings, forms, dances in the back of my mind.
Gary Snyder
#84. A locked door was suddenly opened in the back of my mind and a barrage of demented clowns came rushing out.
Amy Astorga
#85. I thought calming thoughts and visualized serene places. Eventually, i found myself drifting along the frenetic edges of my mind. The Sandman was nowhere to be found, as i slipped further away from sleep.
Jaeda DeWalt
#86. Dead.
Even in the silence of my mind I cannot think the word. I cannot acknowledge this most obvious and terrible of truths.
Melanie Cusick-Jones
#87. Colors. Would it be green or blue today? Maybe white - my favorite. A dark voice in the back of my mind offered no color at all as an alternative. I smothered that voice. The days of no color were simply too hard to bear. I needed color today.
Julie Hockley
#88. Well, you know, it's been in the back of my mind. I just cannot get it out of it. I'm miserable chasing money. I'm 30 years old going through a mid-life crisis! I just couldn't shut (it) off.
Drew Waters
#89. I directed plays in college. It's something that I have sort of always put in the back of my mind, and I'm a busy actress, and it's very difficult to sort of find the time, honestly, to commit to directing. It's a very - it's a big, big job.
Elizabeth Banks
#90. There are times, they occur with increasing frequency nowadays, when I seem to know nothing, when everything I know seems to have fallen out of my mind like a shower of rain, and I am gripped for a moment in paralysed dismay, waiting for it all to come back but with no certainty that it will.
John Banville
#91. Part of my mind is working on how to end the thing while I'm going on. You need at least two brains to write.
Lydia Davis
#92. Drawing my thoughts out of my mind and holding me down to earth at the same time.
Ruth Ozeki
#93. It was one thing to let these thoughts haunt the dark spaces of my mind, but another entirely to put them into the light, making them real.
Sarah Dessen
#94. But you don't know the depravity of my mind. You don't know the thoughts I struggle with, what I fight to contain.
Alessandra Torre
#95. I've always had this female-empowerment thing in the back of my mind - because I wanted my mother to be stronger, and she couldn't be.
Nicki Minaj
#96. 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
#97. I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind. And this is one: I'm going to tell it - but take care not to smile at any part of it.
Emily Bronte
#98. They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever ... and the other one scared me out of my mind.
Frederik Pohl
#99. All that I am is because of my mind ...
Paavo Nurmi
#100. I'll be out of my mind
and you'll be out of ideas pretty soon.
So let's spend the afternoon
in a cold hot air balloon.
Leave your jacket behind.
Lean out and touch the tree tops over town.
I can't wait to kiss the ground wherever we touch back down.
Owl City
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