Quotes About My Mind

#1. I do gravitate toward 19th century writers, and I never mind being compared with some of the most memorable writers from that era. I mean, George Eliot is my absolute heroine.

Julia Glass

#2. My stroke of insight would be: peace is only a thought away, and all we have to do to access it is silence the voice of our dominating left mind.

Jill Bolte Taylor

#3. Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.

Julius Rosenwald

#4. Someone was asking me what my favorite outfit is, and 100%, without a doubt in my mind, is my forever lazy.

Eden Sher

#5. It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very substance and text of my mind.

Helen Keller

#6. I regard myself as a religious ... the temper of my mind as religious, and because I regard the temper of my mind as religious, I am profoundly skeptical about any form of human authority, any form of human self-importance.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#7. I thought about the relentless thought-processing, soul-devouring machine that is my brain, and wondered how on earth I was ever going to master it. Then I remembered that line from Jaws and couldn't help smiling: 'We're gonna need a bigger boat.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#8. No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.

Noah Webster

#9. I didn't want to do my mathematics homework back home. Or mend the fence or mind the chickens. But I did it anyway. Just because a person doesn't want to do a thing doesn't mean they ought to shirk.

Catherynne M Valente

#10. My mind's a frightening place, the playland for fallen angels.

Katie McGarry

#11. Running cleared the day's cobwebs from my mind and focused my thinking, and gave me time and space to sort out anything that was bothering me, or to detach and think of nothing at all.

Jeff Horowitz

#12. The gloom encroaches upon my mind, and my heart flutters like a bird held fast in a fist.

Hannah Kent

#13. Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.

Natalie Wood

#14. I made up my mind that I was going to be just like Elvis. It never occurred to me that Elvis was a man. I just wanted to be him. He had a huge impact on me, right down to that black leather jumpsuit he wore on the '68 Comeback Special.

Suzi Quatro

#15. I had my first kiss when I was 11, but I think I've blocked it out of my mind because it was so bad. I'm not even sure it counts as a kiss.

Niall Horan

#16. Men aren't attracted to me by my mind. They're attracted by what I don't mind.

Gypsy Rose Lee

#17. Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.

Mark Twain

#18. I never liked to work because I don't want no one to be a slave. I want to be worked in my mind. Every thing that's going on, there's some big spirit behind me who send me to do the thing that I must do.

Lee "Scratch" Perry

#19. Ebenezar blinked . Then he turned his face to me his expression clearly asking whether or not I was out of my damned mind .

"Wile E. Coyote" I said to him soberly . "Suuuuuuper Genius

Jim Butcher

#20. The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if ... ?' I just come in and do it.

Lance Henriksen

#21. My mind reeling with the concept that a human being, a man, could feel pride over sodomizing another man,

Bret Easton Ellis

#22. The sensory deprivation chamber has been the most important tool that I've ever used for developing my mind

Joe Rogan

#23. I don't know just what, but there will have to be some drastic changes made besides cutting down on boating to get my mind more on painting.

E. J. Hughes

#24. Listen, I'm a sweet guy. I'm just intense at work. I have nothing but the end result in mind. My entire career has been like that.

Maksim Chmerkovskiy

#25. The word Palestine always brought to my mind a vague suggestion of a country as large as the United States. I do not know why, but such was the case. I suppose it was because I could not conceive of a small country having so large a history.

Mark Twain

#26. It's not that Etienne dislikes Tybalt. Etienne just dislikes chaos, and Tybalt causes almost as much commotion as I do. Sometimes more, when he really sets his mind to it, although my chaos is a little more destructive, if I do say so myself.

Seanan McGuire

#27. If I said in one of my songs that my English teacher wanted to have sex with me in junior high, all I'm saying, is that I'm not gay, you know? People confuse the lyrics for me speaking my mind. I don't agree with that lifestyle, but if that lifestyle is for you, then it's your business.

Eminem

#28. My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc.

David Bohm

#29. The minute I put my leg on a horse and say, 'Come on, let's go,' I absolutely believe that the horse and I can do it and that we will do it. And I am always shocked when we actually don't do it. If the analytical mind ever overrode that optimist in me, I'd be in some serious trouble.

Ian Millar

#30. I put Post-It notes everywhere to remind me of everything. I stick a ton of them on my computer monitor, telephone, and wallet. The problem now is that there are so many of them that my mind has blocked them all out. So I now need Post-It notes to remind me to look at my Post-It notes.

Stephan Pastis

#31. Wyatt gave him a look, making it obvious he thought Clay had lost his mind. "You telling me you think a piece of pie's gonna fix my problems?"
"Why not?" Clay laughed. "Fixed mine.

Kele Moon

#32. The more I anoint the more my mind adheres physically to the mysterious fabric of love.
I am decutie. Worn thin. You know that word?

Helene Cixous

#33. My favorite definition of success is that it is a state of mind combined with a state of readiness. You can have one and be a flop; if you have both, you'll win every time.

Carolyn Warner

#34. I don't mind being classified as a jazz artist, but I do mind being restricted to being a jazz artist. My foundation has been in jazz, though I didn't really start out that way. I started in classical music, but my formative years were in jazz, and it makes a great foundation.

Herbie Hancock

#35. It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.

Caleb Cushing

#36. I had fallen in love with a young man ... , and we were planning to get married. And then he died of subacute bacterial endocarditis ... Two years later with the advent of penicillin, he would have been saved. It reinforced in my mind the importance of scientific discovery ...

Gertrude B. Elion

#37. The thought went through my mind that we should film ourselves in our sexual act, and project our frenzied copulation permanently onto the walls of the tea-room, as a lesson to wake up the boring people who drank tea here, and to show them what life was really all about.

Fiona Thrust

#38. I think I am a child. Everything blows my mind.

Marc Bolan

#39. Suddenly, it occurred to me that my feelings towards the little man were distinctly maternal. Good God, I thought, how utterly revolting, and I turned my mind firmly to the problem at hand.

Laurie R. King

#40. You cannot go to the cemetery and ask to be enlightened on matters of this kind, though it would ease my mind considerably if you could.

William Maxwell

#41. My mind wants to interpret
All my dreams.
My heart wants to love
All my dreams.
My soul wants to fulfil
All my dreams.

Sri Chinmoy

#42. Something Zachariah told me filled my mind and excited my heart: "A Sailor," he said, "chooses the wind that takes the ship from safe port ... but winds have a mind of their home.

Avi

#43. Somebody asked me if I knew you. A million memories flashed through my mind but I just smiled and said I used to.

Wiz Khalifa

#44. If you don't mind, I need to fall down until my head stops hurting." "Of

Seanan McGuire

#45. And then Lucy happened.
Never mind prophecies and bounty hunters, she was the one who'd really turned my life upside down ... She made everything better.
She was necessary.

Alyxandra Harvey

#46. I've talked to Bruce about it. He'll have kittens, and Hiro will have penguins, and August will completely throw a fit, but I've made up my mind. It's up to you

Lili St. Crow

#47. My 1974 album 'Mind Over Matter' was a detailed thing about Watergate. I always had some righteous indignation.

Robert Klein

#48. I was trying to daydream but my mind kept wandering.

Steven Wright

#49. With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome.

Edward Carpenter

#50. The fact that he might have other things to do with his time than spend it shepherding his master's head-strong, thousand-ducat-a-night anguisette through one of the most unsavory quarters of the City never crossed my mind.

Jacqueline Carey

#51. I have never had a secret hero in my mind but I have kept a lot of mentors in my mind that are heroes. Gandhi, Jesus, Moses, Martin Luther King they were all secret heroes in my mind because they stood for what they wanted, what they believed in.

John Assaraf

#52. Loving you has opened up my soul and made my mind rejoice.

Chrissy Moon

#53. I saw your smile and my mind could not erase the beauty of your face.

Richard Marx

#54. So in my mind I own a lot of house records still.

Mark Spitz

#55. What happened?'
'He humiliated me.'
'Oh, my Lord, Belle. He didn't ... '
'No. But I wish I had. Then he'd have to marry me, and I-'
'Belle, you don't know what you're saying.'
'I know exactly what I'm saying! Why is it that no one can credit me with the ability to know my own mind?

Julia Quinn

#56. I am safe and secure. I exhale any anxiety and inhale calm. As my world expands so do my heart and mind. I am willing to stay open and accept all the miracles and abundance the universe has to offer me.

Kris Carr

#57. Come on... now and my mind plays tricks with me...

Deyth Banger

#58. The idea that I could work wonders as the Lord flutters through my mind like a glamorous butterfly. I hasten to catch it, but it escapes into the depths of my mind.

Stefan Emunds

#59. My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.

Samantha Morton

#60. I just remembered that I'm absent minded ... wait, I mean I lost my mind, I can't find it.

Eminem

#61. Hacking was the only entertainment that would occupy my mind - like a huge video game, but with real consequences. I could have evaded the FBI a lot longer if I had been able to control my passion for hacking.

Kevin Mitnick

#62. Everyone tells me I need to do comedy. It's never something that crossed my mind, but to be able to do a true comedy and make people laugh, that would be great.

Dexter Darden

#63. I might not be all that good with mathematics in class; but go into my mind; and you will see that type of mathematic I put in; in my everyday life, and you can say that I am genius in a way in the terms of mentality; but retarded in class.

Temitope Owosela

#64. Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority of honest citizens didn't seem to want.

Eliot Ness

#65. I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.

Beverly Cleary

#66. My mind is so impatient, so quick, in some ways so desperate.

Virginia Woolf

#67. What I didn't say was that each time I picked up a German dictionary or a German book, the very sight of those dense, black, barbed-wire letters made my mind shut like a clam.

Sylvia Plath

#68. I remember my first visit with my guru. He had shown that he read my mind. So I looked at the grass and I thought, 'My god, he's going to know all the things I don't want people to know.' I was really embarrassed. Then I looked up and he was looking directly at me with unconditional love.

Ram Dass

#69. My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#70. At the back of my mind I had a sense of us sitting about waiting for some terrible event, and then I would remember that it had already happened.

Ian McEwan

#71. They say sound is vibration and it got my mind shaking/ Can you feel it vibrating? I call it Vibe Ratings

Capital STEEZ

#72. I got ice in my veins
Blood in my eyes/Hate in my heart
Love in my mind

Lil' Wayne

#73. IT FEELS AS though I'm splintering into a dozen directions at once - grief, then rage, then panic. The last thing I need right now is to lose it. Instead I force my mind to go to the place that always calms and centers me: painting.

Anonymous

#74. I may be deprived of eloquence, but my mind can never be a dumb.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#75. What I think is all I have left. My mind is the only thing that makes me different from a fancy toaster. What we think does matter-it's all we truly have.

Mary E. Pearson

#76. I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child.

Sarah Fielding

#77. I am in between. Trying to write to be understood by those who matter to me, yet also trying to push my mind with ideas beyond the everyday. It is another borderland I inhabit. Not quite here nor there. On good days I feel I am a bridge. On bad days I just feel alone.

Sergio Troncoso

#78. I've got a lot of books in my head, so hopefully we can be friends for a long time. With all my heart, mind, body, and soul ... thank you!

James Dashner

#79. You know how everyone - there's this maxim that we all become our mother or we all become our parents. And, generally, I really wouldn't mind becoming my mother. I really like her, so I wouldn't mind becoming her. But I definitely need to edit her.

Sarah Koenig

#80. I wish in my own mind I were more definite - that I was absolutely convinced I'd never direct someone else's script, but I keep reading scripts, because I might find something.

Paul Mazursky

#81. I can not go through the ocean. i can not drive the streets at night. i can not wake up in the morning without you on my mind. and so your gone and im haunted i bet you are just fine. did i make it that easy to walk right in and out of my life.

A Fine Frenzy

#82. I get asked if I mind when someone burns my music. I'm just flattered that people want to.

Corey Smith

#83. The demons in my mind are far away, and there is only her sweet voice, singing a song I've never heard...

Ella James

#84. Maira Kalman says, Avoiding work is the way to focus my mind.

Austin Kleon

#85. The films that I really liked and the ones that really blew my mind when I was younger were independent films. They're like great records to me.

Jim Sturgess

#86. She looked over my shoulder once while I was texting, which was already annoying, and when I wrote lol she made a very clear point to me about how I was silent and not laughing out loud, not at all. I said it was just an expression, and that I was laughing out loud inside my own mind.

Aimee Bender

#87. I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially.

Denzel Washington

#88. It's all ka-ka, saying mind is really brain. Sure, my hand is in my pocket. Is my pocket my hand? Every wino on M Street knows a thought is a thought and not some cells or chazerei going on in the brain. They know that jealousy is not some kind of game from Atari.

William Peter Blatty

#89. You are the last thought in my mind before I drift off to sleep and the first thought when I wake up each morning.

Richard Kronick

#90. P.S. I'm going to throw an absolutely mind-blowing fact your way. I'm not kidding, either. The country of Uganda is obsessed with Celine Dion. They dedicate entire days to broadcasting her music. They love her that much. Five words. My. Heart. Will. Go. On. Yeah.

Fisher Amelie

#91. I realized that searching was my symbol, the emblem of those who go out at night with nothing in mind, the motives of a destroyer of compasses.

Julio Cortazar

#92. The book is called 'A House in the Sky' because during the very, very darkest times, that was how I survived. I had to find a safe place to go in my mind where there was no violence being done to my body and where I could reflect on the life I had lived and the life that I still wanted to live.

Amanda Lindhout

#93. But what I cannot settle in my mind is that the end will absolutely come. I hold her hand in mine, I hold her heart in mine, I see her love for me, alive in all its strength.

Charles Dickens

#94. My greatest strength is an unfocused mind. This is because while you are all thinking of one idea, I'm thinking of five different ideas. My greatest weakness however is an unfocused mind. This is because while I'm supposed to be thinking about one thing, I'm actually thinking of five other things.

Ben Mitchell

#95. I'm here because I've lost my head. My mind is unhinged. That's what the doctors say.

A.G. Howard

#96. One must avoid getting stuck in the negative memories because these can block personal growth.

Hina Hashmi

#97. The places where water comes together with other water. Those places stand out in my mind like holy places.

Raymond Carver

#98. My brother, do men grieve over the fight of cats and dogs? So the jealousy, envy, and elbowing of common men should make no impression on your mind.

Swami Vivekananda

#99. I'm gradually managing to cram my mind more and more full of things. I've got this beautiful mind and it's going to die, and it'll all be gone. And then I say, not in my case. Every idea I've ever had I've written down, and it's all there on paper. And I won't be gone; it'll be there.

Isaac Asimov

#100. Through the window of my soul and the mirror of my mind, I was looking for the beauty of my life. I could not find it, but I found it in the glint of a dew drop at the edge of a dancing leaf.

Debasish Mridha