“He sat staring before him, seeing nothing but a long line of Mortimers, inexhaustable and prolific to the end of time.” — Edith Pargeter Copy Share Image
From breakfast, or noon at the latest, to dinner, I am mostly on horseback, Attending to My Farm or other concerns, which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Keep in mind that a language is both a map of the world and its own world, with its own shadowlands and… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
For sure, when you don't have a fight, you don't have the pressure. Without the pressure, your mind is more open to… — Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira Copy Share Image
What I really hated, of course, was my mind. There must have been an off switch somewhere, but I was damned if… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
There is a law in psychology that if you form a picture in your mind of what you would like to be,… — William James Copy Share Image
“And yet, protest it if we will, Some corner of the mind retains The medieval man, who still Keeps watch upon those… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
What the reporters are like! They are mad with excitement at the thought of my approaching demise. Kind Sister Farquhar, my nurse,… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
For me, collages manage to - it satisfies all of my madness, like I'm able to make these obsessive things, but then… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
An image is a bridge between evoked emotion and conscious knowledge; words are the cables that hold up the bridge. Images are… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
“Now he experienced a feeling akin to that of a man whom while calmly crossing a bridge over a precipice, should suddenly… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
But just as it sometimes happens that the most temperate people, who have never acquired the habit of drinking alcohol, or even… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
This is a good thing to say to film students. If there's a story point that you don't feel right about, that… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
“He felt disgruntled and obscurely let down at having paid good money to discover that the vision that had so irradiated his… — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
Be still. it takes no effort to be still; it is utterly simple. When your mind is still, you have no name,… — Gangaji Copy Share Image
Learn to recognize true wealth. Money itself will not make you financially free. That comes as a result of only that powerful… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
If you have any question in your mind, don't do it. If you go in thinking it's going to fix something that's… — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
Once you step foot on the Supreme Court steps, you lose your first-amendment rights. I don't see how, as an American citizen,… — Raheem DeVaughn Copy Share Image
The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted. — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
When there is a fight of reason versus emotion and the mind wonders which one to follow, in most times, emotion wins… — Abu Sufyan ibn Harb Copy Share Image
If we look at the world with a deluded body and mind, we will think that our self is permanent. But if… — Dogen Copy Share Image
I like talking to engineers best. They built bridges, they're very precise, very disciplined, yet I find they have roving minds. — Ralph Richardson Copy Share Image
You own a watch the invention of the mind, though for a single motion 'tis designed, as well as that which is… — Richard Blackmore Copy Share Image
I loathed school. I don't have an academic mind, and besides I was so bored by my teachers! How teachers can take… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
“He squeezed the boy's lean body tightly against his own, and he couldn't ignore the way his body slotted into him so… — twenteseven Get Away Copy Share Image
“Fearful of missing anything, he read on, filled with this anticipation which was half terror, of coming upon something which would touch… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
I know I don't mind sharing my defects, my deficiencies, partly in the hope that someone will hear it and know that… — Karan Johar Copy Share Image
I believe that a healthy body breeds a healthy mind. I am 74 years old now and my wife, Niso, is 38… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
I've always thought in the back of my mind I could do something really special with my life and I was just… — Spencer Matthews Copy Share Image
If you look at all of the villains in the course of human history, they've all believed, delusionally, in the virtue of… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
The challenge is, well, there's a huge challenge, which is when you're improvising, you're meant to sort of clear your mind completely,… — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
Radio is truly the theater of the mind. The listener constructs the sets, colors them from his own palette, and sculpts and… — Mercedes McCambridge Copy Share Image
When you are just thinking a lot of silly thoughts and having a lot of worries, you waste a tremendous energy and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
For whatever life holds for you and your family in the coming days, weave the unfailing fabric of God's Word through your… — Gigi Graham Copy Share Image
And from that hour his poor maimed spirit, only remembering the place where it had broken its wings, cancelled the dream through… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In the psychic process we are trying to eliminate everyone else from our minds, their effects, their energies, their influences: "To thine… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddhahood is a state free of all obstructions to knowledge and disturbing emotions. It is the state in which the mind is… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
You just have to keep in mind that the important relationship is the relationship with the audience. That's what I try to… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
The mind is intrinsically tranquil. Out of this tranquility, anxiety and confusion are born. If one sees and knows this confusion, then… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
