History Quote by Alan Bennett

It is the disposition of the thought that altered the nature of the thing.

— John Lyly

It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings.

— Dale Carnegie

I don't know exactly where the ideas come from. One day, a sentence just popped into my head - 'There was going to be…

— Sandra Brown

Remember, constantly, that when you talk about 'tense of a subjunctive,' you're not talking about time. You're slipping through degrees of reality.

— Anonymous

And so it was when anyone tried to speak: their minds would become tangled in remembrance. Words became floods of thought with no beginning…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

When people say of their tragedies, 'I don't often think of it now,' what they mean is it has entered permanently into their thoughts,…

— Shirley Hazzard

It got so that when he closed his eyes, letters and words danced in his mind. He thought of little else during that time.

— Christopher Paolini

Sentiment, crystallized, grows into sentimentality. It lost all spontaneity, which was the essence of feeling. It was dated--old-fashioned.

— Margaret Ayer Barnes

“The day thought, which was no wish in itself but rather a worry, had in some way to find a connection with the infantile…

— Sigmund Freud

The time was simply ripe for the disappearance of tonality. Naturally this was a fierce struggle; inhibitions of the most frightful kind had to…

— Anton Webern

“Our moods, feelings, and emotions are multidimensional interpretations based on our conditioning. Most of it is probably imprinted into our subconsciousness before we reached…

— davidji

Writing is such a strange, utterly mysterious process. First, there was nothing; then, suddenly, there was something. I don't know where thoughts are born.…

— Paul Auster