Mind Like Quotes

105 quotes by 93 authors

On the train: staring hypnotized at the blackness outside the window, feeling the incomparable rhythmic language of the wheels, clacking out nursery rhymes, summing up… — Sylvia Plath
The mind, like any muscle, must be exercised. — Marshall Sylver
At the moment our rational mind stops, hits against a wall ... something else happens. And a bigger mind, like a pearl, rolls in a… — Natalie Goldberg
We were enclosed, O eternal Father, within the garden of your breast. You drew us out of your holy mind like a flower petaled with… — St. Catherine of Siena
The fear is not real, Dil Bahadur; it is only in your mind, like all other things. Our thoughts form what we believe to be… — Isabel Allende
To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was the subject to… — Nat Turner
Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron — Ezra Cornell
Musical ideas sprang to my mind like a flight of butterflies, and all I had to do was to stretch out my hand to catch… — Charles Gounod
The South is one of those kingdoms of the mind, like India or Scotland, that are neat and understandable only to people who have never… — Alistair Cooke
My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn't speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton… — Frank Ocean
I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting - she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past… — Meghan O'Rourke
All these poses of classical torture ruined my mind like a snake in the orchard. I did go from wanting to be someone, now I'm… — Rufus Wainwright
I blow my own mind like Nirvana, and go the whole nine like Madonna. — Big Pun
It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some… — Mark Twain
Which is worse, past or future? Neither. I will fold up my mind like a leaf and drift on this stream over the brink. — William Styron
Just because you've got a mind like a hammer doesn't mean you have to treat everyone else like a nail — Terry Pratchett
Insights and perceptions pass through the mind like fleet fireflies. Lit for an instant, then gone back into the dark. — Leonard Bishop
The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind… — Brian Greene
Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.… — Al Pacino
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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