Mind Like Quotes
105 quotes by 93 authors
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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
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The mind, like any muscle, must be exercised.
— Marshall Sylver
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron
— Ezra Cornell
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I blow my own mind like Nirvana, and go the whole nine like Madonna.
— Big Pun
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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
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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
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Just because you've got a mind like a hammer doesn't mean you have to treat everyone else like a nail
— Terry Pratchett
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Insights and perceptions pass through the mind like fleet fireflies. Lit for an instant, then gone back into the dark.
— Leonard Bishop
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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
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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
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Who Wrote These Mind Like Quotes
93 authors contributed a total of 105 Mind Like Quotes, led by these top contributors: