Modern Quote by Donna Tartt Download Open image ““(to me, the hallmark of the modern mind is that it loves to wander from its subject) I”” — Donna Tartt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Loves Wander Modern Modern Mind Psychology Wander Wander Subject
“Your mind never wanders away; it only moves towards more interesting and outstanding things.” — Kevin Horsley Copy Share Image
“My mind was once diseased with the strange and heady ambition that I might somehow improve the world by living in it.” — Amelia Gray Copy Share Image
“In the strange anomaly of my existence, feelings with me had never been of the heart, and my passions always were of the mind.” — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“The incessant concentration of thought upon one subject, however interesting, tethers a man's mind in a narrow field.” — William Osler Copy Share Image
“What we dwell on much with our mind sinks into our heart and shapes our life.” — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
“Man’s mind, as well as his feet and devotion, wander easily, and we are readily given to changing our minds. Our attention wanders always,… — Rousas John Rushdoony Copy Share Image
“We exist in the world, yet we live in the mind. When it becomes still, we leave longing behind.” — Glenn A. Maltais Copy Share Image
“Words - I wonder if you can realize how much I love them. You are too much preoccupied with mere things and ideas and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The mind is certainly a very mysterious organ, I reflected, drawing my head in from the window, about which nothing whatever is known, though… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The mind has a powerful way of attracting things that are in harmony with it, good and bad.” — Idowu Koyenikan Copy Share Image
“For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless.” — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I hope we're all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime? — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
And I add my own love to the history of people who have loved beautiful things, and looked out for them, and pulled them… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
And the flavor of Pippa's kiss--bittersweet and strange--stayed with me all the way back uptown, swaying and sleepy as I sailed home on the… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“A month or two before, I would have been appalled at the idea of any murder at all. But that Sunday afternoon, as I… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device. — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Always remember, the person we’re really working for is the person who’s restoring the piece a hundred years from now. He’s the one we… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“The silence between us was happy and strange, connected by the cord and the icy voices thinly echoing. “You don’t have to talk,” she… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“It is a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate from all the world, that no one and… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“You didn’t meet many people who moved freely through the world with such a vigorous contempt for it and at the same time such… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“maybe that’s what’s waiting for us at the end of the journey, a majesty unimaginable until the very moment we find ourselves walking through… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
Success doesn't have a downside for me. I'm busy, but I've always been busy whatever job I've had. My very first job working in… — Victoria Derbyshire Copy Share Image
... how much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
If japa is maintained, no useless talk during work will be possible. The mind will always remain peaceful. Modern day diseases are mostly psychosomatic.… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters, educated though… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic carrying innumerable passengers in a way analogous to our modern steam ships.… — William Henry Pickering Copy Share Image
Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria. — David Lodge Copy Share Image
