- Kind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mind Quotes
What occupies the mind, for better or worse.
Quotes about the "mind" here range widely — a lifelong search for hidden meaning sits alongside a startlingly honest admission that resentment has occupied more mental space than friendship ever did. For related reflection, see Body quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.
- Deficit Spending
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- Nov 07, 2020
To reduce deficit spending and our enormous debt, you reign in spending. You cut the budget. You don't take more from the private sector and grow government with it. And that's exactly what Obama has in mind with this expiration of Bush tax cuts proposal of his.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't mind a narrator who's self-deceiving, but the clues for their truth have to be there for the reader to see.
- Moving On
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- Nov 07, 2020
The strange thing about living somewhere for a couple of years and then moving on and not returning is that those locations become ghosts of themselves in your mind.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people talk about being a writer, the first words that come to mind are glamour and artistic parties like Charles Dickens used to mix cocktails for.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know how everyone - there's this maxim that we all become our mother or we all become our parents. And, generally, I really wouldn't mind becoming my mother. I really like her, so I wouldn't mind becoming her. But I definitely need to edit her.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got the idea for 'Throne of Glass' when I was sixteen. Music always inspires my books, and when I was listening to the 'Cinderella' soundtrack, I thought, 'What if Cinderella was actually an assassin who liked getting dressed up all pretty and going to the ball, but then she wouldn't mind kicking butt?'
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no doubt in my mind at all. The Duke of Edinburgh has had affairs - yes, full-blown affairs, and more than one.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is it good, bad, or neutral to recognize thematic patterns in your own work? When it comes to recurring themes, I'm of the mind that knowledge is probably not power, at least in terms of the work.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just think I'm better equipped to make a study of human personality than trying to get into the mind of animals.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What strikes me as most significant is that young people everywhere in India are anxious to do something. But I have also felt they are not quite clear in their mind as to what they should do.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020