Mind Quotes - Page 609

And the Ring is so heavy, Sam. I begin to see it in my mind all the time, like a great wheel of fire.

I don't know. Sometimes I try to say what's on my mind and it comes out sounding like I ate a dictionary and I'm shitting pages. Sorry

I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.

I like to consider my mind an open door. It's just not a revolving door.

It is imperative for many branches of fundamentalist christianity to constantly feel conspired against...so they cite humanist manifestos and theosophical societies and concoct these vast and dark organizations that exist nowhere but in the minds of those who conceive these theories.

I've changed my mind. I've decided that at the end I want to be cremated and my ashes scattered over someone I don't like.

For me, there's nothing sexier than a woman who can argue me into the ground and outsmart me...a woman who knows her own mind and isn't afraid to speak it.

He would not mind hearing Petrus's story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and more he is convinced that English is an unfit medium for the truth of South Africa. Stretches of English code whole sentences long have thickened, lost their articulations, their articulateness, their articulatedness. Like a dinosaur expiring and settling in the mud, the language has stiffened. Pressed into the mold of English, Petrus's story would come out arthritic, bygone"(117).

There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.

Pens?" Chase echoed. Bridget rolled her eyes. "Pens are by far more stimulating than most people." "I'm kind of wondering what you're going with those pens," Chase said Madison scrunched up her nose. "Get your mind out of the gutter." "My mind is always in the gutter around you.

A man knows what he likes, so sex with some men is like sex with a mind reader, someone who knows exactly how you like it.

The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter... or at least, most minds are.

The Chasers throw the Quaffle and put it through the hoops to score,” Harry recited. “So — that’s sort of like basketball on broomsticks with six hoops, isn’t it?” “What’s basketball?” said Wood curiously. “Never mind,” said Harry quickly.

I haven’t got the heart to take the mickey out of him, even,” said Fred, looking over at Ron’s crumpled figure. “Mind you . . . when he missed the fourteenth . . .” He made wild motions with his arms as though doing an upright doggy-paddle. “Well, I’ll save it for parties, eh?

I cared more about your happiness than your knowing the truth, more for your peace of mind than my plan, more for your life than the lives that might be lost if the plan failed. In other words I acted exactly as Voldemort expects we fools who love to act.

if have got my spindle and my distaff ready--my pen and mind--never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax.

The Magistrate suffered from the disability of a free-thinking turn of mind and from a life that was barren and dreary to match.

I feel that the surrealists have created a series of valid external landscapes which have their direct correspondences within our own minds.

I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst.

After I go out this door, I may only exist in the minds of all my acquaintances…I may be an orange peel.

A synopsis is a cold thing. You do it with the front of your mind. If you're going to stay with it, you never get quite the same magic as when you're going all out.

Most writers enjoy two periods of happiness when a glorious idea comes to mind and, secondly, when a last page has been written and you haven't had time to know how much better it ought to be.

My vision is to elevate the consciousness of humanity one mind, one heart, one life, one spirit at a time. They are married.

You are the only one who can do it like you do it. You are the best. You have what it takes. You have the power. When you put your mind to something, you get it done. So what are you waiting for?

You should not want to know the things in people's minds. If you were meant to hear them, they would be said.