Of My Mind Quotes - Page 9

• I didn't sit down then and start writing poems, but it was in the back of my mind.

  Edward Hirsch

  Writing, Mind, Writing Poems

  "A Poet Is Born". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• To have an inner life, to think, to juggle and leap, to become a tightrope walker in the world of ideas. To attack, to riposte, to refute, what a contest, what acclaim. To understand. The most generous word of all. Memory. To retain, a geyser of felicity. Intelligence. The agonizing poverty of my mind. Words and ideas flitting in and out like butterflies. My brain a dandelion seed blown in the wind.

  Violette Leduc

  Memories, Butterfly, Thinking

  Violette Leduc (1965). “La bâtarde: an autobiography”

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• I, who am king of the matter I treat, and who owe an accounting for it to no one, do not for all that believe myself in all I write. I often hazard sallies of my mind which I mistrust.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Trust, Kings, Believe

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”

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• I meet people who say, "Girl, I watch every match, and I pray for you." I feel that energy and those prayers. Sometimes when I'm down on the court, in the back of my mind, I'm thinking, "They want me to win. Is there anything else I can give?" It encourages me to do better, to fight harder.

  Serena Williams

  Girl, Prayer, Fighting

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• If we can change from that deeper place - for instance, if I am constantly going around telling myself and everybody that I'm a failure and I'm worthless, that's a reflection of the thoughts I'm having. The moment that I'm able to shift at the level of my mind and start seeing that I have something to offer, life is important, and I want to contribute, then that tiny subtle shift from the inside can have a profound affect on my external life.

  MC Yogi

  Reflection, Profound, Mind

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• The arc of my mind has an equal swing in all directions. I should say the same of your mind if I thought you would believe it. But we are so saturated with the notion that Time is a dimension accessible from one direction only, that you will at first probably be shocked by my saying that I can see truly as far in front of me as I can see exactly behind me.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Time, Believe, One Direction

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• For more than twenty-five years my mind had been deeply troubled by the fact that these mechanical and scientific achievements ofman had outrun his intellectual and spiritual power. ...Throughout the Second World War this terrible problem hung in the back of my mind. As I write these words the problem and the danger are as threatening as ever. We hope our nation will survive, but in its effort to survive will it transform itself intellectually and spiritually into the image of the thing against which we fought?

  Virginia Gildersleeve

  Education, Spiritual, War

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• I shall carry to the Catacombs of Age,
  Photographically lined
  On the tablet of my mind

  W. S. Gilbert

  Memories, Mind, Age

  William Schwenck Gilbert, “The Story Of Prince Agib”

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• I don't know when the idea of suicide first occurred to me. In some ways, it had been in the back of my mind for years. Yet, oddly, I would never have thought of it as an option. It was the perceived lack of options-the final, unacceptable solution to a grave and insoluble dilemma. I had always thought of it in the same way: If all else fails, if I have nowhere else to turn, I can do this.

  Tracy Thompson

  Suicide, Suicidal, Years

  Tracy Thompson (2014). “The Beast: A Journey Through Depression”, p.130, Diversion Books

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• A lot of the old movie theaters are closing down now, which is really sad. It's still in the back of my mind.

  Winona Ryder

  Mind, Really Sad, Old Movie

  Source: collider.com

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• Every night when I go out on stage, there's always one nagging fear in the back of my mind. I'm always afraid that somewhere out there, there is one person in the audience that I'm not going to offend!

  Don Rickles

  Night, Mind, Nagging

  "'A god died today': remembering the insult comedy of Don Rickles" by Rob LeDonne, www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2017.

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• I'm a Jew. Thirty-three is when Christ died. So though I'm a Jew, in the back of my mind I still think that I gotta get it done before I'm thirty-four because well, I don't know why. He got it done before He was thirty-four.

  Jack Black

  Thinking, Mind, Four

  Interview with Daniel Handler, www.believermag.com.

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• The idea of directing was something that I always had in the back of my mind, and writing as well. I began to write screenplays when I was in my 20's.

  Charles Martin Smith

  Writing, Ideas, Mind

  Source: collider.com

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• I started to watch Damages and all of these amazing, female-driven shows, and it was something that was always in the back of my mind. Then, once I had my daughter, I realized that I was done living the romantic lifestyle, and nothing offers that more than television.

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Daughter, Mind, Female

  "Sarah Michelle Gellar Interview RINGER; Compares Her Return to TV to BUFFY Experience". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 12, 2011.

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• When I'm not actually doing my work, I'm planning it or thinking about it or reading things that on some level are transformed into performance fantasies. I have no active interests. I never go anywhere or do anything that transports me outside the boundaries of my mind.

  George Carlin

  Reading, Thinking, Mind

  Interview with Sam Merrill, reprints.longform.org. January 1982.

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• This one commercial said, "Forget everything you know about slipcovers." So I did, and it was a load off of my mind. Then the commercial tried to sell slipcovers, but I didn't know what they were!

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Forget Everything

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• Maybe in the back of my mind I was kind of wishing that I would become a rock star, kind of wishing that I would reach enough people who would be willing to pay me for the music, that I would actually be able to live off of just writing the songs that I wanted to write. But I don't think I really admitted to myself that that was my goal.

  Jonathan Coulton

  Song, Stars, Writing

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• When I think about myself, my thought seeks itself in the ether of a new space. I am on the moon as others are on their balconies. I participate in planetary gravitation in the fissures of my mind.

  Antonin Artaud

  Moon, Thinking, Space

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.96, Univ of California Press

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• Winning wasn't natural for me. It had to be fought for, in the echoes and trodden footprints of my mind.

  Markus Zusak

  Winning, Echoes, Mind

  Markus Zusak (2013). “Getting The Girl”, p.6, Scholastic Inc.

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• Would you believe that I once entered a beauty contest? I must have been out of my mind. I not only came in last, I got 361 get-well cards.

  Phyllis Diller

  Get Well, Believe, Mind

  "Phyllis Diller's File Of 53,000 Jokes". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. March 11, 2017.

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• It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very substance and text of my mind.

  Helen Keller

  Mind, Substance, Certain

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• It can take a surprisingly long time to get from one part of my mind to another.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Long, Mind, Long Time

  Ashleigh Brilliant (1985). “All I Want is a Warm Bed and a Kind Word and Unlimited Power: Even More Brilliant Thoughts”, Brilliant Enterprises

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• I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind; the right hand has always been engaged in something to do with personal relationships. I don't complain, because I think my left hand's power, as much as it has, is due to its knowledge of what my right hand is doing.

  Rebecca West

  Writing, Thinking, Hands

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• The only thing at the back of my mind is longevity, and I'm really lucky that I've constantly been in work since I left drama school.

  Conleth Hill

  Drama, School, Mind

  "Hill's alive with the sound of music" by Liz Hoggard, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2004.

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• I'M FEARFUL because in the back of my mind I know that although I'm a law abiding citizen I could still be looked upon as a "threat" to those who don't know me. So I will continue to have to go the extra mile to earn the benefit of the doubt.

  Benjamin Watson

  Law, Racism, Doubt

  Benjamin Watson (2015). “Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race. Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us.”, p.14, NavPress

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