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Minds Quotes (page 172)

i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Direct your eye inward, and you'll find / A thousand regions in your mind / Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be / Expert in home-cosmography Henry David Thoreau
Hmm,” said a small voice in his ear. “Difficult. Very difficult. Plenty of courage, I see. Not a bad mind either. There’s talent, oh my goodness, yes — and a nice thirst to prove yourself, now that’s interesting. . . . So where shall I put you?” Harry gripped the edges of the stool and thought, Not Slytherin, not Slytherin. “Not Slytherin, eh?” said the small voice. “Are you sure? You could be great, you know, it’s all here in your head, and Slytherin will help you on the way to greatness, no... J. K. Rowling
He looked at her. She was pretty still, with thick hair and soft eyes, and she moved so gracefully that it almost seemed as though she were gliding. He'd seen beautiful women before, though, women who caught his eye, but to his mind, they usually lacked the traits he found most desirable. Traits like intelligence, confidence, strength of spirit, passion, traits that inspired others to greatness, traits he aspired to himself. Nicholas Sparks
What keeps the world from reverting to the Neanderthal with each generation is the continuing, ongoing mythos... the huge body of common knowledge that unites our minds as cells are united in the body of man... Robert M. Pirsig
Augusten Burroughs quote: "your mind is like an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone."
your mind is like an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone. Augusten Burroughs
Casey Stengel quote: "The secret of managing is to keep the folks who hate you away..."
The secret of managing is to keep the folks who hate you away from the ones who haven’t made up their minds yet. Casey Stengel
Stephen King quote: "And in the gunslinger's mind, those words echoed: You dare not."
And in the gunslinger's mind, those words echoed: You dare not. Stephen King
There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought. Zora Neale Hurston
Francois de La Rochefoucauld quote: "Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp."
Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Luther Burbank quote: "It is well for people who think, to change their minds..."
It is well for people who think, to change their minds ocasionally in order to keep them clean. Luther Burbank
Autobiography, if there really is such a thing, is like asking a rabbit to tell us what he looks like hopping through the grasses of the field. How would he know? If we want to hear about the field on the other hand, no one is in a better circumstance to tell us-so long as we keep in mind that we are missing all those things the rabbit was in no position to observe. Arthur Golden
Brian Aldiss quote: "It is at night... that the mind is most clear, that we are..."
It is at night... that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull. Brian Aldiss
The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question: "Is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, "Hey, don't... Bill Hicks
I'm not really the scented envelope kid of girl, preferring instead to send yellow Jiffy-lite mailers packed with whatever song is on my mind. Sarah Vowell

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