#mind

There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children. ↗

— Zane Grey

#force #hours #i #interested #mind

Some bloke came up to me in Tesco a couple of years ago at 11:30 pm and said: 'Excuse me, would you mind telling my son here that you're Uncle Vernon?' I said: 'Get a grip. It's 11:30 at night - what's he doing out of bed? I'm not here to entertain people at this time of night. ↗

— Richard Griffiths

#bed #bloke #came #couple #doing

There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind. ↗

— Sarah Josepha Hale

#decay #even #mind #most #nature

The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see. ↗

— Philip Guston

#imagined #magic #mind #moves #painting

I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally. ↗

— Steve Hackett

#form #i #i think #ideally #itself

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos. ↗

— Edith Hamilton

#dispenses #facts #into #itself #makes

In those days I was mortified, because I was a serious actor in my own mind, and then all of a sudden I'm this hunk. ↗

— Harry Hamlin

#because #days #hunk #i #mind

Every man should make up his own mind that if he expect to succeed, he must give an honest return for the other man's dollar. ↗

— Edward H. Harriman

#every #every man #expect #give #his

I like solitude. It is when you truly hear and speak your natural, unadulterated mind, and out comes your most stupid self as well as your most intelligent self. It is when you realize who you are and the extents of the good and the evils which you are capable of. ↗

— Criss Jami

#censorship #evil #extensive #extremes #good

Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack. ↗

— Sterling Hayden

#attack #deterrence #enemy #fear #mind