A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper. But a lot of it is imagination. It’s not based on real people.

I want to be a poet and have a chance to explore that and let people know what’s really on my mind.

To get him to agree, I put a gun to his head. To get him to not change his mind, I blew out his brains.

It is to be recognized that the negative emotions and the guilt that comes with it is not a part of the Consciousness, it only belongs to the mind!

As a rule, I had murder in my mind. That day, I had it in my heart.

A clear line of distinctness must be drawn between the environment of the body and the environment of the mind or both the body and the mind be regarded as intertwined and be deprived of...

A human mind was built for contact with similar minds. It should,—in fact,—it must think about what is going on around it; for, if it is shut up in a thick, dark, bony box of...

When I was involved with ‘Star Wars,’ I was very interested in all the backstories, and I used to pepper George with all kinds of questions about anything that crossed my mind, because I was...

Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.

If your mind is clear as to what you are trying to do, if you can say what you want out of life and make your money move in that direction, you will be happy.

My best actress of all time is Kate Winslet. I want to be just like her. ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’ is one of my favourite films.

It’s kind of mind-boggling to me.

Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body...

The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That’s the troublewith women, too.” [“Existence” (1975)]

My mind has a time machine; it can travel back to the past when I close my eyes and in my dreams it travels to the future.

To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings just by changing your...

It is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.

The museums in children’s minds, I think, automatically empty themselves in times of utmost horror—to protect the children from eternal grief.For my own part, though: It would have been catastrophe if I had forgotten my...

I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened.

I have no doubts in my mind that he’s going to get back to where he was before,

Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts. it is something celestial and divine.

When a fine old carpet is eaten by mice, the colors and patterns of what’s left behind do not change,’ wrote my neighbor and friend, the poet Jane Hirschfield, after she visited an old friend...

Your mind is your tram; it will take you any station you wish!

We’ll sit down and look at it. I have something in my mind but we’re going to hash it out first. I’ve got a lot of personnel issues to address here.

I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat. I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and...

Though the ancient poet in Plutarch tells us we must not trouble the gods with our affairs because they take no heed of our angers and disputes, we can never enough decry the disorderly sallies...

Finally, let’s keep well in mind the most important lesson of the auto rescue: While government should stay away from the private sector as much as possible, markets do occasionally fail, and when they do...

Everyone is born with a different mind and the same heart.

Kau bangun benteng tuk kawal hatimu, dan kau tuduh mereka tak pedulikanmu.

In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions...

In my better sense of mind, I know that I’m far from alone and far from the worst, and the earth keeps spinning. Everything keeps moving, with or without me.

When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All elegant passages, all the curious details, all the so-called beautiful writing – if...

For great changes in the human mind are terrible. As we realize them we realize the limitless possibilities of sinister deeds that lie hidden in every human being. A little child that loves a doll...

I see the mind of the 5-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness.

It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.

What you know can never be the beyond. Whatever you experience is not the beyond. If there is any beyond, this movement of ‘you’ is absent. The absence of this movement probably is the beyond,...

My plate is full; I dig that. And I can’t be everywhere all the time, but my mind, heart and spirit has no bounds.

In Neil’s mind, what separated him from all of his Brill Building songwriter counterparts was he wrote songs on the guitar and everyone else wrote on the piano, … Guitar is equated with rock in...

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind – to take a partial or local truth, generalise it unduly and try to explain a whole field of nature in its narrow...

I lived in a really dark place. I wasn’t safe in my own mind. I woke up every morning hoping to die and then spent the rest of the day wondering if maybe I was...

Pain is a good cleanser of the mind and therefore of the sight. Matters which seem to mean the world, in health, are found to be of no import when pain is hard upon you.

I don’t think they’re reserves in my mind. Any of our guys can step up at any time.

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their...

What you keep alive is what you truly care about, no matter how many times you die in the process.

As far as the timing of the budget is concerned, he hasn’t made up his mind.

The vivid force of his mind prevailed, and he fared forth far beyond the flaming ramparts of the heavens and traversed the boundless universe in thought and mind.

I discovered how science is truly a universal language, one that forges new connections among individuals and opens the mind to ideas that go far beyond the classroom.

If you want to know the reality, just subtract the things that you think are real from your mind. Now the remaining is the reality.