I wasn’t playing mind games with anybody, I just said what I said. I am responsible for it, but I wish everybody would fall asleep for that one and let me go out there and do my thing. – Pedro Martinez
‘Write’ is almost the wrong verb for what I do. I think ‘compose’ is more accurate because you’re trying to make the sounds in your mind and in your voice. So I compose while I’m driving or in the shower. – Robert Pinsky
I’ve sort of made up my mind that I have to do my career and I have to be a mother. These are my two responsibilities; of course the baby comes first. – Phoebe Snow
When I’m playing my best and find myself in contention late on Sundays, it’s usually when I’m not thinking about my swing, but rather trusting my setup and smoothly pulling the trigger. I won’t completely rely on feel – I like to keep a few images in the back of my mind to make sure that I get the most out of my driver, irons and wedges. – Sergio Garcia
If a man can make me laugh and stimulate me intellectually, then I wouldn’t mind if he was 4 ft. 8 in. with a huge belly. The only thing that would put me off is bad breath – but even that can be fixed. A bad personality isn’t so easy to fix. – Olga Kurylenko
I don’t think I’m generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all. – Pamela Stephenson
The biggest trap that all performers and writers find is that when something really crazy, really bad happens, your mind immediately goes to, ‘Can I write about this?’ – which is good and bad. – Riki Lindhome
I didn’t mind being in school. But I was usually uninspired and always late. I did what I had to, but not more. – Robyn
There were two things going on: 1) I had already established in my own mind where I wanted to go with the next series, and having James around as a Grey Eminence would have complicated matters. He had had an amazing life and it was time to bid him good-bye. – Raymond E. Feist
What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked a majority of the majority,’ or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America’s security foremost in mind? – Rahm Emanuel
It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind. – Orison Swett Marden
Getting older, I realize I’ve had a very fortunate life. I’ve had a budget that’s allowed me to do just about any silly little thing the mind could conjure up, and I’m still alive and here. – Rick Danko
Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do. – Ralph Marston
What a lot of people don’t realise about me is that I have no idea what’s going on in the media. I don’t pay any attention to it, as I consider it mind pollution. The last time I touched a computer was in 2001, and my phone is too old to use the Internet. I just don’t enter into it at all on any level. – Pete Burns
We go along, without a fixed itinerary, yet at the same time with an end (what end?) in mind, and with the aim of reaching the end. A search for the end, a dread of the end: the obverse and the reverse of the same act. – Octavio Paz
After all these years of saying the same thing about the Alvin Ailey company – terrific dancers, awful repertory – I’m finally accepting the inevitable: I’m not going to change my mind, and they’re not going to change their ways. And why should they, given their juggernaut success all over the world? – Robert Gottlieb
I don’t mind having a reputation as a serious and spiritual person. I think that would be a nice reputation to have. – Russell Brand
I don’t mind fans coming up in a friendly, respectful way. That’s all part of the fun of being a top tennis player. But if people take pictures without permission, particularly if my children are in the shot, I feel uncomfortable. – Roger Federer
If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides. – Robert Quillen
It is important that the decorum and dignity of the House is upheld at all times. The image of Parliament in the public mind should be one where proceedings, debates and discussions take place with a view to resolve issues through a constructive and co-operative approach. – Pratibha Patil
The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing. – Ram Dass
Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment. – Roger Bacon
I don’t think you can be taught how to make art. You can be coached, but on a fundamental level you have to figure it out for yourself. You have to learn how your own mind works, figure out your own relationship to the art; you essentially have to invent it completely for yourself. – Philipp Meyer
Well, the first year I lost my voice I didn’t mind so much because I was going to have a baby and I was distracted with him anyway, I didn’t even think about it that much, well, OK, this is what’s happening. – Rosanne Cash
My music must reflect whatever’s going on in my mind, and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is I’m becoming. – Shania Twain
What could be better in al-Qaeda’s mind than to have India and Pakistan going at each other? What more to further their aims? – Richard Armitage
