It’s really ironic that I won, because that’s not the goal that I had in mind when I went out to skate. – Sarah Hughes
I thought I was going to make bigger films for mass audiences. And I wanted that. I actually had in mind a James-Bondian thriller. – Whit Stillman
The brain is an immensely complex organ, and many mysteries remain. Exactly how brain and mind or soma and psyche are related is one of them. – Siri Hustvedt
Only time will tell in what ways Freud was prescient and in what ways he failed to understand how the mind functions. For example, no scientist and very few psychoanalysts still embrace Freud’s death instinct. – Siri Hustvedt
I believe the more important thing is your mind and your heart. Those two things are the most ignored parts of our beings. – Toni Collette
We don’t really talk about music that much, to be honest with you. It’s not some I usually – I can’t really talk about other people’s tracks never mind my own. – Sean Booth
Right before I go on stage, I’m absolutely terrified. My mind darts at many directions, but the center of me is going forward into the performance. – Sarah Brightman
History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet very quickly. But that mind in man just goes back and back into the darkness. – Terence McKenna
Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one’s level of peace of mind. – Sydney Madwed
When people talk about being a writer, the first words that come to mind are glamour and artistic parties like Charles Dickens used to mix cocktails for. – Sarah Rees Brennan
I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories. – Zhang Yimou
I don’t know what to do when I’m not working. I lose my mind if I’m not constantly doing something. – Taylor Momsen
I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child. – Sarah Fielding
Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic. – William E. Gladstone
I love working and I love doing lots of things and a variety of things. It keeps your mind active… and you don’t end up worrying about just the one thing. When I chew things over or analyze too much, that is when I can trip myself up. – Sally Hawkins
If western culture is shown to be rich, it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to ‘dissolve’ harmful simplifications through inquiry and the critical mind. – Umberto Eco
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. – Thomas Jefferson
One should be able to control and manipulate experiences with an informed and intelligent mind. – Sylvia Plath
Some of the writers I admire who seem very, very funny and very emotional to me can develop a closeness with the reader without giving too much of themselves away. Lorrie Moore comes to mind, as does David Sedaris. When they write, the reader thinks that they’re being trusted as a friend. – Sloane Crosley
When I grew up I always wanted to act. Also, I wanted to be either a lawyer or a doctor. However, when I got to college and realized what those occupations entailed, I changed my mind real quick. – Tia Mowry
I personally won’t have anything live in my house that can’t move the car on street-sweeping day or grate carrots. Plus, I don’t mind being talked to harshly. I want to be challenged by something more complex than a Wheaton terrier. – Taylor Negron
If you’re writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author’s views rather than about the character’s. – Tana French
My mind still runs too fast. If we get the wrong fabric or something is stitched the wrong way, I get so angry and so flummoxed that I start spelling my words, just to slow myself down. – William Ivey Long
In August of 2002, I survived a car accident. Although I can still see the van speeding toward us, I cannot bring to mind the crash itself – only its aftermath. – Siri Hustvedt
Homophobia is manufactured in high schools, so it’s probably useful to keep in mind that it really does bother people. – Zak Orth
I don’t blame people who suspect my performance. My own mind suspects it. How can I blame them? – Sri Chinmoy
I may have had a prejudice against agnosticism as a body of thought: sort of a fence-sitting theory, where you can’t make up your mind one way or another. – S. T. Joshi
