“Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find, for a mind maker-upper to make up his mind”
Source: Oh, The Places You'll Go!
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American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of B… 1904–1991Related quotes
“In the dark, I like to read his mind
But I'm frightened of the things I might find.”
"Voices Carry" · Official video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uejh-bHa4To · Live 1985 performance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCO-dzitHIE
Song lyrics, Voices Carry (1985)
“A mind that's afraid to toy with the ridiculous will never come up with the brilliantly original”
Source: Brightness Reef (1995), Ch. 25
Context: It's how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out, and discarded. A mind that's afraid to toy with the ridiculous will never come up with the brilliantly original.
“Once he makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.”
On President Dwight D. Eisenhower, as quoted in The Nastiest Things Ever Said about Republicans (2006) by Martin Higgins, p. 83.
Clary held the phone away from her ear as he cracked up laughing. "That is so not funny!"
Simon and Clary, pg. 19
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)
“You can enjoy anything if you make up your mind to.”
“Mind is the Maker, for no reason at all, for all this creation, created to fall.”
Source: The Dharma Bums