My mind is like a room where the door swings free in the breeze, and many visitors come and go and stay and vanish as they will.
– Jane Smiley
Related Quotes:
- Everything opens a new door, a book opens a new door, facts open a new door. So choose your favourite thing and I promise it will open a door. – Deyth Banger
- In the world of old memories, there’s room for visitors – Nobuhiro Watsuki
- In the world of old memories, there’s no room for visitors – Nobuhiro Watsuki
- A truly free man is not free ‘from’ anything, nor free ‘to’ anything, he is just free. Free within himself. – Ilyas Kassam
- Stay in church, stay in prayer, stay in the Word, and stay in fellowship with other believers. – Nancy Alcorn
- Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book. – Jane Smiley
- Had I faced all the facts It seemed like I had but actually you never know just by remembering how many there were to have faced. – Jane Smiley
- The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness. – Jane Smiley
- Every spot on earth is particular, detailed, and incomprehensibly complex. – Jane Smiley
- In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. – Jane Smiley
- Evil people must spread their evil everywhere. – Jane Smiley
- This is true, at the least, that no veil of beauty hides the evils from our sight. – Jane Smiley
- Almonds. Apricots. Avocadoes. Some peaches I don’t know. Grapefruit. Lemones. Probably oranges. – Jane Smiley
- You are a door to an existence she does not desire, but even if the room beyond is repugnant, that door has won a portion of her affection. – Mohsin Hamid
- No guest rooms.- I shake my head resolutely. -œI want to be in a room room. A lived-in room. – Lauren Oliver
- You cry in your room. I cry in my room. Mom cries in Mom’s room. And in the morning everyone pretends like they never cried once in their life. – Natasha Friend
- Was Jane now. All Jane. Come calamity or come calm, was myself and none else. – JD Jordan
- Most politicians lie for the same reason a monkey swings by his tail, which is to say because he can. – Stephen King
- But there was so much todo: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on. I’ll have more time for reading when I’m old and boring. – John Green
- Life has many swings…its up to you how you mold your wings,Strength is the Only wing….Faith leads you to destiny Win. – Sapna Mallick
- This kid has more mood swings than a toddler’s birthday party. – Alexandra Bracken
- We are free, but we are not equal. We are free, but not as free as other people in this land are free. – Allan Dare Pearce
- Stay up… ’till you come up… when you come up stay up! – Johnnie Dent Jr
- Stay up… ’till you come up… when you come up stay up! – Johnnie Dent Jr
- Thankfulness opens the door and ushers in peace and joy like a blessed breeze on a hot and humid Louisiana summer day. – David P Ingerson
- The breeze around them seemed to drop -“ dead -“ like a door to the best things had just closed. – Carla H Krueger
- A painting is worth a thousand confused art-gallery visitors. – Ljupka Cvetanova
- Most of the other visitors were chained to their audio guides, looking only at what their little headsets told them was worth seeing. – Dara Horn
- Fish and visitors stink after three days. – Ursula K Le Guin
- Keep windows of your mind always open, and let the breeze of peace come in with the fragrance of happiness. – Debasish Mridha
- A favorite song or tune may stay on your mind for hours. A good book will stay on your mind until you find another. – F Haywood Glenn
- In zazen, leave your front door and your back door open. Let thoughts come and go. Just don’t serve them tea. – Shunryu Suzuki
- You can walk into your room after walking out through the door, but you cannot come out of your grave after being buried into the soil. – Michael Bassey Johnson
- Stay I whisper to him. Stay in the car. Stay in this moment. But of course he never does. – Laura Nowlin
- Stay curious, stay weird, stay kind and don’t let anyone ever tell you you aren’t smart or brave or worthy enough. – Alex Hirsch
- I will come during the spring with blooms of mystic ecstasy.I will vanish in the song of autumn with the falling colors and beauty. – Debasish Mridha
- If you feel you have to open a particular door, open it, otherwise all your life that door will haunt your mind! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Focus your mind on love, peace and harmony.It will vanish fear, doubt and disharmony. – Debasish Mridha
- Keep in mind that imagination is at the heart of all innovation. Crush or constrain it and the fun will vanish. – AlbertLszl Barabsi
- Memories vanish when we want to remember, but fix themselves permanently in the mind when we want to forget. – Emil M Cioran