When I think of Sherlock Holmes, I think of a guy who can wander into the confusion of life and sort of pluck out answers at will.
Graham Moore
LifeThinkWanderWillConfusion
Books are wonderful. They are like people, except they mind less when you put them down and wander off to eat something.
Alexandra Petri
PeopleMindYouWanderDownEat
Many of the cognitive enhancement drugs serve to increase focus and concentration. But 'letting your mind wander' is very often an important part of the creative process.
Jamais Cascio
FocusCreativeMindProcessWander
I live in Brooklyn, in Williamsburg, so I just like to wander around. Williamsburg's such a cool little neighborhood community spot.
Zoe Kravitz
LiveCommunityCoolWanderBrooklyn
Minds will wander even during the Last Judgment.
Mason Cooley
WanderWillMindsJudgmentLast
I couldn't go anywhere unless there was a security guard with me. That spoiled my life. It was like being in captivity. Those days are gone, and I don't ever want to see that happen to me again. Now I can wander around the streets of Los Angeles on my own. I like it that way.
Christine McVie
LifeMeMy LifeWanderSecurityGo
It's funny: I can never sleep between shows; I think it's because I don't like to switch the motor off. I'll probably have some chicken or pasta, though never the two together, and maybe go out for a quick wander around.
Richard McCabe
FunnyTogetherSleepThinkWander
I wander around, get the lay of the land and try to imagine what kind of people would have lived there in that historical period. What would they eat? What kind of clothing would they wear? How did they shelter themselves? How did they get around?
James Welch
PeopleWanderKindLandTryEat
Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.
Georges Bataille
DreamsWeaknessViolenceWanderRage
I wander around online, but until I hit my daily word count, I only leave my desk to make some tea, eat, or to answer the door. At 7 P.M., I give up and spend the rest of the evening catching up with the news.
Ayobami Adebayo
DailyTeaDoorRestEveningWander
I danced a lot when I was younger, and I've always had decent, shapely legs and thought it's now or never. I mean, when you're pushing 40, are you really going to wander around in a dress that's midthigh length?
Kate Winslet
DressThoughtYouWanderLegsNever
I like to sit and listen to conversations here in Nashville. Not in a weird, stalker-ish way. I wander around Tennessee and find myself in little bars just zoning in.
Sam Palladio
MyselfWeirdWanderFindWayListen
I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.
Andrew Wyeth
PeopleMeWanderFindOutFields
In my adolescence, I think I felt very outcast; I felt lonely. I felt great loneliness, and sometimes I wouldn't partake in Christmas, and I would go off and wander in the streets of Melbourne.
Michael Leunig
GreatLonelinessThinkLonelyWander
Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there... If you're working correctly, the feeling doesn't wander about.
Christopher Alexander
VisionStartYouWanderFeeling
Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
Nikola Tesla
TodayMathematicsRealityWanderOff
Now I have other demands on my time that are not flexible, I just can't wander into the studio at 2 A.M. like I used to. If I have an idea in the middle of the night, I will go and get the bare bones down, but mostly you can learn to tame it to your needs.
Jamie Cullum
TimeNightLearnYouWanderDown
When I'm old I shall give up writing the big stuff and shall wander round the park thinking of songs.
George Lloyd
WritingThinkingWanderOldUpPark
We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.
Terence McKenna
WanderLookEarthRoomAbstraction
I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to work much harder at the science.
Kathryn Schulz
WorkScienceWanderFindI CanWay
When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
Jack Henry Abbott
LifeExperienceNightWanderTalk
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