A Quote by Noel Coward

My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.

Noel Coward

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Body Certainly Deal Enough Good Good Deal Mind Suspicion Uneasy

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Noel Coward
English - Playwright
December 16, 1899 - March 26, 1973

I wandered by the brook-side, I wandered by the mill; I could not hear the brook flow, The noisy wheel was still.

Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

I am an expert in loneliness and have wandered around a great deal.

Sterling Hayden

In high school my mind wandered all the time.

Bob Crane

I wandered along to the chemistry labs, more or less on the rebound, and asked about becoming a research student. It was the '60s, a time of university expansion: the doors were open, and a 2:1 was good enough to get me in.

John Sulston

I was raised Catholic, and then I kind of wandered away somewhere in high-school. I never got confirmed, which is a big deal.

Mike Birbiglia

Throughout my career, my mind rarely wandered, and I was never sidetracked by distractions, no matter what I was going through off the court.

Pete Sampras

I didn't like writing just articles and things. So then I wandered around. I tried my hand at film and television and that was a worse fit because I don't really have a mind for that.

Robert Greene

Dinted dimpled wimpled-his mind wandered down echoing corridors of assonance and alliteration ever further and further from the point. He was enamoured with the beauty of words.

Aldous Huxley

I didn't write. I just wandered about.

Martha Gellhorn

We wandered in a frenzy and a dream (301).

Jack Kerouac

Some of my favorite experiences of art are when I am there but my attention has wandered. I think stimulation is overrated, and persistent stimulation is exhausting. You sometimes have to be banal, tedious: make the rhythm go soft and slow, give the mind a rest.

Sheila Heti

What are we artists for? We are for showing you what you've wandered for to find the home of your spirit.

Hiroko Sakai

Follow the wandering, the distraction, find out why the mind has wandered; pursue it, go into it fully. When the distraction is completely understood, then that particular distraction is gone. When another comes, pursue it also.