An artist is always thinking of something else. My father was like that. He had this feeling of abstraction, and I do, too.
If I don't shut down my brain soon, my imagination will take off so far about what could be with this guy, that nothing will ever just be.-- Norah, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
First Sight means you can see what really is there, and Second Thoughts mean thinking about what you are thinking. And in Tiffany's case, there were sometimes Third Thoughts and Fourth Thoughts although these...sometimes led her to walk into doors.
I sometimes feel like when you're talking to boys, they just hear certain keywords… But if you had a bubble above their head, they'd be thinking about game scores, masturbation and food.
But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.
I sometimes worry about my short attention span, but not for long.
Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express our true opinions.
My wife says I don't listen when she talks. But when people talk, I'm in my own world. I think - always thinking.
If your mind is anything like mine, it can stumble through a half-dozen different thoughts in a heartbeat.
My brain is just so busy. I'm inattentive; I'm a daydreamer: the space cadet kind.
I'm a visual thinker, thrill seeker, and I'm easily distracted. I see everything I'm writing, and I think it naturally affects the pace of things.
You get so tied up with the minutiae of the day-to-day, there's never a chance to sit back and let your subconscious run wild.
Our brains are designed to solve some of our most complex problems when we're distracted by routine habits.
Indeed, I cannot think why the whole bed of the ocean is not one solid mass of oysters, so prolific the creatures seem. Ah, I am wandering! Strange how the brain controls the brain! What was I saying, Watson?
