Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol P. Christ

Symbol systems cannot simply be rejected; they must be replaced. Where there is no replacement, the mind will revert to familiar structures at times of crisis, bafflement, or defeat.

Carlos Mencia

If you ask me right now, you've seen the last of Mind of Mencia. I don't want to be a one-trick pony. I would rather walk away and do more movies, comedy and even some dramatic roles.

Carlos Castaneda

Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if you feel you should not follow, you must not stay with it under any circumstances.

C. S. Lewis

I hope I do not offend God by making my Communions in the frame of mind I have been describing. The command, after all, was Take, eat: not Take, understand.

C. S. Lewis

For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands.

Michael Sands

We want our product to stick in the minds of consumers.

Agnes Martin

When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts. You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.

Agnes Repplier

It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.

Aaron Sorkin

If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.

Brian Eno

I want to rethink 'surrender' as an active verb.

Charles Frazier

Verbs. All of them tiring.

Carl Sandburg

I am still studying verbs and the mystery of how they connect nouns. I am more suspicious of adjectives than at any other time in all my born days.

Chuck Palahniuk

Verbs allow you to communicate a story in a much more converged or involuntary way for a reader. The verbs allow you to come in under the radar, below people's defenses.

Anne Carson

Consider incompleteness as a verb.

R. Buckminster Fuller

God is a verb, not a noun.

Kingsley Amis

If you are using an adverb, you have got the verb wrong.

Evelyn Underhill

We mostly spend [our] lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do... forgetting that none of these verbs have any ultimate significance, except so far as they are transcended by and included in , the fundamental verb, to Be.

Franz Liszt

In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be.

Janis Joplin

At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it.

Benjamin Whorf

Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.

Chuck Palahniuk

We all have some proper noun to blame.

Martha Graham

Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.

R. Buckminster Fuller

God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

R. Buckminster Fuller

I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.

Kim Harrison

I do so like all-encompassing words. Verb, adjective, noun. Yes, you are shitted.

Florence Nightingale

diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.

Fiona Shaw

The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.