Famous Quotes & Sayings

Douglas Adams

Much to his annoyance, a thought popped into his mind. It was very clear and very distinct, and he had now come to recognize these thoughts for what they were. His instinct was to resist them.

Douglas Adams

The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

Douglas Adams

No one really knows what mattresses are meant to gain from their lives either. They are large, friendly, pocket-sprung creatures that live quiet private lives in the marshes of Sqornshellous Zeta. Many of them get caught, slaughtered, dried out, shipped out and slept on. None of them seems to mind this and all of them are called Zem.

Douglas Adams

There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind.

Douglas Adams

It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.

Doris Roberts

You can call me an older woman - I don't mind that at all - just don't call me an old one, because I'm not.

Dorothea Lange

The best way to go into an unknown territory is to go in ignorant, ignorant as possible, with your mind wide open, as wide open as possible and not having to meet anyone else's requirement but your own.

Donna Summer

Well, I'll say I have an incredible ability to fantasize - I really do. I don't have to have things tangible to be able to see them, and therefore I enjoy so many things, because they're in my mind.

Donna Mills

I always wanted to know what lens they were on, how close they were. I didn't do it with a plan in mind, but I would instinctively gear what I was doing toward what lenses they were using.

Donnie Wahlberg

Producing suits me because I have a business mind and a business sensibility.

Dale Carnegie

When you're afraid keep your mind on what you have to do. And if you have been thoroughly prepared you will not be afraid.

Dale Carnegie

Fill your mind with thoughts of PEACE, COURAGE, HEALTH and HOPE

Constantin Brancusi

Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them

By annihilating desires, you annihilate the mind.

Cynthia Heimel

Possessions, for the terminally frightened, bring peace of mind.

Clive James

Mocking Hugh Hefner is easy to do, and in my mind should be made easier.

Dylan Moran

Paper acts as an eraser on the mind, as soon as you look at what you've written.

e. e. cummings

things which in my mind blossom will stumble beneath a clumsiest disguise appear capable of fragility and indecision

E. B. White

Too many things on my mind, said Wilbur. Well, said the goose, that's not my trouble. I have nothing at all on my mind, but I've too many things under my behind.

E. B. White

Who can confidently say what ignites a certain combination of words, causing them to explode in the mind? Who knows why certain notes in music are capable of stirring the listener deeply, though the same notes slightly rearranged are impotent? These are high mysteries, and this chapter is a mystery story, thinly disguised.

Dustin Moskovitz

Mindfulness has helped me succeed in almost every dimension of my life. By stopping regularly to look inward and become aware of my mental state, I stay connected to the source of my actions and thoughts and can guide them with considerably more intention.

Dustin Hoffman

This is not a movie about smelling the urine! It's another kind of movie." Volker Schlöndorff got Billy Wilder to agree to these conversations - you can buy it - because Volker spoke German at times. And he said to Billy Wilder: "What is in your mind?" And he said: "If you're going to try to tell the truth to the audience, you'd better be funny or they'll kill you." And I haven't forgotten that.

Douglas Coupland

I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened.

Andrew Scott

I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring. 'Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I don't ever respond to.

Andrew Schneider

Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.

Andre Breton

Dada is a state of mind.

Andre Gide

An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world; to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.

Andre Gide

What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.

Andre Gide

The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.

Amy Cuddy

Our bodies change our minds, and our minds can change our behavior, and our behavior can change our outcomes.

Anais Nin

We sit on the kitchen exchanging these diabolical outgrowths of overfertile minds.

Anais Nin

My trunk, valises and my mind are overpacked.

Anais Nin

I don't mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated