Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andre Norton

There is no cure for narrowness of mind ...

Andre Maurois

The minds of different generations are as impenetrable one by the other as are the monads of Leibniz.

Andre Maurois

Experience is valuable only when it has brought suffering and when the suffering has left its mark upon both body and mind.

Ambrose Bierce

PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.

Ambrose Bierce

ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection.

Ambrose Bierce

COMFORT, n. A state of mind produced by contemplation of a neighbor's uneasiness.

Ambrose Bierce

MONAD, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter (see Molecule). The monad has body without bulk, and mind without manifestation - containing all the powers and possibilities needful to his evolution into a German philosopher . .

Ambrose Bierce

INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or remote, of the performance of an involuntary act.

Alison Bechdel

If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.

Alice Thomas Ellis

I have never had much trouble simultaneously entertaining diametrically opposed propositions, and welcome the possibility that this is not because I have one mind and am out of it, but because I have lots of them, all beavering away on their own.

Alice Hoffman

This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.

Anne Lamott

and you try to quiet your mind so you can hear...

Alphonse de Lamartine

Religions are not proved, are not demonstrated, are not established, are not overthrown by logic! They are of all the mysteries of nature and the human mind, the most mysterious and most inexplicable; they are of instinct and not of reason.

Sy Montgomery

The fact that three-fifths of an octopus' neurons are not in their brain, but in their arms, suggests that each arm has a mind of its own.

Alexander McCall Smith

I'm very interested in tea. I wouldn't mind being involved in some aspect of the tea industry.

Alexander McCall Smith

Our minds can come up with the most entertaining possibilities, if we let them. But most of the time, we keep them under far too close a check.

Alexander Pope

The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.

Alexander Pope

Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!

Alexander Pope

Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.

Alex Graves

Well my motto was "Never Monologue a Clegane", because Beric Dondarrion and Thoros were messing around with The Hound and Beric essentially got killed, even though he got to come back, and then the monologue is just a foolish thing to do. But it's also psychological state of mind, he can't get over his sister.

E. P. Thompson

There is not a thought that is being thought in the West or the East that is not active in some Indian mind

E. Stanley Jones

The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.

E. Stanley Jones

The BIBLE redirects my will, cleanses my emotions, enlightens my mind, and quickens my total being

E. Stanley Jones

If you don't make up your mind, your unmade mind will unmake you.

E. O. Wilson

[W]hen the martyr's righteous forebrain is exploded by the executioner's bullet and his mind disintegrates, what then? Can we safely assume that all those millions of neural circuits will be reconstituted in an immaterial state, so the conscious mind carries on?

E. O. Wilson

The naturalist is a civilized hunter. He goes alone into the field or woodland and closes his mind to everything but that time and place, so that life around him presses in on all the senses and small details grow in significance. He begins the scanning search for which cognition was engineered. His mind becomes unfocused, it focuses on everything, no longer directed toward any ordinary task or social pleasantry

E. M. Forster

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.

E. M. Forster

Sudden conversion ... is particularly attractive to the half-baked mind.

Doug E. Fresh

Everybody's doing it. When I'm performing and I do the Dougie, the fans lose their minds.

Donna Karan

Everyone contributes something different to the mind, body and spirit.

Donald E. Graham

The longer I lived in the east, the more completely I realized that, for better or worse, I was going to be, to everybody's mind, wherever I lived, a Texan.

Donald Cram

We usually don't have applications in mind. They come later.

Don DeLillo

Being called a 'bad citizen' is a compliment to a novelist, at least to my mind. That's exactly what we ought to do.