Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeanette Winterson

When we say we can pull resources away from libraries, from culture, from those parts of the education system that are not about utility, what we are really saying is that the life of the mind is unnecessary.

Jewel

I was raised in a household where I read Nietzsche and Dostoyevsky and Kant, and I was never taught that my mind was feminine. I'm aware that my body is.

Jerry West

When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.

Jen Lancaster

Fortunately, all it takes for us to be of one mind is some buttercream frosting.

Jeaniene Frost

Would you mind repeating that? I'm afraid I might have lost my wits altogether and just hallucinated what I've longed to hear.

George Eliot

The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.

George Eliot

Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence.

Geoffrey Chaucer

A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.

Franz Schubert

If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have.

Frank Knight

...even professors of economics, to say nothing of the public, do not generally have scientific minds.

Francoise Sagan

What you call types of mind are only mental ages.

Frank Auerbach

I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.

George Herbert

Let thy mind still be bent, still plotting, where, And when, and how thy business may be done. Slackness breeds worms; but the sure traveller, Though he alights sometimes still goeth on.

Christian Wiman

I honestly don’t know whether I am describing something essential about the way we know God or merely my own weakness of mind.

The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.

Chris Tucker

I love traveling. It not only opens my mind up, but it also allows me to use my fame in another way through humanitarian works and stuff, and being an influence around the world.

Chris Ware

Comic strip is almost like music on a page that you perform in your mind. It's not just pictures. There's a particular rhythm and structure to it that is unlike anything else. It literally is like music. You hear it in your mind as you read it.

Chris O'Dowd

I don't mind being slightly fat-ish, I just don't want to be fat.

Faith Ford

My theory is, if you can do comedy and you can be in a scene with someone like Brad Garrett and hold your own, you've really got a future in this business.

George W. Bush

We look forward to analyzing and working with legislation that will make - it would hope - put a free press's mind at ease that you're not being denied information you shouldn't see.

George Orwell

A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things.

George Orwell

He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.

George R. R. Martin

Minds are like swords, I do fear. The old ones go to rust.

George Carlin

Have you ever started a path? No one seems willing to do this. We don't mind using existing paths, but we rarely start new ones. Do it today. Start a path. Even if it doesn't lead anywhere

George Carlin

Language is a tool for concealing the truth. If we could read each other's minds, this would be a horror show.

Gene Simmons

Being a Jew, you realize your strongest weapon is your mind.

Garry Winogrand

Surviving, that's all. That's all I have in mind .

Frederick Buechner

I am such a person of words. I've spent so much of my life trying to get it right, say it right, say it eloquently, say it truthfully, say it honestly, that when I hear it said in ways that none of those adverbs would describe I find myself so repelled that it almost shuts my mind off.

Felix Baumgartner

This claustrophobia was the only weakness I had. It's not my fault. It's just in my mind.

Feist

Gatekeeper was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I havent written many like that.

Fay Godwin

I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.

Fanny Burney

I'd rather be done any thing to than laughed at, for, to my mind, it's one or other the disagreeablest thing in the world.

Fanny Burney

the mind naturally accommodates itself, even to the most ridiculous improprieties, if they occur frequently.