Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ewan McGregor

If I want to do the kind of work that I like to act in, I need to open my mind to it.

Evan Parker

So what starts is ad hoc and you never know where it's going to lead, so it's important to keep an open mind about those things.

Evander Holyfield

When you have a sound mind, you can do what's necessary.

Muriel Spark

Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of truth emerges from it, but it's not fact.

Mo Rocca

Generally I get up at around 7. But oftentimes, I'll be lolling in bed a little bit earlier - sometimes as early as 5:45 - filing in my mind all the things I have to get done. Which is, of course, totally unproductive.

Moby

I change my mind about things - for a while I was punk rocker, and if you weren't a punk rocker you were an apostate. Then I was a dance music enthusiast, and if you weren't a dance music enthusiast, you were an apostate. I was carnivore, and if you were a vegan, I didn't want to talk to you. Then I was vegan, and if you were a carnivore I didn't want to talk to you.

Mindy Kaling

If I can muster up any allure in my life, at this stage, I wouldn't mind doing that.

Mindy Kaling

Truthfully, I guess I would like to be remembered as a great writer and a kind person. I wouldn't mind if an expensive bag were named after me, like Jane Birkin.

Harry Shearer

You can get an awful lot of effects into the customer's mind for a great deal less time and money in radio than you can in television.

Frank Herbert

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.

Frank Herbert

A good companion is one you wouldn't mind dying with.

Frank Herbert

The most terrifying things in the universe came from human minds.

Frank Herbert

The mind goes on working no matter how we try to hold it back.

Frank Herbert

Beware! The mind of the believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite universe.

Guru Nanak

Those who conquer their minds are beings of renunciation and detachment. They are beings of renunciation and detachment they are lovingly focused on the True One, they realize and understand themselves.

Jim Butcher

Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope.

H. G. Wells

IBM is helping to greatly advance and expedite quality sampling while providing our project investigators peace of mind that the information they are gathering is securely stored and protected.

Jean de la Bruyere

The mind, like all other things, will become impaired, the sciences are its food,--they nourish, but at the same time they consume it.

Jean Anouilh

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

Jay McInerney

Great minds sink alike, right?

Candace Parker

I wouldn't mind being the female MJ. I want to have major crossover appeal.

Byron Nelson

To control your nerves, you must have a positive thought in your mind.

Buzz Aldrin

A mind concerned about danger is a clouded mind. It's paralyzing.

Buzz Aldrin

To appropriately respond to an emergency requires a very clear mind, to cooly analyze what the observations are and how to fix it.

It is important to bear in mind the now commonly accepted fact that in its primitive stages, religion had nothing to do with morals as understood by us today.

James Ellis

The mind paints before the brush.

James Ellis

Better an ugly face than an ugly mind.

James Dyson

I made 5,127 prototypes of my vaccum before I got it right. There were 5,126 failures. But I learned from each one. That’s how I came up with a solution. So I don’t mind failure.

Joseph Joubert

What can you possibly add to a mind that's full, especially one that's full of itself.

Joseph Joubert

Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.

Joseph Joubert

The breath of the mind is attention 128

Joseph Joubert

We measure minds by their stature; it would be better to esteem them by their beauty.

Joseph Joubert

What can one possibly introduce into a mind that is already full, and full of itself?