Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karl Marx

The fact that labour is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; that in his work, therefore he does not affirm himself but denies himself, does not feel content but unhappy, does not develop freely his physical and mental energy but mortifies his body and his mind. The worker therefore only feels himself outside his work, and in his work feels outside himself.

Julia Glass

Mind who you love. For that matter, mind how you are loved.

Jules Verne

Is the Master out of his mind?' she asked me. I nodded. 'And he's taking you with him?' I nodded again. 'Where?' she asked. I pointed towards the centre of the earth. 'Into the cellar?' exclaimed the old servant. 'No,' I said, 'farther down than that.

Judith Curry

Not being able to address the attribution of change in the early 20th century to my mind precludes any highly confident attribution of change in the late 20th century.

Judi Dench

I've always loved painting, although I never show anyone what I've done. Mainly because I don't do it well. But it's like a form of visual diary for me. A way of fixing things in my mind.

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?

Joseph Joubert

Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.

Joseph Joubert

We disjoint the mind like the body.

Kristin Cavallari

I say what's on my mind. I go after what I want.

Kristin Chenoweth

I am a creature of the sun. I don't ever mind being in the heat.

King Albert II

One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance.

Myles Munroe

Purpose is when you know and understand what you were born to accomplish. Vision is when you see it in your mind and begin to imagine it

Milton Berle

I don't mind personal insults, but when you insult the jokes that I tell you're insulting Fred Allen, Bob Hope, Burns and Allen, Trevor McGee and Molly Picon.

Milton Berle

What an orchestra! They just sit there, but their minds are thousands of miles away with their bookies.

Milton Friedman

Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power.

Mike Todd

Being poor is a frame of mind.

Nathalie Sarraute

It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.

J. K. Rowling

I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.

H. L. Mencken

A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation

H. L. Mencken

What ails the truth is that it is mainly uncomfortable, and often dull. The human mind seeks something more amusing, and more caressing.

H. L. Mencken

The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Different fragrances promote different emotions, and I find that fragrance gets me in the frame of mind for that person.

Greg MacGillivray

Satisfying myself is the point in filmmaking, in my mind.

Grace Paley

I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.

J. Reuben Clark

But there is one whom you do not deceive, and that is Christ, our Lord. He knows all. Personally, I have felt that nobody need keep much of a record about me, except what I keep myself in my mind, which is a part of my spirit. I often question in my mind, whether it is going to require very many witnesses in addition to my own wrongdoing.

H. P. Lovecraft

It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may. Personally I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born, yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.

Grant Bowler

Mind your own business.

George Herbert

Unsound minds like unsound Bodies, if you feed, you poyson. [Unsound minds, like unsound bodies, if you feed, you poison.]

Georg Cantor

The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in its highest form has created and sustains us, and in its secondary transfinite forms occurs all around us and even inhabits our minds.