Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Fanny Burney

The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation

Fanny Burney

To save the mind from preying inwardly upon itself, it must be encouraged to some outward pursuit. There is no other way to elude apathy, or escape discontent; none other to guard the temper from that quarrel with itself, which ultimately ends in quarreling with all mankind.

Fannie Hurst

The literary wiseacres prognosticate in many languages, as they have throughout so many centuries, setting the stage for new hautmonde in letters and making up the public's mind.

F. L. Lucas

The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.

Ezra Taft Benson

Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit.

Ezra Taft Benson

In general, the more food we eat in its natural state - without additives - and the less it is refined, the healthier it will be for us. Food can affect the mind, and deficiencies of certain elements in the body can promote mental depression.

Euripides

Bodies devoid of mind are as statues in the market place.

Euripides

The little done doth vanish to the mind which forward sees how much remains to do.

Euripides

My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.

Francis of Assisi

It is good to read the testimonies of Scripture; it is good to seek the Lord our God in them. As for me, however, I have already made so much of Scripture my own that I have more than enough to meditate on and turn over in my mind. I need no more . .. I know Christ, the poor crucified One.

Francis Chan

God specifically created us to be like Him. This is impossible to wrap our minds around, but God created us like Him in some respect and then set us in the midst of this world to represent Him!

Francis Bacon

There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.

Francis Bacon

First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind.

Francis Bacon

Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind.

Francis Bacon

Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be held in suspicion.

Frances Perkins

It's only when we're relaxed that the thing way down deep in all of us - call it the subconscious mind, the spirit, what you will - has a chance to well up and tell us how we shall go.

Frances Wright

These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.

Suze Orman

Sometimes your mind lets you do things with your money that make no sense.

Gary Coleman

I've done over 150 different things since "Different Strokes," but that role will always be prevalent in people's minds because I haven't done anything to overshadow it yet.

Hunter Parrish

I'm kind of A.D.D., and so my mind wanders a lot.

Drake Bell

I'm on stage where Rivers Cuomo from Weezer was standing? It's kind of a mind trip.