Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Harkaway

Never mind, never mind, let's get to the part where we smite the unrighteous. I've brought my most alarming teeth!

Nick Kroll

There's one theory that the funnier a comic is in his act, the more mind-numbingly boring he'll be when he's not holding a microphone.

Nalo Hopkinson

I don't pay much mind to politricks. Never met a politician who wouldn't try to convince you that salt was sugar.

Mortimer Adler

The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.

Mischa Barton

I don't mind nudity; I just don't do it often.

P. G. Wodehouse

If he had a mind, there was something on it.

P. G. Wodehouse

Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurant—better left unstirred.

Ovid

The mind, conscious of rectitude, laughed to scorn the falsehood of report.

Ovid

The love of fame usually spurs on the mind. [Lat., Ingenio stimulos subdere fama solet.]

Ovid

The mind alone can not be exiled. [Lat., Mens sola loco non exulat.]

Ovid

All things can corrupt perverse minds.

Ovid

The love of fame puts spurs to the mind

Ovid

Little things please little minds.

Paul Newman

I just hope when my body goes, or when my mind does, I have the guts to end it the way Hemingway did. I don't want anybody wiping drool off my chin.

Paul Erdos

It is not enough to be in the right place at the right time. You should also have an open mind at the right time.

Paul Begala

Ah yes! Conservatives. Some of the finest minds of the 12th Century.

Matt Groening

I don't mind sharing the blame if she'll just admit she started it.

Marya Mannes

Minds are cluttered from the age of six with the values of others-values which bear little relation to their own private capacities, needs and desires.

Mary Wollstonecraft

The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Hereditary property sophisticates the mind, and the unfortunate victims to it ... swathed from their birth, seldom exert the locomotive faculty of body or mind; and, thus viewing every thing through one medium, and that a false one, they are unable to discern in what true merit and happiness consist.

Mary Wollstonecraft

The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on.

Mary Hunter Austin

The utmost the American novelist can hope for, if he hopes at all to see his work included in the literature of his time, is that it may eventually be found to be along in the direction of the growing tip of collective consciousness. Preeminently the novelist's gift is that of access to the collective mind.

Mary J. Blige

When you're going to do whatever you're going to do, you have to get your, put your mind into it.

Martha Gellhorn

travel is compost for the mind

Marshall McLuhan

The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.

Marshall McLuhan

In Tetrad form, the artifact is seen to be not neutral or passive, bur an active logos or utterance of the human mind or body that transforms the user and his ground.

Marshall McLuhan

Food for the mind is like food for the body: the inputs are never the same as the outputs.

Marion Ross

This moment is your portal to the future. Use it wisely!

Oswald Chambers

Reflected peace is the proof that you are right with God because you are at liberty to turn your mind to Him.

Paul Saffo

Microsoft is a big intellectual roach motel. All the big minds go in, and they don't come out.

Paul Haggis

If you change the right mind, then that person can perhaps change the world.

Paul Auster

Even when I'm just sitting at my desk, I have to get up every twenty minutes or so and walk around, walk around, walk around, and then I can go back to the page. I can't just sit there for hours at a time. Language comes out of the body as much as the mind.

Pat Buchanan

The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.