Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joel Kinnaman

We don't know why we are here and . . . our role in the universe, and the thought of an infinite universe. It's something the human mind can't really grasp. [And] it's statistically impossible that there's not life on other planets.

Joe Hill

He understood that the ghost existed first and foremost within his own head. That maybe ghosts always haunted minds, not places. If he wanted to take a shot at it, he’d have to turn the barrel against his own temple.

Joan Osborne

It's not just something that you do intellectually when you do music. You do it with your body, and you do it with your emotions, and you do it with every part of yourself. It engages your mind as well, but engages all parts of yourself.

Joan Rivers

I don't mind aging, I just don't want to be a day older.

Gabrielle Roy

The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgment free.

Gabriela Sabatini

I felt nobody would understand what was going on in my mind.

Gabriela Sabatini

I didn't know what was going through my mind.

Frankie Valli

I do belong to Jersey. There's no doubt about that in my mind. They have been so loyal and so good to me, how could I possibly belong any place else?

Francois Fenelon

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

Francois Fenelon

We must avoid fastidiousness; neatness, when it is moderate, is a virtue; but when it is carried to an extreme, it narrows the mind.

Francois Fenelon

Violent excitement exhausts the mind and leaves it withered and sterile.

Francois Fenelon

The best use one can make of his mind is to distrust it.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Television is bubble-gum for the mind

Frank Lloyd Wright

Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

George Combe

The friends whom I have are invaluable, and although not numerous they are sufficient for my enjoyment; and the texture of my own mind renders me very indifferent to the rest of the world.

George Clinton

Look both ways before you cross my mind.

George Crabbe

There is no mind so weak and powerless as not to have its inclinations, and none so guarded as to be without its prepossessions.

Elisha Cuthbert

That's when you know a horror film delivers - when you're walking out of the theater going 'Oh my God!' You can't get the images out of your mind.

Eknath Easwaran

When the mind is still, we can become an instrument of peace.

Eknath Easwaran

We have no need to teach pure motives to the mind. All that is necessary to make the mind pure is to undo the negative conditioning to which it has been subjected; then we will be left with Pure, Unconditioned Awareness.

John Constable

I don't mind parting with the corn, but not with the field in which it was raised.

John Constable

A sketch will not serve more than one state of mind & will not serve to drink at again & again — in a sketch there is nothing but the one state of mind — that which you were in at the time.

John Burns

I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.

John Burdett

The function of the West is to turn bodies and minds into products. It cannot understand that the rest of the world holds this to be an obscenity, a corruption of our nirvanic nature.

John Burroughs

Nothing relieves and ventilates the mind like a resolution.

Joel Osteen

You control the doorway to your mind.

Joel Osteen

Program your mind with what God says about you and a transformation will take place.

Joel Osteen

You will never rise above the image you have of yourself in your own mind.

Joel Osteen

Make up your mind that no matter what comes your way, no matter how difficult, no matter how unfair, you will do more than simply survive. You will thrive in spite of it.

Joe Abercrombie

Armour... is part of a state of mind... in which you admit the possibility... of being hit.

Joan Collins

You can't help getting older, but you can help yourself from becoming old and infirm, in mind as well as body.

Jim Thompson

I'd been chasing females all my life, not paying no mind to the fact that whatever's got tail at one end has teeth at the other, and now I was getting chomped.

Louise Hay

Your mind is a tool you can choose to use any way you wish.