Famous Quotes & Sayings

Woody Allen

I wouldn't mind dying so much if it wasn't that I would be dead at the end of it.

William Winwood Reade

If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.

William Wordsworth

Minds that have nothing to confer Find little to perceive.

William Wordsworth

O Reader! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale in everything.

William James

It would probably astound each of us beyond measure to be let into his neighbors mind and to find how different the scenery was there from that of his own.

William James

You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.

William James

The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.

William James

Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part) always comes out of our own mind.

William Gibson

Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others

Will Ferrell

Facebook: What's on your mind? ..Twitter: What's happening? Myspace: Where did everybody go?

Will Durant

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Sarah Rees Brennan

She hesitated, then reached out to Jared in her mind, and uncertainty washed away in the wave of reassurance she got back.

Sara Evans

Your mind is an automobile and words are your wheels.

Sappho

I know not what to do, my mind is divided

Saoirse Ronan

I don't mind doing the whole red carpet thing when I have to when it comes to publicizing a movie. But besides that, I don't like those kinds of things at all. Celebrity status is not really something that appeals to me.

Samuel P. Huntington

When you mention the word ideology, everyone has communism in the back of their minds, which was an entirely well formulated ideology and statement of belief. You read the Communist Manifesto and you know what the core of it is.

William Ellery Channing

I call that mind free which protects itself against the usurpations of society, and which does not cower to human opinion: Which refuses to be the slave or tool of the many or of the few, and guards its empire over itself as nobler than the empire of the world.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Before there was Ronald Reagan there was Barry Goldwater, and before there was Barry, there was National Review , and before there was National Review there was Bill Buckley with a spark in his mind.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.

Whitney M. Young

Stretch your mind and fly.

Whittaker Chambers

Trotsky was essentially a Western mind. Lenin was a Russian, and unlike most other revolutionary exiles, wherever he went he was a Russian.

Saint Basil

Science which is acquired unwillingly, soon disappears; that which is instilled into the mind in a pleasant and agreeable manner, is more lasting.

Saint Augustine

The mind commands the mind to will, and yet, though it be itself, it minds not. What is this monstrous thing? And why is it?

Tori Amos

You have to really respect your path, or you will lose your mind.

Tori Amos

Haze all clouding up in my mind in the daze of the why it could've never been.

Ulysses S. Grant

I only knew what was in my mind, and I wished to express it clearly

Richard Dawkins

To describe religions as mind viruses is sometimes interpreted as contemptuous or even hostile. It is both. I am often asked why I am so hostile to organized religion.

Robinson Jeffers

Still the mind smiles at its own rebellions.

Robert Winston

By discovering how our minds work, we can improve our learning power and unlock our true potential.

Robert Motherwell

Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content.

Robert Collier

Always enter the conversation already taking place in the customer's mind.

Robert Collier

Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.

Rob James-Collier

There's definitely a wave of Brits doing great work on American television, and I wouldn't mind being one of them!