Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Fussell

Before the development of tourism, travel was conceived to be like study, and it's fruits were considered to be the adornment of the mind and the formation of the judgment.

Patrick McGoohan

Music makes a quiet mind.

Patrick O'Brian

Why, sir," said he, looking about him, "what splendour I see: gold lace, breeches, cocked hats. Allow me to recommend a sandwich. And would you be contemplating an attack, at all?" "It had crossed my mind, I must admit," said Jack. "Indeed, I may go so far as to say, that I am afraid a conflict is now virtually inevitable. Did you notice we have cleared for action?

Patrick O'Brian

Never mind manoeuvres, always go at them.

Lily Collins

I never go with something in mind. I like having an array of generations in my outfits!

Lev Grossman

Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.

LeAnn Rimes

Health to me is an overall mind, body, and kind of spirit thing.

Lauren Myracle

Christmas is never over,unless you want it to be... Christmas is a state of mind.

Lauren Myracle

If you breathed deep and set your mind to it, you could rise above your anger.

Nazr Mohammed

Riches are not from abundance of worldly goods, but from a contented mind.

Muhammad Iqbal

Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.

Muhammad Ali

I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.

Muhammad Ali

I tried to get into the mind of my opponent and psyche him out.

Margot Asquith

Stafford Cripps has a brilliant mind, until he makes it up.

Mari Evans

To identify the enemy is to free the mind.

Margot Kidder

Nudity in the flesh doesn't bother me. But having my mind uncovered - that scares the hell out of me.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

One of these days I'm going to put my body where my mind is.

Mark Victor Hansen

Focused mind power is one of the strongest forces on earth.

Marguerite Yourcenar

In alchemical treatises, the formula L'Oeuvre au Noir ... designates what is said to be the most difficult phase of the alchemist's process, the separation and dissolution of substance. It is still not clear whether the term applied to daring experiments on matter itself, or whether it was understood to symbolize trials of the mind in discarding all forms of routine and prejudice. Doubtless it signified one or the other meaning alternately, or perhaps both at the same time.

Maria Edgeworth

Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.

Naomi Campbell

I was always told to avoid being famous just for being famous. That's something that has always stuck in my mind. I like to work. It helps if you like what you do.

Naomi Campbell

I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.

Naima Adedapo

I wouldn't mind doing Broadway, but I am definitely trying to get a album out there first.

Miyamoto Musashi

If you are not progressing along the true way, a slight twist in the mind can become a major twist. This must be pondered well.

Miyamoto Musashi

Do not let the body be dragged along by mind nor the mind be dragged along by the body

Mitt Romney

Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience.

R. D. Laing

We live equally out of our bodies and out of our minds.

R. D. Laing

The human mind has to ask "Who, what, whence, whither, why am I?" And it is very doubtful if the human mind can answer any of these questions.

R. C. Sproul

Faith never requires us to crucify our minds or deny our senses.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind

Princess Diana

I've got to have a place where I can find peace of mind.

Publilius Syrus

A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things.

Publilius Syrus

It is time, not the mind, that puts an end to love.