Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Pratchett

First of all you are a writer, a writer is what you are, so it doesn't actually stop the moment you leave your desk, your computer, your keyboard, whatever. Something is operating the back of your mind.

Terry Pratchett

Ponder just let it happen. It's because their minds are so often involved with deep and problematic matters, he told himself, that their mouths are allowed to wander around making a nuisance of themselves.

Terry Pratchett

The conversation of human beings seldom interested him, but it crossed his mind that the males and females always got along best when neither actually listened fully to what the other one was saying.

Terry Pratchett

The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord." Vetinari looked at his secretary in surprise. "Well, of course it is. It has to deal with the male one.

Terry Pratchett

Words are the litmus paper of the mind.

Terry Pratchett

Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.

Terrell Davis

I'm just trying to keep my mind and my body active. The tough part about it is that physically I'm sort of limited.

Terence McKenna

What the psychedelic experience really is, is opening the doorway into a lost continent of the human mind, a continent that we have almost lost all connection to, and the nature of this lost world of the human mind is that it is a Gaian entelechy.

Terence McKenna

This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.

Terence McKenna

The mind is a far bigger domain than we ever imagined.

Terence McKenna

What we need to change is our minds, that's the part that's doing us dirt and dragging us under. How can we change our minds.

Terence McKenna

That's the core puzzling experience, when you meet the Other organized as a speaking mind.

Terence McKenna

It is slowly becoming understood that the modality of being is the modality of mind.

Terence McKenna

The momentum now is inevitable. Now it's about each of us individually arranging the furniture of our own mind to deal with what has become inevitable.

Terence McKenna

Without sounding too cliche, the Internet really is the birth of global mind.

Terence McKenna

Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes.

Terence McKenna

There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology.

Terence McKenna

The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer

Terence McKenna

You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.

Terence McKenna

Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.

Teddy Thompson

The state of radio is not great. It's like playing the lottery. The chances of hitting are mind boggling slim.

Temple Grandin

I use my mind to solve problems and invent things.

Temple Grandin

The world needs different kinds of minds to work together.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only that mind draws me which I cannot read.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every mind has a new compass, a new direction of its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind.--We call this specialty the bias of each individual. And none of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith

Ralph Waldo Emerson

As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is not a property in nature but a mind is born to seek and find it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

Ram Dass

Can you use the rational mind to transcend itself?

Shania Twain

My music must reflect whatever's going on in my mind, and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is I'm becoming.

Selena Gomez

I constantly find myself changing my mind all the time. One day, I want to do just acting and just that. One day I want to do music and just that.

Sean Lennon

Now, music almost feels naked in my mind.