Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Michel de Montaigne

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.

Michel de Montaigne

The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.

Michel de Montaigne

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

Michel de Montaigne

It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.

Michel de Montaigne

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.

Michel de Montaigne

Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.

Michel de Montaigne

Who so hath his mind on taking, hath it no more on what he taketh.

Michael Novak

The Lord God, the creator of Judaism and the God of Judaism and Christianity, empowered our minds and gave us the ability to question.

Michael Kiwanuka

You always have in the back of your mind that would be cool if you get recognized. But you can't concentrate on any of those things. You've got to just keep playing and doing your music and the rest is just a bonus.

Markus Zusak

Very quickly, very suddenly, words fell through my mind. They landed on the floor of my thoughts, and in there, down there, I started to pick the words up. They were excerpts of truth gathered from inside me.

Markus Zusak

You're far from this. This story is just another few hundred pages of your mind.

Marla Gibbs

Dave Chappelle asked me to come do his show. I read the script, and I said, 'Has he lost his mind?'

Mark Twain

a fully belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

Mark Twain

Nothing so focuses the mind as the prospect of being hanged.

Mark Twain

Take your mind out every now and then and dance on it. It is getting all caked up.

Marianne Williamson

If we come to see that this world does not have the final word, then we open our mind and therefore our entire lives to experience the possibility of infinite possibilities.

Marianne Williamson

Imagine a temple inside your mind, a haven from the chaos of the world. Visit often.

Marianne Williamson

We find our happiness to the extent to which we use our minds to bless the world, for that is the natural use of the mind. It is the reason we were born.

Marianne Williamson

Yes, hardships come. But I see in my life and in the lives of others how often something that does not have to be held as a hardship is dealt with by the mind as though it is.

Michael K. Williams

I haven't had a problem with being typecast, but if I was only getting one type of role, I wouldn't mind. What I'm worried about is not working.

Michael Haneke

I consider all my films an experiment, at least in my mind.

We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way.

Francois Rabelais

Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.

Francois Rabelais

A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.