Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander Woollcott

At 83, George Bernard Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.

Abigail Adams

May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.

Aaron Levie

Go after the customers that are working in the future, but haven't totally lost their minds.

A. N. Wilson

The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.

A. S. Byatt

Never stop paying attention to things. Never make your mind up finally. Do not hold beliefs.

Sarah Brightman

As I get older, I become more imaginative and feel like I have maybe a shorter time to get a lot of things going on in my mind done.

Shunryu Suzuki

If your mind is empty, it is ready for anything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.

Abbas Kiarostami

In my mind, there isn't as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and a bad one.

A. E. Waite

Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.

A. A. Milne

Mind over matter, will make the Pooh unfatter.

A. A. Milne

Christopher Robin ... just said it had an "x."' 'It isn't their necks I mind,' said Piglet earnestly. 'It's their teeth.

Jack Black

You have to mind your Ps and Qs a little bit.

Aeschylus

Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.

Adrienne Rich

The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.

Adrienne Rich

I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/ and the reconstruction of the mind.

Adrienne Bailon

Britney Spears can't hold a conversation. (mind controlled) The ultimate meltdown was Britney Spears. But she (Spears) can't hold a conversation. No. They have someone who feeds her what she is supposed to say. Like she can't hold a conversation.

Adoniram Judson

No mind, no wisdom--tempora ry mind, temporary wisdom--eternal mind, eternal wisdom.

Adam Gopnik

Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.

Alexander Hamilton

To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients, by which the wealth of a nation may be promoted.

Aleksandar Hemon

It's so internalized, the way your mind works in relation to anything - it's a process, but then it isn't. It's working all the time.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If decade after decade the truth cannot be told, each person's mind begins to roam irretrievably. One's fellow countrymen become harder to understand than Martians.

Jim Lovell

I would suspect strongly that over a period of time, if we put our mind to going to Mars, it will be a consortium of several countries.

There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.

Mike Nichols

Limitations are inspiring: they lead to thinking, so I don't mind them.

Chuck Feeney

I had one idea that never changed in my mind - that you should use your wealth to help people.

Phil Robertson

God-fearing people, once they're saved from their sins, they don't mind talking about it.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

Paul Tsongas

I have pretty much made up my mind to do this,

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.

We don't really talk about music that much, to be honest with you. It's not some I usually - I can't really talk about other people's tracks never mind my own.

Martin Brodeur

I thought we played really well. We've got to get the third period out of our mind and be comfortable with how we played.

I think that, as public servants, we all have to be mindful of these risks,