Famous Quotes & Sayings

Winston Churchill

Only changes in mindsets can extend the frontiers of the possible.

Winston Churchill

Don't mind the five or more million Germans. Stalin will see to them they will cease to exist.

William Safire

To be accused of 'channeling' is to be dismissed as a ventriloquist's live dummy, derogated at not having a mind of one's own.

William Safire

A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.

William S. Burroughs

We must find out what words are and how they function. They become images when written down, but images of words repeated in the mind and not of the image of the thing itself.

William S. Burroughs

The nonconformist here may be "beat down" by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.

William S. Burroughs

There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.

William S. Burroughs

Open your mind and let the pictures out

William S. Burroughs

He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.

William Manchester

To the medieval mind the possibility of doubt did not exist.

William Matthews

Be methodical if you would succeed in business, or in anything. Have a work for every moment, and mind the moment's work.

William McDonough

I'd so much rather have exciting architecture that causes one to stop, breathe, and reflect on the potential of the human mind, the craft, and exploring things.

Viola Spolin

When the rational mind is shut off, we have the possibility of intuition.

Woodrow Wilson

I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.

Woodrow Wilson

If you've made up your mind you can do something, you're absolutely RIGHT.

Woody Allen

My mind can never know my body, although it has become quite friendly with my legs.

Woody Allen

Is there a separation between body and mind, and if so which is it better to have?

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.