Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wendell Phillips

Though plunged in ills and exercised in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair.

Wendell Berry

It surely is far better to be disliked by somebody you don't love than by somebody you do. Even so, I mind. Even so, failing to love somebody is a failure.

Wendell Berry

There are some things the arrogant mind does not see; it is blinded by its vision of what it desires.

Wendell Berry

The mind that is not baffled, is unemployed

Wade Davis

Language is an old-growth forest of the mind.

W. Somerset Maugham

Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their collective belly.

W. Somerset Maugham

No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.

Vladimir Nabokov

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.

Vladimir Nabokov

My principal failing as a writer is the lack of spontaneity; the nuisance of parallel thoughts, second thoughts, third thoughts; inability to express myself properly in any language unless I compose every damned sentence in my bath, in my mind, at my desk.

Vladimir Nabokov

I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst.

Yoko Ono

When you burn the chair, you suddenly realize that the chair in your mind did not burn or disappear

Yoko Ono

Unclog your mind. Unclog your room. Arrange your room in a way you wish your mind would be.

Yoko Ono

Be kind once a day - even if it's just in your mind.

Yakov Smirnoff

Comedians are always hitting the topical notes that are on everybody's minds.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

All abilities come from one mind

Yann Martel

The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering. I should turn to God

Yann Martel

High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate your thoughts. The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.

Yann Martel

The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.

Wynonna Judd

I learned again that the mind-body-spirit connection has to be in balance.

Wyclef Jean

That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in your face. After you got the groove, you were just singing the hooks, because you thought it was cool.

William Osler

A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.

William Penn

Love labour: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physique. It is wholesome for the body, and good for the mind. It prevents the fruits of idleness, which many times come of nothing to do, and leads many to do what is worse than nothing.

William Penn

If thou wouldst be happy, bring thy mind to thy condition, and have an indifferency for more than what is sufficient.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.

Zig Ziglar

You are what you are because of what goes into your mind.

Zig Ziglar

When we change the input into our minds, we change the output into our lives.

Zig Ziglar

What you picture in your mind, your mind will go to work to accomplish. When you change your pictures you automatically change your performance

Zig Ziglar

What you feed your mind determines your appetite.

Zoe Kravitz

When I read the script [of Good Kill], it read like a science fiction film. And Andrew [writer/director Andrew Niccol] is known for sci-fi. But when I spoke to him, he said this picture was 100% factual, which blew my mind. I realized then how little I knew about the drone program. And I felt that, if I knew so little about it, there must be others who should be educated about what's going on.