Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Wilbur

Step off assuredly into the blank of your mind. Something will come to you.

Richelle Mead

A different word usually came to my mind when I thought of Yeva, though it did sound a lot like “witch.

Russell Baker

Journalist: A person with nothing on his mind and the power to express it.

Rose McGowan

I don't mind being disliked - I will be the one to step up and say what needs to be said if it helps one woman who comes after me.

Ron Chernow

Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day.

Umberto Eco

If western culture is shown to be rich, it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to 'dissolve' harmful simplifications through inquiry and the critical mind.

Umberto Eco

For, I must tell you, in this world where today all lose their minds over many & wondrous Machines -- some of which, alas, you can see also in this Siege -- I construct Aristotelian Machines, that allow anyone to see with Words...

Tryon Edwards

Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test of reason or truth.

Tryon Edwards

There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish.

Raymond Chandler

Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality: there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.

Regina Spektor

You're using your headphones to drown out your mind

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

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.