Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Francis

I said what I have been saying -- that there is no question in anybody's mind, nor has there been, what the priority was,

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,

I think Tiger even said it - if you're playing well, you don't mind where you're playing.

Mario Chalmers

I think that's good. A lot of people on the team now really didn't play on that team, so it's not on our minds right now. We're not even thinking about that game.

It is mind which does the work of the world, so that the more there is of mind, the more work will be accomplished.

It is injurious to the mind as well as to the body to be always in one place and always surrounded by the same circumstances.

People just have to have an open mind and a better understanding of the sport. People don't really understand it, and how it works.

Sophie Hannah

I am trying to write novels for properly clever people, but I also want them to be proper novels that also stick in a person's mind and have an atmosphere about them.

Science is telling us that we can do phenomenal things if we put our minds and our resources to it.

Phil Jackson

I think the only thing it did was take our mind off the game.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

I think the body is the ultimate thing. The soul and mind are part of the body. I don't think there is anything outside of that. Your physical self is who you are. Some people feel that that is reductionist, but I don't think it is. It's just true.

Sufjan Stevens

I wouldn't mind being popular in other ways, but not with music.

Laura Vandervoort

A lot of people think that reptiles don't feel, and they do. I think everyone should keep in mind what it is they are buying and if it is really worth it to them.

Alison Bechdel

If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.

Alice Thomas Ellis

I have never had much trouble simultaneously entertaining diametrically opposed propositions, and welcome the possibility that this is not because I have one mind and am out of it, but because I have lots of them, all beavering away on their own.

Alice Hoffman

This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.

Anne Lamott

and you try to quiet your mind so you can hear...

Anne Lamott

Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.

Anne Lamott

My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.

Anne Lamott

When we agree to being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved.

Anna Camp

In the South, you don't say exactly what's going on or what's on your mind.

Albert Bandura

Dualistic doctrines that regard mind and body as separate entities do not provide much enlightenment on the nature of the disembodied mental state or on how an immaterial mind and bodily events act on each other

Albert Finney

I'm not bothered by the paparazzi and I don't feel hemmed in, I've never felt that. My youth, mind you, there wasn't quite the same attention to celebrities as there is now, but I've never felt that.

Albert Brooks

As an actor, if you're just sitting and staring and you don't know who you are in your own mind, it's vacant. And sometimes the camera is an X-ray machine, it can pick it up.

Albert Brooks

I'm a big consumer of news and I have my six newspaper sites booked. And what I like bout Twitter is it's almost, it allows me to make a comment about something that's just on my mind.

Annie Dillard

The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard put to call it living.

Annie Dillard

Novels written with film contracts in mind have a faint but unmistakable, and ruinous, odor.

Annie Dillard

We are here to witness. There is nothing else to do with those mute materials we do not need. Until Larry teaches his stone to talk, until God changes his mind, or until the pagan gods slip back to their hilltop groves, all we can do with the whole inhuman array is watch it.

Annie Dillard

The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness; the mind wants to know all the world, and all eternity, and God.

Daniel Kahneman

Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.

Daniel Kahneman

An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can't easily recognize that they are the same.

Daniel Kahneman

... sometimes when you are asked a question that is difficult, the mind doesn't stay silent if it doesn't have the answer. The mind produces something, and what it produces very characteristically is the answer to an easier but related question.