Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harry Reid

They've lost their minds.

Harry S Truman

Whenever the press quits abusing me I know Im in the wrong pew. I dont mind it because when they throw bricks at meIm a pretty good shot myself and I usually throw em back at em.

Harold Bloom

We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own.

J. Michael Straczynski

For me, there's nothing sexier than a woman who can argue me into the ground and outsmart me... a woman who knows her own mind and isn't afraid to speak it.

J. Michael Straczynski

I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.

J. Michael Straczynski

I've changed my mind. I've decided that at the end I want to be cremated and my ashes scattered over someone I don't like.

J. M. Coetzee

His mind has become a refuge for old thoughts, idle, indigent, with nowhere else to go. He ought to chase them out, sweep the premises clean. But he does not care to do so, or does not care enough"(72).

J. K. Rowling

Once again you've put your keen and penetrating mind to the task and as usual come to the wrong conclusion!

J. K. Rowling

The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter... or at least, most minds are...

J. K. Rowling

I don’t expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep through human veins, bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses...

J. K. Rowling

I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.

H. L. Mencken

A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation

H. L. Mencken

What ails the truth is that it is mainly uncomfortable, and often dull. The human mind seeks something more amusing, and more caressing.

H. L. Mencken

The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Different fragrances promote different emotions, and I find that fragrance gets me in the frame of mind for that person.

Greg MacGillivray

Satisfying myself is the point in filmmaking, in my mind.

Grace Paley

I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.

J. Reuben Clark

But there is one whom you do not deceive, and that is Christ, our Lord. He knows all. Personally, I have felt that nobody need keep much of a record about me, except what I keep myself in my mind, which is a part of my spirit. I often question in my mind, whether it is going to require very many witnesses in addition to my own wrongdoing.

H. P. Lovecraft

It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may. Personally I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born, yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.

Paul Erdos

It is not enough to be in the right place at the right time. You should also have an open mind at the right time.

Paul Begala

Ah yes! Conservatives. Some of the finest minds of the 12th Century.

Marya Mannes

Minds are cluttered from the age of six with the values of others-values which bear little relation to their own private capacities, needs and desires.

Mary Wollstonecraft

The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Hereditary property sophisticates the mind, and the unfortunate victims to it ... swathed from their birth, seldom exert the locomotive faculty of body or mind; and, thus viewing every thing through one medium, and that a false one, they are unable to discern in what true merit and happiness consist.

Mary Wollstonecraft

The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on.

Mary J. Blige

When you're going to do whatever you're going to do, you have to get your, put your mind into it.

Martha Gellhorn

travel is compost for the mind

Marshall McLuhan

The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.

Marshall McLuhan

In Tetrad form, the artifact is seen to be not neutral or passive, bur an active logos or utterance of the human mind or body that transforms the user and his ground.

Marshall McLuhan

Food for the mind is like food for the body: the inputs are never the same as the outputs.

Marion Ross

This moment is your portal to the future. Use it wisely!

Paul Saffo

Microsoft is a big intellectual roach motel. All the big minds go in, and they don't come out.

Paul Auster

Even when I'm just sitting at my desk, I have to get up every twenty minutes or so and walk around, walk around, walk around, and then I can go back to the page. I can't just sit there for hours at a time. Language comes out of the body as much as the mind.