Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herman Melville

The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love.

Herbert Beerbohm Tree

Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind.

Henry David Thoreau

Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.

Henry David Thoreau

What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind.

Henry David Thoreau

I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and threw them out the window in disgust.

Henry David Thoreau

You must converse much with the field and the woods if you would imbibe such health into your mind and spirit as you covet for your body

Jean Genet

Every premeditated murder is always governed by a preparatory ceremonial and is always followed by a propitiatory ceremonial. The meaning of both eludes the murderers mind.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A feeble body weakens the mind.

Jillian Michaels

No one ever died from an open mind.

Jessica Ennis

There was a massive poster of me down my road, right outside the chip shop. I was about to go in, but then I saw it and changed my mind. Me coming out with a bag of chips, while I'm up there doing crunches on the poster... well, it would not look good.

Jerry Gillies

Wealth is not a material gain, but a state of mind.

James Boswell

My mind was, as it were, strongly impregnated with the Johnsonian ether.

Jamais Cascio

My own suspicion is that a stand-alone artificial mind will be more a tool of narrow utility than something especially apocalyptic.

Jamaica Kincaid

I wouldn't mind being labeled as "angry," if it wasn't used once again to denigrate and belittle.

Jacques Audiard

An archetypal gangster is always at a remove. We can't get into his mindset.

Jacques Barzun

When plugged in, the least elaborate computer can be relied on to work to the fullest extent of its capacity. The greatest mind cannot be relied on for the simplest thing; its variability is its superiority.

James Galway

The mind of the performer is a very strange thing.

James Geary

The mind revels in conjecture. Where information is lacking, it will gladly fill in the gaps.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Mind your P's and Q's.

J. B. Morton

Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.

Isaac Disraeli

Centuries have not worm-eaten the solidity of this ancient furniture of the mind.

Isaac Marion

In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, everything collapses.

Isaac Asimov

Finished products are for decadent minds.

Isaac Asimov

One might accept death reasoningly, with every aspect of the conscious mind, but the body was a brute beast that knew nothing of reason.

Isaac Asimov

It seems to me that God is a convenient invention of the human mind

Irene Cara

Your fear seems to hide deep inside your mind

Elton John

I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately.

Ellen DeGeneres

We're just trying to find happiness in the bodies and minds we were given, like everyone else.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Body and mind, and spirit, all combineTo make the Creature, human and divine.Of this great trinity no part deny.Affirm, affirm, the Great Eternal I.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our minds are as much given to laziness as our bodies.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The daily employment of cunning marks a little mind, it generally happens that those who resort to it in one respect to protect themselves lay themselves open to attack in another.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Idleness is more an infirmity of the mind than of the body.