Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah Kane

It is myself I have never met whose face is pasted on the underside of my mind

Sarah Kane

Please. Don’t switch off my mind by attempting to straighten me out. Listen and understand, and when you feel contempt don’t express it, at least not verbally, at least not to me.

Samuel Ullman

Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind.

Sandra Bernhard

How far can we go? How much can we absorb and still have some peace of mind?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

Samuel Johnson

Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired.... Do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow muddy for want of motion: commit yourself again to the current of the world.

Samuel Johnson

Few moments are more pleasing than those in which the mind is concerting measures for a new undertaking.

Samuel Johnson

Never mind the use--do it!

Samuel Johnson

Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal.

Samuel Johnson

The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their meaning.

Samuel Johnson

Foppery is never cured; it is the bad stamina of the mind, which, like those of the body, are never rectified; once a coxcomb always a coxcomb.

Samuel Johnson

Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another.

Wallace Stevens

The mind can never be satisfied.

Wallace Stevens

The poet represents the mind in the act of defending us against itself.

Vivien Leigh

I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things. I am a very impatient person and headstrong. If I've made up my mind to do something, I can't be persuaded out of it

Warren Buffett

The thing to do is to keep your mind when the world around you is losing theirs.

Vincent Van Gogh

What preys on my mind is simply this one question: what am I good for, could I not be of service or use in some way?

Vladimir Lenin

You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind.

Wayne Dyer

If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds.

Wayne Dyer

You cannot solve a problem with the mind that created it. First you must change the mind.

Walter Cronkite

I am in a position to speak my mind. And that is what I propose to do.

Virginia Woolf

I [who] am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement...

Virginia Woolf

Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure

Virginia Woolf

The mind is the most capricious of insects — flitting, fluttering.

Virginia Woolf

I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.

William Bernbach

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.

Werner Heisenberg

The Same organizing forces that have shaped nature in all her forms are also responsible for the structure of our minds.

Werner Herzog

You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.

Wale

I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.

Wallace Stegner

She had rooms in her mind that she would not look into.

Wallace Stevens

It is the mind that is woven, the mind that was jerked And tufted in straggling thunder and shattered sun.

Samuel Richardson

The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.

Samuel Beckett

That penny farthing hell you call your mind