Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Alfred de Musset

Repartee is altogether a natural endowment, and is the lightning of the mind.

Angela Carter

It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.

Amy Tan

With hope, a mind is always free.

Alphonso Jackson

Being poor is a state of mind, not a condition.

Anthony Burgess

The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.

Anthony Bourdain

Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom...is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go. -Anthony Bourdain

Anthony Bourdain

There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.

Andy Rooney

In a conversation, keep in mind that you're more interested in what you have to say than anyone else is.

Andy Stanley

In our minds, rich is always the other person, the other family. Rich is having more than you currently have. If that is the case, you can be rich and not feel it. You can be rich and not know it.

Andrew Scott

I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring. 'Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I don't ever respond to.

Andrew Schneider

Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.

Andre Breton

Dada is a state of mind.

Andre Gide

An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world; to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.

Andre Gide

What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.

Andre Gide

The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.

Amy Cuddy

Our bodies change our minds, and our minds can change our behavior, and our behavior can change our outcomes.

Anais Nin

We sit on the kitchen exchanging these diabolical outgrowths of overfertile minds.

Anais Nin

My trunk, valises and my mind are overpacked.

Anais Nin

I don't mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated

Alvin Toffler

A library is a hospital for the mind.” - Anonymous

Anne Carson

You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough,

Ann Aguirre

If you don't tell me what's on your mind, I can't guess

Andrew Wiles

That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest.

William Shakespeare

A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.

William Shakespeare

Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Orison Swett Marden

There is no surer token of a little mind than to imagine that anything in the way of physical labor is dishonoring.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

Zak Orth

Homophobia is manufactured in high schools, so it's probably useful to keep in mind that it really does bother people.

Zayn Malik

Everything is very black and white for me. I don't really like playing mind games.

Sri Chinmoy

I don't blame people who suspect my performance. My own mind suspects it. How can I blame them?

Dogen

If we seek the Buddha outside the mind, the Buddha changes into a devil.