Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sammy Sosa

Right now what's in my mind is going up there and being disciplined. I was swinging at so many pitches out of the strike zone, and when you do that, you're not going to get a chance to hit strikes. It makes it easier for the pitcher every time I do that.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never introduces a word, or a thought, in vain or out of place; if we do not understand him, it is our own fault.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A great mind must be androgynous.

Samuel Beckett

As it is with the love of the body, so with the friendship of the mind, the full is only reached by admittance to the most retired places.

Salvador Dali

When the creations of a genius collide with the mind of a layman, and produce an empty sound, there is little doubt as to which is at fault.

Salman Rushdie

It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind.

Ryan Reynolds

I learned early on to abandon all those preconceived notions you have about other actors and it's served me really well. I usually just try to empty my mind of that. I love meeting actors and I love working with actors.

Rudolf Otto

The daemonic-divine object may appear to the mind an object of horror and dread, but at the same time it is no less something that allures with a potent charm, and the creature, who trembles before it, utterly cowed and cast down, has always at the same time the impulse to turn to it, nay even to make it somehow his own.

Rudy Rucker

It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.

Wendy Palmer

You can’t change the mind with the mind alone, or we’d all be enlightened

Wangari Maathai

You cannot enslave a mind that knows itself. That values itself. That understands itself.

Virgil Thomson

Let your mind alone, and see what happens.

Vincent Price

There comes a time in life when you know what you like and have to make up your mind to like what you know, or at least have begun to know. In other words, you must determine in what direction your knowledge is leading, thus far.

William Christopher Handy

You can never tell what's in a woman's mind, And if she's from Harlem, there's no use o' tryin

William Congreve

Music alone with sudden charms can bind The wand'ring sense, and calm the troubled mind.

William Congreve

Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you.

Wayne Coyne

We are all really alone. We're isolated in our own mind.

Wayne Coyne

Try to be happy within the context of the life we are actually living. Happiness is not a situation to be longed for or a convergence of lucky happenstance. Through the power of our own minds, we can help ourselves.

Wayne Dyer

When we meditate, we are really trying to go beyond the mind. What I have found is that if I can get totally and completely into the moment, then the mind disappears. And as the mind disappears, that's when God appears.

Wayne Dyer

There is no moment that isn't equivalent in value to any other moment. You have to surrender the little mind to the big mind, and turn what you want over to God.

Tove Jansson

For a while she considered being ill, but she changed her mind...

Ursula K. Le Guin

The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.

Tyrese Gibson

You are the master of your environment. You've got your own head, your own mind. So once you figure out what you want for yourself, you have to create the proper environment to make sure you can live out all the things you want.

Tyrese Gibson

Change your mind and it will change your life. If nothing around you changes, changes the things that are around you.

Rodman Philbrick

Remembering is a great invention of the mind.

Rodman Philbrick

remembering is a great invention of the mind, and if you try hard enough you can remember anything, whether it really happened or not.

Roberto Cavalli

Sometimes incompetence is useful. It helps you keep an open mind.

Robertson Davies

The inert mind is a greater danger than the inert body, for it overlays and stifles the desire to live.

Robert Southwell

My mind to me an empire is.

The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.