Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bryce Courtenay

I'm going to die with my mind intact. And to me that is the most exciting way you could possibly die.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

I was excited about working with Richard Gere. Oh, and Joan Allen! Oh, my God, she is such a force of nature, it's mind boggling.

Cary Fukunaga

Collaboration sometimes causes conflict, and sometimes it's easy, but the bringing together of great minds only adds.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The greatest multiplex in the universe is inside your mind, and the only ticket you need is a good, well-written novel.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.

Camille Paglia

The western mind makes definitions; it draws lines.

Camille Paglia

Far from poisoning the mind, pornography shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer.

We want our product to stick in the minds of consumers.

Agnes Martin

When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts. You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.

Agnes Repplier

It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.

Aaron Sorkin

If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.

Alan Kay

I invented the term 'Object-Oriented', and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.

Charlotte Bronte

I only want an easy mind, sir; not crushed by crowded obligations.

Charlotte Bronte

His mind was indeed my library, and whenever it was opened to me, I entered bliss.

Charlie Chaplin

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

Charles Tupper

The human mind naturally adapts itself to the position it occupies.

Charles Dickens

New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.

Charles Caleb Colton

Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.

Charles Caleb Colton

As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed nor calls out his powers if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke.

Charles Caleb Colton

Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.

Charles Caleb Colton

Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.

Charles Stross

You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I'd never have time to do anything else.

Charles Spurgeon

When filled with holy truth the mind rests.

Charles Spurgeon

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

Charles Spurgeon

Mind your till, and till your mind.

Charles Spurgeon

Do not try to make the gospel tasteful to carnal minds. Do not hide the offense of the cross, lest you make it of no effect.

Alan Watts

By going out of your mind, you come to your senses

Alan Watts

I would suggest that today, we know about as much concerning the human mind as we knew about the galaxy in 1300.

Alan Watts

Society is our extended mind and body.

Alan Watts

There is nothing wrong with meditating just to meditate, in the same way that you listen to music just for the music. If you go to concerts to "get culture" or to improve your mind, you will sit there as deaf as a doorpost.

Alan Watts

The best way to convince someone is by making him realize that what you speak came from his own mind.

Alan Watts

When we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things.