Famous Quotes & Sayings

Taylor Momsen

I don't know what to do when I'm not working. I lose my mind if I'm not constantly doing something.

Taylor Momsen

I paint and I sculpt and I enjoy doing things that aren't for the public. There's no pressure to it, it's just something that's a cleansing of the mind.

Taylor Caldwell

Despair is sometimes the great energizer of the mind, though sometimes its flowering may be sterile.

Sylvia Plath

I get into a rut, unable to yank my mind out of it.

Swami Vivekananda

There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is ready and predisposed to receive them. There may be a million microbes of misery floating about us. Never mind! They dare not approach us, they have no power to get a hold on us, until the mind is weakened. This is the great fact: strength is life. Weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal. Weakness is constant strain and misery: weakness is death

Swami Vivekananda

He who is alone is happy. Do good to all, like everyone, but do not love anyone. It is a bondage, and bondage brings only misery. Live alone in your mind - that is happiness. To have nobody to care for and never minding who cares for one is the way to be free.

Swami Vivekananda

The body is mortal and the mind is mortal; both, being compounds, must die.

Swami Vivekananda

The body and mind are dependent.

Swami Vivekananda

If the mind is pleased with praise, it will be displeased with blame.

Swami Vivekananda

Renunciation is of the mind.

Swami Vivekananda

Matter is motion outside, mind is motion inside.

Rumi

While the mind sees only boundaries, Love knows the secret way there.

Tom Peters

Something mysterious happens to a curious, fully engaged mind - and it happens as often as not, subconsciously. Strange little sparks are set off, connections made, insights triggered

Tom Robbins

Minds were made for blowing.

Tom Robbins

It's good to bear in mind that like it or not, enlightenment has always been, even in a golden age, pretty much limited to an elite.

Tom Evans

Your mind is just like a parachute ! if you don't open it, it won't work !

Tom Araya

When I do interviews, I enter them with an open mind and try to answer the questions the best I can.

Tony Hillerman

I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind.

Tony Goldwyn

I'm a moderate Democrat. I've always been fascinated and maddened by the way things get done in our system, which as an ideal is so extraordinary, but the way it actually works can be mind-boggling.

Steve Backley

See it first in your mind, then become it.

Steve Backley

A mind filled with negative thoughts makes you feel miserable and inadequate and will lead to failure after failure no matter how hard you try to succeed.

Steve Allen

Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless

Stephen Hawking

The moment you understand the whole Universe, is the moment you slightly begin to understand the way God's mind works

Stephen Hawking

In my mind, I am free.

Stephen Hawking

Being confined to a wheelchair doesn't bother me as my mind is free to roam the universe, but it felt wonderful to be weightless.

Stephan Jenkins

What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.

Stendhal

Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?

Stendhal

I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.

Stendhal

...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.

Spike Milligan

Its all in the mind, you know.

Sigmund Freud

Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions.

Shirley Jackson

No, the menace of the supernatural is that it attacks where modern minds are weakest, where we have abandoned our protective armor of superstition and have no substitute defense.

Shawn Johnson

I had a constant fear, a constant little doubt in my mind: 'OK, I'm getting ready to do my standing back full on beam and I might re-tear my ACL.'