Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francois Fenelon

We must avoid fastidiousness; neatness, when it is moderate, is a virtue; but when it is carried to an extreme, it narrows the mind.

Francois Fenelon

Violent excitement exhausts the mind and leaves it withered and sterile.

Francois Fenelon

The best use one can make of his mind is to distrust it.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Television is bubble-gum for the mind

Frank Lloyd Wright

Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

George Combe

The friends whom I have are invaluable, and although not numerous they are sufficient for my enjoyment; and the texture of my own mind renders me very indifferent to the rest of the world.

George Clinton

Look both ways before you cross my mind.

George Crabbe

There is no mind so weak and powerless as not to have its inclinations, and none so guarded as to be without its prepossessions.

Hesiod

It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.

Henry Ford

To see a thing clearly in the mind makes it begin to take form.

Henry Ford

Jews have always controlled the business... The motion picture influence of the United States and Canada...is exclusively under the control, moral and financial, of the Jewish manipulators of the public mind.

Henry Ford

The human mind is a channel through which things-to-be are coming into the realm of things-that-are .

Helen Oyeyemi

I wish there was someone I could have written to after that, someone I could have written to explain how awful it was to have someone touch you, then look at you properly and change his mind.

Hilary Duff

I feel like women's minds never stop.

Henry Winkler

The theater of my mind has a seating capacity of just one, and its sold out for all performances.

Henry Ward Beecher

There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.

Henry Ward Beecher

The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.

Henry Ward Beecher

Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.

Henry Fielding

Good-nature is that benevolent and amiable temper of mind which disposes us to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the happiness of others, and, consequently, pushes us on to promote the latter and prevent the former; and that without any abstract contemplation on the beauty of virtue, and without the allurements or terrors of religion.

Henry Fielding

It is a trite but true definition that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts.

Henry Fielding

The exceptions of the scrupulous put one in mind of some general pardons where everything is forgiven except crimes.

Henry Fielding

Sensuality not only debases both body and mind, but dulls the keen edge of pleasure.

Steven Wright

When I'm on stage, it's really intense. My mind is going a million miles an hour, trying to remember my act, trying to say it all the right way. It's funny how different it looks and how it's happening. There are three Fellini circuses in my head, and outwardly it looks like I'm going to get a bagel.

Steven Wright

I have not lost my mind - it's backed up on disk somewhere.

Steven R. McQueen

For me, whenever I'm physical it spins my mind and whenever there's a lot going on I put my gloves on or I wrestle somebody and I feel zen.

Steven Spielberg

I've always sort of time-locked and mind-blocked myself in my 30s, and that's always the age I feel.

Robert Bourassa

It is very difficult to know what may be in the back of the mind of public figures.

Tom Selleck

But, you know there's a lot of westerns - not that they were bad - it's just that they can be remade because they're great stories that aren't indelible in an audience's mind when it comes to both the cast and the story

Tom Selleck

Shooting clay targets is a very cleansing experience. It's very relaxing. It takes a lot of concentration. It's also very social, since you're usually shooting with friends. You can talk and forget about almost anything else that's on your mind.

Toni Morrison

Lay my head on the railroad line. Train come along; pacify my mind.

Tommy Bolin

When you come from the Midwest, you have a more open mind than if you come from the West Coast or the East Coast.

Tommy Douglas

I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.

Tommy Chong

Because the pot takes the edge off the adrenaline, and it also clears your mind of it, and then you can see things a lot clearer.