Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Ford

Melancholy Is not, as you conceive, indisposition Of body, but the mind's disease.

John Fletcher

Great actions speak great minds.

John Fletcher

'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern.

Jonathan Haidt

The human mind is a story processor, not a logic processor.

Joyce Carol Oates

Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.

Joyce Carol Oates

The cleaning is something I use as a reward if I get some work done. I go into a very happy state of mind when I'm vacuuming.

Justin Vernon

I'm up in the woods, I'm down on my mind. I'm building a still, to slow down the time.

Judith Light

I found that the body, mind and spirit are all connected. They are not separate pieces.

Rachel Caine

Science is a method, not a religion, yet it can be just as close-minded. Open minds here Claire. Always open minds. Question everything, accept nothing as fact until you prove it for yourself.

Peter Medawar

To deride the hope of progress is the ultimate fatuity, the last word in poverty of spirit and meanness of mind.

Pete Waterman

Certainly in the modern age where everything is glossed over, when somebody speaks their mind, the majority of the public go, I'd love to have said that.

Quintus Ennius

The idle mind knows not what it wants.

Quintilian

The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.

R. A. Salvatore

I have come to know that it [death] is an important thing to keep in mind - not to complain or to make melancholy, but simply because only with the honest knowledge that one day I will die I can ever truly begin to live.

Quentin Tarantino

I'm a historian in my own mind.

Pope Benedict XVI

Both strength of mind and body are necessary, strengths which in the last few months have deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me,

Natsuki Takaya

Saying she doesn't mind being alone...that she's alright... There isn't a person alive who'd really feel that way!

Julie Powell

There are times with your friends when you just have to put their whole mess out of your mind for a while.

Judy Davis

A lot of really good directors have a killer in them, as if they'd do anything to get that image. But that comes with the terrain and I don't mind it.

Joyce Meyer

As you pray for the Holy Spirit to make you aware of thoughts that come into your mind that don't line up with God's Word, you'll begin to realize when those thoughts come and you can renew your mind with the Word.

Joyce Meyer

Don't reason in the mind just obey in the spirit.

Paul Tournier

The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.

Paul Theroux

Travel is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with existence or the exotic. It is almost always an inner experience.

Patrick White

If I have not lost my mind I can sometimes hear it preparing to defect

Owen Wister

An aristocrat in morals as in mind.

Owen Hart

They said they wanted a lot of feathers, glitter, colourful colours. A costume. So I had a lady here in Calgary make it. She just kind of put together what I had in mind.

Ovid

The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also.

Ovid

Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers.

Ovid

Small minds are captivated by trifles.

Ovid

Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but unremitting toil destroys both.

Paul McCartney

I don't take me seriously. If we get some giggles, I don't mind.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The thoughts which the word "God" suggests to the human mind are susceptible of as many variations as human minds themselves.

Paul Valery

To enter into your own mind you need to be armed to the teeth.