Famous Quotes & Sayings

James McAvoy

I don't mind playing somebody who's not likable, or makes the audience feel slightly conflicted.

James Mackintosh

Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language.

James Mackintosh

Those who preached faith, or in other words a pure mind, have always produced more popular virtue than those who preached good acts, or the mere regulation of outward works.

James Mark Baldwin

The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind.

James Mark Baldwin

In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter.

James Martineau

Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind.

James Madison

Nothing is so contagious as opinion, especially on questions which, being susceptible of very different glosses, beget in the mind a distrust of itself.

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.

Stephenie Meyer

You are safe inside your mind. No one can reach you there.

Stephenie Meyer

That's not very attractive behavior, Bella." he said. " Forgiveness is divine. "Mind your own buisness.

Stephen Colbert

It's official. Highway patrolmen are not susceptible to the Jedi Mind Trick.

Stefanie Powers

I don't need to go onto Facebook and pretend to have friends I've never even met. To my mind, that kind of destroys the meaning of the word 'friend.' I take exception to that. Because I value and respect friendship.

Stefan Sagmeister

The question I wanted to answer was, could I train my mind to be happy the same way one trains ones body?

Sparky Anderson

I've changed my mind about it (DH) - instead of being bad, it stinks.

Sonia Sotomayor

I come to every case with an open mind. Every case is new to me.

Thomas Harris

One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.

Thomas B. Macaulay

The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.

Thomas Hobbes

It's not the pace of life I mind. It's the sudden stop at the end.

Thomas Hobbes

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

Thomas Hobbes

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind while we live here.

Thomas Hobbes

Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.

Tim Berners-Lee

Computers might not find the solutions to our problems, but they would be able to do the bulk of the legwork required, assist our human minds in intuitively finding ways through the maze.

Tim Berners-Lee

I don't mind being, in the public context, referred to as the inventor of the World Wide Web. What I like is that image to be separate from private life, because celebrity damages private life.

Thomas Jefferson

Truth between candid minds can never do harm.

Thomas Jefferson

Chemistry is yet, indeed, a mere embryon. Its principles are contested; experiments seem contradictory; their subjects are so minute as to escape our senses; and their result too fallacious to satisfy the mind. It is probably an age too soon to propose the establishment of a system.

Thomas Bernhard

We Can Only Exist By Taking Our Minds Off The Fact That We Exist

Russell Baker

Journalist: A person with nothing on his mind and the power to express it.

Rose McGowan

I don't mind being disliked - I will be the one to step up and say what needs to be said if it helps one woman who comes after me.

Ron Chernow

Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day.

Umberto Eco

If western culture is shown to be rich, it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to 'dissolve' harmful simplifications through inquiry and the critical mind.

Umberto Eco

For, I must tell you, in this world where today all lose their minds over many & wondrous Machines -- some of which, alas, you can see also in this Siege -- I construct Aristotelian Machines, that allow anyone to see with Words...

Tryon Edwards

Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test of reason or truth.