Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Tryon Edwards

There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish.

Raymond Chandler

Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality: there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.

Regina Spektor

You're using your headphones to drown out your mind

Rebecca Solnit

Walking, ideally, is a state in which the mind, the body, and the world are aligned...

Rick Yancey

I stare at her. I've always known that it's impossible to argue with Belinda, not because she's particularly good at it, but because she's so bad at it- that there is no common ground to work from. She simply sees the world she wants to see it and no amount of logic can change her mind.

Rick Yancey

So often the monsters that crowd our minds are nothing more than the strange and thoroughly alien progeny of our own fearful fantasies.

Rick Warren

If you prayed as much as you complain and quarrel, you'd have a lot less to argue about and much more peace of mind.

Tony Visconti

I make records with an open mind, I always have.

Steve Winwood

Savor the throne, but don't mind the stool.

Veronica Roth

What good is a prepared body if you have a scattered mind?

Vince McMahon

I have to do something with my mind, or I'll get in trouble.

Maggie Stiefvater

It was the stop that happened when you made up your mind to confess, but your mouth betrayed you in the end.

Madame de Stael

Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of a woman.

Madame de Stael

The face of a woman, whatever be the force or extent of her mind, whatever be the importance of the object she pursues, is always an obstacle or a reason in the story of her life.

Haruki Murakami

Love with complications. Scenery was the last thing on my mind.

Haruki Murakami

But actually time isn't a straight line. It doesn't ave a shape. In all senses of the term, it doesn't have any form. But since we can't picture something without form in our minds, for the sake of convenience we understand it as a straight line. At this point, humans are the only ones who can make that sort of conceptual substitution.

Haruki Murakami

I keep to this routine every day without variation. The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it's a form of mesmerism. I mesmerize myself to reach a deeper state of mind.

Hans Rosling

Let the dataset change your mindset

Karl Lagerfeld

I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more.

Karl Lagerfeld

My life is based on change. What I say is OK for the next ten minutes, then I change my mind.

Karl Lagerfeld

Stuff your brain with knowledge.

Kacey Musgraves

Really connecting with someone and maybe opening their mind a little bit, is such a cool thing to be able to do through music.

Kathy Acker

Love goes away when your mind goes away and then you're someone else.

Kathy Acker

GET RID OF MEANING. YOUR MIND IS A NIGHTMARE THAT HAS BEEN EATING YOU: NOW EAT YOUR MIND.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Before there was Ronald Reagan there was Barry Goldwater, and before there was Barry, there was National Review , and before there was National Review there was Bill Buckley with a spark in his mind.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.

Whitney M. Young

Stretch your mind and fly.

Whittaker Chambers

Trotsky was essentially a Western mind. Lenin was a Russian, and unlike most other revolutionary exiles, wherever he went he was a Russian.

Saint Basil

Science which is acquired unwillingly, soon disappears; that which is instilled into the mind in a pleasant and agreeable manner, is more lasting.

Saint Augustine

The mind commands the mind to will, and yet, though it be itself, it minds not. What is this monstrous thing? And why is it?

Saint Augustine

I do not comprehend all that I am. Is the mind, therefore, too limited to possess itself?

Saint Augustine

The desire for fame tempts even noble minds.