Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A great mind must be androgynous.

Samuel Beckett

As it is with the love of the body, so with the friendship of the mind, the full is only reached by admittance to the most retired places.

Salvador Dali

When the creations of a genius collide with the mind of a layman, and produce an empty sound, there is little doubt as to which is at fault.

Salman Rushdie

It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind.

Ryan Reynolds

I learned early on to abandon all those preconceived notions you have about other actors and it's served me really well. I usually just try to empty my mind of that. I love meeting actors and I love working with actors.

Rudolf Otto

The daemonic-divine object may appear to the mind an object of horror and dread, but at the same time it is no less something that allures with a potent charm, and the creature, who trembles before it, utterly cowed and cast down, has always at the same time the impulse to turn to it, nay even to make it somehow his own.

Rudy Rucker

It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.

Wendy Palmer

You can’t change the mind with the mind alone, or we’d all be enlightened

Wangari Maathai

You cannot enslave a mind that knows itself. That values itself. That understands itself.

Virgil Thomson

Let your mind alone, and see what happens.

Vincent Price

There comes a time in life when you know what you like and have to make up your mind to like what you know, or at least have begun to know. In other words, you must determine in what direction your knowledge is leading, thus far.

William Christopher Handy

You can never tell what's in a woman's mind, And if she's from Harlem, there's no use o' tryin

William Congreve

Music alone with sudden charms can bind The wand'ring sense, and calm the troubled mind.

William Congreve

Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you.

Wayne Coyne

We are all really alone. We're isolated in our own mind.

Wayne Coyne

Try to be happy within the context of the life we are actually living. Happiness is not a situation to be longed for or a convergence of lucky happenstance. Through the power of our own minds, we can help ourselves.

Wayne Dyer

When we meditate, we are really trying to go beyond the mind. What I have found is that if I can get totally and completely into the moment, then the mind disappears. And as the mind disappears, that's when God appears.

Wayne Dyer

There is no moment that isn't equivalent in value to any other moment. You have to surrender the little mind to the big mind, and turn what you want over to God.

Tove Jansson

For a while she considered being ill, but she changed her mind...

Ursula K. Le Guin

The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.

Tyrese Gibson

You are the master of your environment. You've got your own head, your own mind. So once you figure out what you want for yourself, you have to create the proper environment to make sure you can live out all the things you want.

Tyrese Gibson

Change your mind and it will change your life. If nothing around you changes, changes the things that are around you.

Walt Disney

I am a patient listener, but opinionated to the point of stubbornness when my mind is made up.

Walt Disney

Happiness is a state of mind. You can be happy or you can be unhappy.

Vinod Khosla

I don’t mind failing, but if I succeed it better be worth succeeding for.

Walt Whitman

In nothing is there more evolution than the American mind.

Saul Williams

You can travel through literature, and you can expand your mind through literature. It's so cheap to buy that kind of ticket.

Saul Bellow

If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.

Sarah Jessica Parker

I know that he, Matthew Broderick, doesn't have his laundry done, and that he hasn't had a hot meal in days. That stuff weighs on my mind.

Sarah Dessen

You asked me to go out with you. I know you probably changed your mind. But you should know, the answer was yes. It's always been yes when it comes to you.

Sandra Bullock

I'm controlling, and I want everything orderly, and I need lists. My mind goes a mile a minute. I'm difficult on every single level.

Sandra Bullock

I grew up in a way where I didn't realize there were limitations.I always thought I could speak my mind.