Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roger Scruton

The best evidence of a mind is when you change it

Roger Bannister

Without the concentration of the mind and the will, performance would not result.

Roger Ebert

Resentment is just a way of letting someone else use your mind rent-free.

Robin McKinley

The insides of our own minds are the scariest things there are.

Robert Young

See and feel who you are. Love like you have never loved before. The practial point is to live and enjoy from where you are. You can feel every movement because you are not here. The logic is only important to the body-mind.

Sarah Kane

It is myself I have never met whose face is pasted on the underside of my mind

Sarah Kane

Please. Don’t switch off my mind by attempting to straighten me out. Listen and understand, and when you feel contempt don’t express it, at least not verbally, at least not to me.

Zhuangzi

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.

William H. Macy

I've always felt it's the directors purview to say what; it's the actor's purview to say how. It's not good for an actor to have the big picture in mind - it bollocks you up. An actor's purview is the tiny little... We measure our performance in seconds.

William Hazlitt

Affectation is as necessary to the mind as dress is to the body.

William Hazlitt

There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.

William Hazlitt

The mind revolts against certain opinions, as the stomach rejects certain foods.

William Eggleston

There are a lot of unseen projects. When a project is finished, I often physically, and in my mind, set it aside, intending something to happen with it, something that does or does not always happen. Now, a lot of these are being resurrected for the public.

William E. Gladstone

My only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind into contact with divine revelation.

Wendell Phillips

Baron Grimm declared that, as a rule, it was easy for little minds to attain splendid positions, because they devoted all their ability to the one object.

Wendell Phillips

Though plunged in ills and exercised in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair.

Wendell Berry

It surely is far better to be disliked by somebody you don't love than by somebody you do. Even so, I mind. Even so, failing to love somebody is a failure.

Wendell Berry

There are some things the arrogant mind does not see; it is blinded by its vision of what it desires.

Wendell Berry

The mind that is not baffled, is unemployed

W. Somerset Maugham

Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their collective belly.

W. Somerset Maugham

No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.

Vladimir Nabokov

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.

Vladimir Nabokov

My principal failing as a writer is the lack of spontaneity; the nuisance of parallel thoughts, second thoughts, third thoughts; inability to express myself properly in any language unless I compose every damned sentence in my bath, in my mind, at my desk.

Vladimir Nabokov

I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst.

Yoko Ono

When you burn the chair, you suddenly realize that the chair in your mind did not burn or disappear

Yoko Ono

Unclog your mind. Unclog your room. Arrange your room in a way you wish your mind would be.

Yoko Ono

Be kind once a day - even if it's just in your mind.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

All abilities come from one mind

Yann Martel

The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering. I should turn to God

Yann Martel

High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate your thoughts. The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.

Yann Martel

The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.

Wynonna Judd

I learned again that the mind-body-spirit connection has to be in balance.

Wyclef Jean

That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in your face. After you got the groove, you were just singing the hooks, because you thought it was cool.