Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gib Lewis

There's a lot of uncertainty that's not clear in my mind.

Giambattista Vico

Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics soars up to universals, and the poetic faculty must plunge deep into particulars.

George Best

If you make up your own mind, you can only blame yourself.

George Berkeley

A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.

George Bernard Shaw

With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his. . . . It would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him.

George Bernard Shaw

The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.

George Bernard Shaw

All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.

Gena Showalter

She’d already decided to be with him. If only to wipe him from her mind, get him out of her system and stop the fantasies plaguing her. If only to prove to herself that being with him would not be pleasurable for her.

Gary McCord

I don't putt face-on exclusively, but in the back on my mind I'm haunted by the notion that I'm sure it's the best way to putt.

Frederick Wiseman

Anybody whose mind is functioning at all can't be content with the way the world works.

Freeman Dyson

I do not make any clear distinction between mind and God. God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension.

Freeman Dyson

It is better to be wrong than to be vague.

Erica Jong

Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.

More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind.

There is only one way by which you can achieve prosperity. It is to take charge of your mind.

Eric Clapton

An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.

George Eliot

The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.

George Eliot

Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence.

Geoffrey Chaucer

A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.

Franz Schubert

If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have.

Frank Knight

...even professors of economics, to say nothing of the public, do not generally have scientific minds.

Francoise Sagan

What you call types of mind are only mental ages.

Frank Auerbach

I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.

George Herbert

Had you the world on your Chesse-bord, you could not fill all to your mind.

George Herbert

Let thy mind still be bent, still plotting, where, And when, and how thy business may be done. Slackness breeds worms; but the sure traveller, Though he alights sometimes still goeth on.

Christian Wiman

I honestly don’t know whether I am describing something essential about the way we know God or merely my own weakness of mind.

The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.

Chris Tucker

I love traveling. It not only opens my mind up, but it also allows me to use my fame in another way through humanitarian works and stuff, and being an influence around the world.

Chris Ware

Comic strip is almost like music on a page that you perform in your mind. It's not just pictures. There's a particular rhythm and structure to it that is unlike anything else. It literally is like music. You hear it in your mind as you read it.

Chris O'Dowd

I don't mind being slightly fat-ish, I just don't want to be fat.

Faith Ford

My theory is, if you can do comedy and you can be in a scene with someone like Brad Garrett and hold your own, you've really got a future in this business.

George W. Bush

We look forward to analyzing and working with legislation that will make - it would hope - put a free press's mind at ease that you're not being denied information you shouldn't see.

George Orwell

A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things.