Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. R. R. Tolkien

Mind your P's and Q's.

J. B. Morton

Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.

Isaac Disraeli

Centuries have not worm-eaten the solidity of this ancient furniture of the mind.

Isaac Marion

In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, everything collapses.

Isaac Asimov

Finished products are for decadent minds.

Isaac Asimov

One might accept death reasoningly, with every aspect of the conscious mind, but the body was a brute beast that knew nothing of reason.

Isaac Asimov

It seems to me that God is a convenient invention of the human mind

Irene Cara

Your fear seems to hide deep inside your mind

Elton John

I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately.

Irving Babbitt

It is well to open one's mind but only as a preliminary to closing it ... for the supreme act of judgment and selection.

Maurice Ager

Honestly, it was in the back of my mind. But at the same time, I know I'm an athlete. I know what I can and can't do.

Neale Donald Walsch

Your mind is right now filled with old thoughts. Not only old thoughts, but mostly someone else’s old thoughts. It’s important now, it’s time now, to change your mind about some things. This is what evolution is all about.

Neale Donald Walsch

What is needed today is for all of us to work to change the world's mind about God.

Neale Donald Walsch

What you resist persists. And only what you look at, and own, can disappear. You make it disappear by simply changing your mind about it.

Morley Safer

[The] BBC was known as Auntie suggesting someone prudish and Victorian and that she still is on some days. On others she's a champagne-soaked floozie, her skirts in disarray, her mind in the gutter, and the mixture can be quite wonderful.

Morihei Ueshiba

A good stance and posture reflect a proper state of mind.

Morihei Ueshiba

Those who have a warped mind, a mind of discord, have been defeated from the beginning.

Morgan Freeman

The highest power is the human mind. That's where God came from and my belief in God is my belief in myself.

Morgan Brittany

You have to work in this business on your own terms. Don't sell out for money, fame, or notoriety.

Mike Love

I actually have heard of acts who only do their new album, and don't do their hits. I've never been in that mind set.

Marcel Proust

Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds.

Marcel Proust

We see things but we don't see them, like things that slid through the mind, one flowing into another.

Marcel Proust

It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.

Marcel Proust

There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.

Joseph Addison

Cleanliness may be defined to be the emblem of purity of mind.

Joseph Addison

It is of unspeakable advantage to possess our minds with an habitual good intention, and to aim all our thoughts, words, and actions at some laudable end.

Joseph Addison

It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

Marxism is essentially a product of the bourgeois mind.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

The modern mind dislikes gold because it blurts out unpleasant truths.

Kevin Brooks

I'm still living it now, every day, living it out in my mind - following the ups and downs, walking the pathways, reliving the moments of our Moonlight World... It's a day that never dies.

Kelley Armstrong

Sometimes humans hit on a moment of profundity more complete than their dim minds could comprehend, and they took that nugget of truth and dumped it in the refuse for the bards and the poets to find, and mangle into yodeling paeans of love.

Katy B

I've always known my own mind, and I'm not shy about speaking it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.