“He walked for surely it was as if all his life he had been waiting to get up from his chair.” — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
We are living in modern times throughout the world and yet are dominated by medieval minds. — Eqbal Ahmad Copy Share Image
It's a good thing for a dog to have fleas; keeps his mind off being a dog. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“He had dulled his craving for verbal truth and cared chiefly for truth of mood.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
...one can hardly deny that mankind has a common store of thoughts which is transmitted from one generation to another. — Gottlob Frege Copy Share Image
Distracting reactions about anything undermine a clear mind about anything else. — David Allen Copy Share Image
God is one, supreme among gods and men, and not like mortals in body or in mind.The whole [of god] sees, the… — Xenophanes Copy Share Image
I think for me in terms of this kind of dichotomy you have to hold the sense of negative capability in your… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I wouldn't mind working with Queens of the Stone Age, doing some guitar stuff on that. Even Arctic Monkeys. I'd like to… — Steve Jones Copy Share Image
Good books leave an impression. Great books forever alter the way you think about what it means to be alive. You Disappear… — Dara Horn Copy Share Image
I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives… — Dan Hill Copy Share Image
The ruin of Paganism, in the age of Theodosius, is perhaps the only example of the total extirpation of any ancient and… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
They said they wanted a lot of feathers, glitter, colourful colours. A costume. So I had a lady here in Calgary make… — Owen Hart Copy Share Image
Practicing zazen and mindfulness constantly and correctly, over a period of time, can bring strength and clarity to your finite mind and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sandoz turned and accepted the book, looking at the spine. "Aeschylus?" Wordlessly, Guiuliani pointed out the passage, and Emilio studied it a… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so. We never seem to acknowledge that we have been… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
I do honestly and sincerely believe in the necessity or desirability of Hindu-Muslim unity. I am also fully prepared to trust the… — Lala Lajpat Rai Copy Share Image
Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out of everything.… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
Creeds like pacifism or anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power, rather encourage this habit of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is being aware of yourself, others, and your surroundings in the moment. When consciously and kindly focusing awareness on life as… — Sue Thoele Copy Share Image
You can be a giant among artists without ever attaining any great skill. Facility is a dangerous thing. When there is too… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
I have never had a secret hero in my mind but I have kept a lot of mentors in my mind that… — John Assaraf Copy Share Image