I don't really like to write at a desk. I like to write when driving in a car. ... Once you're working… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
I feel I must fight for [my music], because I want women to turn their minds to big and difficult jobs; not… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
Breakfast - which I didn't mind skipping; if the eggs had been any runnier and the bacon a little less fatty, I… — Allen Steele Copy Share Image
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety, and the quiet mind. Spare to us… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Take a good look around and you'll find people trying to mess with your mind. — Richard Marx Copy Share Image
Long exercise, my friend, inures the mind; And what we once disliked we pleasing find. — Hesiod Copy Share Image
But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose. What a person… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
There needs not strength to be added to inviolate chastity; the excellency of the mind makes the body impregnable. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
When I'm writing in my bedroom, in a bar, at my kitchen table or wherever, I'm conjuring it all up on the… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
To the enlightened man... whose consciousness embraces the universe, to him the universe becomes his 'body', while the physical body becomes the… — Anagarika Govinda Copy Share Image
Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When a mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is… — William Osler Copy Share Image
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind, independent of… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Mainly, I hope to inspire honesty. We live in a space where so much can be manipulated, and so much is expected… — K. Flay Copy Share Image
Meditation is nothing but putting the mind aside, putting the mind out of the way, and bringing a witnessing which is always… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I have added some ploughmen to the landscape form the park pales which is a great help, but I must try and… — John Constable Copy Share Image
The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance. The mind commands the hand to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image