The mind of a generation is its speech. A writer makes aspects of that speech enduring by putting them in print. He… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
I love to write but it lays real heavy on your mind. Because I'd have to get so involved in ideas, I'd… — Porter Wagoner Copy Share Image
“He looked... very alone then, a single human in a monster-infested world, a fading bright spot surrounded by shadow. And despite my… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
I got to pick the mind of a genius, and I realized why he was a genius. And I realized the man… — Corey Hawkins Copy Share Image
If with open mind one reads and observes industriously and long; if in so doing one covers a wide field and so… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams. I've heard people talk about… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
The structure of the human brain is enormously complex. It contains about 10 billion nerve cells (neurons), which are interlinked in a… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
There always are a basket of issues in any federal election campaign, but in this part of Australia [Capricornia] I can assure… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
Now the melancholy of God protect thee, and the tailor make thy doublet of changable taffata, for thy mind is a very… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Literature, real literature, must not be gulped down like some potion which may be good for the heart or good for the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
And as the hour approached for the execution, in his own mind, Collins became both the executioner and the victim. He would… — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
“Perhaps this was indeed the way so remarkably accomplished a man was destined to meet his end,' he replied, 'because two or… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
I'm a very private person. I barely tell my friends what's going on half the time, so the idea that I should… — Rebecca Hall Copy Share Image
Feel this moment, see it with a willingness to experience it deeply, whether it be good, bad, or indifferent. Emotionally and feelingly… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
How much simpler it would be all around if you could put your mind in a cast, like a broken ankle, and… — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
In fiction, I have been on a Zweig kick. In England over December, I noticed that many British newspapers' year-end recommenders were… — Sylvia Brownrigg Copy Share Image
Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When we have a favorite writer, it's always the places where they grew up, lived, worked, and that they recreated on the… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
We tend to believe in the modern secular world that if you tell someone something once, they'll remember it. ... Religions go,… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Yoga is as old and traditional as civilization, yet it persists in modern society as a means to achieving essential vitality. But… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
This sort of behavior is left to the psychotic, dogmatic, fundamentalist believers you see on your TV everyday letting off bombs and… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
Being rich isn't about money. Being rich is a state of mind. Some of us, no matter how much money we have,… — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
A man who lives with intentions is bound to feel frustration. A man who lives with expectations is bound to feel frustrated… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Post-adolescent Expert Syndrome The tendency of young people around the age of eighteen, males especially, to become altruistic experts on everything, a… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it grew, in the mind of… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As for fame, fame felt like nothing. Fame was not a sensation like love or hunger or loneliness, welling from within and… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
...America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. We are able to accommodate, at a time, only one national hero;… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
And it is in this darkness, when there is nothing left in us that can please or comfort our own minds, when… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The place resembled a new model prison, or one that had achieved a provisional utopia after principled revolt, or maybe a homeless… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
You see these dictators up on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. They're… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
One analysis found that every dollar in the opening offer translates to about 50 cents more in the final agreement. So put… — Jessica Bennett Copy Share Image
In matter-ism (materialism), there can be nothing wrong with the world since there is no right way for the world to be… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
If a player does not want to play for a club like Manchester United, medium or long-term, I don't think it makes… — Ralf Rangnick Copy Share Image
“Since 1849 I have studied incessantly, under all its aspects, a question which was already in my mind since 1832. I confess… — Ferdinand de Lesseps Copy Share Image
Different ages have certain approaches, which may be more effective for one age and no longer effective in another age. The world… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
What do you think? Does everything look right? " " You really expect me to look at anything but you? " She… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“It was a long time since he'd done any actual clinical work, and obviously his sojourn among the academics at Saro University… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty… — Anonymous Copy Share Image