To read a poem with no thought in mind but to paraphrase it into a single, simple and usually high-minded prose statement… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
Man's basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I was very conceptual about what I was doing; I had the first five albums planned out, and all the songs on… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
My life has been about choosing different things from most people think that I should have chosen. It always has been about… — Ayesha Takia Copy Share Image
It was only since the turn of the century that one returned to the immense role that abstraction plays in the human… — Sigfried Giedion Copy Share Image
Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all; in being altogether receptive; in letting the world… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To look in my eyes you see my struggles. To look in my mind you see my fears. But to look in… — Allie Cogdill Copy Share Image
There's incredible effect in being either loved or hated, but knowing that, either way, you have penetrated the mind and have altered… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Replacing it with a thought. I sometimes think, "What the hell. I have four working limbs right now. I'm winning just to… — Graham Shiels Copy Share Image
It is often lamented by the churchmen that Washington and Lincoln possessed little religion except that found in the word 'God.' All… — David Swing Copy Share Image
The measure of a man comes down to moments, spread out like dots of pain on the canvas on life. Everything you… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
These are some of the characteristics of the state of mind which the creation and appreciation of haiku demand: Selflessness, Loneliness, Grateful… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
The assumption that everything past is preserved holds good even in mental life only on condition that the organ of the mind… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
For many people, managing pain involves using prescription medicine in combination with complementary techniques like physical therapy, acupuncture, yoga and massage. I… — Naomi Judd Copy Share Image
The most important part of the practice is for the question to remain alive and for your whole body and mind to… — Martine Batchelor Copy Share Image
To minds tormented by the divine thirst, it is useless to offer the most certain knowledge of the laws of numbers and… — Etienne Gilson Copy Share Image
“He chased ruin and death even harder than he had chased women. He blew his talent and his health and reached home,… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Yoga is the best thing for your sex life. It keeps you limber in all kinds of ways. It teaches you to… — Woody Harrelson Copy Share Image
Certainly in the modern age where everything is glossed over, when somebody speaks their mind, the majority of the public go, I'd… — Pete Waterman Copy Share Image
“Not celibate are they who wear monastic garb and shut themselves away behind thick walls and massive iron gates, But celibate are… — Mikhail Naimy Copy Share Image
Directing is: you're overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. You wake up in the morning… — Campbell Scott Copy Share Image
I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and… — Bill Veeck Copy Share Image
Keep your mind as much as you can from dwelling on your ailment. Think of strength and power and you will draw… — Prentice Mulford Copy Share Image
Wouldst thou enjoy a long Life, a healthy Body, and a vigorous Mind, and be acquainted also with the wonderful Works of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Sometimes when a character in a novel is difficult for me to enter, I sue something in myself or in my own… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
I usually just speak in English when I'm on the basketball court. For some reason, my mind never even tried to cross… — Dikembe Mutombo Copy Share Image
I feel like people should keep an open mind and hopefully just continue to grow their fashion sense and continue to grow… — Evan Mock Copy Share Image
And sometimes, he was less lucid. He'd run around his cell like a caged animal; he'd rock back and forth; he'd swing… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“You're confident he'll have found him, then?" "Well, no. I didn't sat that." "If there's one thing I hate," Volyova said, looking… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
As I get older, I become more imaginative and feel like I have maybe a shorter time to get a lot of… — Sarah Brightman Copy Share Image
Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
The mind sees the world as a thing apart, And the soul makes the world at one with itself. A mirror scratched… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Civilization no longer needs to open up wilderness; it needs wilderness to help open up the still largely unexplored human mind. — David Wallace Copy Share Image
I carry themes in my mind for years before I will try to compose them. I've got themes that will last me… — R. B. Kitaj Copy Share Image
No one church has all the answers or the perfect map to the Promised Land, and I prefer to work out my… — Charley Pride Copy Share Image
I don't think nudity is a bad thing, I don't think people should be embarrassed about their bodies, and I don't mind… — John Barrowman Copy Share Image
