Mind Quotes

• Courtroom for Ted Bundy's trial is packed with women, trying to meet him and give him love letters and wedding-fucking-proposals...and the first thought that enters my mind is, 'And I'm not getting laid.' What am I doing wrong?

  

  Bill Hicks
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Wedding

• Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is classed as a continent in order to convey to the mind a just idea of its magnitude.

  

  Charles Sturt
  • Mind

• The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

  

  Joseph Addison
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Single

• What we're really after is trying to understand what's in the mind of God.

  

  Burton Richter
  • God
  • Mind
  • Trying

• The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

  

  James Allen
  • Good
  • Power
  • Success

• I teased Randy Orton because he started using my finish, the Angle Slam. I said, 'Hey, I don't mind you using it, but at least give it a name.' When he hits it, the announcers just say, 'Well, he just hit that... thing.'

  

  Kurt Angle
  • Mind

• History is full of the dead weight of things which have escaped the control of the mind, yet drive man on with a blind force.

  

  F. M. Powicke
  • Men
  • History
  • Control

• The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering. I should turn to God

  

  Yann Martel
  • God
  • Want
  • Suffering

• If I said in one of my songs that my English teacher wanted to have sex with me in junior high, all I'm saying, is that I'm not gay, you know? People confuse the lyrics for me speaking my mind. I don't agree with that lifestyle, but if that lifestyle is for you, then it's your business.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • People
  • Song
  • Teacher

• Your body is an absolute mirror of your mind. As you worry, your body shows it. As you love, your body shows it. As you are overwhelmed, your body shows it. As you are angry your body shows it. Every cell of your body is being allowed or resisted by the way you feel. 'My physical state is a direct reflection of how I feel', instead of 'How I feel is a direct reflection of my physical state'.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Worry
  • Reflection
  • Psychology

• I had a novel in the back of my mind when I won an Ian St James story competition in 1993. At the award ceremony an agent asked me if I was writing a novel. I showed her four or five chapters of what would become 'Behind the Scenes at the Museum' and to my surprise she auctioned them off.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Writing
  • She
  • Competition

• To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Art
  • Old
  • Masters

• Harry Dresden: Keep in mind that this appears in the same book of the Bible that approves the death sentence for a child who curses his parents, owners of oxen who injure someone through the owner's negligence, anybody who works or kindles a fire on Sunday, and anyone who has sex with an animal.

  

  Jim Butcher
  • Book
  • Death
  • Parents

• The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • True
  • Strong

• I feel displaced when I'm back in America, like a visitor. I feel like if I don't get a cup of tea I'm going to lose my mind.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • America
  • Feel
  • Tea

• I've become a real housewife. Terry doesn't mind me working, in fact he loves me to be independent. But I only get an allowance of $15 dollars a week, which doesn't go very far.

  

  Marta Kristen
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Independent

• This is my own little rock theory: In my mind, Nirvana slayed the hair bands. They shot the top off the poodles.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Band
  • Hair
  • Littles

• I learned a lot. I really did. Millennium is a state of mind. I always thought of Frank Black as the greatest chess player that could take random pieces of information and string them together into a scenario that was accurate. I never thought of him as a psychic at all. We need people like that.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • People
  • Together
  • Black

• For a person who cherishes compassion and love, the practice of tolerance is essential, and for that, and enemy is indispinsable. So we should be grateful to our enemies, for it is they who can best help us to develop a tranquil mind.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Help
  • Practice
  • Enemy

• Immigration comes up, but the issue that is on everybody's mind is the economy.

  

  Mario Diaz-Balart
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Immigration

• Reading, at the deepest level, is a physical experience. Most people are not attuned to this, most people don't learn how to read - poetry for example, or high-quality prose. They're used to reading magazines and newspapers, which are only of the mind, but not of the body.

  

  Paul Auster
  • People
  • Reading
  • Quality

• Your mind believes what you tell it.

  

  Paul J. Meyer
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Affirmation

• The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.

  

  Aristotle
  • Age
  • Body
  • Developed

• The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Powerful
  • Brave
  • Adversity

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