mind

"Of what significance the things you can forget? A little thought is sexton to all the world."

"Not knowing what one is looking for is pure agony. Too much analytical thinking, too much logic, too many meanings! Life has no logic, so why does there have to be logic to explain what it means? Also…"

"…I think that my early plays had some things that only Hispanics could know what they were. I had to strive for more universal characters. We should present problems that people are able to identify w…"

"I think he is the greatest player to have ever played the game. He walks on the turf and astounds. It is utterly amazing."

"She would sweep the floor – unending expanses, acres and acres of floor – with a short broom called the jhadu, swiping away the dust in an arc with its long tail, which reminded one of the drooping ta…"

"Three years ago, I bought a Beetle, not even thinking. That's not the joke, shut up. See? I can't even tell you guys a story. I wasn't thinking, I bought the car, because it was affordable, economical…"

"We now see that the gang of sleazy racketeers headed by John Dewey has attained its goal. We realize that the public schools have been for many years a vast brainwashing and brain-contaminating machin…"

"Metaphysics has a long and distinguished history, and it is consequently unlikely that there are any new truths to be discovered in descriptive metaphysics. But this does not mean that the task of des…"

"One of the things that I learned in the war is that we're not the top species on the planet because we're nice.  We are a very aggressive species; it is in us.  People talk a lot about how well the mi…"

"I shall thus give a general answer to the question, so frequently asked me—"How I, then a young girl, came to think of, and to dilate upon, so very hideous an idea?"

"Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires."

"I don't blame the people for the fact that so many movies are bad. I think there's a corrupt, perverted, lazy and sloppy attitude that's pervasive in the movie business. The whole entertainment busine…"

"My brain: it's my second favorite organ."

"We are constantly thinking of the great war … which which we think to-day as a war which saved the Union, and it did indeed save the Union, but it was a war that did a great deal more than that. It cr…"

"I think it's good to be your own person. But individuality is a mixed blessing. People who are 'different' are isolated."

"The underlying ideological agenda of Gould has always been fairly clear. Even where there has been a shift in thinking, it might be argued that in general the discussions were reflecting a particular …"

"Ambiguity is the essence of Irish writing, I think."

"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself."

"Workers were encouraged to overcome a trades union mentality – Ley’s Germany Labor Front rapidly ceased to describe itself as such – and to think in terms of a ‘socialism’ transcending mere bread and …"

"This is not belittling it, because I do think it's a very emotionally and intellectually complicated physical performance, and it's the combination of those things that made it a little unusual, I sup…"