Quotes with mind-set

Quotes 281 till 300 of 1624.

  • Bruno Dumont Cinema builds memories; great films continue to exist in the spectator's mind. We are naturally capable of and prone to nostalgia. A spectator will reconstruct a film he or she has seen, years later, and may even change their original opinion. One critic, for example, once gave the finger to one of my films; later he wrote me to apologize.
    Bruno Dumont
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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  • Edward Hoagland City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • Arthur Keith Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature's cupboard for their satisfaction.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Bobby Farrelly Clint Eastwood. Here's a guy who's been involved in so many movies, lots of them masterpieces, and now he's a director. I just like everything I know about him. He's very decisive, he makes up his mind real quick.
    Bobby Farrelly
    American film director, screenwriter and producer (1958 - )
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  • Thomas Otway Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.
    Thomas Otway
    English dramatist (1652 - 1685)
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  • Horace Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Victor Hugo Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Gilbert Seldes Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.
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  • C. Wright Mills Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Willard Beecher Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows out of a habit of mind.
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  • Samuel Butler Compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Bill Frist Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Bill Kristol Conservative policies have on the whole worked - insofar as any set of policies can be said to 'work' in the real world. Conservatives of the Reagan-Bush-Gingrich-Bush years have a fair amount to be proud of.
    Bill Kristol
    American political analyst (1952 - )
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  • Nicolas Chamfort Conviction is the conscience of the mind.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Bill Hicks 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?
    Source: Arizona Bay
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Agatha Christie Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Thomas Wolfe Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Jawaharlal Nehru Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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