Kevin’s mind goes to extremely interesting places. Every time we get a script, I go, ‘Oh my God, I really didn’t see that coming’. – Kevin Bacon
From my earliest acquaintance with the science of political economy, it has been evident to my mind that capital was the product of labor, and that therefore, in its best analysis there could be no natural conflict between capital and labor. – Leland Stanford
The films that I really liked and the ones that really blew my mind when I was younger were independent films. They’re like great records to me. – Jim Sturgess
I’m an outdoorsman kind of person, so I don’t like the buzz of the crowd, crowd, crowd and all that so much. I mean I don’t mind it, but I don’t seek it out. – Josh Holloway
Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process. – Joseph Priestley
My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then. – Lord Byron
Scientists are doing an awful lot of damage to the world in the name of helping it. I don’t mind attacking my own fraternity because I am ashamed of it. – Kary Mullis
Beyond its romance, ‘Titanic’ offers an indelibly wrenching story of blind arrogance and its terrible consequences. It’s the rare Hollywood adventure film that brings mythic images of tragedy – the fall of Icarus, the ruin of Ozymandias – so easily to mind. – Janet Maslin
Being in the studio is okay but sitting in a room by yourself composing is a discipline that takes a certain type of mind set and Tommy has a great gift for that as did the previous guy. – James Young
I’m an eighteenth-century girl at heart. I wouldn’t mind being set down in London in 1715, in the midst of all the drama of the Hanoverian succession. – Lauren Willig
To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind. – John Tillotson
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
While I was boxing professionally, I never thought about my looks. The furthest thing from my mind was ‘messing up my pretty face’ when I was on my way to the ring to meet my opponent. Yet, people I’d meet along the way would always ask me if I was worried about my looks. Then they would go on to say that I was ‘too pretty to box.’ – Laila Ali
Nationalism of the Irish type is often regarded as reactionary. With the World Revolution and the Classless Society waiting for the midwife, why take a torch to the stable to assist at the birth of a puppy? Even if the puppy is pedigree. On this question I am unable to make up my mind. – Louis MacNeice
How it works for me is that a scene comes to mind, usually a scene between the hero and heroine, that depicts the emotional conflict. From that scene, the characters come alive for me. I don’t do a lot of preplanning in any way when I write. – Lori Foster
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk? – Laurence J. Peter
The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind. – Marina Abramovic
Yes, I sell people things they don’t need. I can’t, however, sell them something they don’t want. Even with advertising. Even if I were of a mind to. – John O’Toole
