If you see a wonderful archaic Greek marble object in a museum, it's not only that it's beautiful, but what comes to your mind is the fact... →
Michael Steinhardt
If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection... →
Leslie Stephen
To ask questions can become the laziest and wobbliest occupation of a mind, but when you must yourself answer the problem that you have posed, you... →
James Stephens
I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself... →
Pamela Stephenson
In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.
Laurence Sterne
When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.
One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.
Writing keeps my mind occupied during the down time in my acting career. Even when I am working, there are times when I have multiple days off each... →
Conan Stevens
I wouldn't mind being popular in other ways, but not with music.
Sufjan Stevens
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice.... →
Wallace Stevens