#mind

The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis. ↗

— Leon Edel

#admired #always #answer #building #busy

I'd say if you live in the United States of America and you vote for George Bush, you've lost your mind. ↗

— John Edwards

#bush #george #george bush #i #live

I don't mind being an only child; never have. I am lucky, though, that I have my friend Emily, who grew-up very close to me and so, there is someone I have shared memories with. I would miss that if I didn't have it, I think. ↗

— Jennifer Ehle

#being #child #close #emily #friend

A closed mind is a dying mind. ↗

— Edna Ferber

#dying #mind

On those long notes behind the trumpet solo, if anyone lets his mind wander for a minute he is dead. ↗

— Don Ellis

#behind #dead #his #lets #long

I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid. ↗

— Harlan Ellison

#like #me #mind #stupid #talk

I can't compare quarterbacks as apples and oranges in my mind because everybody's in a different system. ↗

— John Elway

#because #compare #different #everybody #i

What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind? ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#around #aside #because #comforting #enact

At this point in my life, beaming confidence is largely a matter of mind over bladder control ↗

— Josh Stern

#bladder #confidence #control #humor #life

It was as if the main screw in his head, which held his whole life together, had become stripped. The screw would not go in, would not come out, but turned in the same groove without catching hold, and it was impossible to stop turning it. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#psychology #life