A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go. Max Eastman
A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back. Virginia Woolf
A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness. Mahatma Gandhi
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.Lord Chesterfield
After a few games I knew I was going to be able to compete. The idea of being a star never crossed my mind. Merlin Olsen
All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind. Logan Pearsall Smith
All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?' Norman Ralph Augustine
All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?' Norman Ralph Augustine
Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld. Martha Beck
Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.Lord Chesterfield