"Few things concentrate the mind more efficiently than the necessity of saying what you mean. It brings you face to face with what you are talking about, what you are actually proposing. It gets you away from the catch phrases that not merely substitute for thought but preclude it."

-- Edwin Newman

#Mean Quotes #Talking Quotes #Mind Quotes

“There's probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world combined. And there's no law governing that history. It's finders keepers.”
“The discipline of desire is the background of character.”
“To be honest with you, being Bruce isn't easy.”
“Tis the defect of age to rail at the pleasures of youth.”

Source : Susanna Centlivre (1872). “The perjur'd husband. The beau's duel. The gamester. The basset-table. Love at a venture. The stolen heiress”, p.205
“Please, God, send me something to adore.”
“I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me.”

Source : TV Legends, August 6, 2005.
“The thing about playing gods, whether you're playing Thor and Loki or Greco Roman gods or Indian gods or characters in any mythology, the reason that gods were invented was because they were basically larger versions of ourselves.”
“I have always had a strong interest in history and finding out about the past can be remarkably helpful with working out the future, too.”

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