Subject: Intelligence » Mind

He would come in and say he changed his mind… which was a gilded figure of speech, because he didn't have any.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

I don’t know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan’s Island theme song and has deleted everything about triangles.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.

(1846 – 1924) British idealist philosopher

You have only two hemispheres in your brain – a left and a right side. The left side controls the right side of your body and the right controls the left half. It's a fact. Therefore, left-handers are the only people in their right minds.

American baseball pitcher

She has breasts of granite and a mind like a Gruyere cheese.

(1906 – 2002) Austrian journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter & producer

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

(1928 – 1982) American novelist, short story writer & essayist

The Cardinal is at his wit’s end; it is true… that he had not far to go.

(1788 – 1824) English poet

He] had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.

(1948 – ) English novelist

Marge, every time I learn something new it pushes something old out of my brain. Remember that time I learned how to make wine and forgot how to drive?

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)

I am in the prime of senility.

(1706 – 1790) American statesman, author, scientist & inventor

I ain’t in a happy frame of mood.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

I’m going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.

(1906 – 1992) Canadian-born American academic

The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.

(1904 – 1999) author, editor, radio host

Pain: An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

A stale mind is the devil’s breadbox.

(1962 – ) American English professor & writer under pen name Eloisa James

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

(1853 – 1890) Dutch painter

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

(1929 – ) American writer

When I'm not in my right mind, my left mind gets pretty crowded.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Right now I feel that I’ve got my feet on the ground as far as my head is concerned.

professional baseball player

What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind… or not to have a mind at all; how true that is.

(1947 – ) U.S. vice president & politician

I told her the thing I loved most about her was her mind… because that's what told her to get into bed with me naked.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer