Quotes About Mindless

You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.

PDR: Persons of Dubious Reality; refugees from the collective consciousness. Uninvited visitors who have fallen through the grating that divides the real, from the written. They arrive with their actions hardwired due to their repetitious existence and the older and more basic they are, the more rigidly they stick to them. Characters from cautionary tales are particularly mindless; they do what they do because it's what they've always done. And it's our job to stop them.

The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them. The mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night.

Sadly, many in our world today encourage idleness, especially in the form of mindless, inane entertainment that is on the Internet, on television, and in computer games.

Watching television is the mental and emotional equivalent of eating junk food.

Ludvig Chaplinskiy wrote in the Russian magazine Hercules in 1913, "Kettlebell lifting more than any other sport relies on nerve strength; its sensible practice strengthens the nervous system, mindless practice destroys it.

Anger is action without thoughts.

Habit rules the unreflecting herd.

Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.

A drunk man, staggering and mindless, must be led home by his son, so wet is his psyche... Water brings death to the psyche, as earth brings death to water... The psyche lusts to be wet.

It was soporific to be mindlessly shunted about in a vehicle, to succumb to marijuana, the heat, the rhythm and roar of the jeep

Fly enough, and you learn to go brain-dead when you have to. It's sort of like time travel. One minute you're bending to unlace your shoes,and the next thing you know you're paying fourteen dollars for a fruit cup, wondering, How did I get here?

a wandering corpse, a bundle of mindless functions

Alcohol makes you stupid.

We came from over here, to over there Then told we wonder mindless to degree most seldom furls in slumber, burns begins a century.

A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.

Like other intellectuals, he welcomed the mindless drudgery as a refreshing change of pace.

Love for a child cannot be free; from the first signs of movement in the womb, a devotion springs up as powerful as it is mindless, irresistible as the process of birth itself.

TV viewing is normally a passive, mindless occupation.

I really do. It's the first time I don't have to think at work, you know. It's really simple. You just answer the phone and put in people's orders. It's pretty laid back. You don't like it?" "No. I feel like it's killing my brain." "Maybe that's why I like it. I don't mind not having to think.

then we danced the tune through again, without saying one word - indeed, we never spoke all the time we were dancing. I can't remember that I even thought. I seemed to move with a pleasure that was mindless.

The sky was a rich, mindless, never-ending blue, like a promise of some ridiculous glory that wasn't really there.

While A Nation at Risk recommended significantly more homework, it is doubtful that the three to four hours of often mindless homework that many high school students put in on a daily basis is what its authors had in mind. Many countries that score higher than the United States on international tests of achievement give less, not more, homework than we do.

My children know nothing of Christmas. They have so little, and want so little, it makes me feel guilty for the mindless materialism of our culture.