The well-known inspiration for 'Ulysses' is made clear by the title itself: Joyce's novel is based on Homer's 'Odyssey', under the ever-fascinating premise that all of Odysseus' extraordinary adventures can be experienced by a modern man in a single day, provided that the writing consists of his mental activity.

- Alvaro Enrigue

Bravo can't be responsible for the mental state of every single person that comes onto their network.

- Bethenny Frankel

When you pump up your exercise, it makes you feel better and makes you look better, so you do a better job. It's mental, too.

- Behati Prinsloo

Getting to have an opportunity to tell a story that is about mental illness and how it affects one's self and one's community was really something that really meant a lot to me.

- Bryce Dallas Howard

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

- Bobby Knight

I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.

- Bobby Knight

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.

- Bill Gates

I used to find that I could get mental serenity surrounded by chaos.

- Alexis Knapp

Actresses are mental on the whole. But I think I'm pretty normal.

- Alexandra Roach

As a veteran, you're a little more poised on that mental side. But athletically, I didn't really think I could get better.

- Angela Ruggiero

The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.

- Adrienne Rich

As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.

- Avicenna

I give a tremendous amount of weight to the mental aspect of physical activity and what it does for me.

- Ann Bancroft

As no one knew much about my mental illness, a lot of people had the attitude that I had the capability to 'kick it' and get better instantly. This was the most frustrating attitude for me.

- Andy Behrman

Really, having people who have different mental perspectives is what's important.

- Astro Teller

Even though decathlon is really long, there's always something different to look forward to, which is great for mental stimulation.

- Ashton Eaton

It's so mental how I looked in the '90s. The fact that I thought my ponytail was a good thing - it was just terrible. Cutting it off was so monumental.

- Andy Cohen

One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.

- Alastair Campbell

I'm a big proponent of having a mental health component go along with whatever the physical realities are.

- Alan Thicke

I woke up an hour before I was supposed to, and started going over the mental checklist: where do I go from here, what do I do? I don't remember eating anything at all, just going through the physical, getting into the suit. We practiced that so much, it was all rote.

- Alan Shepard