Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kettering

In many ways ideas are more important than people - they are much more permanent.

Andrew Mellon

A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.

David Lynch

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

Anatole France

It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.

Anne Dudley

Usually one or two things happen: Either you have an idea straightaway - the sort of sound that you want or the instrumentation or one particular sound that you want to feature - or you don't.

Anne Fortier

In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer.

Anjelica Huston

If I were to have any sort of solid idea about which moments were God's manifestations, they would be those moments where one has practically nothing to do with what's going on. It's one of the best feelings in the world.

Anita Roddick

Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen.

Andrew Vachss

I want to disabuse people of the idea that knowledge is power. Knowing how to get to Detroit is not the same thing as having the bus fare.

Edmund Burke

Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.