Famous Quotes & Sayings

Auguste Comte

Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.

Brian Selznick

Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas.

Brad Meltzer

For me, Superman's greatest contribution has never been the superhero part: it's the Clark Kent part - the idea that any of us, in all our ordinariness, can change the world.

Carine Roitfeld

In photo shoots, I rely on instinct. Which is not to say I don't bring ideas to a project or consider it beforehand.

Cameron Russell

I have no idea what advantages I truly get, but I know people talk to me and give me time of day because they like how I look.

C. S. Lewis

That part of Rostrevor which overlooks Carlingford Lough is my idea of Narnia.

Al Gore

I work to promote the idea of sustainable capitalism driven by long-term considerations rather than quarterly profits, which seeks to better people's lives and the planet rather than destroy them.

Charles K. Kao

Ideas do not always come in a flash but by diligent trial-and-error experiments that take time and thought.

Charles Kettering

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

Arthur Conan Doyle

So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned. - Sherlock Holmes.

Barbara Mandrell

That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life.

Ayn Rand

There are two side to every issue.

Bertrand Russell

It is likely that America will be more important during the next century or two, but after that it may well be the turn of China.

Brian Bosworth

People never understood that there was Brian and The Boz. They were two completely different people.

Jane Elliott

White people’s number one freedom, in the United States of America, is the freedom to be totally ignorant of those who are other than white. We don’t have to learn about those who are other than white. And our number two freedom is the freedom to deny that we’re ignorant.

Janet Jackson

There are two sides of the Velvet Rope. Those who want to be on the other side and those who are on the other side.

Barry Switzer

The interceptions and two fumbles? Those just happened at the wrong time.

Demetri Martin

It feels like every day or two, people on Twitter and the Internet are outraged about something.

John Rice

Thank you for giving us back Lauren and Steve,

Archie Panjabi

A lot of the time, people want to hear from someone like myself. They want to give it a shot. It's challenging, and it's driven me more than discouraged me.

Babe Ruth

It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up.

Baruch Spinoza

The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.

Augustine Birrell

It can never be wrong to give pleasure.

Arthur Mitchell

What does dance give you? The freedom to be who you are and do what you want to do.

Ayn Rand

Don't ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.

Benito Mussolini

If you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!

Brian Tracy

You can achieve almost any goal you set for yourself as long as you have the discipline to pay the price to do what you need to do and to never give up. You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.