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.

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 Kettering

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

Bob Dylan

Gotta head full of ideas that are driving me insane...

Brit Marling

I learned from my parents the idea that, if you are devoted enough and you want to study something enough, you can really teach yourself anything.

Brian Greene

I've had various experiences where I've been called by Hollywood studios to look at a script or comment on various scientific ideas that they're trying to inject into a story.

Brian Greene

The central idea of string theory is quite straightforward. If you examine any piece of matter ever more finely, at first you'll find molecules, atoms, sub-atomic particles. Probe the smaller particles, you'll find something else, a tiny vibrating filament of energy, a little tiny vibrating string.

Louis Graham

Quite frankly, I don't think Wayne Williams is responsible for anything, ... I don't think he did anything. I made up my mind with that 20 years ago, and I still feel that way.

Augusten Burroughs

your mind is like an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone.

Ben Folds

I've gotten to the point where I realize that I need to tell my truth in music and not walk around blabbing my mind.

Billy Blanks

Where I am today, is where my mind and will put me, where I am tomorrow is where my mind will put me.

Ben Jonson

Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: 'Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.

Brian Cresta

And we see 50 to 80 percent walk out with a peace of mind with the drug benefit.

Charles Cooper

Are you sure in your mind you didn't do it?

Osama Laden

We do not mind establishing a long-term truce between us and you.

Alan Hovhaness

No, no, I didn't know him. He lost his mind around 1917 because of the tragedy of the Armenians.

Brett Lee

Growing up, you look at guys like Jeff Thomson as heroes, so going past him is pretty special.

Bruce Kennedy

We're growing up, and we've got growing pains,

Brad Pitt

Indian cinema seems to be growing very well at its own pace.

Janet Jackson

A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things.

Demi Lovato

Growing up in America, I never really appreciated my culture. I knew what being Hispanic was, but I thought that since I didn't look Hispanic, I was white.

Bruce Feiler

When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The further religion got from our lives the better our lives would get, I thought, because persecution had been such a burden to Jewish families for generations.

Brian Regan

I would have been a lot better off if I’d studied more when I was growing up, y’know. But you know where it all went wrong was the day they started the spelling bee. Because up until that day I was an idiot, but nobody else knew.

Charles Spurgeon

If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.

Michael Oxley

What the law really does is enshrine the principles of honestly and accountability that I learned growing up in Ohio ... You never get in trouble by doing the right thing,