Famous Quotes & Sayings

Auguste Comte

Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.

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.

Douglas Adams

I don't really have any advice, other than to say it's the most appallingly difficult thing I've ever tried to do and I wish I had a better idea of how to do it. In my experience what you end up with is the by-product of your failure to achieve what you set out to do. It may turn out OK, but it wasn't what you meant and you've no idea how you got there.

Douglas Adams

The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit.

Dorothea Brande

So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

Babe Ruth

After all, there's only one aswer to be made to the young fellow who is asking constantly for advice as to how to hit. The answer is: "Pick out a good one and sock it!

Dean Koontz

I've had good publishers and bad publishers, and you've got to learn when the advice is sensible and when it's not.

Lisa Dorfman

Either with expert advice or by evaluating your own personal needs.

Mark Twain

Be Yourself is about the worst advice you can give to people.

Philip Sidney

Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.

John Wright

I never coached Sachin Tendulkar, I gave him gentle advice when he asked for it.

John Wooden

Nobody is defeated until he starts blaming somebody else. My advice to you is don't fix the blame. Fix the problem.

Mason Cooley

Good places for aphorisms: in fortune cookies, on bumper stickers, and on banners flying over the Palace of Free Advice.

Michael Jordan

My advice is find fuel in failure. Sometimes failure gets you closer to where you want to be.

Steve Earle

I wish I was as sure about things as Bill Monroe was sure about things.

Steven Wright

I wish the first word I ever said was the word quote, so right before I die I could say unquote.

Tommy Bolin

A lot of times I wish I would have learned to read music, but I'm very impatient.

Sam Houston

I beseech those whose piety will permit them reverently to petition, that they will pray for this union, and ask that He who buildeth up and pulleth down nations will, the mercy preserve and unite us. For a Nation divided against itself cannot stand. I wish, if this Union must be dissolved, that its ruins may be the monument of my grave, and the graves of my family. I wish no epitaph to be written to tell that I survive the ruin of this glorious Union.

Stephenie Meyer

I wish there had been someone there to vote no for me -Rosalie Cullen

Sonia Sotomayor

As members of the judiciary tasked with intervening to carry out the guarantee of equal protection, we ought not sit back and wish away, rather than confront, the racial inequality that exists in our society.

Thomas Pynchon

He was visited on a lunar basis by these great unspecific waves of horniness, whereby all women within a certain age group and figure envelope became immediately and impossibly desirable. He emerged from these spells with eyeballs still oscillating and a wish that his neck could rotate through the full 360 degrees.

Thomas Hardy

But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.

Thomas Hardy

I wish I had never been born--there or anywhere else.