Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brandon Sanderson

Do not dash if you only have the strength to walk, and do not waste your time pushing on the walls that will not give. More importantly, don't shove where a pat would be sufficient.

Carey Mulligan

I never had posters on my wall and when I meet actors that I really admire, it's exciting because I get to work with them.

Craig Ferguson

From 1934 to 1963, the biggest criminals in America ended up on Alcatraz. Nowadays they end up on Wall Street.

Bob Dylan

Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build the big bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks.

Elie Wiesel

What is being lost is the magic of the word. I am not an image person. Imagery belongs to another civilization: the caveman. Caveman couldn't express himself so he put images on walls.

Charles Fillmore

The true church is not made of creeds and forms, nor is it contained in walls of wood and stone; the heart of man is its temple and the Spirit of truth is the one guide into all Truth. When men learn to turn within to the Spirit of truth, who is in each one for his light and inspiration, the differences between the churches of man will be eliminated, and the one church will be recognized.

Alexander Pope

And more than echoes talk along the walls.

Debby Ryan

You may build walls in my path, but I will knock them down. then all your hard work only made me stronger, and all you have is gravel.

E. M. Forster

Before the civil war, Pottibakia was a normal member of the Comity of Nations. She erected tariff walls, broke treaties, persecuted minorities, obstructed at conferences unless she was convinced there was no danger of a satisfactory solution; then she strained every nerve in the cause of peace.

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.

Abdallah II of Jordan

There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.

John Browning

we had run out of ideas at Los Alamos.

Daniel Handler

The moral of Snow White is never eat apples.

Doug E. Fresh

Scientology is not a White religion. It is not just for White people

Ta-Nehisi Coates

To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good. To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.

Ronald Reagan

The White House is the leakiest place I've ever been in. (On special measures to ensure secrecy of plans to bomb Libya)

Sherman Alexie

I know a lot about being white - because I have to, I live in the white world. A white person doesn't live in the Indian world. I have to be white every day.

Martin Sheen

Theres no way that I could be the president. You cant have a pacifist in the White House... Im an actor. This is what I do for a living.

Lauryn Hill

If I'd known white people were going to buy my last album, I never would have recorded it.

Johnny Depp

I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste.

James Lee Burke

I could only wonder again at the white race's naïveté in always sending forth our worst members as our emissaries.