Famous Quotes & Sayings

Victor Hugo

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Victor Hugo

One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.

Victor Hugo

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

Victor Hugo

Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

Victor Hugo

Conscience is God present in man.

Victor Hugo

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

Victor Hugo

God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring, it is his will that we should love.

Victor Hugo

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

Victor Hugo

The wind of revolutions is not tractable.

Donald Trump

You're gonna get the best - you're gonna get the best equipment [in the Army].

Ahmed Rashid

We're seeing a complete breakdown of law and order. The army is holed up in its barracks or in its bunkers.

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.

Richard Bach

There is such a thing as perfection...and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth....Each of us is in truth an unlimited idea of freedom. Everything that limits us we have to put aside.

Richard Bach

I'm a writer as rarely as possible, when forced by an idea too lovely to let die unwritten

Richard Bach

He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all

Robert Frost

If you remember only one thing I've said, remember that an idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor. If you have never made a good metaphor, then you don't know what it's all about.

Rita Rudner

I'll never understand why people go to movie theaters to have conversations. Going to the movies to talk is like going to a restaurant to cook. The idea is that you have paid your money to have someone do something better than you can do it yourself.

Rick McCallum

You need somebody to have the idea, you need somebody who can deal with the studio and the normal things, but it's too different of a credit. That credit is usually given to the executive producer. It's not the producer.