Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Claude Bernard

A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.

Dinesh D'Souza

With capitalism and prosperity came something new: the idea of progress. This is the notion that things are getting better and will continue to get better in the future.

Dick Morris

Bill and Hillary Clinton have one central idea in their uncluttered, ambitious minds: Hillary in 2008. Let Bush get re-elected, use the '04 primaries and general election to clean out the underbrush of competing Democratic candidates, and proceed unimpeded to the '08 nomination.

Desmond Tutu

I have absolutely no objection to performance and success as long as they don't become false idols and threaten to rule our lives.

Deepak Chopra

I grew up with a lot of Muslim friends, and the whole idea of revelation has been a lifelong interest of mine.

Debbi Fields

A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make.

Deborah Bull

So experience of other dance forms is a good idea.

Amber Tamblyn

For most women, whether you're an actress or whatever you do, there is this pressure in society and within the world to look a certain way, dress a certain way, act a certain way, say certain things, and be this idea as opposed to being a person.

Amartya Sen

There are Muslims of all kinds. The idea of closing them into a single identity is wrong.

Amartya Sen

Human development, as an approach, is concerned with what I take to be the basic development idea: namely, advancing the richness of human life, rather than the richness of the economy in which human beings live, which is only a part of it.

Amber Heard

I am a proud member of the LGBT community and could never bear the idea that someone could say I was closeted.

Andrew Weil

The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea.

Chuck Palahniuk

and i can't stand the idea of being alone. i can't bear the thought of being free.

Chuck Palahniuk

I don't do much more than organise other people's ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them and present them.

Chuck Palahniuk

You're always haunted by the idea you're wasting your life.

Chuck Palahniuk

Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with friends, gardening, so I always carry pen and paper. My first draft is always written in longhand. But once the first dozen chapters, more like short stories, are written, then momentum builds until I can't leave the project until it's done.

Chuck Feeney

I had one idea that never changed in my mind—that you should use your wealth to help people.

Chuck Hagel

I'm not saying my idea is the one and only idea. We should have other ideas, but the president has not laid down a specific plan as to how he's going to get us to solvency. I do that.

Chuck Klosterman

The only people who can ever put ideas into context are people who don't care; the unbiased and apathetic are usually the wisest dudes in the room. If you want to totally misunderstand why something is supposedly important, find the biggest fan of that particular thing and ask him for an explanation. He will tell you everything that doesn't matter to anyone who isn't him. He will describe paradoxical details and share deeply personal anecdotes, and it will all be autobiography; he will simply be explaining who he is by discussing something completely unrelated to his life.

Christopher Reeve

Nothing of any consequence happens unless people get behind an idea. It begins with an individual and they share the idea with more individuals-and eventually it becomes a movement.

Christopher McQuarrie

Evil is a really tough concept for me. The idea of a villain that is bad for bad's sake seems kind of absurd.

Christopher McDougall

Even Charles Darwin, that human decoder ring of bizarre behavior, found the idea of saving a stranger's life to be a total head-scratcher.

Anselm Kiefer

I am against the idea of the end, that everything culminates in paradise or judgment.

Anselm Kiefer

Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.

Anne Bronte

If the generous ideas of youth are too often over- clouded by the sordid views of after-life, that scarcely proves them to be false

Amos Bronson Alcott

Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.

Anthony Head

I've always resisted the idea of becoming a David Hasselhoff, and I hope I'm still resisting it.

Anthony Daniels

Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of human limitations.

Anthony de Mello

People kill for money or for power. But the most ruthless murderers are those who kill for their ideas.

Angela Lansbury

It's better not to try to learn all the lines by rote. It's a very bad idea, in fact. You have to do it by using the process, and as I say, the process is to learn during rehearsals, and that's how you'll do it.