Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Gleick

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

J. William Fulbright

Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor.

J. R. R. Tolkien

he was for long my only audience... Only from him did I ever get the idea that my ‘stuff’ could be more than a private hobby. But for his interest and unceasing eagerness for more I should never have brought The L. of the R. to a conclusion.

Iyanla Vanzant

I had no preconceived idea what fame would be like, because I never thought I would be famous. I just wanted to do my work. Hell, I just wanted to pay my rent on time.

Isaac Barrow

Because Mathematicians frequently make use of Time, they ought to have a distinct idea of the meaning of that Word, otherwise they are Quacks.

Isaac Mizrahi

What if Woody Allen called me and said, I'm working on this movie and there's a really divine role for you. We want exactly you! It would be such a fantasy. Forget it! My idol, Woody Allen!

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A certain harmony should be kept between actions and ideas if we want to fully develop the effects they can produce.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Idiots and lunatics see only their own wit.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Ideas often flash across our minds more complete than we could make them after much labor.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made them by muchart and study.

Ian MacKaye

The amount of money that people spend on saving stuff, they try to feed you this idea that's it's more important.

Ian MacKaye

American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up. My idea was: Enjoy baking, sell your bread, people like it, sell more. Keep the bakery going because you're making good food and people are happy.

Ian Mcewan

Briony began to understand the chasm that lay between an idea and its execution

Ian Mcewan

Without a revolution of the inner life, however slow, all our big designs are worthless. The work we have to do is with ourselves if we're ever going to be at peace with each other...the good that flows from it will shape our societies in an unprogrammed, unforeseen way, under the control of no single group of people or set of ideas.

Ian Frazier

There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.

Ian Frazier

Siberia is so big, it’s almost more an idea than a place

Ian Hamilton Finlay

But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.

Ian Hacking

The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea.

Ideas get substance and value not by being discussed but by being lived.

Hugh Mackay

Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable.

Hugh Jackman

Your idea doesn't have to be big. It just has to be yours alone. The more the idea is yours alone, the more freedom you have to do something really amazing. The more amazing, the more people will click with your idea. The more people click with your idea, the more it will change the world.

Hugh Jackman

Transcendental Meditation gives you what you need, when you need it. It's literally changed my life. Some of the clearest ideas or epiphanies I've had in life happened during or after meditating. Everything becomes clear and the truth starts coming out.

Hugh Jackman

GOOD IDEAS ALTER THE BALANCE IN RELATIONSHIPS. THAT IS WHY GOOD IDEAS ARE ALWAYS INITIALLY RESISTED.

If it hits, it could be quite destructive to your life for a long time. Identity theft is not a picnic, but it is repairable.

Jamie Lee Curtis

If I can challenge old ideas about aging, I will feel more and more invigorated. I want to represent this new way. I want to be a new version of the 70-year-old woman. Vital, strong, very physical, very agile. I think that the older I get, the more yoga I'm going to do.

Gloria Steinem

I can only tell you the kind of power I want, which is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people what to do. Persuade assumes that the other person is going to make the decision. Especially as a writer and an activist, I want the power to put ideas and possibilities out there, but I understand that they will only work if they are freely chosen, so I don't want the power to dictate or to force the choice, ever.

Gloria Steinem

Worry less about solutions from the top or the idea that there is a solution, but try to do whatever you can and instill in each action the values that you want to result.

Gloria Steinem

If you're raised in a house where it's okay for one group to eat and another to cook, or for one group to get more education money than the other or to be more free than the other, or where one parent gives in to the will of the other or may be verbally or even physically abused by the other. This gives you an idea of human worth.

Gloria Steinem

Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change. You have to have the idea of change or at least have a hope before you can proceed. And that stage goes very quickly because a contagion of consciousness is within your control. But when you get to the stage of institutional change, it becomes a much slower process.

Gloria Steinem

The whole idea is not to figure out what you should do that will matter, but to make each thing you do reflect the values you want, because we don't know what's going to matter in the future

Gloria Steinem

[Erotica] contains the idea of love, positive choice, and the yearning for a particular person.

Gloria Steinem

Probably those three things affect the most people: reproductive freedom, freedom from violence, and democratic families. But there may well be someone sitting at this table who has a great idea to do something else that wouldn't come under those umbrellas and that would really be great, and make all kinds of change.

Giorgio Armani

There is a danger in becoming an icon, as people can see you as remote and untouchable, and they are less willing to tolerate you doing things that don't fit with their preconceived idea of you. Iconic status can be like a pair of handcuffs, especially if, like me, you wish to continually stretch yourself creatively, as Warhol did.