Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis Menand

There are limits, after all, to the idea of limits.

Louis Malle

The longer I live, the less I trust ideas, the more I trust emotions.

Louis Sachar

Toni hears voices," said Trapp. "But who is this Dr. Ellsworth to tell her she's a schizophrenic? Maybe she just perceives better than the rest of us. Maybe the voices she hears are just uncommunicated ideas, floating free.

Louis Sachar

An idea doesn't die," said Trapp. "It exists somewhere, in its own dimension, waiting to be perceived.

Louis Pasteur

It is a matter of fact; I approached without a preconceived idea, too ready to declare, if the experiment had imposed upon me the confession, that there was a spontaneous generation, of which I am convinced today that those who assure it are blindfolded.

Lord Acton

The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the spirit that preserves them, and the form may remain unaltered when the substance has passed away.

Lord Acton

Government by idea tends to take in everything, to make the whole of society obedient to the idea. Spaces not so governed are unconquered, beyond the border, unconverted, a future danger.

Jim Rogers

If anybody laughs at your idea, view it as a sign of potential success!

John Cleese

If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you open to my ideas

John Cleese

The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting.

John Cleese

We don't know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them from our laptops.

Lusia Strus

What draws me to the theatre, and what appealed to me about Too Much Light, is that you have no idea what's going to happen. That's the most exciting part of theatre, it's never the same. If it were, it would be like watching a movie.

Luther Burbank

As a scientist, I can not help feeling that all religions are on a tottering foundation. None is perfect or inspired.The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me. I don't want to have anything to do with such a God.

John Boyne

We all are [normal]. Their idea of normal just happens to be different to some other people's idea of normal. But this is the world we live in. Some people simply cannot accept something that is outside of their experience.

John Boehner

The idea that carbon dioxide is a carcinogen that is harmful to our environment is almost comical. Every time we exhale, we exhale carbon dioxide. Every cow in the world, you know, when they do what they do, you've got more carbon dioxide.

John Ambrose Fleming

We are apt to consider that invention is the result of spontaneous action of some heavenborn genius, whose advent we must patiently wait for, but cannot artificially produce. It is unquestionable, however, that education, legal enactments, and general social conditions have a stupendous influence on the development of the originative faculty present in a nation and determine whether it shall be a fountain of new ideas or become simply a purchaser from others of ready-made inventions.

John Archibald Wheeler

It from Bit symbolizes the idea that every item of the physical world has at bottom an immaterial source and explanation... that all things physical are information-theoretic in origin and that this is a participatory universe.

John Armstrong

Sometimes pantheists will use the term "pandeism" to underscore that they share with the deists the idea that God is not a personal God who desires to be worshipped.

Hoshyar Zebari

These are new ideas, ... That's why they are not comfortable.

These are just ideas right now. We need to have a lot more discussion.

And that range was ideal for qualifying shoots, range shoots and for special operations training.

Myleene Klass

This is my ideal job and I can't wait to get started.

Eric Lefkofsky

The big success stories - Facebook, Zynga and Twitter - are leading to investing in ideas on a napkin, because no one wants to miss out on the next big thing.

Eric Idle

I like the idea of being out there regularly with an audience and with a funny gang of people. That's what I grew up with - doing television, doing shows every week.

Eric Hoffer

Ideas have significance for him only as a prelude to action.

Eric Hoffer

First something is a great idea, then it becomes a cause, then it becomes a business and finally it becomes a racket.

Eric Hoffer

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome.

Emmett Shear

The question is, once you have this idea, is this enough? Is it something people would actually switch just to have?

Emmanuelle Chriqui

We have this idea of perfection that is so unrealistic. We are our own worst enemy. No one is noticing that little scar.

James Cash Penney

Exchange ideas frequently.

James Cash Penney

A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.

James Cook

The idea that government can instruct private enterprise on how to eliminate waste is preposterous.

James Cook

People are always receptive to the idea of a conspiracy.