Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicola Formichetti

I never liked the idea of bags. I would say, "Why do so many of my friends spend so much money on these bloody bags?" But once I started designing them, I was completely hooked. There are all of these blogs about bags. It's a whole other industry, and I'm really excited to be a part of it.

Nick Mason

Ever since the Beatles, the concept of lovable mop tops, it's a bit of a fantasy, but it's a lovely idea that people make wonderful music and live a wonderful life being friends together. Sadly, life isn't quite like that.

Nick Rahall

America, 5 years after this brutal attack, is testament that a Nation conceived in liberty and equality will endure. It is a triumph of millions of Americans but it is also the triumph of an idea larger than any one person, larger than any one nation.

Mary Lynn Rajskub

To really be on stage and not know what you're going to say, and to be able to say something that makes people laugh, or do something that's sort of abstract or off the beaten path and have people connect to it by just putting your ideas together, that really makes me happy.

Mark Twain

Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine.

Mark Twain

A better idea than my own is to listen.

Nicholas Meyer

Once you decide that you're going to have the death of Spock, then how does that affect the other people? Why is it there? I got a lot of stick from a lot of people from the very beginning about the idea of killing Spock. Somebody said, "You can't kill him." And I said, "Sure you can; the only question is whether you do it well."

Nicholas Negroponte

I'm not good at selling laptops. I'm good at selling ideas.

Nicholas Negroponte

My advice to graduates is to do anything except what you are trained for. Take that training to a place where it is out of place and stimulate ideas, shake up establishments, and don't take no for an answer.

Nicholas Negroponte

The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.

Nicholas Sparks

You have no idea how much the last few days have meant to me," I began. "Meeting you has been the best thing that's ever happened to me.

Nicholas Sparks

Working on the plot/story idea for my next novel ... It always takes time.

Nicholas Sparks

Really good original ideas are very hard to come up with. Good ideas - easy. Really good, original ideas - it can take months.

Nicholas Sparks

I've learned to keep my mind open to ideas from any source.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.

Natasha Leggero

The idea that you're supposed to do everything on your own is absurd. You can't.

Natasha Lyonne

The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth.

Natasha Lyonne

The person sending ironic text messages has no idea that their voice does not sound so great in text. There's no dry sense of humor in a text. It comes off as a little bit shitty.

Mstislav Rostropovich

I would rather have ideas and some difficulties of technique than a perfect technique and no ideas.

Muhammad Yunus

We can remove poverty from the surface of the earth only if we can redesign our institutions - like the banking institutions, and other institutions; if we redesign our policies, if we look back on our concepts, so that we have a different idea of poor people.

Mitchel Resnick

Express your ideas with the world

Mitchell Hurwitz

I have this identity for myself as a writer and the only thing that can happen is that I chip away from it.

Mikhail Lermontov

Out of life's storm I carried only a few ideas - and not one feeling.

Maria Bello

I don't really have a method or a technical process. I studied [Sanford] Meisner, and that's the thing that really works for me. That sort of instinctual, in the moment, what the other actors do, working off them and letting the story unfold, as opposed to having an idea of what the story should be.

Martin Kippenberger

I am a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I could never adjust to the separate waiting rooms, separate eating places, separate rest rooms, partly because the separate was always unequal, and partly because the very idea of separation did something to my sense of dignity and self-respect.

Mark V. Hurd

We need to temper the idea that this company has to have some earthshaking event every 15 minutes.

Mark Udall

Reform is not for the short-winded. I'm committed to making sure the Senate is more than just a graveyard for good ideas.

Mark Knopfler

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

Mark Hoppus

Ideas are really what interest me in producing a band, if I can bring something productive to the project.

Mark Hoppus

As a producer, I'm an objective observer, helping a band form their ideas into a cohesive album. It's a step back from the intimacy of creation.

Mark Batterson

One God idea is worth more than a thousand good ideas.

Mikhail Gorbachev

In our discussions here at the forum there was no trace of the futile debate about what is better, capitalism or socialism...We should seek a synthesis of ideas and values that have proven their viability...