Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mikhail Gorbachev

Communist ideology in its pure form is akin to Christianity. Its main ideas are the brotherhood of all peoples irrespective of their nationality, justice and equality, peace, and an end to all hostility between peoples.

Miguel de Unamuno

Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only . . . with the idea God has of you.

Miguel de Unamuno

An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.

Ned Rorem

To see itself through, music must have idea or magic. ... Music with neither dies young though rich.

Nadine Gordimer

Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.

Naguib Mahfouz

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

Mitchell Kapor

I was trying to figure out what to do next, I'd been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use every day, particularly to help organize their lives.

Miuccia Prada

My idea is always to avoid nostalgia.

Miuccia Prada

Ugly is attractive, ugly is exciting. Maybe because it is newer. The investigation of ugliness is, to me, more interesting than the bourgeois idea of beauty. And why? Because ugly is human.

Miyamoto Musashi

Imitation is the surest form of flattery and failure. I am not interested with your talk about my ideas. I am more interested in your applying them to your life. If you do not, then you are essentially not in accord with your own mind.

Mitt Romney

Republicans should never abandon pro-growth conservative principles in an effort to embrace the ideas of Al Gore.

Mitt Romney

We have serious enemies and growing threats around the world. Unfortunately, we have an administration whose idea of a rogue state is Arizona.

Mitt Romney

I frankly can't wait, because the idea of Bill Clinton back in the White House with nothing to do is something I just can't imagine, I can't imagine the American people can imagine....

R. C. Sproul

Nothing could be more irrational than the idea that something comes from nothing.

R. C. Sproul

There's probably no concept in theology more repugnant to modern America than the idea of divine wrath.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Ideas are easy to come by; reduction to practice is an arduous but inspirationally rewarding matter.

R. Buckminster Fuller

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.

Prem Rawat

I suggest you take a look at yourself. Not the concepts, not the ideas, not the goods, not the bads. But a timeless purity of existence. A witness to the beauty that is.

Powell Clayton

Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone.

Poppy Montgomery

I never know why shows succeed or don't succeed, which is why I look at it as, 'I'll do the best work that I can', and if the fans and people respond then I'm always really flattered and honored, and if they don't then I'll try and do something next time that they like better. But I have no idea what makes a hit show, I really don't.

Juan Williams

In 2007 the 'dagger' of an idea that killed President Bush's effort at reforming the immigration system was lax border security.

Joseph Sobran

Liberalism's fatal flaw,... is that it has no permanent norms, only a succession of enthusiasms espoused by minor prophets. Each of these seems like a hot new idea to liberals, but soon goes to irksome and destructive extremes.

Leonard Susskind

A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen how to understand some difficult scientific idea.

Leonardo da Vinci

I have solved what color is, however ; I still have no idea about what line is.

Paul Gauguin

But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, the confirmation of my own original ideas about painting. And also, at difficult moments, the remembrance that one finds others unhappier than oneself.

Patrick O'Brian

Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.

Patrick Ness

... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.

Patrick Rothfuss

Fantasy is a genre that allows me to create anything I want. That, in turn, allows me to explore any sort of idea I'm curious about. I love it because Fantasy is a genre that asks, "What if...?" That's my favorite question.

Patrick Rothfuss

But even this piece of flattery couldn't distract me from the fact that I was in the center of the Fae realm, blind, stark naked, and without the slightest idea of what was going on.

Patricia Arquette

Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.

Patrice Leconte

When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.

Patrice Leconte

No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.

Parvesh Cheena

In the states we all have this idea, everyone who wants to be the next best singer, next best dancer. Those same wants and desires are in India, too.