Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lord Kelvin

The atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I do not see how I can put it in words.

Malcolm Gladwell

our acquaintances—not our friends—are our greatest source of new ideas and information. the internet lets us exploit the power of these kinds of distant connections with marvellous efficiency.

Malcolm Gladwell

Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do.

Malcolm Gladwell

Policy is driven by more than politics, however. It is equally driven by ideas.

Malala Yousafzai

We have to change this idea that women are only supposed to work in the house... Women should go out and be what they want

Maimonides

The key to the understanding and to the full comprehension of all that the Prophets have said is found in the knowledge of the figures, their general ideas, and the meaning of each word they contain.

Mahatma Gandhi

In this day of wonders no one will say that a thing or an idea is worthless because it is new. To say it is impossible because it is difficult is again not in consonance with the spirit of the age. Things undreamt of are daily being seen, the impossible is ever becoming possible.

Gavin Bryars

I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended.

Gail Collins

Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have recognized or identified. And it's really only been since Jackie Kennedy that there's been this idea that the family life of the president is such a central thing.

Gail Collins

The idea that 'if you don't like how things are going, you can just leave' is so ingrained in Texas, the secession movement is no surprise.

Gail Carriger

Lord Maccon asked meekly, shifting against her in a manner that ensured she realized the nibbling had affected his outsides just as much as her insides. Alexia was partly shocked, partly intrigued by the idea that as he was naked, she might actually get to see what he looked like. She had seen sketches of the nude male, of course, for purely technical purposes. She was given to wonder if werewolves were anatomically bigger in certain areas.

Freida Pinto

I feel like this whole idea of wanting something that you don't really have is also very American in a way.

Frida Kahlo

Everyone's opinions about things change over time. Nothing is constant. Everything changes. And to hold onto some dogged idea forever is a little rigid and maybe naive.

Fred Wilson

I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge.

Fred Wilson

The more entrepreneurs in the world that are getting their ideas financed, the more great companies there are going to be that we can all invest in.

Fred Wilson

If you have an idea that you can't get out of your head, do a startup. Otherwise join a startup.

Frank McCourt

I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.

Maggie Stiefvater

I sense that his drowning but I don't have any idea of how to start to put my hand into the water and save him.

Maggie Stiefvater

He was uncomfortable with the idea that use might not like him.

Maggie Stiefvater

I thought you said scrying was a bad idea.” “It's like vodka,” Calla said. “It really depends on who's doing it.

Madchen Amick

I just love the idea of witches, in general. The whole concept of witches was to keep down the feminine rise in power that was happening, at the time. They created this concept of witches, so that they could burn women at the stake and keep them in their place, and now we've turned it around to empower women. That's very ironic. If they only knew that they created a weapon for us to use against them.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Religion has ever been anti-human, anti-woman, anti-life, anti-peace, anti-reason and anti-science. The god idea has been detrimental not only to humankind but to the earth. It is time now for reason, education and science to take over.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All of us have life; few of us have an idea of it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Very few people love others for what they are; rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To me the external existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity. If I work incessantly until my death, nature will give me another form of existence when the present can no longer sustain my spirit.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

Joe Wright

I like the idea of doing something outside my comfort zone.

Joe Vitale

Your part in the co-creation process to attract more money in your life is to act on the ideas that are coming to you.

Joaquin Phoenix

I've been in clubs. I don't like being in an enclosed place with really loud music, and a lot of drunk people. It's not my idea of a good time. It's just such a miserable life.

Joanne Harris

I'm phobic about the idea of being constrained.

Jimmy Carter

Human identity is no longer defined by what one does but rather by what one owns.