Famous Quotes & Sayings

John C. Wright

I did not call for the extermination of people, but of ideas.

John C. Reilly

A lot of times, good improv is when both people, or however many people are in the scene, really have no idea what the next thing you're going to say is.

John Cage

No one can have an idea once he starts really listening.

John Cage

Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.

John C. Maxwell

Behind every great idea is someone saying "It won't work"

John C. Maxwell

Good ideas have expiration dates. You need to act before they become dated, irrelevant or otherwise spoiled.

John C. Maxwell

A great idea is simply the combination of many good ideas.

John C. Maxwell

Any leader who asks the right questions of the right people has the potential to discover and develop great ideas.

John C. Maxwell

You'll never know how close you are to a million-dollar idea unless you're willing to listen.

Mahatma Gandhi

Of all the superstitions that affect India, none is so great as that a knowledge of the English language is necessary for imbibing ideas of liberty and developing accuracy to thought.

Mahatma Gandhi

My ahimsa would not tolerate the idea of giving a free meal to a healthy person who has not worked for it in some honest way.

James Thurber

My drawings have been described as pre-internationalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point.

James Stewart

Frank called me one day and said, 'I have an idea for a movie, why don't you come over and I'll tell you?' So I went over and we sat down and he said, 'This picture starts in heaven'. That shook me.

James Surowiecki

Congressional Republicans themselves have vehemently defended the idea that preexisting conditions should not be used to deny people insurance.

James Polshek

I kind of cherish at least the idea of Midwestern candor and openness. But I couldn't live there.

James Patterson

I'm going to turn fifteen tomorrow," i said, warming to the idea. "It's high time. I can't remember when i turned fourteen." (said by Max) If you get to be fifteen, then i get to be fifteen!" Iggy sounded indignant. i looked at Fang. "Wanna be fifteen?" His smile melted me. "Yeah.

James Patterson

I have an idea. It’s risky, and Max will kill us when she finds out.” Iggy raised his head. “Sounds like my kind of idea.

James Mercer

I'm not really excited about the idea of committing to anything permanently.

James Mark Baldwin

Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.

Emile Durkheim

If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.

Elmer Bernstein

Jerry Goldsmith is the #1 composer working now. He's open to new ideas and always inventing.

Ellen Page

I'm not good at watching stuff that I'm in at all. I should stop. I shouldn't watch something for the first time with a room full of people at Sundance. It's not a good idea.

Elizabeth Reaser

We had no idea what we were getting into. We thought we were just doing this little vampire movie in Portland. There was just a lot of silliness, a lot of hijinks and bad behavior.

Ella Maillart

That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.

All sorts of scenarios are floated. That does not mean that any of these ideas will see the light of day.

Elayne Boosler

I am thankful I was born in America, although if I gain any more weight the burqa thing may start to seem like a good idea to me. See? Another plus about America, you can always find some food.

Edward St Aubyn

The whole 'Melrose' series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth.

Edward Tufte

The idea of trying to create things that last-forever knowledge-has guided my work for a long time now.

Edward Tufte

Graphical excellence is that which gives to the viewer the greatest number of ideas in the shortest time with the least ink in the smallest space.

Edward Tufte

The idea is that the content is the interface, the information is the interface, not computer-administrative debris.

Edward Carpenter

My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline.

Edward de Bono

Every valuable creative idea must always be logical in hindsight. If it were not, we would never be able to see its value.