Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Bradlaugh

I do not deny "God", because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me no distinct affirmation, and of which the would-be affirmer has no conception.

Chang-Rae Lee

For if there is ever a moment when we are most vulnerable, it’s when we’re closest to the idea of the attained desire, and thus farthest from ourselves, which is when we’ll tread through any flame.

Charlie Kaufman

I do throw out a lot of ideas, and I forget completely about them.

Charlie Munger

My idea of a good place to shop is Costco - it has these heavily marbled fillet steaks. The idea of eating some wheat thing and washing it down with carrot juice has never appealed to me.

Charlie Munger

The idea of excessive diversification is madness.

Charlie Munger

You have to have a temperament to grab ideas and do sensible things. Most people don’t grab the right ideas or don’t know what to do with them.

Charlie Munger

An idea or a fact is not worth more merely because it's more available to you.

Charles Sanders Peirce

A sign, or representamen, is something which stands to somebody for something in some respect or capacity. It addresses somebody,that is, creates in the mind of that person an equivalent sign, or perhaps a more developed sign. That sign which it creates I call the interpretant of the first sign. The sign stands for something, its object. It stands for that object, not in all respects, but in reference to a sort of idea, which I have sometimes called the ground of the representamen.

Charles M. Schwab

I didn't take up shorthand with any idea of becoming a professional at it. It merely appeared to me to be a good thing to know - something that might come in handy.

Binyavanga Wainaina

I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether its with Africa or childhood.

Bill Maher

Why is Mitt Romney not bragging: 'I covered all these people'? Why can't the Democrats sell the idea, we're trying to make you well? Is that such a hard sale?

Bill Ayers

I would say for the young: Don't be straight jacketed by ideology. Don't be driven by a structure of ideas.

We're sprouting new ideas as we go along, and the plan is more or less the same.

Cesare Pavese

When we read, we are not looking for new ideas, but to see our own thoughts given the seal of confirmation on the printed page. The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where we live—and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves

Casey Neistat

It's the execution that matters, never the idea.

Would you identify the man in this picture?

We're still soliciting ideas and volunteers. The more volunteers the better.

Billy Sherwood

You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of labels.

Edward Snowden

The US government still has no idea what documents I have because encryption works

Eden Phillpotts

Who said it first? We don't know, but very often we find the same ideas attributed to two different people. All we can do is give you both. . . . The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Elizabeth Banks

I got Twitter identity theft.

Bob Hope

To give you an idea of how fast we travelled - we left with two rabbits and when we arrived we still had only two.

Bill Gates

I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.

Charles Krauthammer

There's no free lunch. If you want an industrial economy, you need energy. If you want energy, it will produce pollution. You can have it in two forms. You can have it dissipated in the atmosphere - like carbon dioxide - which then you cannot recover, or you can have the waste concentrated in one small space like nuclear. That is far easier to deal with. The idea that you can be able to create renewable energy at a price anywhere near the current price for oil or gas or coal is a fantasy.

Bo Burnham

My persona on stage was always coming from a place of I know better than you and I'm going to be a little bit pretentious in your face with these sort of crass ideas.

Bill Keller

One of the reasons that I'm a lurker on Twitter is that every time I tweet an idea, I feel like I'm delivering something to the competition that I ought to be giving to a reporter here.

Valerie Azlynn

My idol is Bea Arthur. I really tried to follow her example. She is one of my comedy 'she-roes.'

Kevin Spacey

The legal profession, politics and acting are very closely tied: the whole point is to have an idea and get it across to a listener, whether it is one person or five thousand in a hall.

We have a lot of opportunities and ideas on how we can reduce that very considerably,

Danny Bonaduce

When I was living on the street I would be standing out in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater, leaning against my car and signing autographs and nobody had any idea that I was living in it.

Joan Ark

With a view of Pike's Peak to the left and Cheyenne, Wyoming, to the right, we really did have an idyllic upbringing in a post-card setting..

The quicker we can get to the ideal that we are solid players with simple skills and we do simple things we will be successful.

We've come up with a lot of ideas, but we seem to be struggling on which are the most important.