Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wallace Stegner

If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that idea,

Wallace Stegner

National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.

Samuel Barber

I have always believed that I need a circumference of silence. As to what happens to when I composer, I really haven't the faintest idea.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses; and its appointed function is to elevate the images of the latter, while it realizes the ideas of the former.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.

Salman Khan

If you have an idea that seems worth doing, don't wait to hire other people and get funding and all those things. Just start doing it, wait to see what happens, and then iterate on that.

Salvador Dali

The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.

Salman Rushdie

A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing.

Salman Rushdie

People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.

Salman Rushdie

Ideas are interesting to me, and religions are a place where ideas have been very subtly embodied for thousands of years. All literature started as sacred literature.

Salman Rushdie

To put it as simply as possible: I am not a Muslim.[...] I do not accept the charge of apostacy, because I have never in my adult life affirmed any belief, and what one has not affirmed one can not be said to have apostasized from. The Islam I know states clearly that 'there can be no coercion in matters of religion'. The many Muslims I respect would be horrified by the idea that they belong to their faith purely by virtue of birth, and that a person who freely chose not to be a Muslim could therefore be put to death.

Salman Rushdie

Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.

Salman Rushdie

The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.

Ryan Tedder

So for every day that you're on this earth, for every minute that you have, the whole idea is doing nothing less than exactly what you feel you're supposed to do and squeezing every last drop out of life every day, regardless of the difficulties or trials that you face.

Ryan Phillippe

But in a broader sense, when I have more control, I want to expose people to new ideas.

Ryan Phillippe

The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me.

Ryan Reynolds

The best directors I've worked with, they all have the same thing in common. They're the first to say, 'I don't know.' If you ask them, 'How are we actually pulling off this movie?', they'll just shrug and go, 'I have absolutely no idea.'

Wangari Maathai

It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa.

W. S. Merwin

The global warming is going on. These are not single cases. These are all part of a general way we've been looking at the world. As long as we look at the world that way it's going to go on. Because the idea that the important thing is for some people get rich while the rest of the people work for them is very deeply dug in.

Virginia Foxx

I like the idea of giving workers control and putting their money into their personal accounts.

W. H. Auden

The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.

W. H. Auden

History marches to the drum of a clear idea.

Wayne McGregor

'Entity' is not about science. The process behind it may dictate the nature of the piece, but it's not like a dance about Einstein where I'm trying to convert his ideas into movement and communicate that to an audience.

Wayne Coyne

I embrace the idea that I'm an entertainer.

Wayne Dyer

We have to stop the idea that we are going to create something out of nothing, but instead attract to ourselves what is already here.

Wayne Dyer

Where is the peace in more is better? This idea keeps us exclusively in the physical domain. You can replace the more is better belief with an inner serenity that doesn't need more to be acceptable. There is no peace in more is better, and if it doesn't being peace to your life, then it's something you want to discard.

Wayne Dyer

Have within you an imaginary candle flame that burns brightly regardless of what goes before you. Let this inner flame represent for you the idea that you're capable of manifesting miracles in your life.

Wayne Dyer

One of the important principles I live by is the idea that you have to contemplate yourself as surrounded by the conditions you intend to produce.

Tove Jansson

Malander had an idea and was trying to work it out, but it would take him time. Sometimes people never saw things clearly until it was too late and they no longer had the strength to start again. Or else they forgot their idea along the way and didn't even realise that they forgotten.

Valerie Trierweiler

I built my entire life on the idea of independence.

Robert Jeffress

The idea that there is only one way to be reconciled with God has its origins in the Old Testament.

Rodney Brooks

I'd rather have half of my idea change the world than my whole idea be a few papers in a journal.

Rodney Brooks

When people lose faith in the idea, you have to let them go, because they start to undermine it for everyone else.