Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cassandra Clare

She wondered why she’d ever thought trusting someone who wore that much eyeliner was a good idea.

Cassandra Clare

Is that why you didn't call me? Because I'm an idiot?

George Eliot

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

George Eliot

I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.

George Eliot

The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.

George Eliot

One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.

George Eliot

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

Franz Liszt

A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.

Frank Capra

Things own you. That's the trouble with capitalism. Things own you. With communism and fascism - ideas own you. One idea and you can't have any other.

Frank Carson

My idea for peace in the Middle East is to go back to the 1966 line, but to build even more houses for the Palestinians, who are a poor people.

Christian Wiman

Mandelstam's style is not singular. He could be stately and traditional, ribald and funny, hectic, elegiac. He could handle abstractions and ideas as well as Pope or Browning but then be so musical that other poems approach pure sound.

Ideas are like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down so to speak to their final atoms, but to their molecular groupings-the way is never ending and the progress infinitely delightful and profitable....

The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. Thought finds its way into action.

Intellectually, as politically, the direction of all true progress is towards greater freedom, and along an endless succession of ideas.

Adhesion to one idea is monomania; to few, slavery.

J. B. Priestley

Most writers enjoy two periods of happiness when a glorious idea comes to mind and, secondly, when a last page has been written and you haven't had time to know how much better it ought to be.

J. Cole

I kinda like the idea of having an album that's all me.

Isaac Watts

Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.

Isaac Newton

Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places could arise from nothing but the ideas and will of a Being, necessarily existing.

Isabel Allende

Twittering and blogging and all that is fine, but there is no idea of how to phrase something beautifully; how to use language to create an emotion. It's just passing information and sometimes very superficial information.

Irving Kristol

As a result of the efforts of Hayek .. and the many others who share his general outlook, the idea of a centrally planned and centrally administered economy, so popular in the 1930s and early 1940s, has been discredited.

Allison Anders

Because I came from the working class, I still identify with them. I don't identify with the middle class.

He's trying to identify quality people and people who have won. He got it (leadership) in a package with those two.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want to get to the throne: that is their madness — as if happiness sat on the throne. Often, mud sits on the throne — and often the throne also on mud. Mad they all appear to me, clambering monkeys and overardent. Foul smells their idol, the cold monster: foul, they smell to me altogether, these idolators.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.

Franz Grillparzer

The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.

Franz Grillparzer

Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.

Frank Zappa

Anyone who is disturbed by the idea of newts in a nightclub is potentially dangerous.

Jeff Lindsay

It revealed a cruelty that really made one wonder if the universe was such a good idea after all.

Jeff Lindsay

She really did like me, the idiot.

Jeff Lindsay

Now I know what it is like to feel like a total idiot.

Jeanette Winterson

I have no idea what happens next

Jim Caviezel

I always believed in God, I would go to mass most of the time, but I had no idea of the calling to holiness.