Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joan Robinson

New ideas are difficult just because they are new. Repetition has somehow plastered over the gaps and inconsistencies in the old ones, and the new cannot penetrate.

Joan Robinson

When I came up to Cambridge (in October 1921) to read economics, I did not have much idea of what it was about.

Jimmy Wales

I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world and not just to people who have broadband.

George A. Romero

As a filmmaker, I love the medium. I have a great affection for it and I've been lucky enough to do all different kinds of films. The greatest part of the success I've had comes from horror. I love the idea of mixing humor and horror and to me, it's all a giggle.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The person must give himself an external sphere of freedom in order to have being as Idea.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The State is the Divine idea as it exists on Earth.

Geoffrey Beene

When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.

Geoff Downes

The Buggles was much more a studio environment idea, which we never actually took on the road.

Geoff Davis

One of the simplest ways to get an idea of one trillion dollars is to consider the amount in terms of the passage of time. One million seconds is equal to roughly eleven days and twelve hours, and one billion seconds is thirty-two years. One trillion seconds equals thirty-two thousand years.

Geoff Mulgan

Social innovation thrives on collaboration; on doing things with others, rather than just to them or for them: hence the great interest in new ways of using the web to 'crowdsource' ideas, or the many experiments involving users in designing services.

Garrett Morris

I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.

Garrett Hardin

A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Love of an idea is the love of God.

Frank Darabont

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

Francois Truffaut

Purely cinematic film ... actually the purest expression of a cinematic idea.

Frank Caliendo

I chose Journalism by default. I always loved TV, and I had no idea what else to do, so I studied what interested me.

Francois Mauriac

Let us be wary of ready-made ideas about cowardice and courage: the same burden weighs infinitely more heavily on some shoulders than on others.

George Clarke

I had the idea to become really emotionally detached, and a lot of the time I've treated people that I've cared about a lot really unfairly.

George Clooney

Even the idea of a fart makes me laugh. Saying the word 'fart' makes me laugh. I have iFart on my phone. I have remote whoopee cushions. Farts. To me, there's nothing funnier.

Lord Acton

The idea that the object of constitutions is not to confirm the predominance of any interest, but to prevent it; to preserve with equal care the independence of labour and the security of property; to make the rich safe against envy, and the poor against oppression, marks the highest level attained by the statesmanship of Greece.

Logan Lerman

I’ve written a lot and brainstorm ideas, and I plan on pursuing them very soon.

Lynn Abbey

When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.

Lynn Abbey

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition... well, they are still radical ideas.

Lukas Foss

To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling music. He combined ideas that no one else would have thought of putting together.

Ludwig Quidde

The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of absolute security and lasting peace.

Ludwig Quidde

Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of disarmament is superfluous and pointless as long as eternal peace has not been attained.

Ludwig Feuerbach

Christianity has in fact long vanished, not only from the reason but also from the life of mankind, and it is nothing more than a fixed idea.

Lucian Freud

I use the gallery as if it were a doctor. I come for ideas and help - to look at situations within painting, rather than paintings.

Louise Mensch

Money gives you the power to do whatever you want to do. I like the idea of being in complete control of my life.

Louise Penny

But you want murderous feelings? Hang around librarians," confided Gamache. "All that silence. Gives them ideas.