Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yayoi Kusama

I have a flood of ideas in my mind. I just follow my vision.

Zig Ziglar

New information makes new and fresh ideas possible.

Zoe Lister-Jones

We are very puritan in America. We still hold true to these really antiquated values, this idea of the sanctity of marriage.

Zelda Fitzgerald

Maybe other people's ideas of us are truer than our own.

Zadie Smith

It's got two aspects. The bit that involves the public life I could not really tolerate and cannot really tolerate. I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that.

Zadie Smith

I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.

Neal Boortz

You CAN NOT judge previous generations by today's standards. Today Mark Twain is called by many, a racist. By the standards of his time, he was a social liberal. Even Teddy Roosevelt was a social liberal at the time, but he accepted as fact that idea that Caucasians were inherently superior to all other races. That makes him a racist in the CORRECT definition of the term.

Neal Stephenson

The GPS unit became almost equally obstreperous, though, over Richard’s unauthorized route change, until they finally passed over some invisible cybernetic watershed between two possible ways of getting to their destination, and it changed its fickle little mind and began calmly telling him which way to proceed as if this had been its idea all along.

Neal Stephenson

They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right.

Neale Donald Walsch

Your ideas about right and wrong are just that-ideas. They are the thoughts which form the shape and create the substance of Who You Are. There would be only one reason to change any of these; only one purpose in making an alteration: if you are not happy with Who You Are.

Neale Donald Walsch

The trick now is to turn insight into foresight. The trick is to know this about your tomorrow, today... Remember, your future is not coming to you; it's coming through you...change your idea about the changes to come, even as you change your idea about the changes that have passed. Then you can change your experience of both.

Neale Donald Walsch

All great truths begin as blasphemy. Every single revolutionary idea that has ever been visited upon the human experience began as an idea which was rejected.

Neale Donald Walsch

All you see in your world is the outcome of your idea about it.

Nate Parker

A lot of those old ideas are dying with the people who created them, and there's this new generation of filmmaker that's saying, "We're in this together, these are issues that we all deal with, let's just present issues to screen without bias and figure out what the audience has to say about them."

Nancy Sinatra

There are a lot of people who would laugh at the idea of me being a good singer.

Morgan Spurlock

I had no idea that it was gonna take off the way it did. I thought we made a good movie.

Milan Kundera

loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.

Milan Kundera

A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.

Margaret Wertheim

If I could do anything in my life and be remembered for anything, I would like to be remembered for helping the world see the value of physical engagement with ideas.

Marcel Proust

Everybody calls "clear" those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.

Marcel Proust

There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite.

Marcel Proust

L'ide e qu'on mourra est plus cruelle que mourir, mais moins que l'ide e qu'un autre est mort. The idea of dying is worse than dying itself, but less cruel than the idea that another has died.

Marcel Proust

We pack the physical outline of the creature we see with all the ideas we have already formed about him, and in the complete picture of him we compose in our minds those ideas have certainly the principal place.

Joseph Beuys

The ego must be developed, not for its own sake, but because it is needed by society. If you are only interested in self-realization then you cannot make a good painting. To do this you have to have thought about forming, and about how ideas of forming stem from history.

Joseph Barbera

I don't know anyone who enjoys going to the hospital. To help remedy this, I got an idea to create what a Laugh Room in the pediatric ward of hospitals.

Joseph Barbera

I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.

Joseph Addison

A vast space naturally raises in my thoughts the idea of an Almighty Being.

Joseph Addison

Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.

Joseph Addison

The moral virtues, without religion are but cold, lifeless, and insipid; it is only religion which opens the mind to great conceptions, fills it with the most sublime ideas, and warms the soul with more than sensual pleasures.

Jose Saramago

The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.

Jose Saramago

We are so afraid of the idea of having to die… that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as if we were asking beforehand to be excused when it is our turn…

You can be completely opposed to an ideological position, and I'm certainly not close to Aznar's ideas, however he was elected by the Spanish people and I demand that respect.

Jose Marti

Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.