Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Bierce

Cribbage, n. A substitute for conversation among those to whom nature has denied ideas.

Ambrose Bierce

MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable . . . Commonly Saxon - that is to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of ideas and incapable of any but the most elementary sentiments and emotions.

Anthony Horowitz

What were you going to do with it?” McCain asked. "I just thought it might come in useful.” "Were you planning to attack me?” "No. But that’s a good idea.

Anthony Horowitz

I love the idea that magic and witchcraft and battles between supernatural creatures could be raging all around us but just out of our sight.

Anthony Hopkins

When you're younger you have so many ideas about yourself; everything is important. It's not when you look back, nothing is that important. It's only life.

Anthony Kiedis

I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.

Anthony Kiedis

I never felt like dying was a good idea.

Amber Heard

I am a proud member of the LGBT community and could never bear the idea that someone could say I was closeted.

Anna Paquin

I really liked the idea of focusing on one thing for, hopefully, a long time to come. I also like the idea of a consistent lifestyle, as opposed to not really knowing where on the planet you're going to be at any given moment.

Anna Quindlen

... It was the idea of facing a future skimming the surface of life, winging my way in and out of other people's crises, confusions, and passages, engaging them enough to get the story, but never enough to be indelibly touched by what I had seen or heard.

Anna Quindlen

Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.

Cindy Sherman

My ideas are not developed before I actually do the pieces.

Claes Oldenburg

You can take an object and simply put anything you want in that object, and I accessed that partly through Freudian ideas.

Cindy Crawford

I hated turning 40; the whole idea of it stank. But once I got through it, I was fine.

Chuck Martin

Examples of selling of ideas are portrayed in consulting or paid advice, as the pricing of intellectual property is market driven.

Chuck Mangione

I tend to not want to put labels or categories on the music, only because people come with preconceived ideas about what they're going to hear, or won't come for this reason.

Alfred de Musset

I can't help it, the idea of the infinite torments me.

Alfred Hitchcock

Ideas come from everything

Alfred Hitchcock

If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.

Alfie Kohn

In a word, learning is decontextualized. We break ideas down into tiny pieces that bear no relation to the whole. We give students a brick of information, followed by another brick, followed by another brick, until they are graduated, at which point we assume they have a house. What they have is a pile of bricks, and they don't have it for long.

Amy Seimetz

I've gotten a lot more comfortable with the audition process, but there's something that really turned me off initially when I was younger, to auditioning. The idea that I couldn't get to the person that was actually making the film really frustrated me.

Amy Sedaris

I feel so free and open to ideas, and I get inspired by everything.

Amy Sedaris

I just like to have the ideas. Other people can help see them through.

Amy Sedaris

Crafting is putting ideas into action and then holding them together with an inexpensive adhesive.

Amy Sedaris

Imagination! My problem is that I have so many ideas, I never have enough time to use them all. Just the other day I thought up eleven things I could do with a flowerpot. Eleven! Three of those things didn't even involve plants.

Amiri Baraka

The African, because of the violent differences between what was native and what he was forced to in slavery, developed some of the most complex and complicated ideas about the world imaginable.

Alphonse Karr

Dress is the great business of all women, and the fixed idea of some.

Anthony Bourdain

Without new ideas success can become stale

Anthony Bourdain

I'm definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working - if I ever stop working. I like the idea of keeling over in my tomato vines in Sardinia or northern Italy.

Andy Rooney

New ideas are one of the most overrated concepts of our time. Most of the important ideas that we live with aren't new at all.

Alexis Ohanian

Entrepreneur is just French for 'has ideas, does them'.

Alexis Ohanian

The great thing about the Internet is, it's the freest marketplace of ideas that there is.

Alexis de Tocqueville

General ideas are no proof of the strength, but rather of the insufficiency of the human intellect.