Famous Quotes & Sayings

Earl Nightingale

Just one great idea can completely revolutionize your life.

Earl Nightingale

The greatest thing on earth is a good idea!

Elizabeth Bibesco

The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.

Elizabeth Bowen

Some ideas, like dandelions in lawns, strike tenaciously: you may pull off the top but the root remains, drives down suckers and may even sprout again.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Modesty and taste are questions of latitude and education; the more people know,--the more their ideas are expanded by travel, experience, and observation,--the less easily they are shocked. The narrowness and bigotry of women are the result of their circumscribed sphere of thought and action.

Elena Kagan

If there is an ‘overabundance' of an idea in the absence of direct governmental action -- which there well might be when compared with some ideal state of public debate -- then action disfavoring that idea might ‘un-skew,' rather than skew, public discourse.

Deepak Chopra

We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.

Domhnall Gleeson

The only music I've ever written was for a film called Frank, and the idea was that it was the worst music in the world.

Dominic Monaghan

Obviously the idea of being human is a very human idea.

Dixie Lee Ray

There is a deliberate and quite outspoken attack on the whole idea of people owning private property.

Dizzy Gillespie

The idea of life is to give and receive.

Dave Navarro

I've always recorded the same way. I put down as many ideas as I have, then strip them away at the mixdown. It's better to have too much music than not enough.

Dave Ramsey

Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who execute them are not.

Silicon Valley has become a clearinghouse, an intermediate station on the way to producing products, ideas and companies.

Chris Cornell

Most of the time, reading through treatments, it's like it could be any band, any song -- it doesn't matter that it's you or your song. The ideas are completely disconnected from the music and the image of the band.

Ludwig von Mises

Only to bureaucrats can the idea occur that establishing new offices, promulgating new decrees, and increasing the number of government employees alone can be described as positive and beneficial measures.

Ludwig von Mises

The idea that political freedom can be preserved in the absence of economic freedom, and vice versa, is an illusion. Political freedom is the corollary of economic freedom.

Chris Evans

I had no idea there were so many ways you could burn yourself out.

Diane Johnson

The Novelist, afraid his ideas may be foolish, slyly puts them in the mouth of some other fool and reserves the right to disavow them.

Diane Keaton

I never understood the idea that you're supposed to mellow as you get older. Slowing down isn't something I relate to at all. The goal is to continue in good and bad, all of it.

Dennis Weaver

Coming back to a television series puts you back in the limelight and gives you a platform for your ideas. If you're not acting on a series, you don't get the ability to communicate to people.

Dennis Prager

I am convinced that great ideas that are powerfully presented can change a mind in five minutes.

Dennis Prager

The vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind

Dennis Prager

I just don't understand why the idea of the universe creating itself is a rational one

Dennis Prager

Doing well is a conservative idea; meaning well is a liberal idea

Dennis Crowley

Don't let people tell you your ideas won't work. If you're passionate about an idea that's stuck in your head, find a way to build it so you can prove to yourself that it doesn't work.

Dennis Crowley

I'm obsessed with the idea of social TV.

Dennis Crowley

Don't let people tell you your ideas won't work.

Denis Diderot

My ideas are my whores.

Deborah Tannen

But if you parry individuals points - a negative and defensive enterprise - you never step back and actively imagine a world in which a different system of ideas could be true - a positive act.

Dee Dee Myers

A lot of people over time have had this kind of pattern in their relationship with Bill Clinton. You first meet him and you're overwhelmed by his talent. He's so energetic and articulate and full of ideas and he calls himself a congenital optimist and that optimism is contagious.

Dee Dee Myers

Obama has become too dependent on formal speeches and set town halls. His idea of mixing it up is taking off his jacket.