Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

The idea which...shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth, not a generalization from experience.

I still think their ideas are really valuable. We've had some wonderful competition.

Carlos Ghosn

People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.

Carlos Castaneda

It is important to have a perspective then only through seeing the world is it possible to transcend ideas such as the Flyers, and other aberrant thought forms. With ruthlessness, cunning patience and sweetness, it can be cracked.

Carl Bernstein

The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms!

C. S. Lewis

You have no idea what an appetite it gives one, being executed.

C. S. Lewis

If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.

There are many ideas, and I think that's the problem. We don't really understand how that works.

When rejecting the ideas of another, make sure you reject only the idea and not the person.

Stocks are running out of steam. Investors want to invest, but they're running out of ideas with prices at these levels.

Ron Brown

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Clement Mok

People adopt ideas when social, personal and financial trends intersect-a confluence that may seem random but usually happens 'by design.

Claude Monet

It would be a very bad idea... to exhibit even a small number of this new series, as the whole effect can only be achieved from an exhibition of the entire group.

Claude Monet

I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.

Dan Simmons

Words were like objects, making the idea more solid -- less a poisonous gas and more a ... cube of crystallized thought.

Dan Farmer

The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret - that's really distasteful to me.

Cynthia Voigt

When a daring idea first crosses one's mind, if it is to be realized in the future it is often appealing. Then, as the time for its execution comes nearer, one begins to dread that which had once been anticipated.

Colm Feore

I looked at a lot of the comics and I tried to just get an idea from that. Not necessarily specifics of what my look would be or what the plan would be because I knew the script was evolving. I then started the discussion with Ken, who had been in discussion with you guys, intimately. And that they'd pared it down.

Cornel Wilde

Throughout my work is the idea, over and over, that we must all learn to respect one another.

Cornel West

I love the academy in terms of the life of the mind and the world of ideas. I also love the streets. I love the churches and mosques and synagogues. I love the trade union centers. I love the community centers. I speak regularly at prisons and so forth.

Cornel West

There's a certain pleasure of the life of the mind that cannot be denied. There's a certain pleasure about being around people who enact a playfulness when it comes to the world of ideas.

Colson Whitehead

If I have three ideas and I'm working on one more than the others, that sort of tells me that I should work on that one.

Cliff Robertson

Show business is like a bumpy bus ride. Sometimes you find yourself temporarily juggled out of your seat and holding onto a strap. But the main idea is to hang in there and not be shoved out the door.

E. W. Howe

A poem is no place for an idea.

We welcome people to come out to the multiplex on Friday. We're looking for ideas and involvement.

There are always ideas you can take home.

David Chipperfield

I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods.

David Chipperfield

Most architects work in studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and historical research were irrelevant.

David Cronenberg

The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Antin

My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.

Daryl Hannah

So organic farming practices are something that, to me, are interlinked with the idea of using biodiesel.

Daryl Hannah

I love the idea that biodiesel has the potential to support farmers, especially the family farms.