Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maria Montessori

The concept of an education centered upon the care of the living being alters all previous ideas. Resting no longer on a curriculum, or a timetable, education must conform to the facts of human life.

P. J. O'Rourke

The key ingredient of politics is the idea that all of society's ills can be cured politically. It's like a cookbook where the recipe for everything is to fry it. The fruit cocktail is fried.

John Stuart Mill

I know tolerably well what Ireland was, but have a very imperfect idea of what Ireland is.

John Stuart Mill

When one's ideas are not challenged, one's ability to defend them weakens.

John Ralston Saul

There is no need to search for global solutions, apart from an absolute necessity to destroy the idea that such things exist.

John Scott

It's always better if you're next door. Ideas come up at the oddest times. They don't always come up in a conference call.

Peter Drucker

Nobody can predict the future; the idea is to have a firm grasp of the present.

Nicolas Cage

You often feel like you are on a high wire with no net productions because you have to rely on spontaneity and come up with ideas on the spur of the moment - and then what happens is that there is electricity to it that gets caught.

Nick Hanauer

The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd.

Nicole Kidman

Actors have to protect each other in a way. The idea of humiliating another actor or being humiliated myself is devastating.

Mike Mills

I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.

Mason Cooley

Thrift is an attractive idea until you get down to specifics.

Michael Graves

The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.

Michelle Williams

The idea that you can get everything you want in one person is destructive, and maybe when you accept that the number is closer to 50 or 60 or 70 percent, that's when you can start to make some progress in choosing the right person.

Martha McSally

Raising taxes in an economic downturn is not a good idea.

Mark Rothko

The progression of a painter’s work…will be toward clarity; toward the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea, and between the idea and the observer…to achieve this clarity is, inevitably, to be understood.

Patricia McConnell

I had a naïve idea that if I could tell the story, people would be outraged and do something about conditions in the jails.

Madonna Ciccone

When you make a movie, it's just a huge bureaucracy because movies cost so much money. Millions of people get involved, and pretty soon the creative idea gets tramped on and watered down or filtered through a huge system.

Abdullah Ocalan

We reached the point where weapons should go silent and ideas speak.

Alexis Ohanian

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

Alexis de Tocqueville

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

Now we would like some ideas for different shows. These must be quality shows.

Paul Begala

I don't think it's a lack of ideas; it's coherence.

If we can see (the damage), we can have some ideas about it for when we get home.

Jean M. Auel

The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

Erin Wasson

I like the idea of not looking at trends, not being driven by them. I like what I like and that's it.

Ezra Pound

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Francis Parker Yockey

Leftist ideas are a part of the very atmosphere which American youth breathes

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea. And there is only one higher idea on earth, and it is the idea of the immortality of the human soul, for all other "higher" ideas of life by which humans might live derive from that idea alone.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light.

Chris Van Allsburg

I have lots of ideas. The problem for me has always been which one to do.

Chris Van Allsburg

I take my ideas from my experiences.