Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lilith Saintcrow

Some days, a killing spree seems like a good idea.

Lilith Saintcrow

He'd pulled back a little, just with his lower half, and I was afraid the scorch in my cheeks would set fire to the rest of me, because I an idea why. Wow. Oh wow.

Lil Wayne

I'm a very creative person, and the best part about creation is creating. So I always love to come up with new things, new ideas, new thoughts. I cherish things like that.

Lord Acton

The idea that the object of constitutions is not to confirm the predominance of any interest, but to prevent it; to preserve with equal care the independence of labour and the security of property; to make the rich safe against envy, and the poor against oppression, marks the highest level attained by the statesmanship of Greece.

Logan Lerman

I’ve written a lot and brainstorm ideas, and I plan on pursuing them very soon.

Lynn Abbey

When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.

Lynn Abbey

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition... well, they are still radical ideas.

Lukas Foss

To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling music. He combined ideas that no one else would have thought of putting together.

Ludwig Quidde

The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of absolute security and lasting peace.

Ludwig Quidde

Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of disarmament is superfluous and pointless as long as eternal peace has not been attained.

Ludwig Feuerbach

Christianity has in fact long vanished, not only from the reason but also from the life of mankind, and it is nothing more than a fixed idea.

Lucian Freud

I use the gallery as if it were a doctor. I come for ideas and help - to look at situations within painting, rather than paintings.

Louise Mensch

Money gives you the power to do whatever you want to do. I like the idea of being in complete control of my life.

Louise Penny

But you want murderous feelings? Hang around librarians," confided Gamache. "All that silence. Gives them ideas.

Louis de Bernieres

We should care for each other more than we care for ideas, or else we will end up killing each other.

Louis Aragon

In our day there are no longer any ideas, or they are scarcer than hens' teeth.

Lori Greiner

I always recommend, if you can, to patent or protect whatever your idea is. If you can't, you have to make your best judgment. Sometimes people don't get anywhere because they sit on something, so afraid to reveal it. And yet, in the reverse, sometimes if you expose something too widely, you can risk losing it.

Lori Greiner

I had a history for starting something and maybe getting halfway done. Then I'd see the same thing I was doing on the bestseller list! My ideas were right, but I hadn't done them fast enough.

Loretta Young

A face is like the outside of a house, and most faces, like most houses, give us an idea of what we can expect to find inside.

Lord Byron

I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.

M. Night Shyamalan

If I'm hesitant at all about an idea, then that's not the right idea.

M. F. K. Fisher

There is a mistaken idea, ancient but still with us, that an overdose of anything from fornication to hot chocolate will teach restraint by the very results of its abuse.

M. F. K. Fisher

Salad is roughage and a French idea.

Lorene Scafaria

In the '90s there were these great end of the world movies like 'Armageddon' and 'Deep Impact'... I always liked the idea of what people on the ground are doing, not so much the people who are trying to stop the world from ending.

Lorene Scafaria

I've been obsessed with doomsday for a long time - the idea that different cultures respond to it differently, and religions will change people's outlook on it.

Lord Kelvin

The atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I do not see how I can put it in words.

Malcolm Gladwell

our acquaintances—not our friends—are our greatest source of new ideas and information. the internet lets us exploit the power of these kinds of distant connections with marvellous efficiency.

Malcolm Gladwell

Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do.

Malcolm Gladwell

Policy is driven by more than politics, however. It is equally driven by ideas.

Malala Yousafzai

We have to change this idea that women are only supposed to work in the house... Women should go out and be what they want

Maimonides

The key to the understanding and to the full comprehension of all that the Prophets have said is found in the knowledge of the figures, their general ideas, and the meaning of each word they contain.

Mahatma Gandhi

In this day of wonders no one will say that a thing or an idea is worthless because it is new. To say it is impossible because it is difficult is again not in consonance with the spirit of the age. Things undreamt of are daily being seen, the impossible is ever becoming possible.