Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Gavin Bryars

I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended.

Gail Collins

Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have recognized or identified. And it's really only been since Jackie Kennedy that there's been this idea that the family life of the president is such a central thing.

Gail Collins

The idea that 'if you don't like how things are going, you can just leave' is so ingrained in Texas, the secession movement is no surprise.

Gail Carriger

Lord Maccon asked meekly, shifting against her in a manner that ensured she realized the nibbling had affected his outsides just as much as her insides. Alexia was partly shocked, partly intrigued by the idea that as he was naked, she might actually get to see what he looked like. She had seen sketches of the nude male, of course, for purely technical purposes. She was given to wonder if werewolves were anatomically bigger in certain areas.

Freida Pinto

I feel like this whole idea of wanting something that you don't really have is also very American in a way.

Frida Kahlo

Everyone's opinions about things change over time. Nothing is constant. Everything changes. And to hold onto some dogged idea forever is a little rigid and maybe naive.

Fred Wilson

The more entrepreneurs in the world that are getting their ideas financed, the more great companies there are going to be that we can all invest in.

Fred Wilson

If you have an idea that you can't get out of your head, do a startup. Otherwise join a startup.

Frank McCourt

I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church.

Harlan Coben

You know, people call mystery novels or thrillers 'puzzles.' I never understood that, because when I buy a puzzle, I already know what it is. It's on the box. And even if I don't, if it's a 5,000-piece puzzle of the 'Mona Lisa', it's not like I put the last piece in and go, 'I had no idea it's the 'Mona Lisa'!'

Gustav Stickley

There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.

Gustave Courbet

Titles have never given a just idea of things; were it otherwise, the work would be superfluous.

Gustav Stresemann

Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation.

Gustav Mahler

I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas; I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.

Gustav Mahler

For the last month I have been a strict vegetarian. The moral effects of this regime are immense, owing to the voluntary subjugation of the flesh and the resulting absence of desires. You will appreciate how full I am of this idea when I tell you that I expect it to work the regeneration of mankind. I advise you to change over to a natural way of life, with proper nourishment (wholemeal bread), and you will soon feel the benefit.

Gustave Flaubert

L'Ide e seule est e ternelle et ne cessaire. The idea alone is eternal and necessary.

Grant Wood

All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.

Greg Behrendt

I get giddy with the idea of stringing words together that make people laugh.

Gordon Waller

A good idea for lyrics and a melody to expand on.

Gordon Strachan

Are there Martians out there? I haven't got a clue. Is there life out there? I have no idea.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are no new ideas.

John McAfee

Bitcoin, generally, is a great idea. Keeping wallets on smartphones is the worst idea of the decade

John Mayer

In a time when everything can be next day and ordered and put on credit and paid for, music to me is promise, all promise, very little realization. It's the promise of walking into a room with a guitar and not being sure you will leave with an idea that will take, not being sure it won't slip away from you.

John Maynard Keynes

The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.

John Maynard Keynes

I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.

John Maynard Keynes

The idea behind stamped money is sound.

John Maynard Keynes

It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

John Maynard Keynes

It's not bringing in the new ideas that's so hard; it's getting rid of the old ones.

John Maynard Keynes

The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.

John Lyly

It is the disposition of the thought that altered the nature of the thing.

John Lloyd Young

When you look at sort of pop stardom now, some of these singers, it seems like the idea of them was created in a marketing meeting, and then they just found someone to sort of fulfill that role.