Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge.

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.

Joseph Needham

The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species and ecological whole, will perhaps be the leading idea of the future.

Joseph O'Neill

One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed the narratives which cling to you.

Joseph Priestley

Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.

Joseph Murphy

Once the subconscious mind accepts an idea, it begins to execute it.

Joseph Goebbels

This is the secret of propaganda: Those who are to be persuaded by it should be completely immersed in the ideas of the propaganda, without ever noticing that they are being immersed in it.

Julian Schnabel

I have a completely romantic idea about making paintings, I guess.

Juliana Hatfield

I never felt happy with the idea that part of what I do is to be an object to be looked at. I thought of my public persona as an entity separate to myself.

Jules Renard

A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.

Joshua Jackson

Maybe it's due to my west coast liberal upbringing, but, the idea of parallel universes doesn't strike me as being too far out there.

Karl Barth

There is a notion that complete impartiality is the most fitting and indeed the normal disposition for true exegesis , because it guarantees complete absence of prejudice. For a short time, around 1910, this idea threatened to achieve almost a canonical status in Protestant theology. But now, we can quite calmly describe it as merely comical.

Karl Barth

Society is now really ruled by its own logos; say rather by a whole pantheon of its own hypostases and powers... we are beginning to suspect that the idols are vain, but their demonic influence upon our lives is not thereby allayed. For it is one thing to entertain critical doubts regarding the god of this world, and another thing to perceive the dunamis, the meaning and might of the living God who is building a new world.

Karl Kraus

You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.

Karl Kraus

Ideas are transplanted by splitting, thoughts by sprouting.

Karl Kraus

It so often happened to me that someone who shared my opinion kept the larger share for himself that I am now forewarned and offer people only ideas.

Karl Kraus

To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism.

Karl Kraus

I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words.

Karl Lagerfeld

I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.

Karl Lagerfeld

A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out.

Karl Lagerfeld

Sometimes it's easy to have ideas, but somebody has to find a way to do it. Often those responsible for finding a way don't have the idea.

Kacey Musgraves

The idea of massive amounts of fame-having my face on Walgreens end-caps and pizza boxes-I don't fantasize about that. I'm happy with just being a songwriter. I'd rather have smaller numbers [of fans] that are really into what I'm doing than a massive amount of people that don't really know what I'm about.

Julius Genachowski

What is interesting to me is to find ways to work with early-stage innovators to build from the edge and work on tomorrows ideas.

Oswald Mosley

Ideas in a void have never appealed to me; action must follow thought or political life is meaningless.

Kanye West

I'm never at my worst because even at my lowest, its a learning experience. It's something that I'll bounce ideas off. I can take negatives and flip them to positives at all times.

Kanye West

Fusion is the future. The mixing of ideas. The two lunch tables working together. Humanity...we're 1 people.

Kanye West

The idea of Kanye and vanity are like, synonymous. But I've put myself in a lot of places where a vain person wouldn't put themselves in. Like what's vanity about wearing a kilt?

Kanye West

We are the creatives with teeth. We know ideas are more important than our personal wellbeing.