Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kanye West

Pharrell has always been my style idol.

Julian Huxley

Darwinism removed the whole idea of God as the creator from the sphere of rational discussion.

Julian Huxley

Sir Julian Huxley, one of the world's leading evolutionists, head of UNESCO, descendant of Thomas Huxley - Darwin's bulldog - said on a talk show, 'I suppose the reason we leaped at The Origin of Species was because the idea of God interfered with our sexual mores.'.

Judy Holliday

I hated the whole idea of being an actress. I used to throw up before every performance and cry afterward.

Paul Conrad

I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons.

Paul Conrad

I've never seen bad drawing destroy a good idea. On the other hand, I've never seen a good drawing save a bad idea.

Paul Dirac

Renormalization is just a stop-gap procedure. There must be some fundamental change in our ideas, probably a change just as fundamental as the passage from Bohr's orbit theory to quantum mechanics. When you get a number turning out to be infinite which ought to be finite, you should admit that there is something wrong with your equations, and not hope that you can get a good theory just by doctoring up that number.

Paul Davies

In the 1990s I began to study the prospects that life could spread from Mars to Earth or maybe Earth to Mars and that maybe life began on Mars and came to Earth, and that idea seemed to have a lot of traction and is now accepted as very plausible.

Paul Davies

The Goldilocks Enigma is the idea that everything in the universe is just right for life, like the porridge in the fairy tale.

Paul Davies

Even if we don't have a precise idea of exactly what took place at the beginning, we can at least see that the origin of the universe from nothing need not be unlawful or unnatural or unscientific.

Patrick Collison

When Facebook famously moved out to Palo Alto there were people in the same house Facebook was based in working on different ideas. It is vital to remember that,

Patrick Dixon

The paradox of innovation is this: CEO's often complain about lack of innovation, while workers often say leaders are hostile to new ideas.

Patrick Carney

The idea of a streaming service, like Netflix for music, I'm not totally against it. It's just we won't put all of our music on it until there are enough subscribers for it to make sense.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.

Maggie Stiefvater

I sense that his drowning but I don't have any idea of how to start to put my hand into the water and save him.

Maggie Stiefvater

He was uncomfortable with the idea that use might not like him.

Maggie Stiefvater

I thought you said scrying was a bad idea.” “It's like vodka,” Calla said. “It really depends on who's doing it.

Madchen Amick

I just love the idea of witches, in general. The whole concept of witches was to keep down the feminine rise in power that was happening, at the time. They created this concept of witches, so that they could burn women at the stake and keep them in their place, and now we've turned it around to empower women. That's very ironic. If they only knew that they created a weapon for us to use against them.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Religion has ever been anti-human, anti-woman, anti-life, anti-peace, anti-reason and anti-science. The god idea has been detrimental not only to humankind but to the earth. It is time now for reason, education and science to take over.

Haruki Murakami

When I wake up, my pillow’s cold and damp with tears. But tears for what? I have no idea.

Hans Zimmer

I loved this idea of always being a foreigner. There's this thing where people bring cultures, bring the music together. I love it when the music, when the cultures collide and something sort of new comes out of it.

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

Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.

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.

Gustave Flaubert

We should not touch our idols: their gilding will remain on our hands.

Gustave Flaubert

The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.

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.