Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lysander Spooner

The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this - that it is one to which everybody must consent, or be shot.

Lucy Lawless

Treat everyone the same until you find out they're an idiot.

Lucy Hale

I grew up performing and singing. And acting, the idea of it just sort of fell into my lap. And I was a little hesitant at first, but I was like, 'Okay, I'll try it.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape. 'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment…

Lucy Maud Montgomery

People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

Louis Sullivan

But the building's identity resided in the ornament.

Louis Tomlinson

My ideas for the future? To take over the world.

Lou Gramm

You have to work with the ideas and give them a little push.

John Flanagan

So I sent Halt to straighten matters out. Thought it might be a good idea to give him something to keep him busy." So what's Digby got to complain about?" Rodney asked. It was obvious from his tone that he felt no sympathy for the recalcitrant commander of Barga Hold. The Baron gestured for Lady Pauline to explain. Apparently," she said,"Halt threw him into the moat.

John Flanagan

Take one more step and I'll put an arrow through you." Will tried to model his voice on the quiet, threatening tone Halt had used. He had retrieved several of his arrows from the nearest target and now he had one of them ready, laid on the bowstring. Halt glanced around approvingly. "Good idea," he said. "Aim for the left calf. It's a very painful wound.

John Flanagan

So I'm an ace?' Will grinned. 'I'm flattered Halt, flattered. I had no idea you regarded me so highly.' Halt gave him a long-suffering look. 'I might have been more accurate to say a joker.' Whatever you say.

John Flanagan

Crowley shook his head. "I sometimes wonder if it was a good idea having Halt train apprentices. He seems to teach them no respect for authority." "Oh, he teaches us to respect authority," Gilan said innocently. "He just teaches us to ignore it when necessary.

Lisa Gansky

Your brand is your public identity, what you're trusted for. And for your brand to endure it has to be tested, redefined, managed and expanded as markets evolve. Brands either learn or disappear.

Lionel Hampton

I'm motivated. The spirit hits me and I just keep going and don't stop. The more I play, the more I can invent, the more ideas come to me.

Lionel Trilling

We are all ill; but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.

Lindsey Vonn

I don't know if I'll ever get used to the idea that strangers know who I am. I don't know if I want to.

Linus Pauling

[David Harker asked: Dr Pauling, how do you have so many good ideas?] Well David, I have a lot of ideas and throw away the bad ones.

Linus Pauling

If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas.

Linus Pauling

You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.

Linus Pauling

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.

Linus Pauling

If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.

Linus Torvalds

I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples' ideas and making it into what science is today and the incredible advances that we have had. And I compare that to witchcraft and alchemy, where openness was something you didn't do.

Linus Torvalds

The idea of abstracting away the one thing that must be blindingly fast, the kernel, is inherently counter productive.

Linus Torvalds

I have one very basic rule when it comes to "good ideas". A good idea is not an idea that solves a problem cleanly. A good idea is an idea that solves several things at the same time. The mark of good coding is not that the program does what you want, it's that it also does something that you didn't start out wanting.

Lindsay Pearce

I'm not an idiot: I know that I can sing and I know that I can act.

Lindsay Lohan

I would switch roles with Madonna for a day. Or if Audrey Hepburn was still alive, Audrey Hepburn. I love Audrey Hepburn. She's one of my idols, also.

It's no accident that new ideas pop into our heads when we least expect it. In our enthusiasm to be productive, we forget to give our mind/body moments to be "receptive" - that is, open to daydreaming, open to letting our minds wander.

Linda Ronstadt

We were raised with the idea that we had limitless chances and we got very shocked to learn that wasn't the case.

Linda Cardellini

People who have no idea it's me when they first see me playing something, and later they realize, 'That's her from whatever it is,' it's a great compliment that they can forget.

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.