Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alfred North Whitehead

Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Alfred Korzybski

The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises; namely, the complete denial of 'identity.'

Alex Ferguson

They say it was Cesc Fabregas who threw the pizza at me but, to this day, I have no idea who the culprit was.

Alex Ferguson

If I have my health I can carry on. There will be a point when I do quit but I have absolutely no idea when that is.

Alec Baldwin

I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.

Aldous Huxley

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Aldous Huxley

The old idea that words possess magical powers is false; but its falsity is the distortion of a very important truth. Words do have a magical effect - but not in the way that the magicians supposed, and not on the objects they were trying to influence. Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.

Aldous Huxley

In the world of ideas everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled.

Albert Einstein

Genius is when an idea and the execution of that idea are simultaneous.

Albert Einstein

The idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible

Albert Einstein

For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope.

Albert Einstein

Why is it I always get my best ideas while shaving?

Albert Einstein

I owe as much of my success to an uncompromising obstinacy as to any original ideas.

Albert Einstein

Science is the process of making obviously erroneous ideas less obviously erroneous.

Albert Einstein

My God may not be your idea of God, but one thing I know of my God he makes me a humanitarian. I am a proud Jew because we gave the world the Bible and the story of Joseph.

Adolf Hitler

As National Socialists we see our program in our flag. In the red we see the social idea of the movement.

Adolf Hitler

The German people have no idea of the extent to which they have to be gulled in order to be led.

Adolf Hitler

But Christianity is an invention of sick brains: one could imagine nothing more senseless, nor any more indecent way of turning the idea of the Godhead into a mockery.

Adolf Hitler

The whole world may begin to burn, but the National Socialist State and Idea will emerge from the conflagration like platinum.

Adolf Hitler

It would be easier for the Devil to go to church and cross himself with holy water than for these people to comprehend the ideas which are accepted facts to us today.

Adolf Hitler

Our ideology is intolerant...and peremptorily demands...the complete transformation of public life to its ideas.

Adolf Hitler

We have to put a stop to the idea that it is a part of everybody's civil rights to say whatever he pleases.

Adelaide Anne Procter

Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, / Some pure idea of a noble life / That once seemed possible?

Adam Savage

I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're ideas!

Adam Savage

I'm obsessed with the form of a toolbox. The idea of a portable kit that has everything you might need ignites something inside me. It's like Batman's utility belt.

Abraham Polonsky

First of all, directing is an idea that you have of a total flow of images that are going on, which are incidentally actors, words, and objects in space. It's an idea you have of yourself, like the idea you have of your own personality which finds its best representation in the world in terms of specific flows of imaginary images. That's what directing is.

Abu Bakar Bashir

We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?

Ace Frehley

I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it was going to be that well received.

Lawrie Sanchez

To be able to play the same team would be the ideal scenario.

A barrier is of ideas, not of things.

Alexander Pushkin

Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.

Kevin Spacey

The legal profession, politics and acting are very closely tied: the whole point is to have an idea and get it across to a listener, whether it is one person or five thousand in a hall.

Abigail Washburn

Is it an original idea? Or is it something where you're literally a creative collagist? You're taking pieces of the world that you see around you and that are inside of you and put them together in a way that you see fit.