Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah Kay

Poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. I like to poem my way through tricky questions and ideas. That's about the only consistent thread through my poem-creation process.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

'The Kumars'... played on five continents, and even when I came up with the idea, I was slightly surprised that no one else had.

Samuel Rutherford

Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.

Samuel Rutherford

Consider, it is impossible that your idol sins and you can go to heaven together; and that those who will not part with these do not indeed love Christ at the bottom, but only in word and show, which will not do the business.

Samuel Johnson

Forgetfulness is necessary to remembrance. Ideas are retained by renovation of that impression which time is always wearing away,and which new images are striving to obliterate. If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur, and every recurrence would reinstate them in their former place.

Samuel Johnson

I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession.

Wallace Stevens

All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas.

Vivek Wadhwa

You need to be able to SHARE IDEAS, INSPIRE and MOTIVATE

William Hull

One problem with ideas, however valid, is that they are static and impersonal, whereas a person is active and dynamic.

William Howard Taft

The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to the modern idea of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets.

Will Wright

And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.

Walter Lang

But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process.

Walter Lippmann

The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look clearly into a future when there will not be many idols left to smash.

Walter Lippmann

It is better to catch the idol-maker than to smash each idol.

Walter Lippmann

True opinions can prevail only if the facts to which they refer are known; if they are not known, false ideas are just as effective as true ones, if not a little more effective.

Walter Lippmann

Creative ideas come to the intuitive person who can face up to the insecurity of looking beyond the obvious.

Walter Lippmann

Whenever we accept an idea as authority instead of as instrument, an idol is set up. We worship the plough, and not the fruit.

Walter Lippmann

Unless our ideas are questioned, they become part of the furniture of eternity.

Voltaire

The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.

Voltaire

We are astonished at thought, but sensation is equally wonderful.

Voltaire

Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

William Pollard

Too often new ideas are studied and analyzed until they are suffocated.

William Hurt

You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.

William Least Heat-Moon

Spirit can go anywhere. In fact, it has to go places so it can change and emerge like in the migrations. That's the whole idea.

William Butler Yeats

Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it.

William Butler Yeats

Even when the poet seems most himself . . . he is never the bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down to breakfast; he has been reborn as an idea, something intended, complete.

Wilhelm Wundt

...an idea is no more an even relatively constant thing than is a feeling or emotion or volitional process. There exist only changing and transient ideational processes; there are no permanent ideas that return again and disappear again.

Wilhelm Wundt

The task of physiological psychology remains the same in the analysis of ideas that it was in the investigation of sensations: to act as mediator between the neighbouring sciences of physiology and psychology.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

Map reconciles himself to almost any event, however trying, if it happens in the ordinary course of nature. It is the extraordinary alone that he rebels against. There is a moral idea associated with this feeling; for the extraordinary appears to be something like an injustice of heaven.

Walter Wriston

Capital will always go where it’s welcome and stay where it’s well treated. Capital is not just money. It’s also talent and ideas. They, too, will go where they’re welcome and stay where they are well treated.

Walter F. Mondale

The idea behind Reaganomics is this: a rising tide lifts all yachts.

Walter Dean Myers

The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence?

Walter Dean Myers

Idiots don't know they're idiots, which is unfortunate.