Famous Quotes & Sayings

Victor Hugo

Every idea must have a visible enfolding.

Victor Hugo

A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.

Victor Hugo

When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.

Victor Hugo

One cannot resist an idea whose time has come.

Vicente Fox

Every idea has its time.

Vernor Vinge

Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.

Veronica Roth

Tris: Wait. So you have no idea what my aptitude is? Tori: Yes and No. My conclusion is that you display equal aptitude for Abnegation, Dauntless and Erudite. People who get this kind of result are..are called...Divergent.

Richard Bach

There is such a thing as perfection...and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth....Each of us is in truth an unlimited idea of freedom. Everything that limits us we have to put aside.

Richard Bach

I'm a writer as rarely as possible, when forced by an idea too lovely to let die unwritten

Richard Bach

He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all

Robert Frost

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Rick McCallum

You need somebody to have the idea, you need somebody who can deal with the studio and the normal things, but it's too different of a credit. That credit is usually given to the executive producer. It's not the producer.

Richard Thompson

I like the idea of playing in unison with yourself.

Richard Marshall

I like the idea of being a postmodern moral philosopher - or perhaps a perverse moral philosopher.

Richard Donner

I was tweaked by the idea of Superman immediately.

Rene Descartes

The mind effortlessly and automatically takes in new ideas, which remain in limbo until verified or rejected by conscious, rational analysis.

Thornton Wilder

The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

Thomas Nashe

Immortal Spenser, no frailty hath thy fame but the imputation of this idiot's friendship!

Thomas Nagel

Once we see an aspect of what we or someone else does as something that happens, we lose our grip on the idea that it has been done and that we can judge the doer and not just the happening.

Thomas Ian Nicholas

If I had 10 ideas and people said yes to all of them, half of them could be crap. But, if I've got 10 ideas and we really only have the budget for one of them, then we have to pick the best one that is our most creative element.

Thomas Hughes

He never wants anything but what's right and fair; only when you come to settle what's right and fair, it's everything that he wants and nothing that you want. And that's his idea of a compromise.

Thomas de Quincey

The science of style as an organ of thought, of style in relation to the ideas and feelings, might be called the organology of style.

Timbaland

I have ideas whirring around my head all the time.

Samantha Mathis

There's always that feeling of 'Oh, God! One day they'll find out that I really have no idea what I'm doing.

Samantha Shannon

I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.

Tom Peters

An ability to embrace new ideas, routinely challenge old ones, and live with paradox will be the effective leader's premier trait.

Tom Peters

The idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come.

Tom Peters

Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere

Tom Peters

The new idea either finds a champion or it dies. No ordinary involvement with a new idea provides the energy required to cope with the indifference and resistance that change provokes.

Tom Peters

Change is not so much about being the first one to embrace a new idea, but being the first to forget an old one

Tom Peters

The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas.

Tom Robbins

Those same forces that drive a genius to create the things or ideas that entertain or enlighten us often gobble so much of his personality that he has none left for the social graces.

Tom Robbins

what bothers me today is the lack of, well, i guess you'd call it authentic experience. so much is a sham. so much is artificial, synthetic, watered-down, and standardized...we're standardizing people, their goals, their ideas. the sham is everywhere.