Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Hazlitt

Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives to naked objects.

William Hazlitt

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

William Hazlitt

To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.

William E. Gladstone

The idea of abolishing Income Tax is to me highly attractive, both on other grounds & because it tends to public economy.

Wendell Berry

Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately represented by money. The giving of money has thus become our characteristic virtue. But to give is not to do. The money is given in lieu of action, thought, care, time.

Wendell Phillips

The reformer is careless of numbers, disregards popularity, and deals only with ideas, conscience, and common sense. He feels, with Copernicus, that as God waited long for an interpreter, so he can wait for his followers.

Wendell Phillips

The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.

Wendell Berry

The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.

Wendell Berry

What could be more superstitious than the idea that money brings forth food?

Walter Murch

There are two kinds of filmmaking: Hitchcock's (the film is complete in the director's mind) and Coppola's (which thrives on process). For Hitchcock, any variation from the complete internal idea is seen as a defect. The perfection already exists. Coppola's approach is to harvest the random elements that the process throws up, things that were not in his mind when he began.

Walter Mosley

The biggest misconception that people have about the literary life is the romance of it. That a writer has this large world available to him or her of people, of ideas, of experiences, of interchange of ideas.

Vladimir Nabokov

A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas and conventional ideals of his or her group and time.

Yancy Butler

I'm open to sci-fi, but I was never a diehard fan. I have no idea why it keeps following me. I'm extremely lucky, I guess; it's a lucrative venue.

Wyndham Lewis

Dying for an idea,' again, sounds well enough, but why not let the idea die instead of you?

Wyndham Lewis

The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit.

Wolfgang Schauble

The Pope was more critical of Christianity than Islam during his visit (to Bavaria). He said on several occasions that the secular world influenced by Christianity must face the idea that it may not be as attractive as it once was. The leaders of other faiths might also be well-advised to admonish their own now and then and not always direct their criticism at others.

Willie Robertson

The Robertson family and bad ideas go together like biscuits and jam.

Willow Smith

I like the way Billy Idol sings. Mommy turned me on to him.

William O. Douglas

Fear of ideas makes us impotent and ineffective.

William O. Douglas

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William P. Young

Did I hear God call me an idiot?

Yayoi Kusama

I have a flood of ideas in my mind. I just follow my vision.

Zig Ziglar

New information makes new and fresh ideas possible.

Zig Ziglar

Far too many people have no idea of what they can do because all they have been told is what they can't do. They don't know what they want because they don't know what's available for them.

Zoe Lister-Jones

We are very puritan in America. We still hold true to these really antiquated values, this idea of the sanctity of marriage.

Zoe Saldana

I always strive to keep a balance with my fears. I don't like to be ruled by them. At the same time, I don't like the idea of living my life totally free of any fears. I like having that moderation.

Zelda Fitzgerald

Maybe other people's ideas of us are truer than our own.

Zadie Smith

It's got two aspects. The bit that involves the public life I could not really tolerate and cannot really tolerate. I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that.

Zadie Smith

I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.