Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Levithan

When it all come down to it, the thing that matters most in a relationship is principles [...] We have the same idea what’s right and what’s wrong, and that’s got us through any number of things. If you can have that with someone, then you’re most of the way toward love. Not just lover-love. Any kind of love.

David Levithan

I had no idea what I wanted, only that I wanted something, which is the worst kind of wanting.

Dalai Lama

While people are often content to criticize and blame others for what goes wrong, surely we should at least attempt to put forward constructive ideas. One thing is for certain: given human beings' love of truth, justice, peace, and freedom, creating a better, more compassionate world is a genuine possibility. The potential is there.

Dolly Parton

I was very honored to get to be part of 'American Idol.'

Dinesh D'Souza

With capitalism and prosperity came something new: the idea of progress. This is the notion that things are getting better and will continue to get better in the future.

Dick Pound

For a long time the IOC liked the idea of money but they didn't like the thought of working for it.

Dick Francis

Let an idea swim to the surface like a fish in a pool...let the mind drift to the vision.

Dick Gephardt

Every proposal I'm making, every idea I'm advancing has a single, central purpose: to revive a failing economy and give working Americans the help and security they need.

Dick Morris

There is literally no such thing as an idea that cannot be expressed well and articulately to today's voters in thirty seconds.

Dick Morris

Bill and Hillary Clinton have one central idea in their uncluttered, ambitious minds: Hillary in 2008. Let Bush get re-elected, use the '04 primaries and general election to clean out the underbrush of competing Democratic candidates, and proceed unimpeded to the '08 nomination.

Desmond Tutu

I have absolutely no objection to performance and success as long as they don't become false idols and threaten to rule our lives.

Derek Sivers

The most brilliant idea, with no execution, is worth $20. The most brilliant idea takes great execution to be worth $20,000,000.

Derek Sivers

Ideas are just a multiplier of execution.

Derek Sivers

I realized why I need to start a new company. Not for the money. Not because I'm 'bored'. But because a company is a laboratory to try your ideas.

Delia Smith

The thing I can't resist is a pork pie. That's my idea of a lovely treat.

Deepak Chopra

I grew up with a lot of Muslim friends, and the whole idea of revelation has been a lifelong interest of mine.

Debbi Fields

A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make.

Deborah Bull

So experience of other dance forms is a good idea.

Amber Riley

I auditioned for 'American Idol' at 17. They told me, 'No.'

Amber Tamblyn

For most women, whether you're an actress or whatever you do, there is this pressure in society and within the world to look a certain way, dress a certain way, act a certain way, say certain things, and be this idea as opposed to being a person.

Amartya Sen

There are Muslims of all kinds. The idea of closing them into a single identity is wrong.

Amartya Sen

Human development, as an approach, is concerned with what I take to be the basic development idea: namely, advancing the richness of human life, rather than the richness of the economy in which human beings live, which is only a part of it.

Amber Heard

I am a proud member of the LGBT community and could never bear the idea that someone could say I was closeted.

Anna Paquin

I really liked the idea of focusing on one thing for, hopefully, a long time to come. I also like the idea of a consistent lifestyle, as opposed to not really knowing where on the planet you're going to be at any given moment.

Anna Quindlen

... It was the idea of facing a future skimming the surface of life, winging my way in and out of other people's crises, confusions, and passages, engaging them enough to get the story, but never enough to be indelibly touched by what I had seen or heard.

Anna Quindlen

Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.

Cindy Sherman

My ideas are not developed before I actually do the pieces.

Claes Oldenburg

You can take an object and simply put anything you want in that object, and I accessed that partly through Freudian ideas.

Cindy Crawford

I hated turning 40; the whole idea of it stank. But once I got through it, I was fine.

Chuck Martin

Examples of selling of ideas are portrayed in consulting or paid advice, as the pricing of intellectual property is market driven.

Chuck Mangione

I tend to not want to put labels or categories on the music, only because people come with preconceived ideas about what they're going to hear, or won't come for this reason.

Alfred de Musset

I can't help it, the idea of the infinite torments me.

Alfred Hitchcock

Ideas come from everything