Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anjelica Huston

If I were to have any sort of solid idea about which moments were God's manifestations, they would be those moments where one has practically nothing to do with what's going on. It's one of the best feelings in the world.

Anita Roddick

Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen.

Andrew Vachss

I want to disabuse people of the idea that knowledge is power. Knowing how to get to Detroit is not the same thing as having the bus fare.

Andrej Pejic

I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.

Chuck Palahniuk

and i can't stand the idea of being alone. i can't bear the thought of being free.

Chuck Palahniuk

I don't do much more than organise other people's ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them and present them.

Chuck Palahniuk

What do you do when your entire identity is destroyed in an instant? How do you cope when your whole life story turns out to bw wrong?

Chuck Palahniuk

You're always haunted by the idea you're wasting your life.

Chuck Palahniuk

Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with friends, gardening, so I always carry pen and paper. My first draft is always written in longhand. But once the first dozen chapters, more like short stories, are written, then momentum builds until I can't leave the project until it's done.

Chuck Feeney

I had one idea that never changed in my mind—that you should use your wealth to help people.

Chuck Hagel

I'm not saying my idea is the one and only idea. We should have other ideas, but the president has not laid down a specific plan as to how he's going to get us to solvency. I do that.

Chuck Klosterman

The only people who can ever put ideas into context are people who don't care; the unbiased and apathetic are usually the wisest dudes in the room. If you want to totally misunderstand why something is supposedly important, find the biggest fan of that particular thing and ask him for an explanation. He will tell you everything that doesn't matter to anyone who isn't him. He will describe paradoxical details and share deeply personal anecdotes, and it will all be autobiography; he will simply be explaining who he is by discussing something completely unrelated to his life.

Christopher Reeve

Nothing of any consequence happens unless people get behind an idea. It begins with an individual and they share the idea with more individuals-and eventually it becomes a movement.

Christopher McQuarrie

Evil is a really tough concept for me. The idea of a villain that is bad for bad's sake seems kind of absurd.

Christopher McDougall

Even Charles Darwin, that human decoder ring of bizarre behavior, found the idea of saving a stranger's life to be a total head-scratcher.

Anselm Kiefer

I am against the idea of the end, that everything culminates in paradise or judgment.

Anselm Kiefer

Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.

Anne Bronte

If the generous ideas of youth are too often over- clouded by the sordid views of after-life, that scarcely proves them to be false

Andrew Carnegie

There is no idol more debasing than the worship of money.

Andrei Codrescu

There is no ´Complete Idiots Guide to Creationism,´ but perhaps one is not needed.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.

Anthony Head

I've always resisted the idea of becoming a David Hasselhoff, and I hope I'm still resisting it.

Anthony Daniels

Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of human limitations.

Anthony de Mello

People kill for money or for power. But the most ruthless murderers are those who kill for their ideas.

Angela Lansbury

It's better not to try to learn all the lines by rote. It's a very bad idea, in fact. You have to do it by using the process, and as I say, the process is to learn during rehearsals, and that's how you'll do it.

Amy Hempel

An idea might spark an essay, but never a story.

Amy Grant

You have to treat people gently because we're all in a process. What might seem like a good idea to somebody at 21 is probably not going to seem like a good idea at 50, but you don't know that until you get there.

Alvar Aalto

Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need time for everything that develops and crystallizes in the world of ideas. Architecture demands more of this time than other creative work.

Anne Rice

I tell you, we would be hard put to determine what is more evil -- religion or the pure idea. The intervention of the supernatural or the elegant abstract solution! Both have bathed this earth in suffering; both have brought the human race literally and figuratively to its knees.

Anna Julia Cooper

... women are more quiet. They don't feel called to mount a barrel and harangue by the hour every time they imagine they have produced an idea.

Anna Deavere Smith

For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.

Anna Deavere Smith

You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time.