Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Johnson

If they are not in school and they are supposed to be in school you can identify the ones that are supposed to be in school and the ones not supposed to be in school.

If they have some ideas of how it should go, that's super. In 2015, where will this school be? How big will Lansing be? How are we going to meet those needs?

If we can stop those sales, we will have stopped identity theft as we know it.

If we can see (the damage), we can have some ideas about it for when we get home.

I always love her game, she was kind of my idol before. (But) I just have to play tennis, and I did.

Joel Kinnaman

I always identified myself as non-Swedish. I was never discriminated against, because I looked Swedish and speak without an accent. But I had an outsider's perspective.

Kenny Perry

Greg was the idol for young Australians, just like Jack Nicklaus was to me and my American generation.

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Al Gore

I work to promote the idea of sustainable capitalism driven by long-term considerations rather than quarterly profits, which seeks to better people's lives and the planet rather than destroy them.

Al Gore

There's lots about politics I don't feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form.

Ajay Devgan

Abroad, they have covered pretty much all subjects, explored every possibility, every twist. So similarities between ideas you have and those filmed abroad are quite possible.

Aimee Mullins

In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It's not 'if;' it's 'how.'

Charles James Fox

Opinions become dangerous to a state only when persecution makes it necessary for the people to communicate their ideas under the bond of secrecy.

Charles K. Kao

Ideas do not always come in a flash but by diligent trial-and-error experiments that take time and thought.

Charles Kettering

In many ways ideas are more important than people - they are much more permanent.

Charles Kettering

Don't be afraid to stumble. Any inventor will tell you that you don't follow a plan far before you strike a snag. If, out of 100 ideas you get one that works, it's enough.

Charles Darwin

It is easy to specify the individual objects of admiration in these grand scenes; but it is not possible to give an adequate idea of the higher feelings of wonder, astonishment, and devotion, which fill and elevate the mind.

Charlemagne

If the populace knew with what idiocy they were ruled, they would revolt.

Charles Babbage

On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

Alanis Morissette

My parents offered me the idea of ceilinglessness. There was no limit in terms of what was possible; no messages sent to me to say that I couldn't do anything.

Blake Mycoskie

Your backpack is a part of your identity as a student.

Billie Piper

I was very similar at 19. I wanted something to happen in life, I wanted a bit more. I wanted to find someone who could challenge my ideas. So I definitely tapped into that.

Billie Piper

A musical film is my idea of heaven. You can pre-record, you don't have to sing live. Singing live was the bit I hated the most. I never felt like a confident singer.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I'm an idiot anyway, but sometimes you feel like an idiot times ten when you're stoned.

Billie Joe Armstrong

We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we'll see what happens.

Billy Bob Thornton

We're not encouraging idols other than on the TV show, you know and that's the wrong way to do it. If we had become famous from a contest show we'd be embarrassed in my generation. But if that's the benchmark then I thought well young people who want to be filmmakers, or musicians, or whatever are screwed. But maybe they're not because what they're doing is they're creating their own thing.

Bill Hybels

Most unmarried people have no idea what it takes to make a marriage work; they grossly underestimate the price people have to pay to build long-term, mutually satisfying relationships. And they fail to understand that the only people with the strength to pay that price are those who have plumbed the depths of their relationship with God, and have dealt with their own brokenness.

Kevin Corrigan

I've had many idols growing up. The inclination for idol worship comes naturally to me.

Ludwig von Mises

Only to bureaucrats can the idea occur that establishing new offices, promulgating new decrees, and increasing the number of government employees alone can be described as positive and beneficial measures.

Ludwig von Mises

The idea that political freedom can be preserved in the absence of economic freedom, and vice versa, is an illusion. Political freedom is the corollary of economic freedom.

Chris Evans

I had no idea there were so many ways you could burn yourself out.

Tom Waits

I didn't really identify with the music of my own generation, but I was very curious about the music of others.

Tom Stoppard

The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it's no longer the abstract ideal version; it's an event.