Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Gates

I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.

Bill Gates

We were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm.

A belief is an idea around which we close our minds.

Ameen Rihani

We are all idealists in that we are ever discontented with the present state of the Ego and the World.

Che Guevara

Our youth must always be free, discussing and exchanging ideas concerned with what is happening throughout the entire world.

Chelsea Handler

A hotel room all to myself is my idea of a good time.

Charlie Rose

There's some people who say big philanthropy is not such a good idea, meaning that somehow you have enormous power and you're not elected and that that may not be such a good idea to have people with enormous wealth to have so much influence.

Charles Kuralt

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.

Charles Krauthammer

There's no free lunch. If you want an industrial economy, you need energy. If you want energy, it will produce pollution. You can have it in two forms. You can have it dissipated in the atmosphere - like carbon dioxide - which then you cannot recover, or you can have the waste concentrated in one small space like nuclear. That is far easier to deal with. The idea that you can be able to create renewable energy at a price anywhere near the current price for oil or gas or coal is a fantasy.

Charles Krauthammer

Ideas matter. Legislative proposals matter. Slick campaigns and dazzling speeches can work for a while, but the magic always wears off.

Charles Krauthammer

The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.

Charles Krauthammer

It is an old liberal theme that conservative ideas, being red in tooth and claw, cannot possibly emerge from any notion of the public good.

Aimee Bender

I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.

Aime Cesaire

I have a different idea of a universal. It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich with all the particulars there are, the deepening of each particular, the coexistence of them all.

We are getting better with every match, and performing better with every match. We have identified some things that we can do better, and we know what we can do to improve.

We're going to identify students who have the potential to succeed at selective universities.

Unix systems in the past have been managed on a one-off basis. Each system had an administrator and the administrator was responsible to manage the accounts, passwords and identities of the users on each system.

Samuel Butler

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness with others.

Bill Nye

The future of commerce is going to be all electronic. The gold standard was a fine idea, but electronic changes of funds and credits will be the future.

Bill Nye

I try to speak plainly and be sympathetic to the idea of religions where people gather in community. They get a sense of people looking out for each other. My claim is that we have a tendency to look out for each other whether or not there is a religion involved.

Bill Nye

Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.

Bill Moyers

Conservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe is not closed and life is not static.

Bill Murray

In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can't help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They're very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you're there.

Bess Myerson

You've got to love people, places, ideas; you've got to live with mind, body, soul; you've got to be committed; there is no life on the side-lines.

Benjamin Mkapa

The idea of African brotherhood is often just a cover-up for laziness. We must see what is achievable in our circumstances and evaluate all decisions. In terms of regional economic integration, sentimentality is not enough. We really have to be frank and honest.

Benjamin Netanyahu

You can make peace with an enemy, if the enemy abandons the idea of destroying you. That is the critical test. Democracies fail to understand that.

Benjamin Walker

You never know when you'll have a bad idea for a worse joke.

Bertrand Russell

The resistance to a new idea increases by the square of its importance.

Bernard Ebbers

I put those people in place. I trusted them. I had no idea they would do anything like this.

Cass McCombs

I've always been interested in an idea of boundless love - an impersonal, big love.

Cass Sunstein

I'll tell you an explanation that I find commonly overrated and speculative in the extreme: the idea that things that succeed in popular culture do that because they hit the temper of the times.

Cass Sunstein

If you have a regulation that's going to save hundreds of thousands of lives annually and not cost very much, that sounds like a very good idea.

Carol Vorderman

I'm a bit frightened of the idea of a full facelift because, when you look in the mirror, you want to look like yourself.