Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harold MacMillan

As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I was a fool. I had no idea what I was getting myself into. But I have to say, it's been incredibly rewarding and I learn so much every day.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I'm sort of getting into the idea of nourishing your inner aspect and doing that by investing in your family and making a meal and creating time together.

Gregory Bateson

Those who lack all idea that it is possible to be wrong can learn nothing except know-how.

Joe Trippi

He stands for something, he has that idealism and that something that you just don't see in 99.9 percent of today's politicians.

Mark Twain

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language

I picked up a tear in my abductor before the Olympics and this machine identified what was wrong so I did not need to go to hospital.

Stanley Hauerwas

Christianity is not some ideal toward which we ought always to strive even though the ideal is out of reach. Christianity is not a series of slogans that sum up our beliefs.

Erik Thomson

but it also identified what we wanted the show to be, and particularly what Posie wanted the show to be.

This increases the likelihood of exploitation, but widespread exploitation has not been identified to date.

They said we needed to identify him so we did. We said this is Christopher Robinson.

Neil Kinnock

I take notice of those who have argued consistently for the modernisation of the E.U., but so many of the skeptics in Britain are just hostile to the whole European idea.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Any time we are answer-driven rather than idea driven, we have lost the true meaning of education.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Never presume that just because you disagree with an idea that you must be correct.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

One should not be too distracted by definitions. Ideas transcend definitions.

Neil Gaiman

The truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do with it.

Neil Gaiman

She was witchy, yes, and in charge of a cauldron roiling with ideas and stories, but she always gave the impression that the stories, the ones she wrote and wrote so very well and so wisely, had simply happened, and that all she had done was to hold the pen. (On Diana Wynne Jones)

Neil Gaiman

It seemed to Coraline that it was crouching, and staring down at her, as if it were not really a house but only the idea of a house—and the person who had had the idea, she was certain, was not a good person.

Neil Gaiman

Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.

Neil Gaiman

Identity can be so gelatinous sometimes.

Neil Gaiman

I love making things. I love building things. I love the idea that something's in the world that wasn't there before.

John Newman

I don't want to date celebrities, I don't want to roll out of clubs absolutely steaming, make an idiot out of myself. I want to concentrate on my music career.

John Waters

I keep on having ideas and developments. Some happen and some don't, but I still always have a way of telling a story.

John Waters

I went to the Vatican once - it was a bad idea. I went into the bookshop and I bought hideous, pious postcards and then I asked for a receipt, and the nun said, "We don't give receipts at the Vatican." Which threw me into a rage of like, "I guess not, so you can take this money and funnel it into anti-homosexual groups!" People had to drag me out of there. It's not good for me to go into the Vatican.

John Thune

Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution.

John Steinbeck

He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.

John Simon

It's wonderful to be hated by idiots.

John Schlesinger

We taped all this and then got it transcribed and picked the best lines or ideas or ways to take a scene. I've done that many times, and it can improve the script but also wreck a perfectly good scene.

John Sebastian

The Jug Band was exactly what I wanted to do, and it wasn't my idea.

John Scott

It's always better if you're next door. Ideas come up at the oddest times. They don't always come up in a conference call.

John Scalzi

If you want me to treat your ideas with more respect, get some better ideas.

John Sculley

The new leaders face new tests such as how to lead in this idea-intensive, interdependent network environment

John Perry Barlow

If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass.