Famous Quotes & Sayings

Heidi Julavits

I love this idea of the body as a trauma archive!

Hippolyte Taine

A fixed idea is like the iron rod which sculptors put in their statues. It impales and sustains.

Hjalmar Schacht

The aim and the idea of the Four Year Plan were and remain entirely correct and necessary!

Hjalmar Branting

At Geneva, the neutral states were often in agreement concerning the preliminaries for Genoa, and Genoa itself was marked by a quite natural mutual exchange of ideas.

Henry Ford

The air is full of ideas. They are knocking you in the head all the time. You only have to know what you want, then forget it, and go about your business. Suddenly, the idea will come through. It was there all the time.

Heinrich Heine

Christianity is an idea, and as such is indestructible and immortal, like every idea.

Heather O'Neill

All writers have the idea that they are famous.

Hilary Mantel

Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose. Like journalism, it deals in ideas as well as facts, but also in metaphors, symbols and myths.

Hilary Mantel

I've got so many ideas, and sometimes the more exhausted my body gets, the more active my mind gets.

Henry Ward Beecher

Suffering is part of the divine idea.

Henry Ward Beecher

There are multitudes of persons whose idea of liberty is the right to do what they please, instead of the right of doing that which is lawful and best.

Henry James

Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.

Helene Cixous

... explore the idea of what the language that women speak would really be like if no one were there to correct them...

Helen Fielding

Quite quickly I grew less deranged. I had begun the process of calming down, assimilating and compromising, which is necessary to live comfortably in the world as it is, and probably is why its imbalance never changes. But underneath, my idea of life was completely altered.

Johann Most

As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing.

Johann Sebastian Bach

If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.

Johannes Brahms

Straightaway the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You are, when all is done-just what you are.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whoso shrinks from ideas ends by having nothing but sensations.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every idea appears at first as a strange visitor, and when it begins to be realized, it is hardly distinguishable from fantasy.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All of us have life; few of us have an idea of it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Very few people love others for what they are; rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To me the external existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity. If I work incessantly until my death, nature will give me another form of existence when the present can no longer sustain my spirit.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

Joe Wright

I like the idea of doing something outside my comfort zone.

Joe Vitale

Your part in the co-creation process to attract more money in your life is to act on the ideas that are coming to you.

Joaquin Phoenix

I've been in clubs. I don't like being in an enclosed place with really loud music, and a lot of drunk people. It's not my idea of a good time. It's just such a miserable life.

Joe Grant

They want more production and they want it cheaper. But no matter what happens, the creative idea will be perpetuated by somebody who comes up with a vision. I don't care if there are three CEOs - it takes one guy with an idea.

Joe Flanigan

If I'm going to fly for more than twenty feet it's generally a good idea to get a stunt guy.

Joe Girardi

You get an idea what a manager has to go through every day. His is at a very high level. He has situations he has to deal with and the expectations he has to deal with, the personalities he has to deal with. It's a lot.