Famous Quotes & Sayings

G. Gordon Liddy

You can't kill ideas. But you can sure shoot the people who hold them

Fyodor Dostoevsky

In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in anyone's brain, there is something that cannot possibly be conveyed to others.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Remember that you must never sell your soul. Never accept payment in advance.... Never give a work to the printer before it is finished. This is the worst thing you can do.... It constitutes the murder of your own ideas.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea. And there is only one higher idea on earth, and it is the idea of the immortality of the human soul, for all other "higher" ideas of life by which humans might live derive from that idea alone.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want to get to the throne: that is their madness — as if happiness sat on the throne. Often, mud sits on the throne — and often the throne also on mud. Mad they all appear to me, clambering monkeys and overardent. Foul smells their idol, the cold monster: foul, they smell to me altogether, these idolators.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.

Franz Grillparzer

The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.

Franz Grillparzer

Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.

Frank Zappa

Anyone who is disturbed by the idea of newts in a nightclub is potentially dangerous.

Jeff Lindsay

It revealed a cruelty that really made one wonder if the universe was such a good idea after all.

Jeff Lindsay

She really did like me, the idiot.

Jeff Lindsay

Now I know what it is like to feel like a total idiot.

Jeanette Winterson

I have no idea what happens next

Jim Caviezel

I always believed in God, I would go to mass most of the time, but I had no idea of the calling to holiness.

Jim Cooper

Under the AHP approach, the average small business might be able to offer their employees one or two insurance plans, and that employee of the small business would have no idea whether their doctor was going to be a apart of one of those plans.

Jim Carrey

It's hard for anybody who's been with me not to feel starved for affection when I'm making love to my ideas. Maybe it's not meant for me to settle down and be married.

Jessie J

I had knockback after knockback before I got anywhere. After I got my first record deal I thought that was it, then Gut Records went into liquidation. I was 20. I had no idea what that meant. I had a few days to get myself out of that contract or my work would be owned by someone else.

Jerry Stiller

I loved the idea of touching base with an audience.

Jerry Uelsmann

I try to begin working with no preconceived ideas.

Jerry Uelsmann

My visual quest is driven by a desire to create a universe capable of supporting feelings and ideas.

Jerry Springer

Vegetarianism is a good idea.

Jeri Ryan

I have no specific ideas in mind of what I will or won't do; it's all about the roles.

Jeremy Stoppelman

The entrepreneurs that really make it are the ones that start with an idea but are ready to change it at a moment's notice.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

When people feel safe, they can come up with ideas. It's important to listen to the actor who is there on the stage and living it.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

Every movie goes through that U-shape where you start with 'Oh that's a great idea. I love it.' Everything's possible and then you face 'Oh, we can't do that, and that's impossible, and that's a bad choice.' You go the practicality of it. And then you come up to 'Great.' But that middle part is when you don't have results yet.

Jen Kirkman

I had no idea that marriage was only supposed to be between two people who wanted to get between the sheets and make more people. What ever happened to marrying for love— or to get on your partner’s health insurance policy, or for presents? No one was going to buy two people in their thirties a four-slice toaster if we just continued to live in sin.

Jeb Bush

I've always believed that if you support reform or you support a particular idea that you ought to fund that idea first and not the system.

George Eliot

The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.

George Eliot

One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.

George Eliot

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

Franz Liszt

A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.