Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlotte Bronte

I scorn your idea of love,' I could not help saying, as I rose up and stood before him, leaning my back against the rock. 'I scorn the counterfeit sentiment you offer: yes, St. John, and I scorn you when you offer it.

Charles de Gaulle

All my life I have had a certain idea of France.

Charles de Lint

Let me give you some advice: Try to approach things without preconceived ideas, without supposing you already know everything there is to know about them. Get that trick down and you'll be surprised at what's really all around you.

Chevy Chase

It's never a good idea for a celebrity to sign autographs or take pictures if a crowd is gathering.

Cheri Huber

An essential part of seeing clearly is finding the willingness to look closely and to go beyond our own ideas.

Cher Wang

I always have this imagination, something I want to use. I don't understand the idea of leisure time.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I thought people wouldn't take me seriously if too much acting was involved in the singing. But now I love the idea of mixing everything together.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Concepts antedate facts.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

At any given period in history the ideas of the common mind are found to antedate the facts. The facts of the twentieth century are approached with the ideas, feelings, prejudices of the tenth.

Charles Bradlaugh

I do not deny "God", because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me no distinct affirmation, and of which the would-be affirmer has no conception.

Chang-Rae Lee

For if there is ever a moment when we are most vulnerable, it’s when we’re closest to the idea of the attained desire, and thus farthest from ourselves, which is when we’ll tread through any flame.

Charlie Norwood

There is no question that managed care is managed cost, and the idea is that you can save a lot of money and make health care costs less if you ration it.

Charlie Kaufman

I have ideas written down some places, but usually I can't find them. I'm not very organized.

Charlie Kaufman

I have a tendency to hire people who tend to be unattractive to the studios. Maybe this is a bad idea.

Charlie Kaufman

I do throw out a lot of ideas, and I forget completely about them.

Charlie Kaufman

I wanted to deal with someone's idea of their relationship.

Charlie Munger

It's not the bad ideas that do you in, but the good ones.

Charlie Munger

If you can get good at destroying your own wrong ideas, that is a great gift.

Charlie Munger

My idea of a good place to shop is Costco - it has these heavily marbled fillet steaks. The idea of eating some wheat thing and washing it down with carrot juice has never appealed to me.

Charlie Munger

For some odd reason, I had an early and extreme multidisciplinary cast of mind. I couldn't stand reaching for a small idea in my own discipline when there was a big idea right over the fence in somebody else's discipline. So I just grabbed in all directions for the big ideas that would really work.

Charlie Munger

You have to realize the truth of biologist Julian Huxley's idea that 'Life is just one damn relatedness after another' "So you must have the models, and you must see the relatedness and the effects from the relatedness.

Charlie Munger

It's very useful to have a good grasp of all the big ideas in hard and soft science. A, it gives perspective. B, it gives a way for you to organize and file away experience in your head, so to speak.

Charlie Munger

The idea of excessive diversification is madness. Wide diversification, which necessarily includes investment in mediocre businesses, only guarantees ordinary results.

Charlie Munger

The idea of excessive diversification is madness.

Charlie Munger

You have to have a temperament to grab ideas and do sensible things. Most people don’t grab the right ideas or don’t know what to do with them.

Charlie Munger

An idea or a fact is not worth more merely because it's more available to you.

Charles Sanders Peirce

The consciousness of a general idea has a certain "unity of the ego" in it, which is identical when it passes from one mind to another. It is, therefore, quite analogous to a person, and indeed, a person is only a particular kind of general idea.

Charles Sanders Peirce

A sign, or representamen, is something which stands to somebody for something in some respect or capacity. It addresses somebody,that is, creates in the mind of that person an equivalent sign, or perhaps a more developed sign. That sign which it creates I call the interpretant of the first sign. The sign stands for something, its object. It stands for that object, not in all respects, but in reference to a sort of idea, which I have sometimes called the ground of the representamen.

Charles Sanders Peirce

The idea does not belong to the soul; it is the soul that belongs to the idea.

Charles M. Schwab

I didn't take up shorthand with any idea of becoming a professional at it. It merely appeared to me to be a good thing to know - something that might come in handy.

Charles M. Schwab

I disagreed with Carnegie's ideas on how best to distribute his wealth. I spent mine!

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Ideals we do not make. We discover, not invent, them.

Charles Handy

An economy that adds value through information, ideas, and intelligence-the Three I Economy-offers a way out of the apparent clash between material growth and environmental resources.