Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Valery

Poetry is simply literature reduced to the essence of its active principle. It is purged of idols of every kind, of realistic illusions, of any conceivable equivocation between the language of "truth" and the language of "creation.

Paul Valery

The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.

Paul Valery

Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

Paul Volcker

I am suspicious of the idea of a new paradigm, to use that word, an entirely new structure of the economy.

Paul Watzlawick

This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated.

Paul Wolfowitz

I don't know of a single instance of these Arab freedom fighters holding up pictures of bin Laden. I know many instances of them displaying American flags in Benghazi or painting 'Facebook' on their foreheads in Cairo. The idea of freedom . . . is absolutely contradictory to what bin Laden stood for, which was . . . taking Muslims back to some medieval theocracy and encouraging people to die not for freedom but to go to paradise and to kill innocent people along the way. The contrast is really striking.

Paul Wellstone

The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.

Mel Brooks

Basically, I'm a writer. I'm the proprietor of the vision. I alone know what I eventually want to happen on the screen. So if you have a valuable idea, the only way to protect it is to direct it.

Mary Oliver

Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings.

Mary Oliver

A fact: one picks it up and reads it, and puts it down, and there is an end to it. But an idea! That one may pick up, and reflect upon, and oppose, and expand, and so pass a delightful afternoon altogether.

Mary Oliver

I feel the terror of idleness, like a red thirst. Death isn't just an idea.

Mary Oliver

We can know a lot. And still, no doubt, there are rash and wonderful ideas brewing somewhere; there are many surprises yet to come.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

The joy of being in the studio is having people being utterly free to throw out their ideas.

Martine McCutcheon

Adele is great because she promotes the idea of being happy as you are.

Martin Cruz Smith

I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy for quite some time, especially considering that I'm such a slow writer.

Martin Amis

The air itself was ebony, like the denial, the refutation, of the idea of light.

Pope John Paul II

There are many examples of this mistaken idea of freedom, such as the elimination of human life by legalized or generally accepted abortion.

Piper Laurie

I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff.

Pierre Bonnard

Speaking, when you have something to say, is like looking. But who looks? If people could see properly, and see whole, they would all be painters. And it's because people have no idea how to look that they hardly ever understand.

Philippe Starck

My idea is to bring happiness, respect, vision. poetry, surrealism and magic [to design].

Pope Francis

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

Pope Francis

When we do not adore God, we adore something else. Money and power are false idols which often take the place of God.

Pope Francis

How many kinds of moral and material poverty we face today as a result of denying God and putting so many idols in his place!

Rachael Ray

Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!

Rachel Caine

Don't we look suspicious, the three of us just sitting here in the car?" Borden asked. We'd look a lot more suspicious if we were all three making out in the car," Jazz said. "What?" she added, when Borden turned and gave her a wide-eyed look. You have no idea what kind of happy place you just took me to." Shut up.

Rachel Caine

I know, he said. We are into the Bad Idea neighborhood and heading down I Have a Bad Feeling Street. (Shane)

Rachel Caine

Well,” Naomi said cheerfully, “what’s the worst that can happen?” They were silent, considering that, because there were just so many possibilities. But in the end, it was a better idea than Facebook.

People are fretful about lifestyle retailing because the idea that anyone's immortal soul and deepest longings can be quite so readily anticipated and consolidated with several hundred thousand other like-minded types is worrying.

Peter Medawar

Psychoanalytic theory is the most stupendous intellectual confidence trick of the twentieth century and a terminal product as well-something akin to a dinosaur or zeppelin in the history of ideas, a vast structure of radically unsound design and with no posterity.

Pete Wentz

You should be able to grab people with ideas.

Pervez Musharraf

Remember that mindsets can not be changed through force and coercion. No idea can ever be forcibly thrust upon any one.

Paulo Coelho

It's a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.

Peter Mandelson

It's a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full term.