Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Matthiessen

In fiction, you have a rough idea what's coming up next - sometimes you even make a little outline - but in fact you don't know. Each day is a whole new - and for me, a very invigorating - experience.

Peter Lynch

Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon

Questlove

And even though people like to furrow their brow like they suspect you're not being honest about yourself, the truth is that they worry that you're not serving their idea of you.

Quintilian

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

Quincy Jones

Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.

Quentin Tarantino

There is no other genre that deals with America better, in a subtextual way, than the Westerns being made in the different decades. The '50s Westerns very much put forth an Eisenhower idea of America, whereas the Westerns of the '70s were very cynical about America.

Quentin Tarantino

The good ideas will survive.

Prince Andrew

It's slightly complicated for people to grasp the idea of a head of state in human form.

Prince Andrew

It would not be a bad idea if bankers were to go and sit occasionally with politicians in their political surgeries, where they might get a sense of the injustice that some of the community feel about the banks.

Primo Levi

Did chemistry theorems exist? No: therefore you had to go further, not be satisfied with the quia, go back to the origins, to mathematics and physics. The origins of chemistry were ignoble, or at least equivocal: the dens of the alchemists, their abominable hodgepodge of ideas and language, their confessed interest in gold, their Levantine swindles typical of charlatans and magicians; instead, at the origin of physics lay the strenuous clarity of the West-Archimedes and Euclid.

Plotinus

Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.

Pia Toscano

When I first found out that I was an Idol finalist, I cried tears of happiness. I was just so happy, and my family was there and the fact that got to see that moment and share that moment with me was just everything to me.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

What is to be done about these literary people, who will never understand that painting is a craft and that the material side comes first? The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.

Phillip Lim

Since an early age, I’ve been intrigued by the idea of design evolution,

Mike Figgis

There's nothing quite like the idea of failing spectacularly to excite a film maker

Natsuo Kirino

I'm this superphilosophical kind of person. Stuck in a prison of abstract ideas and overpowering emotions, I have this personality that makes it really hard to survive.

Naveen Jain

How important is failure - yes, failure - to the health of a thriving, innovative business? So important that Ratan Tata, chairman of India's largest corporation, gives an annual award to the employee who comes up with the best idea that failed.

Nathaniel Branden

Freedom is still the most radical idea of all.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The ideas of people in general are not raised higher than the roofs of the houses. All their interests extend over the earth's surface in a layer of that thickness. The meeting-house steeple reaches out of their sphere.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nothing is more unaccountable than the spell that often lurks in a spoken word. A thought may be present to the mind, and two minds conscious of the same thought, but as long as it remains unspoken their familiar talk flows quietly over the hidden idea.

Mother Teresa

Once I asked my counsellor for advice about my vocation. I asked, 'How can I know if God is calling me and for what he is calling me?' He answered, 'You will know by your happiness. If you are happy with the idea that God calls you to serve him and your neighbour, this will be the proof of your vocation.'

Victor Hugo

A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.

Victor Hugo

Every idea must have a visible enfolding.

Victor Hugo

A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.

Victor Hugo

When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.

Victor Hugo

One cannot resist an idea whose time has come.

Vicente Fox

Every idea has its time.

Vernor Vinge

Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.

Veronica Roth

Tris: Wait. So you have no idea what my aptitude is? Tori: Yes and No. My conclusion is that you display equal aptitude for Abnegation, Dauntless and Erudite. People who get this kind of result are..are called...Divergent.

Richard Bach

There is such a thing as perfection...and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth....Each of us is in truth an unlimited idea of freedom. Everything that limits us we have to put aside.

Richard Bach

I'm a writer as rarely as possible, when forced by an idea too lovely to let die unwritten

Richard Bach

He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all