Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Rahall

America, 5 years after this brutal attack, is testament that a Nation conceived in liberty and equality will endure. It is a triumph of millions of Americans but it is also the triumph of an idea larger than any one person, larger than any one nation.

Mary Lynn Rajskub

To really be on stage and not know what you're going to say, and to be able to say something that makes people laugh, or do something that's sort of abstract or off the beaten path and have people connect to it by just putting your ideas together, that really makes me happy.

Mark Twain

Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine.

Mark Twain

All human rules are more or less idiotic.

Mark Twain

A better idea than my own is to listen.

Nicholas Meyer

Once you decide that you're going to have the death of Spock, then how does that affect the other people? Why is it there? I got a lot of stick from a lot of people from the very beginning about the idea of killing Spock. Somebody said, "You can't kill him." And I said, "Sure you can; the only question is whether you do it well."

Nicholas Negroponte

I'm not good at selling laptops. I'm good at selling ideas.

Nicholas Negroponte

My advice to graduates is to do anything except what you are trained for. Take that training to a place where it is out of place and stimulate ideas, shake up establishments, and don't take no for an answer.

Nicholas Negroponte

The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.

Nicholas Sparks

You have no idea how much the last few days have meant to me," I began. "Meeting you has been the best thing that's ever happened to me.

Nicholas Sparks

Working on the plot/story idea for my next novel ... It always takes time.

Nicholas Sparks

Really good original ideas are very hard to come up with. Good ideas - easy. Really good, original ideas - it can take months.

John Green

The ideas of directing attention outward, trying to imagine other people complexly, trying not to see myself as the center of the universe - these concepts have become important to me, and I hope they're at work in my life on a minute-by-minute basis.

John Green

The idea is that for ten minutes, we forget that we have feelings. And we forget about protecting ourselves or other people and we just say the truth. For ten minutes. And then we can go back to being lame.

John Green

People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.

John Green

. . . Endlessness is a really strange idea in a universe that is defined by its endings.

Patti Smith

I had this idea that the coolest thing that could happen to you was talking with God.

Ozzy Osbourne

I don’t know whose brilliant idea that was, but it wasn’t mine, that’s for sure.

P. G. Wodehouse

The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.

P. G. Wodehouse

I pressed down the mental accelerator. The old lemon throbbed fiercely. I got an idea.

P. G. Wodehouse

It was one of those cases where you approve the broad, general principle of an idea but can't help being in a bit of a twitter at the prospect of putting it into practical effect. I explained this to Jeeves, and he said much the same thing had bothered Hamlet.

Ovid

He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire.

Paul Newman

I have an extraordinary attention span. I manage to juggle two or three different ideas at the same time, and that's probably, if I have a gift, that's probably the best gift that's given me.

Paul Engle

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.

Paul Farmer

The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right.

Marya Hornbacher

It's really interesting to me how all of us can experience the exact same event, and yet come away with wildly disparate interpretations of what happened. We each have totally different ideas of what was said, what was intended, and what really took place.

Marsilio Ficino

The ideas of things intellectually known pass into the substance of the intellect much more than do foods into the substance of the body.

Martha Graham

When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it's the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.

Martha Beck

The idea is to identify a destructive thought pattern, then simply label it and watch it and let it pass by whenever it appears in your mind.

Marshall McLuhan

The TV generation is postliterate and retribalized. It seeks by violence to scrub the old private image and to merge in a new tribal identity, like any corporate executive.

Marshall McLuhan

You can be a French Canadian or an English Canadian, but not a Canadian. We know how to live without an identity, and this is one of our marvellous resources.

Marshall McLuhan

All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You're a nobody.

Marshall McLuhan

Pornography and violence are by-products of societies in which private identity has been ... destroyed by sudden environmental change.