Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcel Proust

L'ide e qu'on mourra est plus cruelle que mourir, mais moins que l'ide e qu'un autre est mort. The idea of dying is worse than dying itself, but less cruel than the idea that another has died.

Marcel Proust

We pack the physical outline of the creature we see with all the ideas we have already formed about him, and in the complete picture of him we compose in our minds those ideas have certainly the principal place.

Joseph Beuys

The ego must be developed, not for its own sake, but because it is needed by society. If you are only interested in self-realization then you cannot make a good painting. To do this you have to have thought about forming, and about how ideas of forming stem from history.

Joseph Barbera

I don't know anyone who enjoys going to the hospital. To help remedy this, I got an idea to create what a Laugh Room in the pediatric ward of hospitals.

Joseph Barbera

I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.

Joseph Addison

A vast space naturally raises in my thoughts the idea of an Almighty Being.

Joseph Addison

Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.

Joseph Addison

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

Joseph Addison

The moral virtues, without religion are but cold, lifeless, and insipid; it is only religion which opens the mind to great conceptions, fills it with the most sublime ideas, and warms the soul with more than sensual pleasures.

Jose Saramago

The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.

Jose Saramago

We are so afraid of the idea of having to die… that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as if we were asking beforehand to be excused when it is our turn…

Jose Saramago

we would understand much more about life’s complexities if we applied ourselves to an assiduous study of its contradictions, instead of wasting time on identities and coherences, seeing as these have a duty to provide their own explanations.

You can be completely opposed to an ideological position, and I'm certainly not close to Aznar's ideas, however he was elected by the Spanish people and I demand that respect.

Jose Marti

Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.

Jose Marti

Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

These are the only genuine ideas, the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce.

Jorge Luis Borges

The people of Tlön are taught that the act of counting modifies the amount counted, turning indefinites into definites. The fact that several persons counting the same quantity come to the same result is for the psychologists of Tlön an example of the association of ideas or of memorization.

Jordan Knight

There's this idea that when you turn 40, you automatically go to adult contemporary heaven, but I want to try and challenge that.

Jonny Wilkinson

I refuse to go into a fast-food outlet - to use the toilet even - in case anyone got the wrong idea and thought I was sneaking in a quick burger.

Jonny Lang

I definitely have a firm, fixed idea of what compromise is for me.

Joni Mitchell

People were very protective of me. Overly so. I was in the industry for a long time before I had any idea of what drugs people were doing.

Jonathan Schell

The spread of democracy is a wonderful thing-it is a necessary foundation for peace-and it can happen. But it cannot be advanced by force, and still less by the creation of a new empire, an idea that is as unworkable as it morally mistaken. Empire, the embodiment of force, violates equity on a global scale. No lover of freedom can give it support. It is especially contrary to the founding principles of the United States.

Jonathan Tucker

What inspires me in life? The idea that the work and the rewards and the process is the thing.

Jonathan Tropper

I’m living in separate universes, and I have no idea where I actually belong.

Kevin Spacey

It is not about whether you are an executive, a studio or a network. If you have a story or an idea you can build a following for it.

Kevin Spacey

You must find a way to express your ideas and compel your audience to react through the idea itself, and then figuring out what the best representative of that idea may be, and bringing it to life.

Kevin Spacey

I cotton to the idea that people are much closer to being flawed; they have problems and dont always make the right choices.

Kevin Spacey

Anyone with a internet connection and an idea can develop an audience

Kevin Bales

It's as if all identity has been stolen from them, except their identity as slaves.

Kevin Bacon

I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50.

Kenneth Clark

Those who wish, in the interest of morality, to reduce Leonardo, that inexhaustible source of creative power, to a neutral or sexless agency, have a strange idea of doing service to his reputation.

Kelley Armstrong

Jeremy had a plan for getting Clay back and I wasn't allowed to know anything about it or allowed to help him carry it out. As one might expect, I accepted this news with grace and understanding. "That is the stupidest idea I've ever heard!" I snarled for the dozenth time that hour. "I won't just sit here and do nothing.

Kelley Armstrong

Using supernatural beings to build the perfect weapon? Intriguing idea." "Not really," I said. "They did it on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. A sub-par season. I slept through half the episodes.