Famous Quotes & Sayings

Salman Rushdie

The act of migration puts into crisis everything about the migrating individual or group, everything about identity and selfhood and culture and belief. So if this is a novel about migration it must be that act of putting in question. It must perform the crisis it describes.

Salman Rushdie

To put it as simply as possible: I am not a Muslim.[...] I do not accept the charge of apostacy, because I have never in my adult life affirmed any belief, and what one has not affirmed one can not be said to have apostasized from. The Islam I know states clearly that 'there can be no coercion in matters of religion'. The many Muslims I respect would be horrified by the idea that they belong to their faith purely by virtue of birth, and that a person who freely chose not to be a Muslim could therefore be put to death.

Salman Rushdie

Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.

Salman Rushdie

The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.

Ryan Tedder

So for every day that you're on this earth, for every minute that you have, the whole idea is doing nothing less than exactly what you feel you're supposed to do and squeezing every last drop out of life every day, regardless of the difficulties or trials that you face.

Ryan Phillippe

But in a broader sense, when I have more control, I want to expose people to new ideas.

Ryan Phillippe

The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me.

Ryan Reynolds

The best directors I've worked with, they all have the same thing in common. They're the first to say, 'I don't know.' If you ask them, 'How are we actually pulling off this movie?', they'll just shrug and go, 'I have absolutely no idea.'

Wangari Maathai

It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa.

W. S. Merwin

The global warming is going on. These are not single cases. These are all part of a general way we've been looking at the world. As long as we look at the world that way it's going to go on. Because the idea that the important thing is for some people get rich while the rest of the people work for them is very deeply dug in.

Virginia Foxx

I like the idea of giving workers control and putting their money into their personal accounts.

W. H. Auden

The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.

W. H. Auden

History marches to the drum of a clear idea.

Wayne McGregor

'Entity' is not about science. The process behind it may dictate the nature of the piece, but it's not like a dance about Einstein where I'm trying to convert his ideas into movement and communicate that to an audience.

Wayne Coyne

I embrace the idea that I'm an entertainer.

Wayne Dyer

We have to stop the idea that we are going to create something out of nothing, but instead attract to ourselves what is already here.

Wayne Dyer

Where is the peace in more is better? This idea keeps us exclusively in the physical domain. You can replace the more is better belief with an inner serenity that doesn't need more to be acceptable. There is no peace in more is better, and if it doesn't being peace to your life, then it's something you want to discard.

Wayne Dyer

Have within you an imaginary candle flame that burns brightly regardless of what goes before you. Let this inner flame represent for you the idea that you're capable of manifesting miracles in your life.

Wayne Dyer

One of the important principles I live by is the idea that you have to contemplate yourself as surrounded by the conditions you intend to produce.

Tove Jansson

Malander had an idea and was trying to work it out, but it would take him time. Sometimes people never saw things clearly until it was too late and they no longer had the strength to start again. Or else they forgot their idea along the way and didn't even realise that they forgotten.

Valerie Trierweiler

I built my entire life on the idea of independence.

Tyra Banks

I loved planning 'The Tyra Show' more than actually having to do it. I loved coming up with show ideas, honing each program and crafting it. I'm more excited being in a meeting than being on TV.

Ty Pennington

That's the other thing: Even if you're on medication, you still have to treat your body properly and take care of yourself. The idea that [ADHD] goes away or you grow out of it isn't true.

Twyla Tharp

Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.

Twyla Tharp

You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.

Twyla Tharp

I can't emphasize this idea enough. Getting involved with your collaborator's problems almost always distracts you from your own. That can be tempting. That can be a relief. But it usually leads to disaster.

Twyla Tharp

You only need one good reason to commit to an idea, not four hundred. But if you have four hundred reasons to say yes and one reason to say no, the answer is probably no.

Trofim Lysenko

A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas.

William Greider

Democracy is held captive, not just by money, but by ideas - the ideas that money buys.

William Greider

Efficiency obliterates identity

William Golding

Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

William Golding

The greatest ideas are the simplest.

Wilfred Burchett

Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.