Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Scheuer

And we're being attacked because of what we do, not because of who we are. And by refusing to talk about that, I'm afraid the American people, at least, don't have a good idea of just how dangerous the threat is that we face.

Michael Rosenbaum

Being in drag for three months - I now have an idea of what women go through. At least maybe a little.

Michael Nesmith

I never feel like I have to hang on to the music. I don't expect that the music will go away. Ideas are the only thing I can point to that are permanent and fixed.

Michael Nesmith

You have to have access to ideas. The Internet is facilitating that access to ideas. In 25 years, the way that data's going to flow back and forth, we don't quite understand yet.

Michael K. Simpson

The solution is to first create an integrated economic development and recreation plan that addresses the needs of the people who live and recreate in central Idaho.

Markus Zusak

A halo surrounded the grim reaper nun, Sister Maria. (By the way-I like this human idea of the grim reaper. I like the scythe. It amuses me.)

Markus Zusak

When I find research really rewarding is when one piece of information gives you an idea for a story. That's when it's great.

Mark Twain

Every inventor is a crackpot until his idea succeeds.

Mark Twain

As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.

Mark Twain

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot

Marianne Williamson

Society never progresses because the majority one day wakes up and says, "Let's do things differently." The majority didn't wake up and say, "Oh, let's just free the slaves." Society always progressed because a relatively small group of people usually considered outrageous radicals by the status quo of their time had a better idea and articulated another way. That's simply how evolution works; it's the mutation. The member of the species who does things differently - that points the way to the future because they're better adapted for survival.

Marianne Williamson

I feel that as women we've allowed ourselves to be deluded by certain ideas that hold us back, such as the over-glorification of masculine consciousness.

Maria Bello

I don't really have a method or a technical process. I studied [Sanford] Meisner, and that's the thing that really works for me. That sort of instinctual, in the moment, what the other actors do, working off them and letting the story unfold, as opposed to having an idea of what the story should be.

Martin Kippenberger

I am a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I could never adjust to the separate waiting rooms, separate eating places, separate rest rooms, partly because the separate was always unequal, and partly because the very idea of separation did something to my sense of dignity and self-respect.

Mark V. Hurd

We need to temper the idea that this company has to have some earthshaking event every 15 minutes.

Mark Udall

Reform is not for the short-winded. I'm committed to making sure the Senate is more than just a graveyard for good ideas.

Mark Knopfler

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

Mark Hoppus

Ideas are really what interest me in producing a band, if I can bring something productive to the project.

Mark Hoppus

As a producer, I'm an objective observer, helping a band form their ideas into a cohesive album. It's a step back from the intimacy of creation.

Mark Batterson

One God idea is worth more than a thousand good ideas.

Mikhail Gorbachev

In our discussions here at the forum there was no trace of the futile debate about what is better, capitalism or socialism...We should seek a synthesis of ideas and values that have proven their viability...

Mikhail Gorbachev

Communist ideology in its pure form is akin to Christianity. Its main ideas are the brotherhood of all peoples irrespective of their nationality, justice and equality, peace, and an end to all hostility between peoples.

Miguel de Unamuno

Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only . . . with the idea God has of you.

Miguel de Unamuno

An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.

Ned Rorem

To see itself through, music must have idea or magic. ... Music with neither dies young though rich.

Nadine Gordimer

Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.

Naguib Mahfouz

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

Mitchell Kapor

I was trying to figure out what to do next, I'd been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use every day, particularly to help organize their lives.

Miuccia Prada

My idea is always to avoid nostalgia.

Miuccia Prada

Ugly is attractive, ugly is exciting. Maybe because it is newer. The investigation of ugliness is, to me, more interesting than the bourgeois idea of beauty. And why? Because ugly is human.

Miyamoto Musashi

Imitation is the surest form of flattery and failure. I am not interested with your talk about my ideas. I am more interested in your applying them to your life. If you do not, then you are essentially not in accord with your own mind.

Mitt Romney

Republicans should never abandon pro-growth conservative principles in an effort to embrace the ideas of Al Gore.