Famous Quotes & Sayings

Usher

The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.

V. S. Naipaul

I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.

V. S. Naipaul

In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India.

V. S. Naipaul

I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.

V. S. Naipaul

After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.

Susie Bright

You have to calendar time for yourself even if you have no idea what youre going to do with it.

Susan Wojcicki

I love taking an idea... to a prototype and then to a product that millions of people use.

Suzanne Collins

Despite serious reservations, I had to forgive Finnick for his role in the conspiracy that landed me here. He, at least has some idea of what I'm going through. And it takes too much energy to stay angry with someone who cries so much.

Tariq Ramadan

I am portrayed as a dangerous individual who can be fought thanks to their ideas.

Steve Stoute

Great ideas can come from anywhere. There are no titles around an idea.

Stephen Lang

The idea of being in a television series is a wonderful one to be considered, but you want to make sure it's the right thing for you because if you are fortunate enough to have something go for a long term, you want to make sure that it's something that you really want to be spending a bulk of your time on.

Stephen King

When you put on a clown suit and a rubber nose, nobody has any idea what you look like inside.

Stephen King

An idea is like a cold germ: sooner or later someone always catches it.

Stephen King

...stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when if feels like all you're managing is to shovel sh*t from a sitting position.

Stephen King

It's the pool where we all go down to drink, to swim, to catch a little fish from the edge of the shore; it's also the pool where some hardy souls go out in their flimsy wooden boats after the big ones. It is the pool of life, the cup of imagination, and she has an idea that different people see different versions of it, but with two things ever in common: it's always about a mile deep in the Fairy Forest, and it's always sad. Because imagination isn't the only thing this place is about.

Stephen King

The idea that America exists in a culture of violence is bullshit. What America exists in is a culture of Kardashian.

Stephen King

Rationalism is the idea that we can ever understand anything about the state of being. It's a deathtrip. It always has been. . . . And if rationalism is a deathtrip, then irrationalism might very well be a lifetrip . . . at least until it proves otherwise.

Stephen King

I've spoken out my whole life against the idea of simply dismissing whole areas of fiction by saying it's "genre" and therefore can't be seen as literature.

Stephen King

It's alright to feel fear, but sometimes a very bad idea to show it.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

As usual, the sock yarns have no idea what is going on.

Stan Smith

Line is so versatile - you can do a fine, tight, closely observed description or simply put a line around an idea - like a cartoonist.

Solomon Burke

My manager was Buddy Glee, who put me together with Mike Curb, and was basically the idea to bring some soul to the label and bring something different to the label besides the Hank Williams situation.

Taylor Wilson

I have too many ideas for a lifetime.

Taylor Swift

I fought the idea of having security for a very long time, because I really value normalcy. I really do. I like to be able to take a drive by myself.

Stephanie Coontz

The idea that academics should remain ''above the fray'' only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.

Stanley Fish

Any idea can be brought into the classroom if the point is to inquire into its structure, history, influence and so forth. But no idea belongs in the classroom if the point of introducing it is to recruit your students for the political agenda it may be thought to imply.

Stanley Kubrick

Never say no to an idea - you never know how that idea will ignite another idea.

Soren Kierkegaard

Irony is the birth-pangs of the objective mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between existence and the idea of existence). Humor is the birth -pangs of the absolute mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between the I and the idea of the I .

Soren Kierkegaard

What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I shall do; the crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.

Soren Kierkegaard

The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die. That is what I now recognize as the most important thing.

Soren Kierkegaard

The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.

Stephen Vincent Benet

Defeat is a fact and victory can be a fact. If the idea is good, it will survive defeat, it may even survive the victory.

Marco Rubio

To tackle the big and relevant issues of the day with bold and innovative ideas is without question the most rewarding way to serve.