Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adolf Hitler

Our ideology is intolerant...and peremptorily demands...the complete transformation of public life to its ideas.

Adolf Hitler

We have to put a stop to the idea that it is a part of everybody's civil rights to say whatever he pleases.

Adelaide Anne Procter

Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, / Some pure idea of a noble life / That once seemed possible?

Adam Savage

I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're ideas!

Adam Savage

I'm obsessed with the form of a toolbox. The idea of a portable kit that has everything you might need ignites something inside me. It's like Batman's utility belt.

Abraham Polonsky

First of all, directing is an idea that you have of a total flow of images that are going on, which are incidentally actors, words, and objects in space. It's an idea you have of yourself, like the idea you have of your own personality which finds its best representation in the world in terms of specific flows of imaginary images. That's what directing is.

Abu Bakar Bashir

We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?

Ace Frehley

I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it was going to be that well received.

Anna Sui

I just love the whole idea of conversational prints.

Anish Kapoor

All ideas grow out of other ideas

Ani Difranco

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

Andy Goldsworthy

Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things; otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realization. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work.

Andrew McCarthy

The idea that we cause harm by doing what we perceive to be the right thing, that's another theme that interests me. Because most people don't intend to cause harm, they cause harm by doing the right thing - in their mind.

Andrew Mellon

A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.

Amy Johnson

It is a good idea for everyone who does not have contra-indications to receive a flu shot.

Amy Lee

I'm not the fastest writer. I can't just crank out ideas that are good enough.

Amy Poehler

It’s very hard to have ideas. It’s very hard to put yourself out there, it’s very hard to be vulnerable, but those people who do that are the dreamers, the thinkers and the creators. They are the magic people of the world.

Amy Poehler

I've failed a million times on stage. I've listened to notes that I knew weren't right. I've pitched ideas and let other people change them, knowing that it was the wrong choice. The question you have to ask yourself is: How do you want to fail? Do you want to fail in a way that feels like it respects your tastes and value system?

Amy Poehler

I'd say any good set or any comedy that I've worked on, that's worked, has been comedians pitching ideas back and forth to each other. A lot of like, 'What if you say this? What about this?'

Ally Carter

Do you have any idea how hard it is to tail an eighty year-old woman Its hard. Really hard. Really...slow. -Grabrielle

Allen Covert

Anytime there is a Bigfoot show, where they supposedly have recordings of him, I am watching. I love the idea of Bigfoot. I want him to be out there somewhere.

Alison Weir

In one sphere above all others, Anne Boleyn still had the power to influence him, and that was in the case of church reform. Anne was a passionate and sincere evangelical, the owner of a library of controversial reformist literature, and she was sympathetic to radical and even Lutheran ideas.

Ann Druyan

I found that it was easiest to convey the information in the context of the life of the scientist or in the context of our own personal experience, and there was no idea that was too complicated that couldn't be explained clearly and directly.

Ann Brashares

I love the idea of fictional worlds kind of all cohering in some way.

Ann Brashares

Do you have any idea how much I've loved you?

Ann Brashares

Tibby's wish would be to hold on to the idea of love even in the face of darkest doubt. Because that was the way in which she failed. Not once, but again and again.

Ann Coulter

The idea of a bowed and terrified liberal minority during McCarthy's 'reign of terror' is poppycock. Then as now, all elite opinion was against McCarthy.

Ann Coulter

Liberals have managed to eliminate the idea of manly honor. Instead, all they have is womanly indignation.

Ann Coulter

The idea that making an activity legal would reduce its incidence is preposterous. This is exactly like the Clintonian statement about wanting to make abortion 'safe, legal and rare.' The most effective way to make something 'rare' is to make it illegal.

Ann Coulter

I defy any of my coreligionists to tell me they do not laugh at the idea of Dawkins burning in hell.

Ann Coulter

Listening to liberals invoke the sanctity of "science" to promote their crackpot ideas creates the same uneasy feeling as listening to Bill Clinton cite Scripture.

Andy Borowitz

Now that we all agree contraception is a bad idea, let's take a harder look at electricity and soap.

Andrea Dworkin

Biological Superiority: The World's Most Dangerous and Deadly Idea.