Famous Quotes & Sayings

Douglas Coupland

I have always liked the idea of Superman because I have always liked the idea that there is one person in the world who doesn’t do bad things. And that there is one person in the world who is able to fly.

Douglas Coupland

Trevor realized that the odd thing about English is that no matter how much you screw sequences word up up, you understood, still, like Yoda, will be. Other languages don't work that way. French? Dieu! Misplace a single le or la and an idea vaporizes into a sonic puff. English is flexible: you can jam it into a Cuisinart for an hour, remove it, and meaning will still emerge.

Andy Warhol

The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting

Andy Warhol

The idea of America is so wonderful because the more equal something is, the more American it is

Andrew O'Hagan

The idea that people in novels should be more sympathetic than people in life simply baffles me.

Andre Breton

When will the arbitrary be granted the place it deserves in the formation of works and ideas?

Andre Gide

Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.

Andre Gide

We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.

Amy Cuddy

Trust is the conduit for influence; it's the medium through which ideas travel.

Ann Patchett

Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.

Anatole France

It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.

Alvin Toffler

Idea-assassins rush forward to kill any new suggestion on the grounds of its impracticality, while defending whatever now exists as practical, no matter how absurd.

Alton Brown

I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials.

Anne Dudley

Usually one or two things happen: Either you have an idea straightaway - the sort of sound that you want or the instrumentation or one particular sound that you want to feature - or you don't.

Anne Fortier

In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer.

Anjelica Huston

If I were to have any sort of solid idea about which moments were God's manifestations, they would be those moments where one has practically nothing to do with what's going on. It's one of the best feelings in the world.

Anita Roddick

Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen.

Andrew Vachss

I want to disabuse people of the idea that knowledge is power. Knowing how to get to Detroit is not the same thing as having the bus fare.

Chuck Palahniuk

and i can't stand the idea of being alone. i can't bear the thought of being free.

Chuck Palahniuk

I don't do much more than organise other people's ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them and present them.

Chuck Palahniuk

You're always haunted by the idea you're wasting your life.

Chuck Palahniuk

Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with friends, gardening, so I always carry pen and paper. My first draft is always written in longhand. But once the first dozen chapters, more like short stories, are written, then momentum builds until I can't leave the project until it's done.

Chuck Feeney

I had one idea that never changed in my mind—that you should use your wealth to help people.

Chuck Hagel

I'm not saying my idea is the one and only idea. We should have other ideas, but the president has not laid down a specific plan as to how he's going to get us to solvency. I do that.

Chuck Klosterman

The only people who can ever put ideas into context are people who don't care; the unbiased and apathetic are usually the wisest dudes in the room. If you want to totally misunderstand why something is supposedly important, find the biggest fan of that particular thing and ask him for an explanation. He will tell you everything that doesn't matter to anyone who isn't him. He will describe paradoxical details and share deeply personal anecdotes, and it will all be autobiography; he will simply be explaining who he is by discussing something completely unrelated to his life.

Christopher Reeve

Nothing of any consequence happens unless people get behind an idea. It begins with an individual and they share the idea with more individuals-and eventually it becomes a movement.

Christopher McQuarrie

Evil is a really tough concept for me. The idea of a villain that is bad for bad's sake seems kind of absurd.

Christopher McDougall

Even Charles Darwin, that human decoder ring of bizarre behavior, found the idea of saving a stranger's life to be a total head-scratcher.

Anselm Kiefer

I am against the idea of the end, that everything culminates in paradise or judgment.

Anselm Kiefer

Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.

Anne Bronte

If the generous ideas of youth are too often over- clouded by the sordid views of after-life, that scarcely proves them to be false

Amos Bronson Alcott

Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.