Famous Quotes & Sayings

Malcolm Gladwell

Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do.

Malcolm Gladwell

Policy is driven by more than politics, however. It is equally driven by ideas.

Malala Yousafzai

We have to change this idea that women are only supposed to work in the house... Women should go out and be what they want

Maimonides

The key to the understanding and to the full comprehension of all that the Prophets have said is found in the knowledge of the figures, their general ideas, and the meaning of each word they contain.

Mahatma Gandhi

In this day of wonders no one will say that a thing or an idea is worthless because it is new. To say it is impossible because it is difficult is again not in consonance with the spirit of the age. Things undreamt of are daily being seen, the impossible is ever becoming possible.

Gavin Bryars

I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended.

Gail Collins

Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have recognized or identified. And it's really only been since Jackie Kennedy that there's been this idea that the family life of the president is such a central thing.

Gail Collins

The idea that 'if you don't like how things are going, you can just leave' is so ingrained in Texas, the secession movement is no surprise.

Gail Carriger

Lord Maccon asked meekly, shifting against her in a manner that ensured she realized the nibbling had affected his outsides just as much as her insides. Alexia was partly shocked, partly intrigued by the idea that as he was naked, she might actually get to see what he looked like. She had seen sketches of the nude male, of course, for purely technical purposes. She was given to wonder if werewolves were anatomically bigger in certain areas.

Freida Pinto

I feel like this whole idea of wanting something that you don't really have is also very American in a way.

Frida Kahlo

Everyone's opinions about things change over time. Nothing is constant. Everything changes. And to hold onto some dogged idea forever is a little rigid and maybe naive.

Fred Wilson

The more entrepreneurs in the world that are getting their ideas financed, the more great companies there are going to be that we can all invest in.

Fred Wilson

If you have an idea that you can't get out of your head, do a startup. Otherwise join a startup.

Frank McCourt

I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.

Norman Tebbit

[The poll tax] was a classic case of a good idea being entrusted to Chris Patten and becoming a terrible failure.

Norman Thomas

The difference between Democrats and Republicans is: Democrats have accepted some ideas of Socialism cheerfully, while Republicans have accepted them reluctantly

Norman Wisdom

I've got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces.

Norman Rockwell

I know of no painless process for giving birth to a picture idea. When I must produce, I retire to a quiet room with a supply of cheap paper and sharp pencils; my brain knows it's going to take a beating.

Norman Mailer

It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.

Norman O. Brown

Mankind today is still making history without having any conscious idea of what it really wants or under what conditions it would stop being unhappy; in fact what it is doing seems to be making itself more unhappy and calling that unhappiness progress.

Orson Welles

People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.

Orlando Bloom

Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.

Orison Swett Marden

You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

To an imagination of any scope the most far reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas

Olga Kurylenko

What I love about sci-fi is that every generation's films are based on what we know at that point in time. We make movies about the future, but it's always based on what we have. Then, as science grows and we discover new things, so do our ideas.

Octavio Paz

Drugs are nihilistic: they undermine all values and radically overturn all our ideas about good and evil, what is just and what is unjust, what is permitted and what is forbidden.

Octavio Paz

Erotic acts are instinctive; they fulfill a role in nature. The idea is familiar, but it is one that contains a paradox: there is nothing more natural than sexual desire; there is nothing less natural than the forms in which it is made manifest and satisfied.

Emile M. Cioran

The amount of chiaroscuro an idea harbors is the only index of its profundity.

Emile M. Cioran

A sensation must have fallen very low to deign to turn into an idea.

Emile M. Cioran

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.

Emile M. Cioran

Ideas come as you walk, Nietzsche said. Walking dissipates thoughts, Shankara taught.