Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hal Sparks

Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.

Gordon Bell

Every big computing disaster has come from taking too many ideas and putting them in one place.

Gordon Brown

In the weeks and months ahead, my task is to show I have the new ideas, the vision and the experience to earn the trust of the British people.

Herbie Hancock

If you're not judging what happens, then you're trusting what others are doing, what you're playing, and trusting what you're playing.And it can lead you to other ideas, to something maybe you hadn't expressed before.

Herbie Hancock

It's part of my nature. I get excited when trying out new stuff, whether it be an idea or equipment. It stimulates my juices.

Herbie Hancock

I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music.

Herbie Hancock

I'm very conscious of the idea of trying to each time present something that I haven't presented before. It's a challenge to me to find something new, to find something innovative, but it's also very exciting.

Herbert Spencer

The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it.

Herbert Spencer

The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.

Herbert Spencer

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Herman Melville

Hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple dumpling.

Herman Melville

In one word, Queequeg, said I, rather digressively; hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated through the hereditary dyspepsias nurtured by Ramadans.

Henry David Thoreau

We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads,--and then we can hardly see anything else.

Henry David Thoreau

The front aspect of great thoughts can only be enjoyed by those who stand on the side whence they arrive.

Henry David Thoreau

A journal is a repository for all those fragmentary ideas and odd scraps of information that might otherwise be lost and which some day might lead to more "harmonious compositions."

Henry David Thoreau

We find it difficult to choose our direction because it does not yet exist distinctly in our idea.

H. L. Mencken

My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought..

Jean Genet

I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.

Jean Genet

What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.

Jessica Livingston

People like the idea of innovation in the abstract, but when you present them with any specific innovation, they tend to reject it because it doesn't fit with what they already know.

Jessica Ennis

My idea of beauty is somebody that doesn't have to try too much, someone who is effortless and fresh.

Jessica Lange

This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.

Jeremy Grantham

Volatility is a symptom that people have no idea of the underlying value

Jeremy Bentham

The word "independence" is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word "dependence" is united to the ideas of inferiority and corruption.

Esperanza Spalding

What I'm identifying with is the vision or the idea - whatever was the little nugget that started it.

Esther Hicks

The more in vibrational sync you are with who you really are, then the more you are allowing only those things that you're wanting, and the less resistance there is. And the less resistance there is, then the less delay between the idea of the thought and the receiving of it.

Esther Hicks

I worry that I'll go down to the dock, and that my ship will have already come and gone. I'll miss my boat." And we say, another boat, another boat, another boat. You have no idea how many boats are coming to your dock. It's a steady stream, and it doesn't matter how many of them you've missed.

Esther Hicks

You're not ever going to get it done. Every time you evaluate contrast and conclude and then line up your Energy and allow it into your experience... at the same time you are achieving the result that you intended, you also achieve a new perspective from which to intend. You can't stand still. In every moment, there is a whole new set of stuff... new ideas, new desires being born.

Ernest Hemingway

Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out.

Ernest Hemingway

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

Ezra Klein

Even more fundamental than housing to the global financial economy is the idea that the U.S. government is a safe asset.

Erwin Rommel

The peril of the hour moved the British to tremendous exertions, just as always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible. Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.

Erwin Rommel

Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.