Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cassandra Clare

I'm not sure that's such a great idea." Luke said. "It's a fabulous idea." Jace dropped the paper back onto the table, and began to slide off his jacket. "I've got a stele we can use. Who wants to do me?" "A regrettable choice of words," Magnus muttered.

Cassandra Clare

If this is your idea of glamour, I'm having second thoughts about letting you make me over.

Cassandra Clare

She wondered why she’d ever thought trusting someone who wore that much eyeliner was a good idea.

George Eliot

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

George Eliot

I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.

Grace Gealey

Forgiveness isn't simply an option or a good idea; it is mandatory for our restorative process.

Gottfried Leibniz

If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.

Gottfried Leibniz

I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.

Gottfried Leibniz

When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached. It is this way that in mathematics speculative theorems and practical canons are reduced by analysis to definitions, axioms and postulates.

Gottfried Leibniz

Now, as there is an infinity of possible universes in the Ideas of God, and as only one of them can exist, there must be a sufficient reason for God's choice, which determines him toward one rather than another. And this reason can be found only in the fitness, or the degrees of perfection, that these worlds contain, since each possible thing has the right to claim existence in proportion to the perfection it involves.

Giambattista Vico

The criterion and rule of the true is to have made it. Accordingly, our clear and distinct idea of the mind cannot be a criterion of the mind itself, still less of other truths. For while the mind perceives itself, it does not make itself.

Gerhard Richter

It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.

Harville Hendrix

When we meet an Imago match, that chemical reaction occurs, and love ignites. All other bets, all other ideas about what we want in a mate, are off. We feel alive and whole, confident that we have met the person who will make everything all right.

Harold Ramis

I'd rather do comedies that strike at some bigger ideas.

Jamaica Kincaid

I'll read anything. In fact, I'll read while I'm doing other things, which is not a good idea.

Jaime Hernandez

I leave a lot open so I can fill it in later. If I don't have any ideas right away, I can fill it in later.

Jaime Lerner

A lot of people assume that the expensive ideas are the most effective ones, but that is simply not true.

Jacques Barzun

Above all, do not talk yourself out of good ideas by trying to expound them at haphazard meetings.

Jack White

There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.

James G. Frazer

Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves.

James Gleick

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

J. William Fulbright

Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor.

J. R. R. Tolkien

he was for long my only audience... Only from him did I ever get the idea that my ‘stuff’ could be more than a private hobby. But for his interest and unceasing eagerness for more I should never have brought The L. of the R. to a conclusion.

Iyanla Vanzant

I had no preconceived idea what fame would be like, because I never thought I would be famous. I just wanted to do my work. Hell, I just wanted to pay my rent on time.

Isaac Barrow

Because Mathematicians frequently make use of Time, they ought to have a distinct idea of the meaning of that Word, otherwise they are Quacks.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A certain harmony should be kept between actions and ideas if we want to fully develop the effects they can produce.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Ideas often flash across our minds more complete than we could make them after much labor.

Jeremy Hardy

Capitalism is a great idea in theory, but in practice it just doesn't work.

Jeremy London

I've never dreamed of being famous. The idea of it really scares me.

Jeff Bezos

It's perfectly healthy-encouraged, even- to have an idea tomorrow that contradicted your idea today

Jeff Bezos

There's so much stuff that has yet to be invented. There's so much new that's going to happen. People don't have any idea yet how impactful the internet is going to be and that this is still Day 1 in such a big way.

Jeff Bezos

Good ideas will always get funded, so that's not going to be a problem. But you will see that it will be harder and harder for bad ideas to get funded.

Jeff Bridges

I'm kind of an idea guy.