Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Miller

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Henri Bergson

Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives the two ends of an idea almost at the same moment.

Helen Keller

The idea of brotherhood re-dawns upon the world with a broader significance than the narrow association of members in a sect or creed.

Helen Keller

Ideas without action are useless.

Helen Keller

Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.

Helen Keller

The attempt to suppress an idea has always and everywhere proved a failure.

Catharine MacKinnon

So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn.

Cate Blanchett

Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.

Cate Blanchett

And perhaps, those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films, with women at the center are niche experience, they are not. Audiences want to see them and, in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.

Cassandra Clare

When one steals a flying balloon and animates it to fly over Paris, one should, ideally, have some idea how said balloon normally works.

Cassandra Clare

I'm always so glad I have no idea what you're vacantly chatting about," said Jace. It fills me with a sense of peace and well-being.

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.

George Eliot

The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.

George Eliot

One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.

Jack Abramoff

Any ideas on how we can make sure she does not get it? Can you ping Karl on this?

Say 'yes' to ideas that pop into your head. Don't screen them out. Go with the flow.

The more ideas that pop, the more open to new ideas the American market is.

Andrew Stanton

A lot of studios talk about a 12-to-1 ratio -- they come in with 12 ideas and one of them makes it,

The youth come up with the ideas because they know their peers better than anyone.

This is one of the very many ideas that's out there and warrants appropriate consideration,

There were some items and ideas they had that were solid, but a lot of these things we can do in-house.

You're always going to have negative stuff from people whose ideas are not being used by the leader.

This is an important time for the public to get their input into the plan. If people have ideas of other trails, this is the time to put it on the map.

This is an idea that has been suggested. It's been mentioned as one of several ideas that have been tossed about. It's no more of an idea than other ideas.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

You never know when your ideas are going to come back to you.

Jared Harris

You get ideas from other people all the time.

Jarvis Cocker

Human beings aren't meant to be solely consumers - eventually, something has to come out. Otherwise, I don't really see what the point of all that consumption is. The idea behind watching things and listening to things is that it stirs something within you, and hopefully that will stimulate you to then create your own thing.

Janet Echelman

When ideas are young and vulnerable, criticism can be lethal.