Famous Quotes & Sayings

Iggy Pop

I have no idea why a guy would bring a jar of peanut butter to a concert.

Ian Mckellen

You would be surprised how many directors don't know what they want. They might not know what they want until they see it, they might know what they want but no idea how to get it out of the actor, then you've both got a problem.

Ian Somerhalder

People have amazing ideas. The main problem - I won't call it a problem, let's call it a roadblock - is if you use the analogy of a convoy of vehicles going to help a distress situation: they have all the resources needed (food, medicine, everything they need), and as the convoy is traveling, there's a rockslide. You can't get through the road. What good does any of that stuff do when you can't get it to where it needs to go?

Ian Somerhalder

The youth have a prodigious talent for inventing progressive ideas and alternative courses of action that elude the jaded, in-the-box minds of worn-down adults.

Ian Bremmer

Berlin is a very edgy place, a very cosmopolitan place. It's a place where completely different ideas and cultures come together and clash in a very warm way. In a very warm-hearted way.

Iain Duncan Smith

We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.

Ian Anderson

I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.

Ian Anderson

I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older.

Hugo Chavez

The revolution will survive. It does not rely solely on oil for its survival. There is a national will, there is a national idea, a national project.

Howard Zinn

One of the problems with dealing with anarchism is that there are many people whose ideas are anarchist, but who do not necessarily call themselves anarchists.

Howard Zinn

No doubt that anarchist ideas are frightening to those in power. People in power can tolerate liberal ideas. They can tolerate ideas that call for reforms, but they cannot tolerate the idea that there will be no state, no central authority. So it is very important for them to ridicule the idea of anarchism to create this impression of anarchism as violent and chaotic. It is useful for them.

Howard Zinn

That whole idea of threats to national security is a very interesting one. The phrase is very useful for the government to try to encompass the citizenry in the same box as the government is in. To say, "We're all in this together. It threatens all of us."

Howard Hughes

Do the impossible, because almost everyone has told me my ideas are merely fantasies.

Hannah Arendt

Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When an idea is just rising on the horizon, the soul's temperature with respect to it is usually very cold. Only gradually does the idea develop its warmth, and it is hottest (which is to say, exerting its greatest influence) when belief in the idea is already once again in decline.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We are terrified by the idea of being terrified.

George Berkeley

From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.

George Berkeley

Whatever is immediately perceived is an idea: and can any idea exist out of the mind?

George Berkeley

This perceiving, active being is what I call mind, spirit, soul, or myself. By which words I do not denote any one of my ideas, but a thing entirely distinct from them, wherein they exist, or, which is the same thing, whereby they are perceived; for the existence of an idea consists in being perceived.

George Bernard Shaw

Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

George Bernard Shaw

I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.

Gary Larson

The idea for any cartoon (my experience, anyway) is rarely spontaneous. Good ideas usually evolve out of pretty lame ones, and vice versa.

Fredric Jameson

A further point is that, little by little, in the current universe, everything is slowly being named; nor does this have anything to do with the older Aristotelian universals in which the idea of a chair subsumes all its individual manifestations.

Fredrik Bajer

Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.

Freeman Dyson

The reason why new concepts in any branch of science are hard to grasp is always the same; contemporary scientists try to picture the new concept in terms of ideas which existed before.

Freeman Dyson

The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm.

Erich Maria Remarque

We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that intellect apparently wasn't the most important thing...not ideas, but the system; not freedom, but drill. We had joined up with enthusiasm and with good will; but they did everything to knock that out of us.

Erich Maria Remarque

The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.

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

So much of being a success is perseverance as much as ideas,

Bernie Sanders

Today, over half of American workers have less than $10,000 in savings and have no idea how they will be able to retire with any shred of dignity.

I understand the power of this kind of an institution to improve the quality of life for people. I've worked in nonprofit, humanities-oriented projects all of my life. For me personally, the opportunity to support people's ideas is critical.

The whole time though, I always imagined a day when I would be my own boss. It was just a question of being persistent, trying out new ideas and waiting for a breakthrough.