Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julia Cameron

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Julia Cameron

Our modern ideas of 'functioning' through things are really quite inhuman. We have this idea that no matter what is going on we still have to color between the lines, act normal.

Judi Dench

People seem to have this idea that I've always been very ambitious. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Joseph Joubert

Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas.

Joseph Joubert

Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas. As soon as the idea has come to its last degree of perfection, the word blossoms.

Joseph Joubert

To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.

Joseph Joubert

The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?

Joseph Smith, Jr.

It is a false idea that the Saints will escape all the judgments, whilst the wicked suffer; for all flesh is subject to suffer and “the righteous shall hardly escape.” …So that is an unhallowed principle to say that such and such have transgressed because they have been preyed upon by disease or death, for all flesh is subject to death; and the Savior has said, “judge not, lest ye be judged.

Kristin Hersh

I don't like the idea of famous people.

Klaus Schulze

I went solo because I could do much better what I wanted to do. I didn't have to ask or discuss things and ideas that are already shaped in my head.

Murray Walker

I've no idea what Eddie Irvine's orders are, but he's following them superlatively well.

Milton Avery

The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.

Mike Shinoda

As a creative person you just get an idea in your head, and sometimes you just can't shake it off.

Mike Birbiglia

Creepy people do the things that decent people want to do, but have decided are not a great idea.

J. K. Rowling

The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.

J. K. Rowling

I find that discussing an idea out loud is often the way to kill it stone dead.

J. K. Rowling

I have gone temporarily deaf and haven't any idea what you said, Harry.

J. K. Rowling

Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas.

H. G. Wells

An immense and ever-increasing wealth of knowledge is scattered about the world today; knowledge that would probably suffice to solve all the mighty difficulties of our age, but it is dispersed and unorganized. We need a sort of mental clearing house for the mind: a depot where knowledge and ideas are received, sorted, summarized, digested, clarified and compared.

H. L. Mencken

Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.

H. L. Mencken

Save among politicians it is no longer necessary for any educated American to profess belief in Thirteenth Century ideas

H. L. Mencken

As if paralyzed by the national fear of ideas, the democratic distrust of whatever strikes beneath the prevailing platitudes, it evades all resolute and honest dealing with what, after all, must be every healthy literature's elementary materials.

H. L. Mencken

A skeptic as to all ideas, including especially my own, I have never suffered a pang when the ideas of some other imbecile prevailed.

H. L. Mencken

We suffer most when the White House busts with ideas.

Guillermo del Toro

The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good.

Greg Kinnear

You learn more about a person from the people around that person than you do from the person themselves. We all have our own ideas of who we are that may or may not be justified, and you can really find out a heck of a lot more accurately from the people around an individual.

Grace Kelly

The idea of my life as a fairy tale is itself a fairy tale,

J. Robert Oppenheimer

The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.

J. William Fulbright

It's unnatural and unhealthy for a nation to be engaged in global crusades for some principle or idea while neglecting the needs of its own people.

H. P. Lovecraft

Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead.

Grant Achatz

What makes the food that we do at Alinea so interesting on the outside is that we really don't let ourselves say no to an idea.

Grant Morrison

Before it was a Bomb, the Bomb was an Idea. Superman, however, was a Faster, Stronger, Better Idea.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

What makes our poetry so contemptible nowadays is its paucity of ideas. If you want to be read, invent. Who the Devil wouldn't like to read something new?