Famous Quotes & Sayings

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

How did mankind ever come by the idea of liberty? What a grand thought it was!

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

Gary Kemp

Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you're just a tool for someone's ideas.

Gary Hirshberg

My counsel to entrepreneurs is to 'own' a region, 'own' a market, 'own' a segment. Create something you can defend. Don't get hung up on the idea that you have to go national.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Only ideas won by walking have any value.

Jerry Angelo

There were no hundreds and hundreds of cases of domestic violence. I would have no knowledge of that or have any idea how I would authenticate that. That was never the intent of the writer's conversation with me.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

No idea holds greater sway in the minds of educated Americans that the belief that it is possible to democratize governments anytime and anywhere under any circumstances .

Jeanne Moreau

I don't like the idea of separating life and work. That notion seems dated and a bit alien to me.

Jeanne Moreau

If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path.

Jean Dubuffet

What interests me about thoughts is not the moment when it crystallises into formal ideas but its earlier stages.

Jean Monnet

Premature ideas do not exist, one must bide one's time until the right moment comes along.

Jean-Marie Messier

I was a very early believer in the idea of convergence.

Gloria Feldt

Your vision, ideas and plans have the power to shape the future, but not if you keep them to yourself.

Gloria Allred

Instead of receiving the help that she had hoped for, Mr. Cain instead decided to provide her with his idea of a stimulus package.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I realized that I had things in my head not like what I had been taught - not like what I had seen - shapes and ideas so familiar to me that it hadn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to stop painting, to put away everything I had done, and to start to say the things that were my own.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I have a single track mind. I work on an idea for a long time. It's like getting acquainted with a person, and I don't get acquainted easily.

Gerald R. Ford

So much of what passes for public life consists of little more than candidates without ideas, hiring consultants without conviction, to stage campaigns without content. The result, increasingly, is elections without voters.

Jim Holt

You have to have a temperamental attraction to dangerous ideas...

Jim DeMint

Frankly, if independents and Democrats want to work with us on conservative ideas, I can do that better at Heritage than as a partisan inside.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The fact is one thing and the idea about the fact is another.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be an illusion and you will thereby deceive yourself.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

There is no ideal in observation. When you have an ideal, you cease to observe, you are then merely approximating the present to the idea, and therefore there is duality, conflict, and all the rest of it. The mind has to be in the state when it can see, observe. The experience of the observation is really an astonishing state. In that there is no duality. The mind is simply - aware.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

When you identify yourself with a group of people or a set of ideas, aren't you separating yourself?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our background, our inclinations, our impulses; when they dominate, we hardly listen at all to what is being said...One listens and therefore learns, only in a state of silence, in which this whole background is in abeyance, is quite; then, it seems to me, it is possible to communicate

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact what we really are.

Hunter S. Thompson

Gonzo journalism is a style of reporting based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism...

Hunter S. Thompson

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

Hunter S. Thompson

The massive, frustrated energies of a mainly young, disillusioned electorate that has long since abandoned the idea that we all have a duty to vote. This is like being told you have a duty to buy a new car, but you have to choose immediately between a Ford and a Chevy.

Hulk Hogan

I've been knocked out a few times , but I have no idea how many concussions I've ever had.

Humphrey Bogart

Sinatra’s idea of paradise is a place where there are plenty of women and no newspapermen. He doesn’t know it, but he’d be better off if it were the other way around.

Hubert H. Humphrey

It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.