Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicholas Sparks

You have no idea how much the last few days have meant to me," I began. "Meeting you has been the best thing that's ever happened to me.

Nicholas Sparks

Working on the plot/story idea for my next novel ... It always takes time.

Nicholas Sparks

Really good original ideas are very hard to come up with. Good ideas - easy. Really good, original ideas - it can take months.

John Green

The ideas of directing attention outward, trying to imagine other people complexly, trying not to see myself as the center of the universe - these concepts have become important to me, and I hope they're at work in my life on a minute-by-minute basis.

John Green

The idea is that for ten minutes, we forget that we have feelings. And we forget about protecting ourselves or other people and we just say the truth. For ten minutes. And then we can go back to being lame.

John Green

People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.

John Green

. . . Endlessness is a really strange idea in a universe that is defined by its endings.

Patti Smith

I had this idea that the coolest thing that could happen to you was talking with God.

Ozzy Osbourne

I don’t know whose brilliant idea that was, but it wasn’t mine, that’s for sure.

P. G. Wodehouse

The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.

P. G. Wodehouse

I pressed down the mental accelerator. The old lemon throbbed fiercely. I got an idea.

P. G. Wodehouse

It was one of those cases where you approve the broad, general principle of an idea but can't help being in a bit of a twitter at the prospect of putting it into practical effect. I explained this to Jeeves, and he said much the same thing had bothered Hamlet.

Ovid

He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire.

Paul Newman

I have an extraordinary attention span. I manage to juggle two or three different ideas at the same time, and that's probably, if I have a gift, that's probably the best gift that's given me.

Paul Engle

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.

Paul Farmer

The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right.

Marya Hornbacher

It's really interesting to me how all of us can experience the exact same event, and yet come away with wildly disparate interpretations of what happened. We each have totally different ideas of what was said, what was intended, and what really took place.

Marsilio Ficino

The ideas of things intellectually known pass into the substance of the intellect much more than do foods into the substance of the body.

Martha Graham

When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it's the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.

Martha Beck

The idea is to identify a destructive thought pattern, then simply label it and watch it and let it pass by whenever it appears in your mind.

Mark Haddon

I've come to realize that most good ideas are precisely the ones you can't describe.

Marion Cotillard

I was raised with the idea of beauty in a different way. To me, it is something that really comes out of you and surrounds you.

Oswald Chambers

Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me; sanctification is God’s idea of what He wants to do for me.

Oswald Chambers

We have an idea that God is leading us to a particular end, a desired goal; He is not...What we call the process God calls the end. His purpose is that I depend on Him and His power NOW. It is the process, not the end that is glorifying to God.

Paul Rudd

There's something great about the idea of working the land and living communally. That's healthy. That's good.

Michael Winterbottom

I don't particularly like the idea that there's an arc to the story and that therefore in this scene you have to convey this bit of information or emotion. I like more the feeling that, of course, there is a shape to the story, but that each scene should feel right, should be true at that moment, and that gradually you accumulate these moments of truth until you get enough of them together that it becomes a story that's interesting.

Michael Schur

You really don't settle on an idea until you're really sure it's the best idea. Then once you settle on it you commit to it entirely. That was always the plan.

Michael Schur

Sometimes you've got to just commit to the idea and press forward and trust that you made the right decision.

Michael Scheuer

And we're being attacked because of what we do, not because of who we are. And by refusing to talk about that, I'm afraid the American people, at least, don't have a good idea of just how dangerous the threat is that we face.

Michael Rosenbaum

Being in drag for three months - I now have an idea of what women go through. At least maybe a little.

Michael Nesmith

I never feel like I have to hang on to the music. I don't expect that the music will go away. Ideas are the only thing I can point to that are permanent and fixed.

Michael Nesmith

You have to have access to ideas. The Internet is facilitating that access to ideas. In 25 years, the way that data's going to flow back and forth, we don't quite understand yet.

Markus Zusak

A halo surrounded the grim reaper nun, Sister Maria. (By the way-I like this human idea of the grim reaper. I like the scythe. It amuses me.)