Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Jurasik

I studied with the idea of becoming a Catholic priest.

Peter James

Most of us have one big idea at some point in our lives. That Eureka! moment. It comes to us all in different ways, often by chance of serendipity.

Peter Cameron

I found the idea of being a librarian very appealing--working in a place where people had to whisper and only speak when necessary. If only the world were like that!

Peter Carey

So in the first draft, I'm inventing people and place with a broad schematic idea of what's going to happen. In the process, of course, I discover all sorts of bigger and more substantial things.

Pierre Trudeau

People are more interested in ideas than dress.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

More primordial than any idea, beauty will be manifest as the herald and generator or ideas.

Phylicia Rashad

When you're free from the idea of doership then something else within you emerges. It is yourself.

Phyllis Diller

Religion is such a medieval idea. Don't get me started. I have thought about every facet of religion, and I can't buy any of it.

Philip Pullman

Well, I have an idea, usually a visual image of some sort. A setting. A particular, I don't know, urban scene, a particular time of day. Something that grips my imagination for some reason.

Rabindranath Tagore

There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where the idea and the form, the within and the without, are united; where infinite becomes finite, yet not losing its infinity. If this meeting is dissolved, then things become unreal.

Rabindranath Tagore

The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which, once realised, makes all movements full of meaning and joy.

Queen Rania of Jordan

Twitter's a great way to tell people across the world what I care about and, hopefully, motivate them to join me in furthering my causes. It's also a fantastic medium to hear the ideas and opinions of people I might not otherwise get to meet.

Queen Rania of Jordan

You cannot kill an ideology with a bullet. You can only kill it with a better idea.

Pythagoras

Thought is an Idea in transit, which when once released, never can be lured back, nor the spoken word recalled.

Queen Latifah

I love music. I've just been putting studios together, here and at my house in New Jersey and so I can always make music and express my ideas and work with people to fine tune them to where they need to be.

Maggie Stiefvater

I sense that his drowning but I don't have any idea of how to start to put my hand into the water and save him.

Maggie Stiefvater

He was uncomfortable with the idea that use might not like him.

Maggie Stiefvater

I thought you said scrying was a bad idea.” “It's like vodka,” Calla said. “It really depends on who's doing it.

Madchen Amick

I just love the idea of witches, in general. The whole concept of witches was to keep down the feminine rise in power that was happening, at the time. They created this concept of witches, so that they could burn women at the stake and keep them in their place, and now we've turned it around to empower women. That's very ironic. If they only knew that they created a weapon for us to use against them.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Religion has ever been anti-human, anti-woman, anti-life, anti-peace, anti-reason and anti-science. The god idea has been detrimental not only to humankind but to the earth. It is time now for reason, education and science to take over.

Haruki Murakami

When I wake up, my pillow’s cold and damp with tears. But tears for what? I have no idea.

Hans Zimmer

I loved this idea of always being a foreigner. There's this thing where people bring cultures, bring the music together. I love it when the music, when the cultures collide and something sort of new comes out of it.

Harlan Coben

You know, people call mystery novels or thrillers 'puzzles.' I never understood that, because when I buy a puzzle, I already know what it is. It's on the box. And even if I don't, if it's a 5,000-piece puzzle of the 'Mona Lisa', it's not like I put the last piece in and go, 'I had no idea it's the 'Mona Lisa'!'

Gustav Stickley

There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.

Gustave Courbet

Titles have never given a just idea of things; were it otherwise, the work would be superfluous.

Gustav Stresemann

Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation.

Gustav Mahler

I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas; I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.

Gustav Mahler

For the last month I have been a strict vegetarian. The moral effects of this regime are immense, owing to the voluntary subjugation of the flesh and the resulting absence of desires. You will appreciate how full I am of this idea when I tell you that I expect it to work the regeneration of mankind. I advise you to change over to a natural way of life, with proper nourishment (wholemeal bread), and you will soon feel the benefit.

Gustave Flaubert

L'Ide e seule est e ternelle et ne cessaire. The idea alone is eternal and necessary.

Grant Wood

All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.

Greg Behrendt

I get giddy with the idea of stringing words together that make people laugh.

Gordon Waller

A good idea for lyrics and a melody to expand on.

Gordon Strachan

Are there Martians out there? I haven't got a clue. Is there life out there? I have no idea.