Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ravi Zacharias

An expenditure of words without income of ideas will lead to intellectual bankruptcy.

Ray Bradbury

Ideas result from the collision of metaphors inside the head.

Ray Bradbury

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

Randy Newman

I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and essentially destroying it!

Eric Hoffer

First something is a great idea, then it becomes a cause, then it becomes a business and finally it becomes a racket.

Eric Hoffer

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome.

Emmett Shear

The question is, once you have this idea, is this enough? Is it something people would actually switch just to have?

Emmanuelle Chriqui

We have this idea of perfection that is so unrealistic. We are our own worst enemy. No one is noticing that little scar.

James Cash Penney

Exchange ideas frequently.

James Cash Penney

A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.

James Cook

The idea that government can instruct private enterprise on how to eliminate waste is preposterous.

James Cook

People are always receptive to the idea of a conspiracy.

James Beard

I’m going to break one of the rules of the trade here. I’m going to tell you some of the secrets of improvisation. Just remember—it’s always a good idea to follow the directions exactly the first time you try a recipe. But from then on, you’re on your own.

James Altucher

If coming up with ten ideas sounds too hard, then come up with twenty.

James Altucher

Do as many ideas as possible. The right idea will pick you.

James Anthony Froude

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Jake Gyllenhaal

Peter Sarsgaard, he's an extraordinary actor, and I would say that Peter has really brought into my life and my sister's life a sense of presence as an actor that I never really understood or knew about until I met him. They've been together for a very long time, and he introduced me to the idea of the presentation.

Jacques Pepin

The idea of old was to conform yourself to a style of cooking, it was not to create a style of cooking. Now the chef is so much into 'I want to sign that dish and say I am the one who made that dish.

Jacques Maritain

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Jacques Ellul

The aim of modern propaganda is no longer to modify ideas, but to provoke action.

Jacob Lawrence

The Human subject is the most important thing. My work is abstract in the sense of having been designed and composed, but it is not abstract in the sense of having no human content I want to communicate. I want the idea to strike right away.

Henry Rollins

The idea that any performer type is owed anything is a joke to me.

Henry Rollins

So many Americans, for one reason or another, they watch the news and it doesn't really give them the idea of the world. Or they don't read or travel. They have no idea that America is part of the world and not the world itself.

Henry Rollins

If you have an idea of what you want to do in your future, you must go at it with almost monastic obsession...you have to go at it single-mindedly and let nothing get in your way.

Henry Adams

There have been times when the church seemed afraid, but she is no longer. Analyze, dissect, use your microscope or your spectrum till the last atom of matter is reached; reflect and refine till the last element of thought is made clear; the church now knows with the certainty of science what she once knew only by the certainty of faith, that you will find enthroned behind all thought and matter only one central idea--that idea which the church has never ceased to embody--I AM!

Henry A. Kissinger

Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.

Henry Hazlitt

Once the idea is accepted that money is something whose supply is determined simply by the printing press, it becomes impossible for the politicians in power to resist the constant demands for further inflation.

Mary Tyler Moore

When the doctor said I had diabetes, I conjured images of languishing on a chaise longue nibbling chocolates. I have no idea why I thought this.

Mary Ellen Chase

Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.

Mary Elizabeth Ellis

My personal sense of humor is edgy, I would say more cable-like: words you're not allowed to say, ideas that the majority of people might say, "That's too risqué for me."

Patricia Hill Collins

Oppressed groups are frequently placed in the situation of being listened to only if we frame our ideas in the language that is familiar to and comfortable for a dominant group. This requirement often changes the meaning of our ideas and works to elevate the ideas of dominant groups.

Patricia Briggs

Some of the fae have an odd idea of bride send-offs," he explained "including, according to Zee, kidnapping." "I forgot about that." And I was appalled because I knew better. "Bran and Samuel are probably more of a danger than any of the fae," I told him. "Someday, I'll tell you about some of the more spectaculare wedding antics Samuel's told me about." Some of them made kidnapping look mild.

Patricia Briggs

Zee said, grumpily, “Liebling, this is not a good idea.” “Zee,” I told him, “I am completely out of good ideas and am doing my best with the bad ones I have left.