Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leon Krier

If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides, modernism rather than classicism has dominated the architecture of totalitarian regimes of both the left and right.

Lea DeLaria

It's really not enough to just have black women. A really good idea could be to comment on how they are treated by society.

Learned Hand

We shall succeed only so far as we continue that most distasteful of all activity, the intolerable labor of thought.

Laurence Olivier

Above all, you must remain open and fresh and alive to any new idea.

Laurence J. Peter

A bureaucrat's idea of cleaning up his files is to make a copy of every paper before he destroys it.

Lauren Velez

When I first came out to L.A., Hollywoods idea of a Latina was Mexican. It was almost like they had never seen or heard of an Afro-Latina before.

Lauren Oliver

The idea—the fact of it, the fact that he even noticed and thought about me for more than one second—is huge and overwhelming, makes my legs go tingly and my hands feel numb.

Larry Wall

There's many scripting languages in the world, Perl is a little bit special because it is based more on some ideas from the way natural languages work.

Lake Bell

Something that has always attracted me to even taking on the occupation of actor is the idea that I could be lucky enough to portray different characterizations from different places in the world, whether it's speaking another language or taking on a dialect and building a history from where they were born. I was very attracted to that concept, in becoming an actor.

Lafcadio Hearn

But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations.

Lafcadio Hearn

Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true.

L. Neil Smith

Imagine how a Teddy Kennedy or a Bill Clinton would take the news that one woman in ten, say, has the power to resist his blandishments by deadly force, and you'll get a perfect idea of how a Charles Schumer or a George Bush feels about armed taxpayers.

P. J. O'Rourke

The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.

P. J. O'Rourke

The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.

P. J. O'Rourke

Idealism is based on big ideas. And, as anybody who has ever been asked "What's the big idea?" knows, most big ideas are bad ones.

Pablo Picasso

If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this meaning. What ideas and conclusions you have got I obtained too, but instinctively, unconsciously. I make the painting for the painting. I paint the objects for what they are.

Pablo Picasso

To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing... When I find myself facing a blank page, that’s always going through my head. What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.

Pablo Picasso

What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.

Paul Schrader

The only economic paradigm that movies have ever known is capitalism. There were no church sponsors or state patronage. The idea was that if you'd pay to see it, we'll make it for you.

Paul Stanley

Credibility is someone else's idea of what I should be doing.

Paul McEuen

Nanotechnology is the idea that we can create devices and machines all the way down to the nanometer scale, which is a billionth of a meter, about half the width of a human DNA molecule.

Paul Meyer

The future is built on the flow of new ideas.

Paul Cezanne

You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.

Patricia McConnell

I had a naïve idea that if I could tell the story, people would be outraged and do something about conditions in the jails.

Oscar Wilde

I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.

Oscar Wilde

Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

Oscar Wilde

Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.

John Steinbeck

Got a lot of sinful ideas. But they seem kinda sensible.

Jack Prelutsky

After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.

Ivan Turgenev

Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. "I don't adopt any one's ideas; I have my own.

Isaiah Berlin

The trouble with academics and commentators is that they care more about whether ideas are interesting than whether they are true.

Isaiah Berlin

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.

Irvin D. Yalom

Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.