Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Coe

I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative history.

Jonathan Edwards

So that it must be only by the imagination that Satan has access to the soul, to tempt and delude it, or suggest anything to it. And this seems to be the reason why persons that are under the disease of melancholy are commonly so visibly and remarkably subject to the suggestions and temptations of Satan... Innumerable are the ways by which the mind may be led on to all kind of evil thoughts, by the exciting of external ideas in the imagination.

Jonathan Edwards

The material universe exists only in the mind.

Jonathan Edwards

Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.

Jonathan Alter

The only reason the House hasn't done even more damage is that the Senate often sands down the most noxious ideas, making the bills merely bad, not disastrous.

Jonathan Alter

The basic problem is with the business model of journalism. That business model is premised on the idea that talk is cheap and reporting is expensive.

Jonah Lehrer

...new ideas are merely several old thoughts that occur at the exact same time.

Jonah Hill

Be open to other people's ideas. Don't get arrogant about your ideas. Shoot a lot of options so you're not stuck with just one version of something.

Jonah Goldberg

[C]ontemporary liberalism stands on a foundation of assumptions and ideas integral to the larger fascist movement.

Jonah Goldberg

You can see why the Marxist left would resist the idea that Hitler was a revolutionary. Because if he was, then either Hitler was a force for good, or revolutions can be bad.

Jon Stewart

The goals for me have changed somewhat. There's a bit of seduction to the idea of being on network, but it got to the point where that wasn't important. What's important is doing something worthwhile. Which is why I've always avoided being on a sitcom. Yeah, it's high-profile and it's on a network, but you know what? You could be on Suddenly Stewart.

Joyce Carol Oates

I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.

Katha Pollitt

One of the very important ideas of feminism for me has always been women helping and supporting each other.

Justin Zackham

I get a million ideas a day and I don't put too much weight on any one of them. The ones that really stick in my head are the ones I end up doing.

Justin Vernon

The weird thing is I feel like I'm shedding skin so fast and I'm growing and I'm becoming a new person so quickly at a rate that I'm comfortable with, yet it seems faster and more steady than an other time in my life except 16, 17, 18. I just have to sit down and listen to the ideas I'm having. And I'm not worried.

Julie Delpy

I'm a very direct person and, sometimes, when I want something, I will push it until I get it. But, it's OK. It's not as bad as some people. When I have an idea in my head, I'm pretty stubborn.

Richard Dawkins

I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will.

Richard Dawkins

The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our moral compass from religion, as a matter of fact we don't.

Richard Dawkins

I respect you too much to respect your ridiculous ideas.

Richelle Mead

I didn't just get an idea. I got a great idea.

Richelle Mead

So that's how you're going to fix the family problem. Little Dragomirs. Good idea.

Richelle Mead

All this time…ever since I sold my soul, I’ve been clinging to this idea that there is something pure and decent out there. That there was something to give me hope that even if I was a lost cause, at least there was something bright and good in the world. But there isn’t. If there was, Seth wouldn’t have fallen. Erik wouldn’t have died. Andrea Mortensen wouldn’t be dying.” -Georgina to Carter

Richelle Mead

You fixed yourself. You didn’t need me.” “No, Sydney.” My voice was ragged. “I do need you. You have no idea how much I need you.

Richard Avedon

I am always stimulated by people. Almost never by ideas.

Rex Harrison

Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.

Renzo Rosso

Diesel pioneered the idea of luxury denim, and we still drive this market. But it encompasses more: the consumers love the brand, the lifestyle, the mentality of Diesel.

Richard Bach

In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea.

Russell Brand

If people associate you with the idea of loads of money, they in turn will give some of that money to you.

Russell Brand

Perhaps if we could popularise through the techniques of branding and consumerism, a different idea, a different narrative, perhaps the world can change. After all it changes constantly and incessantly, it's just the perceptions that we have are governed by people with self-interest and are not inalignment with the health and safety of us as individuals or as a planet.

Russell Brand

See all these buildings, Russell? All these buildings were once a drawing on a piece of paper, and before that they were an idea in someone’s head. Any idea that you have, you can make manifest.

Russell Brand

You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from the idea that people are watching you.

Russell Brand

The revolution that's required isn't a revolution of radical ideas, but the implementation of ideas we already have.

Rose McIver

I know that I don't have a perfect performance that I bring to set. I bring ideas to set, and I'm more than willing for those to be affected and be malleable, based on what the other person gives me.