Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis Sachar

An idea doesn't die," said Trapp. "It exists somewhere, in its own dimension, waiting to be perceived.

Louis Pasteur

It is a matter of fact; I approached without a preconceived idea, too ready to declare, if the experiment had imposed upon me the confession, that there was a spontaneous generation, of which I am convinced today that those who assure it are blindfolded.

Lord Acton

The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the spirit that preserves them, and the form may remain unaltered when the substance has passed away.

Lord Acton

Government by idea tends to take in everything, to make the whole of society obedient to the idea. Spaces not so governed are unconquered, beyond the border, unconverted, a future danger.

Jim Rogers

If anybody laughs at your idea, view it as a sign of potential success!

John Cleese

If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you open to my ideas

John Cleese

The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting.

John Cleese

We don't know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them from our laptops.

Lusia Strus

What draws me to the theatre, and what appealed to me about Too Much Light, is that you have no idea what's going to happen. That's the most exciting part of theatre, it's never the same. If it were, it would be like watching a movie.

Luther Burbank

As a scientist, I can not help feeling that all religions are on a tottering foundation. None is perfect or inspired.The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me. I don't want to have anything to do with such a God.

John Boyne

We all are [normal]. Their idea of normal just happens to be different to some other people's idea of normal. But this is the world we live in. Some people simply cannot accept something that is outside of their experience.

John Ambrose Fleming

We are apt to consider that invention is the result of spontaneous action of some heavenborn genius, whose advent we must patiently wait for, but cannot artificially produce. It is unquestionable, however, that education, legal enactments, and general social conditions have a stupendous influence on the development of the originative faculty present in a nation and determine whether it shall be a fountain of new ideas or become simply a purchaser from others of ready-made inventions.

John Archibald Wheeler

It from Bit symbolizes the idea that every item of the physical world has at bottom an immaterial source and explanation... that all things physical are information-theoretic in origin and that this is a participatory universe.

John Armstrong

Sometimes pantheists will use the term "pandeism" to underscore that they share with the deists the idea that God is not a personal God who desires to be worshipped.

Users provide the real quality of this meeting. They tell it like it is. They share ideas and share software, too. SHARE and its SHARE library invented the open source concept.

Robert Kiyosaki

My company survives because I've learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

Robert Kiyosaki

The world's not going to wait for you. If you have an idea, put some effort behind it and get it out there.

Robert Kiyosaki

Friends and family will tell you why your ideas won't work. Most are left-brained employees and specialists and NOT entrepreneurs.

Robert Kiyosaki

The idea that success can happen overnight is crippling the financial future of generations. You have to work for it.

Robert Kiyosaki

People with low financial literacy standards are often unable to take their ideas and create assets out of them.

Robert Kiyosaki

There are fast ideas and slow ideas, just as there are fast trains and slow trains. When it comes to money, most people are on the slow train looking out the window watching the fast train pass them by. If you want to become rich quickly, your plan must include fast ideas.

Hoshyar Zebari

These are new ideas, ... That's why they are not comfortable.

These are just ideas right now. We need to have a lot more discussion.

This is one of the very many ideas that's out there and warrants appropriate consideration,

Steve Stoute

Great ideas can come from anywhere. There are no titles around an idea.

Stephen Lang

The idea of being in a television series is a wonderful one to be considered, but you want to make sure it's the right thing for you because if you are fortunate enough to have something go for a long term, you want to make sure that it's something that you really want to be spending a bulk of your time on.

Stephen King

When you put on a clown suit and a rubber nose, nobody has any idea what you look like inside.

Stephen King

An idea is like a cold germ: sooner or later someone always catches it.

Ellen Page

I'm not good at watching stuff that I'm in at all. I should stop. I shouldn't watch something for the first time with a room full of people at Sundance. It's not a good idea.

Elizabeth Reaser

We had no idea what we were getting into. We thought we were just doing this little vampire movie in Portland. There was just a lot of silliness, a lot of hijinks and bad behavior.

Ella Maillart

That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life.

Scott Adams

Good ideas have no value because the world already has too many of them. The market rewards execution, not ideas.

Scott Adams

There's no such thing as good ideas and bad ideas. There are only your own ideas and other people's. If you want someone to like your idea, tell him he said it first last week and you just remembered it.