Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Adams

Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything.

Ray Manzarek

When you're glad to be alive, good ideas come. The reason good ideas don't come today is because we're all bottled up with greed and anger. We're mad.

Ray Kurzweil

We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not.

Ray Lewis

Sometimes I have no idea whats going on

Ray Comfort

Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.

Ray Davies

I got that idea from being in India. I always like the chanting.

Raquel Welch

Not everybody is comfortable with my ethnicity. When I first came along in the business, they didnt really like the idea of my name being Raquel.

Raul Castro

I never liked the idea of giving interviews. One says many things, but when they are published, they become shortened, condensed. The ideas lose their meaning.

Ratan Tata

I have been constantly telling people to encourage people, to question the unquestioned and not to be ashamed to bring up new ideas, new processes to get things done.

Rashida Jones

I'm a sponge. I'm obsessed with comedy. I'm obsessed with the idea that you can make somebody laugh, and I love to be around people who can make other people laugh.

Rashida Jones

Fail fast. Fail often... The most talented people in the world have bad ideas. That's a good thing to learn.

Ransom Riggs

I liked this idea: that peculiarness wasn't a deficiency, but an abundance; that it wasn't we who lacked something normals had, but they who lacked peculiarness. That we were more, not less.

Randy Alcorn

..tithing isn't something I do to clear my conscience so I can do whatever I want with the 90 percent--it also belongs to God! I must seek his direction and permission for whatever I do with the full amount. I may discover that God has different ideas than I do.

Rajneesh

Wherever you go, your mind will go with you. Your knowledge will go with you, your prejudices will go with you, your scriptures will go with you. Your idea that you are a Hindu or a Mohammedan will go with you. So what are you renouncing?

Thomas Jefferson

It is better to have no ideas than false ones.

Thomas Jefferson

The fact is that one new idea leads to another, that to a third and so on through a course of time, until someone, with whom no one of these ideas was original, combines all together, and produces what is justly called a new invention.

Thomas Jefferson

One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier.

Thomas Jefferson

The fantastical idea of virtue and the public good being a sufficient security to the state against the commission of crimes, which you say you have heard insisted on by some, I assure you was never mine.

Robert Hass

Images are not quite ideas, they are stiller than that, with less implication outside themselves. And they are not myth, they do not have the explanatory power; they are nearer to pure story. Nor are they always metaphors; they do not say this is that, they say this is.

Robert Henri

Count on big lines to express your ideas.

Robert Henri

To have ideas one must have imagination. To express ideas one must have science.

Robert Henri

Paint like a fiend when the idea possesses you.

Robert Henri

It's a wrong idea that a master is a finished person. Masters are very faulty; they haven't learned everything and they know it.

Rick Ross

I usually have an idea that I want to build on and let the music take me where I wanna go.

Rick Perry

Debates are set up for nothing more than to tear down the candidates. It's pretty hard to be able to sit and lay out your ideas and your concepts with a one-minute response.

Taylor Caldwell

I shudder at the very thought of being born again into this world. Life to me . . . has been a monstrous, painful, agonizing affair, and the idea of repeating such an existence - even if better in a way - is horrifying to me. . . . I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.

Tammy Baldwin

I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people, counting votes and getting to 50 percent plus one. I don't go back and say, 'Why did this person get to the right position?' It's only, 'Are you yes or are you no?

Tami Hoag

We do the best we can," she said softly, looking inward. "And punish ourselves for it. I've tried to make my choices with the idea that I've made those choices for the greatest good. Sometimes someone suffers in the process, but I made the decision for the right reason. That should count for something, shouldn't it?

T Bone Burnett

My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.

T Bone Burnett

The more perfect music we have, the more attractive the peculiarities and anomalies of human performance become. Perfection is a second rate idea.

Sylvia Plath

I wanted to tell her that if only something were wrong with my body it would be fine, I would rather have anything wrong with my body than something wrong with my head, but the idea seemed so involved and wearisome that I didn’t say anything. I only burrowed down further in the bed.

Sylvia Plath

If only a group of people were more important to me than the idea of a Novel, I might begin a novel.

Sylvia Plath

And there's the fallacy of existence: the idea that one could be happy forever and age with a given situation or series of accomplishments.