All Quotes

An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.
‐‐ Bernard Williams

An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn't take his advice.
‐‐ John McCarthy

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
‐‐ Margaret Atwood

An eye for beauty locks onto faces that show signs of health and fertility - just as one would predict if it had evolved to help the beholder find the fittest mate.
‐‐ Steven Pinker

An eyelash curler should be everyone's best friend.
‐‐ Jessica Hart

An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs.
‐‐ John Ashcroft

An honest cop still can't find a place to go and complain without fear of recrimination. The blue wall will always be there because the system supports it.
‐‐ Frank Serpico

An honest God is the noblest work of man.
‐‐ Robert Green Ingersoll

An honest man is always a child.
‐‐ Socrates

An honest man's the noblest work of God.
‐‐ Alexander Pope

An honest money system is the only alternative.
‐‐ Frederick Soddy

An honest observer of the evolution of conditions in Egypt would discover that terrorism is an alien phenomenon, strange to our values and heritage.
‐‐ Hosni Mubarak

An honest politician has no goodies to toss around. This limits his effectiveness profoundly, because political power in India is dispersed throughout a multi-tiered federal structure; a local official who has not been paid off can sometimes stop a billion-dollar project.
‐‐ Aravind Adiga

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
‐‐ Simon Cameron

An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.
‐‐ John Paul Jones

An hour of my time is a tiny price to pay for all the support I've gotten from my fans.
‐‐ Erik Estrada

An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a violin lesson in Palestine is an hour away from violence, is an hour away from fundamentalism.
‐‐ Daniel Barenboim

An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily.
‐‐ Hudson Stuck

An hour series is a killer. It's hard on you physically.
‐‐ James Garner

An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?
‐‐ Peter Brook

An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.
‐‐ Brent Scowcroft

An idea can be tested, whereas if you have no idea, nothing can be tested and you don't understand anything. The molecule that you make when you are getting sunburned or when you eat a lot of food is part of the same molecule that contains an endorphin or an opiate. No one has ever had a hypothesis about why the two are together.
‐‐ James D. Watson

An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea.
‐‐ Hans Hofmann

An idea has been running in my head that books lose and gain qualities in the course of time, and I have worried over it a good deal, for what seemed to be a paradox, I felt to be a truth.
‐‐ George A. Moore

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
‐‐ Pablo Picasso

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.
‐‐ Jose Ortega y Gasset

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
‐‐ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible.
‐‐ Russell Hoban

An idea is salvation by imagination.
‐‐ Frank Lloyd Wright

An idea is so impersonal; it is yours today and the whole world's tomorrow.
‐‐ George A. Moore

An idea is something you work on to make it work and a desire is much deeper in a way.
‐‐ Michel Hazanavicius

An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
‐‐ Don Marquis

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
‐‐ Charles Dickens

An idea like equality between men and women, which is now accepted in the West, is quite new.
‐‐ Antonio Munoz Molina

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
‐‐ Arnold H. Glasow

An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.
‐‐ Joseph McCabe

An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.
‐‐ Karl Kraus

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
‐‐ Edward de Bono

An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
‐‐ Elbert Hubbard

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde

An ideal day for me is a combination of a fun-exciting creative moment with work partners, some laughs and games with my kids, a good surf session, and great conversation with friends around a meal.
‐‐ Yves Behar

An ideal movie would be, like - to get this to happen, I have to work so much harder - but imagine Denzel Washington, Laurence Fishburne, Jamie Foxx, Eddie Murphy... Who else? Donald Faison. Directed by Steven Spielberg. That would be awesome.
‐‐ Donald Faison

An ideal reader is someone who doesn't know what on Earth you've been doing, who will look at it with absolute freshness and go, 'Oh, so that's what you've been up to.'
‐‐ Edward Carey

An ideal society should be mobile, should be full of channels for conveying a change taking place in one part to other parts. In an ideal society, there should be many interests consciously communicated and shared.
‐‐ B. R. Ambedkar

An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.
‐‐ Booth Tarkington

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
‐‐ Sacha Guitry

An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
‐‐ Sydney J. Harris

An idealist is ahead of his time only in the sense that he is articulate. The same is true of a nation. For even primitive people, even effete races have a message for those above or below them. The heritage of the Ideal, however small can not be exhausted.
‐‐ Ameen Rihani

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
‐‐ H. L. Mencken