Idee Quotes & Sayings

There's a direct link between percentage of young people that are educated and how we live our lives. — Jeb Bush

Out of all those millions and millions of planets floating around there in space, this is our planet, this is our little one, so we just got to be aware of it and take care of it. — Paul McCartney

I know a lot of people with obsessive qualities, and there's a positive and negative part to it. There's the appeal of someone who's so deadly focused on something that they want or desire - there's a dedication and a single-mindedness that's great. But then if it goes on too long it becomes a psychosis. What's the French term for it? Idee fixe. — Callum Keith Rennie

I've had only one idea in my life - a true idee fixe. To put it as bluntly as possible - the idea of having my own way. 'Control!' expresses it. The control of human behavior. In my early experimental days it was a frenzied, selfish desire to dominate. I remember the rage I used to feel when a prediction went awry. I could have shouted at the subjects of my experiments, 'Behave, damn you! Behave as you ought! — B.F. Skinner

Audrey was the kind of person who when she saw someone else suffering tried to take their pain on herself. She was a healer. She knew how to love. You didn't have to be in constant contact with her to feel you had a friend. We always picked up right where we left off. — Shirley Maclaine

You think I'm dirty?"

"I know you're dirty. I want you in the shower so I can make you filthy. — Alisha Rai

I don't know now if I'm funny. I just keep talking and hope that I hit something that's funny. — Craig Ferguson

Putting the budget ahead of the policy is the wrong way to do it. It's too often the way it's done in Washington. — Spencer Abraham

Don't tell your secrets to anyone/
Because ideas are vulnerable/
As soon as you say your idea out loud/
Then it can go and live on its own/
And you will miss it oh so much/
And you will wait for its return/
And you will wish it were your own/
But ideas that left never come back home. — Regina Spektor

A man's idee in a card game is war — Finley Peter Dunne

We're suckers for this, Sydney. Men. You've got me completely helpless right now. You're so beautiful and alluring, and we guys can't help ourselves. We fight wars for you, cajole you . . . and you put up with us. We have it easy here in bed."
She turned my face toward hers. "This wasn't exactly difficult for me."
"But we still have it easy. You're the strength, the pillars . . . our defenders, our children's defenders. — Richelle Mead

One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all. — Harold Pinter