Ideed Quotes & Sayings

I worked with Ismail Merchant on 'The Mystic Masseur,' I did 'Sakina's Restaurant,' I've done plays, I've been on Broadway, I've done movies, I've done TV ... but nothing has had the pop culture penetrative impact as 'The Daily Show' has. It's the nature of the beast. — Aasif Mandvi

I've witnessed first hand the impact the Benchmark team has had on new ventures, and I believe their commitment to the entrepreneur and dedication to building companies of lasting value really set the firm apart. — Mitch Lasky

Mr. Wang had found my interest in fen, the Mandarin word for excrement, peculiar. Nonetheless, he tried to be helpful. He would point out when he spotted a truck full of fen looming behind, though its odor preceded it by far. He would alert me when he saw a tiny figure in a roadside field bearing a tank and hose, spraying--by the smell of it--the contents of his toilets on his cabbages. This practice would horrify any public health professional, given the disease-load of feces, but it's what happens to 90 percent of China's excrement, and has been done forever. There are reasons not to eat salads in China, and why the sizzling woks are so sizzling. — Rose George

A gossip is one who talks to you about others, a bore is one who talks to you about himself, and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself. — Lisa Kirk

Great and small, minister and people, all must wrestle; not one part of Christ's army in the field, and the other at ease in their quarters, where no enemy comes. Here — William Gurnall

How exciting is it to come to work if the best you can do is trounce some other company that does roughly the same thing? — Larry Page

That's a very good thing. — Tijan

No body told you to call your band Salacious Mold, my friend. — Cassandra Clare

If I need a reason now, Dru, it will have to be you. — Lili St. Crow

Say what you will about the south, but in North Carolina a hot dog is free to swing anyway it wishes. — David Sedaris

Unless an action is rightly thought out and its steps rightly planned, every stage of its performance will probably remain vague and therefore unsatisfactory for the doer and all those concerned. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Beyle's advice is not to purchase engravings of fine views and prospects seen on one's travels, since before very long they will displace our memories completly, ideed one might say they destroy them. — W.G. Sebald

Radiation, unlike smoking, drinking, and overeating, gives no pleasure, so the possible victims object. — Isaac Asimov

He gives new meaning to the word bombed. — Lee Davidson

There was no word for self-pity in the language of the north-east of Scotland - the nearest being a word which is defined in the Scots dictionary as being 'a term used to express self-reproach on paying too much for something. — Alexander McCall Smith

Sex education should be 'relationship education', focusing on how to achieve long-term commitment. — Mal Fletcher