Faintest Idea Quotes

#1. You live in a deranged age - more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Walker Percy

#2. Our ancestors are totally essential to our every waking moment, although most of us don't even have the faintest idea about their lives, their trials, their hardships or challenges.

Annie Lennox

#3. Alice: Why is a raven like a writing desk?
Hatter: I haven't the faintest idea.

Lewis Carroll

#4. I read about guerrilla warfare and clandestine struggle without having the faintest idea that one day i would go underground. It's kind of funny when i think about it, because reading all that stuff probably has saved my life a million times.

Assata Shakur

#5. Damn Dap and damn you too, sir, I know what I'm doing." "Do you?" "Better than anyone else." "Oh, that is obvious, since nobody else has the faintest idea what you're doing.

Orson Scott Card

#6. One day it seemed like a good idea, the next day it didn't. That kind of thing happened all the time, way back when, because strategy was fluid. Or because nobody had the faintest idea what they were doing.

Lee Child

#7. How do you know? You've done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?" How could someone like him have the slightest clue what it felt like to be me? I felt almost cross with him for willfully not getting it. "Go on. Open

Jojo Moyes

#8. I haven't the faintest idea what my royalties are. I haven't the faintest idea how many copies of books sold, or how many books that I've written. I could look these things up; I have no interest in them. I don't know how much money I have. There are a lot of things I just don't care about.

Joyce Carol Oates

#9. Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on.

Hanoi Hannah

#10. A hand closed around her arm, warm and hard, and it could possibly have been comforting if she had possessed the faintest idea whose appendage it was.

Lilith Saintcrow

#11. I have always believed that I need a circumference of silence. As to what happens to when I composer, I really haven't the faintest idea.

Samuel Barber

#12. Show me somebody who is always smiling, always cheerful, always optimistic, and I will show you somebody who hasn't the faintest idea what the heck is really going on.

Mike Royko

#13. You're the most terrible snob, Clark." "What? Me?" "You cut yourself off from all sorts of experiences because you tell yourself you are 'not that sort of person.'" "But I'm not." "How do you know? You've done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?" How

Jojo Moyes

#14. The reason you want your kids to pay attention in school is you haven't the faintest idea how to do their homework.

Babs Bell Hajdusiewicz

#15. You cut yourself off from all sorts of experiences because you tell yourself you are 'not that sort of person'"
"But, I'm not."
"How do you know? You've done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?

Jojo Moyes

#16. I've always liked the effect of having somebody in there who hadn't the faintest idea what was going on.

Derek Bailey

#17. Sara hadn't the faintest idea of how she looked, or of what effect her deinotherian body might have on a man.

Michael Chabon

#18. I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like.

Nellie Bly

#19. I'm truly amazed at you, Garion," Polgara said. "I didn't think you had the faintest idea of how to speak a civilized language."
"Thank you," he said, "I think.

David Eddings

#20. It has been left to our generation to discover that you can move heaven and earth to save five minutes and then not have the faintest idea what to do with them when you have saved them.

C.E.M. Joad

#21. A military life had no charms for me, and I had not the faintest idea of staying in the army even if I should be graduated, which I did not expect,

Ulysses S. Grant

#22. Bed sheet, if you please. I'll leave my dignity here.

Frank Tuttle

#23. This day, my God, I hate sin not because it damns me, but because it has done Thee wrong. To have grieved my God is the worst grief to me.

Charles Spurgeon

#24. Instead of asking "what's the problem?" ask "what's the creative opportunity?

Deepak Chopra

#25. We will only stay in community if we have gone through the passage from choosing community to knowing that we have been chosen for community.

Jean Vanier

#26. Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.

E.H. Gombrich

#27. The weird set an example for the rest of us. They raise the bar. They show us through their actions that in fact we're wired to do the new, not to comply with someone a thousand miles away.

Seth Godin

#28. You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do.

Nicole Kidman

#29. Be careful, think about the effect of what you say. Your words should be constructive, bring people together, not pull them apart.

Miriam Makeba

#30. Was there to be some healing after all?
Was healing possible when grave damage had been done?
Was wholeness possible when one had been horribly maimed.

Mary Balogh

#31. My hiatus timeline is so minimal, there's only a select number of projects that I can go in for.

Jim Parsons

#32. Music bypasses the conceptual mind. Music does not give you food for thought ...

Eckhart Tolle