Famous Quotes & Sayings

Snoop Dogg

Nobody needs a movie to give them an idea.

Sigmar Gabriel

The idea that the growing demand for energy worldwide can be met with energy from nuclear power is nonsense.

Michelle Pfeiffer

Where I came from, the idea of going into show business was just ridiculous; in fact I didn't tell anybody because I knew people would laugh at me. So I sort of snuck around and got some pictures and got a resume together and, of course, lied and said I did all kinds of things I didn't do.

Michael Shermer

The concept of God is generated by a brain designed by evolution to find design in nature (a very recursive idea).

Michael Shermer

In science, if an idea is not falsifiable, it is not that it is wrong, it is that we cannot determine if it is wrong, and thus it is not even wrong.

Michael Scott

Have you any idea how to wake a hibernating Elder?” Machiavelli shook his head. “Mars, what about you? Any advice?” “Yes. Don’t.

Michael Scott

The idea of selling a Cezanne to buy a Morisot seems explosively contentious.

Michael Scott

Good collaboration essentially boils down to personalities who work well together and are able to integrate each other's notes and ideas without killing each other.

Michael Moore

My films don't have instant impact because they're dense with ideas that people have not thought about. It takes a while for the American public to wrap its head around some of the things I'm saying.

Michael Moore

The money to fund great things and innovations and programs is gone in our lifetime; it's all gone to debt. So we won't be able to solve global warming or have the transportation that we needed for the 21st century. We should be supporting people with great ideas, but it's gone, and now it's gotta be paid back with interest to banks in China.

Michael Moore

Under Reagan came the idea of putting your pension plan in the stock market, which wasn't a guaranteed pension.

Michael Moore

The idea that cinema can be dangerous is a great idea.

John Owen

the whole Pelagian poison of free-will ... a clear exaltation of the old idol free-will into the throne of God ... That the decaying estate of Christianity have invented.

Norah O'Donnell

I dont love the phrase balancing work and family. It sets up this idea of scales of justice with work on one side and family on the other side.

Norbert Wiener

A significant idea of organization cannot be obtained in a world in which everything is necessary and nothing is contingent

Norbert Wiener

Any useful logic must concern itself with Ideas with a fringe of vagueness and a Truth that is a matter of degree.

Nobuo Uematsu

When you talk about the Final Fantasy series, the series started selling better after 7, and that was the base idea for the center of the set list for the LA concert.

Neil Kinnock

I take notice of those who have argued consistently for the modernisation of the E.U., but so many of the skeptics in Britain are just hostile to the whole European idea.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Any time we are answer-driven rather than idea driven, we have lost the true meaning of education.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Never presume that just because you disagree with an idea that you must be correct.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

One should not be too distracted by definitions. Ideas transcend definitions.

Neil Gaiman

The truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do with it.

Neil Gaiman

She was witchy, yes, and in charge of a cauldron roiling with ideas and stories, but she always gave the impression that the stories, the ones she wrote and wrote so very well and so wisely, had simply happened, and that all she had done was to hold the pen. (On Diana Wynne Jones)

Neil Gaiman

It seemed to Coraline that it was crouching, and staring down at her, as if it were not really a house but only the idea of a house—and the person who had had the idea, she was certain, was not a good person.

Neil Gaiman

Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.

Neil Gaiman

Identity can be so gelatinous sometimes.

Neil Gaiman

I love making things. I love building things. I love the idea that something's in the world that wasn't there before.

John Newman

I don't want to date celebrities, I don't want to roll out of clubs absolutely steaming, make an idiot out of myself. I want to concentrate on my music career.

John Waters

I keep on having ideas and developments. Some happen and some don't, but I still always have a way of telling a story.

John Waters

I went to the Vatican once - it was a bad idea. I went into the bookshop and I bought hideous, pious postcards and then I asked for a receipt, and the nun said, "We don't give receipts at the Vatican." Which threw me into a rage of like, "I guess not, so you can take this money and funnel it into anti-homosexual groups!" People had to drag me out of there. It's not good for me to go into the Vatican.

John Thune

Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution.

John Steinbeck

He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.

John Simon

It's wonderful to be hated by idiots.