Famous Quotes & Sayings

Judith Rodin

Without impact, innovation is just an idea with promise.

Judy Blume

Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination.

Judy Blume

Ideas come from everywhere - they come from what you see and hear and imagine.

Josh Lucas

I'm right at a time when I'm strongly finding my identity inside of my work.

Josh Lucas

It's the South that maintains the idea that they're different, which is interesting because nobody else really cares

Joseph Conrad

The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretence but an idea.

Joseph Conrad

The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas.

Joshua Ferris

Without work, so much of one's identity just evaporates.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

Any idea seriously entertained tends to bring about the realization of itself.

Kasey Kahne

I finally crashed. I drove like an idiot all day.

Kary Mullis

If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen.

Karlie Kloss

Christy Turlington is my idol. She really is. She's a gorgeous woman inside and out. I admire her work in the charity field. She's just been able to balance it all - and gracefully, as well.

Leighton Meester

I don't know if it'd be any time soon but I'd really like to work on a collaboration with somebody - I always have ideas for stuff like that.

Leighton Meester

I want an identity outside of my work.

Lawrence Summers

Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient.

Laura Ziskin

What's great about making movies is the sort of additive process of bringing people together and having an idea and watching the idea be added to and at the end you have this thing. It's really a collaborative experience.

Lasse Hallstrom

Kevin, as the whole cast is, just wonderful people and great people, and people who are attracted to this kind of material and accepting the idea of going to Newfoundland and knowing the kind of lack of amenities.

Lasse Hallstrom

I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.

Lasse Hallstrom

To make a movie charming, you have to be playful on all levels and open to ideas, and you have to have an idea for how to do that within the confines of the shooting schedule and editing and all that.

John Keats

A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no identity he is continually informing and filling some other body.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Ideas do not respect national frontiers, and this is especially so where language and other traditions are in common.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The charge that an idea is radical, impractical, or long- haired is met by showing that a prominent businessman has favored it?an additional tactic in this strategy of defense?is to assert that Winston Churchill once sponsored the particular idea. If one is challenged, a sufficiently careful investigation will show that he did.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Few things are as immutable as the addiction of political groups to the ideas by whichthey have once won office.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Economists are economical, among other things, of ideas; most make those of their graduate days do for a lifetime.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The ideas by which people . . . interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth.

Ideas that change business models and who can make money are the most threatening, outside actual religion.

John Daly

How you frame an issue shapes how it is viewed by others. Great advocates frame their ideas as problems that need solutions.

John Cusack

I guess maybe I'm idealistic.

Lisa Kleypas

I have always hated flying. The idea of it is an affront to nature. People are meant to stay on the ground.

Lord Acton

The idea that the object of constitutions is not to confirm the predominance of any interest, but to prevent it; to preserve with equal care the independence of labour and the security of property; to make the rich safe against envy, and the poor against oppression, marks the highest level attained by the statesmanship of Greece.

Logan Lerman

I’ve written a lot and brainstorm ideas, and I plan on pursuing them very soon.