Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Cook

The idea that government can instruct private enterprise on how to eliminate waste is preposterous.

James Cook

People are always receptive to the idea of a conspiracy.

James Beard

I’m going to break one of the rules of the trade here. I’m going to tell you some of the secrets of improvisation. Just remember—it’s always a good idea to follow the directions exactly the first time you try a recipe. But from then on, you’re on your own.

James Altucher

If coming up with ten ideas sounds too hard, then come up with twenty.

James Altucher

Do as many ideas as possible. The right idea will pick you.

James Anthony Froude

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Jake Gyllenhaal

Peter Sarsgaard, he's an extraordinary actor, and I would say that Peter has really brought into my life and my sister's life a sense of presence as an actor that I never really understood or knew about until I met him. They've been together for a very long time, and he introduced me to the idea of the presentation.

Jacques Pepin

The idea of old was to conform yourself to a style of cooking, it was not to create a style of cooking. Now the chef is so much into 'I want to sign that dish and say I am the one who made that dish.

Friedrich Schiller

In the case of a creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell and only then does it review and inspect the multitudes.

Frederick W. Smith

My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones.

George Gershwin

Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas.

George Gershwin

Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass through him. And out of his experience comes the original creation.

Jon M. Chu

When I'm doing something, it's something that I had a perspective on in my childhood, or now, but it may be different. I always can go back to what I love, but if somebody has a better idea, then I'm all for it.

Jon M. Chu

The thing that keeps me interested is that I love stories. I love going to movies and I love watching stuff that sparks ideas in my brain.

Jon Ronson

It's not a good idea to define the boundaries of normality by tearing apart people who are outside of it.

Jon Meacham

Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard.

Jon Landau

The Beatles never sounded intimidated by their idols. They never interpreted old rock; they simply played it as well and as joyfully as they knew how. On 'Rock 'n' Roll,' John Lennon does nothing but interpret old rock.

Jon Foreman

What you do with your life is ascribing more to what you invest your time in. If you spend a lot of time on your phone, you're ascribing more worship to that. Anything can become, by that definition, some form of idol or deity or ultimate worth in your life.

Jojo Moyes

All that counts is the truth. Without it you're basically just juggling people's daft ideas.

Jojo Moyes

The thing about being catapulted into a whole new life--or at least, shoved up so hard against someone else's life that you might as well have your face pressed against their window--is that it forces you to rethink your idea of who you are. Or how you might seem to other people.

Jon Brion

Brian Eno developed systems to keep himself on edge and to keep himself in a position where he's generating ideas.

John Zorn

The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive

Lynn Margulis

We are unconscious of most of our body's processes, thank goodness, because we'd screw it up if we weren't. The human body is so complex, with so many parts...a system which is far more complex than we can fully imagine. The idea that we are consciously care-taking such a large and mysterious system is ludicrous.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.

Luc Montagnier

The idea of the live-virus vaccine is to produce in a continuous way some viral antigens.

Luc de Clapiers

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

Louis Menand

There are limits, after all, to the idea of limits.

Louis Malle

The longer I live, the less I trust ideas, the more I trust emotions.

Louis Sachar

Toni hears voices," said Trapp. "But who is this Dr. Ellsworth to tell her she's a schizophrenic? Maybe she just perceives better than the rest of us. Maybe the voices she hears are just uncommunicated ideas, floating free.

Louis Sachar

An idea doesn't die," said Trapp. "It exists somewhere, in its own dimension, waiting to be perceived.

Louis Pasteur

It is a matter of fact; I approached without a preconceived idea, too ready to declare, if the experiment had imposed upon me the confession, that there was a spontaneous generation, of which I am convinced today that those who assure it are blindfolded.

Lord Byron

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.