Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shane Carruth

I love to work. It's the idea of having someone else tell you how to make your film or how to sell it - that's the part I can't really deal with. I would rather do 1,000 things that are work than deal with one thing that's a political problem.

Shane Claiborne

It's always a good idea to have a nun next to you when you get arrested!

Shane Claiborne

Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo.

Sergei Eisenstein

Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?

Scott Cohen

I want to be in a position where I feel comfortable selling an idea.

Scott Bakula

It's a joyful, humbling feeling to be in different places around the planet and people have seen shows that I'm proud of being a part of, that do have things to say about the human condition, the planet, and who we are and where we've come from, that will sustain. Those ideas are universal and they work in any language.

Michelle Mone

I thought not being part of the [Britain] union was a bad idea. We are better together. It was dangerous for business as there were no [concrete] plans around the currency or the economy.

Michelle Malkin

Minority conservatives hold a special place of gutter contempt in the minds of unhinged liberals, who can never accept the radical concept of a person of color rejecting identity politics.

Michael Pollan

Oil companies have gas stations. There's this whole huge structure that is about finding a new liquid for the tank. And the idea that maybe there shouldn't be a liquid, that maybe the best is an electrical grid, a sustainably powered electrical grid that we all plug into, that doesn't sit well with oil companies;

Michael Pollan

The issue of snacking is complicated. In principle, "grazing" is probably a good idea. It would even out the insulin spikes and things like that from eating large meals. The problem is it makes it harder for people to control the amount they're eating.

Shonda Rhimes

Most of the women I saw on TV didn't seem like people I actually knew. They felt like ideas of what women are.

Sheri S. Tepper

To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two.

John Henry Newman

Great things are done by devotion to one idea.

John Gallagher, Jr.

With any "new" form of music, the originators are usually good bands that have good music and good ideas, like Nirvana. But then you get all the followers and wannabes, bands like Silverchair, etc...and that really sucks.

John Frusciante

So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.

John Oliver

You just try to be true to your idea of what is funny and what is also interesting.

John O'Donohue

We do not need to operate according to the idea of a predetermined program for our lives.

John O'Donohue

Your identity is not equivalent to your biography. There is a place in you where you have never been wounded, where there's a seamlessness in you, and where there is a confidence and tranquility.

John Mulaney

I always wanted it to be multi-cam from the beginning. In the first seeds of the idea, I wanted a live audience, multi-cam show. That was very important for me.

John Mulaney

I like that idea that what I do might be mainstream. Might be.

John Dewey

Liberty is not just an idea, an abstract principle. It is power, effective power to do specific things. There is no such thing as liberty in general; liberty, so to speak, at large.

John Dewey

We cannot set up, out of our heads, something we regard as an ideal society.

John Dewey

How many students ... were rendered callous to ideas, and how many lost the impetus to learn because of the way in which learning was experienced by them?

John Cale

We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance.

John Carroll

Ownership of thought depends on the thinker not subordinating himself to a 'ruling thought'. This is particularly difficult, argues Stirner, ... for language itself is a network of 'fixed ideas'. Truths emerge only when language is reworked and possessed individually.

John Backus

You need the willingness to fail all the time. You have to generate many ideas and then you have to work very hard only to discover that they don’t work. And you keep doing that over and over until you find one that does work.

Johann Georg Hamann

Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas.

Johan Huizinga

The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.

Joel Edgerton

I have a lot of ideas that I feel are half-formed, or half-way okay.

Joel Kinnaman

It's great to get to work with your idols.

Joe Hill

It bewildered Ig, the idea that a person could not be interested in music. It was like not being interested in happiness.

Joan Miro

The simplest things give me ideas.

Joan Robinson

New ideas are difficult just because they are new. Repetition has somehow plastered over the gaps and inconsistencies in the old ones, and the new cannot penetrate.