Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stan Smith

Line is so versatile - you can do a fine, tight, closely observed description or simply put a line around an idea - like a cartoonist.

Solomon Burke

My manager was Buddy Glee, who put me together with Mike Curb, and was basically the idea to bring some soul to the label and bring something different to the label besides the Hank Williams situation.

Taylor Wilson

I have too many ideas for a lifetime.

Taylor Swift

I fought the idea of having security for a very long time, because I really value normalcy. I really do. I like to be able to take a drive by myself.

Stephanie Coontz

The idea that academics should remain ''above the fray'' only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.

Stanley Fish

Any idea can be brought into the classroom if the point is to inquire into its structure, history, influence and so forth. But no idea belongs in the classroom if the point of introducing it is to recruit your students for the political agenda it may be thought to imply.

Stanley Kubrick

Never say no to an idea - you never know how that idea will ignite another idea.

Soren Kierkegaard

Irony is the birth-pangs of the objective mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between existence and the idea of existence). Humor is the birth -pangs of the absolute mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between the I and the idea of the I .

Soren Kierkegaard

What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I shall do; the crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.

Soren Kierkegaard

The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die. That is what I now recognize as the most important thing.

Soren Kierkegaard

The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.

Stephen Vincent Benet

Defeat is a fact and victory can be a fact. If the idea is good, it will survive defeat, it may even survive the victory.

Stephenie Meyer

So this was different. I was amazing now - to them and to myself. It was like I had been born to be a vampire. The idea made me want to laugh, but it also made me want to sing. I had found my true place in the world, the place I fit, the place I shined.

Stephenie Meyer

Sometimes ideas feel like they were already there, and that you're just discovering them.

Stephenie Meyer

Why didn't I just walk away? Oh right, because I'm a idiot.

Stephen Colbert

No one has any idea what's going to happen. Not even Elon Musk. That's why he's building those rockets. He wants a 'Plan B' on another world.

Stephen Colbert

Republicans and nerds have so much in common -- they both live in fantasy worlds and have no idea how to relate to women.

Stella Adler

It's not important to know who you are. It's important to know what you do, and then to do it like hercules!

Stella Adler

You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences. The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings. The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.

Stella Adler

The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.

Stefan Zweig

All my life I have been passionately interested in monomaniacs of any kind, people carried away by a single idea. The more one limits oneself, the closer one is to the infinite; these people, as unworldly as they seem, burrow like termites into their own particular material to construct, in miniature, a strange and utterly individual image of the world.

Soulja Boy

Now that I'm in the position I'm in now, I like to take all my creative ideas and put 'em on the Internet for my fans to interact with. Give 'em something to do.

Sparky Anderson

My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work.

Sophie Kinsella

Becky! Love!" Mum has pushed her way through her dancing guests to reach me. "What's wrong? Has labor started?" Honestly. My family has no idea about contemporary urban street dance trends.

Tim Salmon

I have always been determined to never compromise my faith or my principles. I always relied on my God-given talent when I took the field. So the idea of using PED's to enhance my performance was a line I chose not to cross.

Tim Walker

It is very difficult to make the ideas in my head come to life, but what is harder is making them look effortless.

The practice is enlightenment. Some people find this idea not to their liking. They want to get enlightenment in a flash. This way they become attached to something that doesn't exist. Enlightenment isn't a thing you get.

Tim Bray

It's like this: The time between having an idea and its public launch is measured in days not months, weeks not years.

Tim Berners-Lee

The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.

Tim Berners-Lee

That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.

Thomas Love Peacock

Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly see the connection of ideas.

Thomas Frank

Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the amazing powers of private capital, the idea of privatizing highways and airports and other bits of our transportation infrastructure made a certain kind of sense.

Thomas Bangalter

We like the idea that the things we do seem to come out of nowhere.