Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert H. Schuller

All it takes is one idea to solve an impossible problem.

Robert H. Schuller

Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

Robert Greene

You could have a lot of money at your fingertips, the finest education and intellectual knowledge, but if you are governed by fear none of that will matter. You will remain tied to dead ideas and stale strategies. You will not be able to adapt. You will lose what you have.

Robert Greene

Most people are passive aggressive in this world. I have the idea that the human being is born with a kind of reservoir of aggression. We are inherently somewhat aggressive creatures and we either channel that in direct ways or we channel it in indirect ways and become passive aggressive.

Vinod Khosla

Certain food-based biofuels like biodiesel have always been a bad idea. Others like corn ethanol have served a useful purpose and essentially are obsoleting themselves.

Vinton Cerf

What's wonderful about Google is that as long as you bring ideas to the table, it doesn't matter what else is going on.

Vinton Cerf

We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure.

Walt Whitman

I like the scientific spirit-the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine-it always keeps the way beyond open.

Saul Bellow

One way or another the no doubt mad idea entered my mind that my own actions had historic importance and this fantasy (?) made it appear that people who harmed me were interfering with an important experiment.

Saul Alinsky

Curiosity and irreverence go together. Curiosity cannot exist without the other. Curiosity asks, "Is this true?" "Just because this has always been the way, is the best or right way of life, the best or right religion, political or economic value, morality?" To the questioner, nothing is sacred. He detests dogma, defies any finite definition of morality, rebels against any repression of a free, open search of ideas no matter where they may lead. He is challenging, insulting, agitating, discrediting. He stirs unrest.

Saul Bellow

The soul has to find and hold its ground against hostile forces, sometimes embodied in ideas which frequently deny its very existence, and which indeed often seem to be trying to annul it altogether.

Sarah Jessica Parker

I expect I should be more calloused by now, but I am so sensitive about not ever living up to anybody's worst idea about an actor who is well-known.

Sarah Dessen

He's getting dumped. And he doesn't even know it yet. He's probably eating a cheeseburger or flossing or picking up his dry cleaning, and he has no idea. No inkling.

Sarah Dessen

But there was something I liked about the idea of those seeds buried so deep having at least a chance to emerge

Sarah Dessen

Can she be divorced?" I asked. "And famous for her commercials and ideas?" She can be anything," Boo told me, and this is what I remember most, her freckled face so solemn, as if she knew she was the first to tell me. "And so can you.

Sandra Bullock

After a while, you have no idea how old you are because you've lied so many times.

Rory Bremner

I've no idea what they make of me. People usually don't recognise themselves in an impression.

Ronnie Spector

No one has their own identity like the Ronettes did back in the day.

Rohit Sharma

People are impatient. They want things to happen overnight, and have no idea of the circumstances and situations that can surround an individual at times.

Roger Ebert

Wes Anderson's mind must be an exciting place for a story idea to be born. It immediately becomes more than a series of events and is transformed into a world with its own rules, in which everything is driven by emotions and desires as convincing as they are magical.

Rod McKuen

Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride on air. You have only to reach out and snatch one.

Rod Serling

Ideas are born from what is smelled, heard, seen, experienced, felt, emotionalized.

Rod Serling

Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.

Robin McKinley

the touch of evil poisons by the idea of it. Reject the idea, and you've rejected the evil

Robert Stromberg

I would be perfectly happy doing an indie film that had some really cool creative ideas.

Robert Townsend

It's a poor bureaucrat who can't stall a good idea until even its sponsor is relieved to see it dead and officially buried.

Robert Townsend

An idea's worth is directly proportional to the opposition created.

Robert Smithson

Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head

Robert Schumann

My indifference to money and my spendthrift ways are disgraceful. You have no idea how reckless I am; how often I practically throw money out of the window. I am always making good resolutions, but the next minute I forget and give the waiter eightpence.

Robert Smith

The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me.

Robert Smith

I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explodes or Joy Division, because I didn't want to listen to my competitors for fear of nicking ideas off them.

Robert Smith

If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan; it can't work.

Robert Smith

My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible.