Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel P. Huntington

We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any more.

William Faulkner

The necessity of the idea creates its own style. The material itself dictates how it should be written.

Willem de Kooning

Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our idea of a picture all to hell. Then there could be new paintings again.

Willem Dafoe

Truth is, generally I like film festivals; somewhere at some level there's an exchange of ideas.

Willem Dafoe

Socially, I like the idea of sitting in a theater with a bunch of people.

Wilbur Smith

People don't really know themselves until they're 30. Like most people nowadays, I went to university, got a degree and wandered for a bit. I trained to be a chartered accountant, which I didn't much enjoy, and it was only slowly that the idea of becoming a creative writer gelled.

Whoopi Goldberg

The people who can be helping to make movies that have blacks and Latinos and women and all that - that movie doesn't come to you. Because the idea is that there's no place for black movies.

Whoopi Goldberg

Most of all, I dislike this idea nowadays that if you're a black person in America, then you must be called African-American. Listen, I've visited Africa, and I've got news for everyone: I'm not an African.

Warren G. Bennis

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

Warren G. Bennis

Leadership (according to John Sculley) revolves around vision, ideas, direction, and has more to do with inspiring people as to direction and goals than with day-to-day implementation. A leader must be able to leverage more than his own capabilities. He must be capable of inspiring other people to do things without actually sitting on top of them with a checklist.

Warren G. Bennis

The leader...is rarely the brightest person in the group. Rather they have extraordinary taste, which makes them more curators than creators. They are appreciators of talent and nurturers of talent and they have the ability to recognize valuable ideas.

Saint Augustine

I had a clear idea about what time is till I was asked to explain it and ceased to understand it altogether as soon as I began explaining it.

Vera Wang

Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.

Vanessa Friedman

The important thing when it comes to grooming, as when it comes to clothes, is you do not want anything to distract from the strength and power of your ideas,.

Vanessa Hudgens

Working for with someone who has no idea what they wanted... it would just be so all over the place, especially with something on this scale. You have to know what you want with this.

Vance Havner

Somehow the idea has gotten around that it is unchristian to take a stand against heresy. Some of us need to read the New Testament again.

Vance Havner

Our Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth.

Valerie Harper

Dessert doesn't count if you eat under an assumed identity.

Ugo Betti

Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

Ulrich Beck

The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.

Uma Thurman

If you're not ready to be in a relationship, going out with someone much younger than you is probably a great idea, because you both can have a decent experience and hopefully nobody will end up feeling cheated when it ends.

Richard Dawkins

Sometimes in life it is a good idea to stop,sometimes it is a good idea to go on. The trick is to decide when to stop

Richard Dawkins

By dislaiming the idea of a next life, we can take more excitement in this one!

Robin Williams

On rides you see things that trigger ideas. And most the time it's just not doing anything but riding ... letting it all go.

Robin Williams

The great thing about marriage is the idea of really getting to know someone. And really getting to know a woman is a life long task.

Robin Williams

When you really do find a new idea or you're in and it's all working, that's the gift. It's like a musician when they hit a riff, that's when you're like all right, it's mellow. You back off and just ride it.

Robin Williams

Explore an idea until you've exhausted it, really go to all the different parameters of it.

Robin Williams

I don't practice anything. I spend time looking over ideas and then just get out and do it.

Robin Chase

That’s the key to new and good ideas; they come from having a very broad and multidisciplinary range of interests.

Robin Ince

I want to create shows which are interesting. I hope that some people are excited by some of the ideas.

Robin Ince

One idea I explore in my stand-up show is whether, if you try looking at the universe rationally and avoid coping mechanisms like mysticism or religion, you can still be happy knowing you are going to die after a brief time on this spinning ball.

Robert Winston

Religion has endured since the dawn of human consciousness precisely because it encompasses so much of being human. No idea has endured so long, gathered up so many disparate needs and wants and feelings, and inspired so many different paths towards understanding it.