Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Evans

I had no idea there were so many ways you could burn yourself out.

Tom Waits

I didn't really identify with the music of my own generation, but I was very curious about the music of others.

Tom Stoppard

The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it's no longer the abstract ideal version; it's an event.

Tom Stoppard

I'm not one of those writers who insist they don't read reviews and don't care much about them. I do read them, and I do care about them, and they're not always what you want them to be in an ideal world.

Timothy Noah

With so much to be aware of, awareness bracelets have reverted to signifying nothing more than color itself. Idealism has devolved into fashion.

Diane Johnson

The Novelist, afraid his ideas may be foolish, slyly puts them in the mouth of some other fool and reserves the right to disavow them.

Diane Keaton

I never understood the idea that you're supposed to mellow as you get older. Slowing down isn't something I relate to at all. The goal is to continue in good and bad, all of it.

Dennis Weaver

Coming back to a television series puts you back in the limelight and gives you a platform for your ideas. If you're not acting on a series, you don't get the ability to communicate to people.

Dennis Quaid

I'm an idol of cinema? Oh, wow.

Dennis Prager

I am convinced that great ideas that are powerfully presented can change a mind in five minutes.

Dennis Prager

To call yourself a socialist in 2015 is to be an idiot. Socialism fails. Everywhere.

Dennis Prager

The vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind

Dennis Prager

I just don't understand why the idea of the universe creating itself is a rational one

Dennis Prager

Doing well is a conservative idea; meaning well is a liberal idea

Dennis Crowley

Don't let people tell you your ideas won't work. If you're passionate about an idea that's stuck in your head, find a way to build it so you can prove to yourself that it doesn't work.

Dennis Crowley

I'm obsessed with the idea of social TV.

Dennis Crowley

Don't let people tell you your ideas won't work.

Deborah Tannen

But if you parry individuals points - a negative and defensive enterprise - you never step back and actively imagine a world in which a different system of ideas could be true - a positive act.

Dee Dee Myers

A lot of people over time have had this kind of pattern in their relationship with Bill Clinton. You first meet him and you're overwhelmed by his talent. He's so energetic and articulate and full of ideas and he calls himself a congenital optimist and that optimism is contagious.

Dee Dee Myers

Obama has become too dependent on formal speeches and set town halls. His idea of mixing it up is taking off his jacket.

Expertise is great, but it has a bad side effect: It tends to create the inability to accept new ideas.

Dean Ornish

Curious patients are more receptive to new ideas, and those who engage their health practitioners in a dialogue are much more likely to adhere to these recommendations.

Dean Kamen

We cant live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of stuff, were all doomed.

Demetri Martin

When I first heard the term 'training bra,' I was freaked out. I was pretty young and I said, 'Did you just say training bra? They're training their chests? I had no idea.' See some lady, her boobs are everywhere. 'What's her deal?' Those are untrained titties.

Dean Koontz

As an adult I discovered that I was a pretty good autodidact, and can teach myself all kind of things. And developed a great interest in a number of different things from how to build a street hot rod from the ground up to quantum mechanics, and those two different kinds of mechanics, and it was really in the sciences, quantum mechanics, molecular biology, I would begin looking at these things looking for ideas, but in fact you don't read it for ideas you read it for curiosity and interest in the subject.

Daniel H. Pink

There's an idea out there that salespeople have actually been obliterated by the Internet, which is just not supported by the facts.

Daniel Goleman

Risk taking and the drive to pursue innovative ideas are the fuel that stokes the entrepreneurial spirit.

Dana Gioia

To speak from a particular place and time is not provincialism but part of a writer's identity.

Damon Lindelof

Suffice it to say, there are some very big ideas in Prometheus and, therefore, it covers a very vast expanse of time.

Damon Lindelof

A lot of writers whom I love, admire and call friends share this feeling, which is this fundamental idea that we're frauds. That we will be pushed out on to the stage, and it will be revealed that the emperor has no clothes.

Damon Lindelof

As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you have to find a way to tell that story.

Dan Ariely

Brands communicate in two directions: they help us tell other people something about ourselves, but they also help us form ideas about who we are.

Dan Ariely

The idea that you will make the right decision every time is very unlikely.