Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathy Ireland

I feel I'm able to serve my customer by knowing what she or he wants. One of the ways I'm able to do this is through my website, and email: people give me great ideas, tell me what they want, what they don't want. It's really instrumental, and helps me stay in touch with people.

Margaret Chan

When you're dealing with new and emerging diseases, you have no idea and you can't predict in advance what would happen.

Margaret Cho

In the early '90s, there was such a limited idea of what you could see on TV.

Margaret Cho

I had been taking various lessons. I've also had a lot of incredible singers give me a ton of great advice. From Cyndi Lauper, who kind of taught me the basics, and I've also worked with Bird. She's a tremendous coach and she often coaches the contestants on American Idol. I've had a great amount of support.

Margaret Cho

[Fur] is really ridiculous. It's outrageous. We're not living in igloos. We don't need to trade pelts anymore. There is this diabolical idea that fur is fashionable. It's not. It's death. There's no excuse for it.

Mark Twain

The ancients stole all our ideas from us.

Mark Twain

There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.

Larry Wall

There's many scripting languages in the world, Perl is a little bit special because it is based more on some ideas from the way natural languages work.

Lake Bell

Something that has always attracted me to even taking on the occupation of actor is the idea that I could be lucky enough to portray different characterizations from different places in the world, whether it's speaking another language or taking on a dialect and building a history from where they were born. I was very attracted to that concept, in becoming an actor.

Lafcadio Hearn

But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations.

Lafcadio Hearn

Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true.

L. Neil Smith

Imagine how a Teddy Kennedy or a Bill Clinton would take the news that one woman in ten, say, has the power to resist his blandishments by deadly force, and you'll get a perfect idea of how a Charles Schumer or a George Bush feels about armed taxpayers.

P. J. O'Rourke

The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.

P. J. O'Rourke

The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.

P. J. O'Rourke

Idealism is based on big ideas. And, as anybody who has ever been asked "What's the big idea?" knows, most big ideas are bad ones.

Pablo Picasso

If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this meaning. What ideas and conclusions you have got I obtained too, but instinctively, unconsciously. I make the painting for the painting. I paint the objects for what they are.

Pablo Picasso

To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing... When I find myself facing a blank page, that’s always going through my head. What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.

Pablo Picasso

What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.

Paul Schrader

The only economic paradigm that movies have ever known is capitalism. There were no church sponsors or state patronage. The idea was that if you'd pay to see it, we'll make it for you.

Paul Stanley

Credibility is someone else's idea of what I should be doing.

Paul McEuen

Nanotechnology is the idea that we can create devices and machines all the way down to the nanometer scale, which is a billionth of a meter, about half the width of a human DNA molecule.

Paul Meyer

The future is built on the flow of new ideas.

Paul Cezanne

You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.

Patricia McConnell

I had a naïve idea that if I could tell the story, people would be outraged and do something about conditions in the jails.

Oscar Wilde

I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.

Oscar Wilde

Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

Oscar Wilde

Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.

Oscar Wilde

It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them.

Oscar Wilde

I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.

Oscar Wilde

An idea that isn't risky is hardly worth calling an idea.

Madonna Ciccone

When you make a movie, it's just a huge bureaucracy because movies cost so much money. Millions of people get involved, and pretty soon the creative idea gets tramped on and watered down or filtered through a huge system.

Madonna Ciccone

Unconsciously transmitting ideas to the other MC way back when............,,,..#quantum

Madonna Ciccone

I became very obsessed with death, and the idea that you never know when death will arrive, so one has to do as much as possible all the time to get the most out of life. That would be a motivating force.