Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clint Eastwood

In America, instead of making the audience come to the film, the idea seems to be for you to go to the audience. They come up with the demographics for the film and then the film is made and sold strictly to that audience.

Darby Stanchfield

I'm a very private person, so I didn't like this idea of tweeting about me. And then I realized, 'Oh, this is actually a brilliant device in terms of interacting with the fans'. It's a lovely way to just get back, to thank the fans for watching the show. And to live tweet is kind of like getting the rewards of doing live theatre.

E. B. White

A "fraternity" is the antithesis of fraternity. The first... is predicated on the idea of exclusion; the second (that is, the abstract thing) is based on a feeling of total equality.

E. B. White

When you consider that there are a thousand ways to express even the simplest idea, it is no wonder writers are under a great strain. Writers care greatly how a thing is said - it makes all the difference. So they are constantly faced with too many choices and must make too many decisions.

Dustin Moskovitz

There are a lot of people building small ideas now. There's an idealization of being an entrepreneur, but the most important thing is to have a really great idea.

Dustin Moskovitz

The only reason you should be an entrepreneur is because that's the only way the idea will come into the world.

Drew Goddard

It's so rare that you meet your idols and they outdo your expectations.

Douglas Engelbart

These days, the problem isn't how to innovate; it's how to get society to adopt the good ideas that already exist.

Douglas Horton

Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

Douglas Hofstadter

This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance.

Douglas Coupland

I've given up wanting to make a killing or be a bigshot. I just want to find happiness and maybe open up a little roadside cafe in Idaho.

Douglas Coupland

I have always liked the idea of Superman because I have always liked the idea that there is one person in the world who doesn’t do bad things. And that there is one person in the world who is able to fly.

Douglas Coupland

Trevor realized that the odd thing about English is that no matter how much you screw sequences word up up, you understood, still, like Yoda, will be. Other languages don't work that way. French? Dieu! Misplace a single le or la and an idea vaporizes into a sonic puff. English is flexible: you can jam it into a Cuisinart for an hour, remove it, and meaning will still emerge.

Douglas Coupland

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.

Douglas Coupland

I like the present. I'm always interested in new ideas, and what's happening. I'm not nostalgic.

Donald Trump

The people have an incentive to spend wisely. So the health care savings accounts are such a good thing. It's such a good idea. And it's time for it.

Dwight L. Moody

Whatever you love more than God is your idol.

Dan Colen

I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images.

Dan Brown

I'm fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for reasons we're not quite seeing.

Dan Brown

the strange ideas we derive today will one day be our celebrated truths

Dan Brown

I've learned never to close my mind to an idea simply because it seems miraculous.

David Frum

I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed to the ideas that underlay those words. And the big shock to me has been that although the president said the words, he just did not absorb the ideas. And that is the root of, maybe, everything.

David Frum

What I say is I am somebody who cares about conservative ideas. I want to see them implemented in governance.

David Fincher

I like the idea of R-rated franchises.

David Fincher

My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive.

David Foster Wallace

My whole life I've been a fraud. I'm not exaggerating. Pretty much all I've ever done all the time is try to create a certain impression of me in other people. Mostly to be liked or admired. It's a little more complicated than that, maybe. But when you come right down to it it's to be liked, loved. Admired, approved of, applauded, whatever. You get the idea.

David Foster Wallace

We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the story changes the story.

David Chipperfield

I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods.

David Chipperfield

Most architects work in studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and historical research were irrelevant.

David Cronenberg

The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Antin

My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.

David Bailey

Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.

Daryl Hannah

So organic farming practices are something that, to me, are interlinked with the idea of using biodiesel.