Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jason Blum

But, it's much easier to do that than produce the movies from scratch. It excites the same thing in me, whether we build it from the ground up, or whether we come on when the movie is done or almost done. The idea of supporting the underdog and getting a smaller movie out there in a big way is equally exciting.

Jason Bateman

When you're actor, you have no idea how much work goes into pre-production. We're just sitting in our trailers waiting for someone to knock on our door to go to the set.

Jason Aldean

I had no idea 'Big Green Tractor' was going to be as big a hit as it was. You just can't predict those things.

In the 18th century, people began to adopt the radical new idea that love should be the most fundamental reason for marriage and that young people should be free to choose their marriage partners independently.

Janina Gavankar

People don't recognize me from gig to gig. They have no idea. But, that's really what I strive to do. I strive to stip myself down completely and build another human and become them.

Janice Dickinson

The idea of the extreme makeover is disturbing.

Janine Benyus

There are literally as many ideas as there are organisms.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not - have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy these, then, and bless God that we are permitted to enjoy them, rather than importune His goodness with vain longings for more.

Jane Smiley

The novel as a form is usually seen to be moral if its readers consider freedom, individuality, democracy, privacy, social connection, tolerance and hope to be morally good, but it is not considered moral if the highest values of a society are adherence to rules and traditional mores, the maintenance of hierarchical relationships, and absolute ideas of right and wrong. Any society based on the latter will find novels inherently immoral and subversive.

Jane Smiley

Gossip. The more you talk about why people do things, the more ideas you have about how the world works.

Jane Smiley

Take naps. Often new ideas come together when you are half asleep, but you have to train yourself to remember them.

Ricky Gervais

I've never regretted saying no to anything, or finishing something. When I'm in the middle of doing something I love, I can have a better idea, and I'll go, "Oh God, I can't finish this." Maybe I've got some sort of disorder.

Brian Wilson

The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.

Brian De Palma

Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tourists.

Brian Eno

As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren't clear when it was just floating around in your head.

Brian Eno

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

Brian Eno

When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me.

Brian Eno

I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.

Brian Eno

If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.

Brian Eno

Ideas reflect the moment, and so you have to use them. If you store ideas, they wither.

Brian Eno

I don't like celebrity programmes - but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.

Brian Eno

The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.

Brian Eno

Cultural objects have no notable identity outside of that which we confer upon them. Their value is entirely a product of the interaction that we have with them.

Brian Eno

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

Brian Eno

Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else.

Bret Easton Ellis

Do you wear a diaphragm everywhere you go?' I want to scream, but stop myself because the idea really excites me.

Bram Cohen

A good way to have good ideas is by being unoriginal.

Bram Cohen

Lawyers can't tell you you can't do something. They can warn you about risks, and in extreme cases tell you that something is such a bad idea you'll need to get someone other than them to do it but the judgment call of whether the risk is worth it is the entrepreneur's.

Brandi Chastain

Conversation is good - you might not agree with everyone, but at least it gives you a chance to contemplate someone else's ideas.

Brandon Boyd

Music has to be written while people are still excited about a particular melodic or rhythmic sequence. The idea doesn't come out the same if we're not really excited about it.

Bram Stoker

There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.

Booker T. Washington

From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.

Booker T. Washington

I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.