Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hume

The first ideas of religion arose, not from contemplation of the works of nature, but from a concern with regard to the events of life.

David Duchovny

Whenever somebody says they need an angle for their story I always fear that they've got an idea and they want me to fit into it or they want me to come up with an idea myself or I'm supposed to be more revealing than I've been, and to me it just sounds like something I don't want to do.

David Duchovny

The only episode which was completely my idea was for Mitch Pileggi, the actor who portrays Skinner, the Assistant Director of the FBI. He appears often in the series, but only for a few scenes. You know virtually nothing about him. I wanted him to have an episode that was his alone, so I wrote Avatar for him. He even has a scene that's pretty . . . hot [knowing smile]. He was very happy.

Ben Whishaw

What I notice about people who are gifted in filmmaking is that they're great thinkers. They engage with big ideas and they engage with people.

Benicio Del Toro

I'm not Jack Nicholson. I'm not Brando. But I do mumble.

Benazir Bhutto

Ultimately, leadership is about the strength of one's convictions, the ability to endure the punches, and the energy to promote an idea. And I have found that those who do achieve peace never acquiesce to obstacles, especially those constructed of bigotry, intolerance, and inflexible tradition.

Barry Diller

Well, the Internet is this miracle. It is an absolutely extraordinary idea that you can press a send button, and you are publishing to the world.

Barry Diller

The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.

Barney Frank

NATO was a wonderful idea. It was formed in 1949. We are as far away from NATO as NATO was when it was done in time from the presidency of Grover Cleveland.

August Krogh

We may fondly imagine that we are impartial seekers after truth, but with a few exceptions, to which I know that I do not belong, we are influenced-and sometimes strongly-by our personal bias; and we give our best thoughts to those ideas which we have to defend.

August Strindberg

I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.

August Wilson

Style ain't nothing but keeping the same idea from beginning to end. Everybody got it.

Audre Lorde

There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.

Athol Fugard

My essential identity is that of a writer.

Arnold Newman

Ideas visuales combinadas con tecnología e interpretación personal es igual a fotografía

Arnold Bennett

You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.

Edwin Meese

The idea that the police cannot ask questions of the person that knows most about the crime is an infamous decision.

Edwin Land

The future may require not so much having a new idea as stopping having an old idea.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Can you conceive of anything that so represents the glory, and truth, and marvelousness of God's nature as the idea of peace?

Edgar Wright

Everything that I've done so far has had a bigger budget than the last, but I've never ever felt the benefit of the bigger budget because the ideas always exceed the budget.

Edgar Mitchell

We have to learn that service to the greater good is the greatest satisfaction. That idea is at the basis of all the great traditions dating back into history. When you get inside yourself - and you really find that deep inner peace that's rooted in love - then you can't live a life that we see being manifested in the large parts of the world right now.

Bobby Jindal

I've got the courage to apply our conservative principles. I can't do it alone. With your help, with God's grace, we can save the idea of America before it's too late.

Benjamin Franklin

Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself.

Benjamin Franklin

When circumstances don't fit our ideas they become our difficulties

Benjamin Franklin

The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.

Ben Casnocha

If you really understand something, you can: 1) explain it using a clear metaphor and 2) explain the strongest counter-argument to the idea.

Ben Affleck

To answer the question, though: I didn't always want to direct. I just liked the idea of it. If a friend was making a short and needed someone who knew screen direction, I would jump in. It would be horrible, but it led to a short, then another, and another. It was like student films.

Barbara Walters

A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.

Barbara Tuchman

If all were equalized by death, as the medieval idea constantly emphasized, was it not possible that inequalities on earth were contrary to the will of God?

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The idea that if people are just friendly and demonstrate they want peace, that will be answered with good will - that is really naive.

Arthur Christiansen

My approach to newspapers was based on the idea that when you looked at the front page you said: 'Good heavens', when you looked at the middle page you said: 'Holy smoke', and by the time you got to the back pagewell, I'd have to utter a profanity to show how exciting it was.

Arthur Erickson

There is an increasing awareness of the interrelatedness of things. We are becoming less prone to accept an immediate solution without questioning its larger implications.

Arthur Brisbane

Hang your idea on a peg that all can read.