Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bryn Terfel

Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.

Bryan Singer

You can only go so far in analyzing each and every one person's opinion because they are often quite different. You just have to trust your instincts and hope that if someone doesn't like your idea, you can prove them wrong in the final process. In the end, you can please some of the people some of the time, but that's about all you can do.

Bryan Ferry

Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me.

Bryan Adams

I've never been enamoured by the idea of being a celebrity.

Bryan Adams

I like the idea of helping people help people.

Cesar Pelli

One of America's strengths has always been its openness to the new: both new ideas and new people.

Cesare Pavese

When we read, we are not looking for new ideas, but to see our own thoughts given the seal of confirmation on the printed page. The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where we live—and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves

Catherine Fisher

None of us have much idea where we are. Perhaps all our lives are too concerned with where, and not enough with who.

Catherine Hardwicke

When you're in the editing process, you try different things and you get creative ideas.

Caroline Kennedy

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It seems that in the advanced stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by an excess of ideologies.

Camilo Jose Cela

Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.

Camille Pissarro

At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.

Camille Paglia

Even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

The streak has become my identity; it's who I've become.

C. L. R. James

I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense.

We want to support the teachers' ideas and projects.

Chris Colfer

Like having a great idea, life comes at you fast. It hits you and tries to escape and be expressed in any way possible. In a way, it's a lot like...lightning.

Chris Bauer

The idea of a regular-looking guy who is the lead of something - whether it's a movie or a show - is something that I really hope I can grow towards.

Chogyam Trungpa

You don't know how to take off your suit of armor. You have no idea how to conduct yourself without the reference point of your own security... You can expose your wounds and flesh, your sore points. You can be completely raw and exposed...

Chogyam Trungpa

I would like to say, ladies and gentlemen, that you shouldn't be afraid of who you are. That's the first key idea. You shouldn't be afraid of who you are. You should NOT be afraid of who you are. It's very important for you to realize that.

Chip Kidd

I had no idea what I was doing, I had no idea where I was going, but at some point I stopped — when to keep going would seem like I was going too far.

Chinua Achebe

I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew that there was something inside me that wanted me to tell who I was, and that would have come out even if I didn't want it.

Chinua Achebe

The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this.

China Mieville

Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.

Chevy Chase

It's never a good idea for a celebrity to sign autographs or take pictures if a crowd is gathering.

Cheri Huber

An essential part of seeing clearly is finding the willingness to look closely and to go beyond our own ideas.

Cher Wang

I always have this imagination, something I want to use. I don't understand the idea of leisure time.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I thought people wouldn't take me seriously if too much acting was involved in the singing. But now I love the idea of mixing everything together.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Concepts antedate facts.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

At any given period in history the ideas of the common mind are found to antedate the facts. The facts of the twentieth century are approached with the ideas, feelings, prejudices of the tenth.

Charles Bradlaugh

I do not deny "God", because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me no distinct affirmation, and of which the would-be affirmer has no conception.