Famous Quotes & Sayings

Colin Wilson

The Americans have always been more open to my ideas. In fact, I could earn a living in America just by lecturing. One of my brightest audiences, incidentally, were the prisoners in a Philadelphia gaol - brighter than my students at university.

Claudia Schiffer

I am very conservative. I don't invest in anything that is risky. If someone comes to me with a project idea, I let them risk their money, not mine.

Claude Brown

The language of soul. . . possesses a pronounced lyrical quality which is frequently incompatible to any music other than that ceaseless and relentlessly driving rhythm that flows from poignantly spent ideas.

Claude Bernard

Our ideas are only intellectual instruments which we use to break into phenomena; we must change them when they have served their purpose, as we change a blunt lancet that we have used long enough.

Claude Bernard

We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.

Claude Bernard

Il ne fallait jamais faire des expériences pour confirmer ses idées, mais simplement pour les contrôler. We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.

Claude Bernard

A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.

Dalai Lama

I feel like my life is something purposeful. Many people have told me that after they listen to my talk, some point which I made, they got certain ideas and their whole life is changed. They are happier.

Dalai Lama

Not to identify oneself with something, or to associate things with the 'me,' and to see that the idea that there is a 'me,' which is distinct from things, is a delusion...

I haven't got to meet him in person yet. I would probably be a blubbering idiot if I did.

Kevin Drew

In three years no one is going to remember (the Idol singers).

In the realm of ideas it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions suffer a mauling.

In fact, the park's geographical location is ideal and I can't see anything unlucky about the place at all.

If you pray for only one thing, .let it be for an idea.

Ed Gillespie

If you look at the party identification and how voters identify themselves, the parties are just about at parity,

If you have the time and money, a week or two of total immersion is the ideal solution.

Jack Klugman

I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.

Jack Kroll

Richard Pilbrow's lighting can turn a coin into an asteroid and an idea into an apparition.

Jack Layton

Ideas are always more important than money.

Jack Layton

We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas.

Jack Layton

Politics matters. Ideas matter. Democracy matters, because all of us need to be able to make a difference.

Jack Dempsey

A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol.

J. J. Abrams

There are always a bunch of ideas floating around and I do the best that I can to try to not do them. The ideas don't go away and, over time, are finally like, "Okay, it's been around so long, I have to get this thing out," and it somehow ends up coming to some version of fruition.

J. J. Abrams

I guess the idea of not wanting to choose to direct a film, for which I've not read a script. It's a tough decision to make without seeing any pages. That's not to say that I don't have all the faith in the world in the spectacular writers.

J. J. Abrams

The idea to put episodes out weekly in theory makes as much sense as putting them all out at once.

J. J. Abrams

I sort of love the idea of, you know, watching something and then having to wait for the next episode.

J. J. Abrams

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

Ivar Giaever

If you want to do good research, it's important not to know too much. This almost sounds contradictory but really if you know too much and you get an idea, you will sort of talk yourself out of trying it because you figure it won't work. But if you know just the right amount and you get enthusiastic about your project, you go ahead, you do it and if you're lucky things'll work out.

Issey Miyake

The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.

Isadora Duncan

My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the wave.

Irwin M. Jacobs

When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.

Irwin Shaw

I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.

Ira Glass

Where do ideas come from? Ideas come from other ideas.