Famous Quotes & Sayings

There were no American Idols here tonight. That was ugly.

There were more than 100 plants. We had a wonderful time trying to identify all of them.

There were some items and ideas they had that were solid, but a lot of these things we can do in-house.

You're always going to have negative stuff from people whose ideas are not being used by the leader.

Lilly Singh

You need to know who your ideal viewer is, and mine is a 14-year-old screaming female. And I'm thrilled about that. I am thrilled.

You need to identify a solution or solutions.

Jordana Brewster

You need the audience to become invested in the characters and in order to become invested, they need to identify with the characters... and that's why the characters need to be real.

This is an important time for the public to get their input into the plan. If people have ideas of other trails, this is the time to put it on the map.

This is an idea that has been suggested. It's been mentioned as one of several ideas that have been tossed about. It's no more of an idea than other ideas.

This is a total victory, everything we requested from the court. We did not want any confidential source to be identified and we did not want to produce any reporter's notes. That's what the judge provided.

Sam Harris

Islam, at the moment, is the motherlode of bad ideas.

Russell Sherman

The music of the supreme architect, Bach, is filled with pages of discursive argument and rumination, glorifying the nameless whole by a rich embroidery of passages which lead everywhere and nowhere. The ideas are presented, stood on their head, dissolved into fragments, until the ultimate message becomes the connections of all things great and small, a chain of being which cannot be secured until the last note is in place.

Russell Simmons

The thing about hip-hop is that it's from the underground, ideas from the underbelly, from people who have mostly been locked out, who have not been recognized.

Roman Jakobson

It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no system, no classification.

Ron Paul

Libertarians are incapable of being a racist, because racism is a collectivist idea.

Ron Paul

Ideas are the only things that count, and politicians are, for the most part, pretty much irrelevant.

Sally Potter

As the director, you have to hold in your head the widest possible vision. Not just the idea and the story, but the conceptual content. But at the same time, you have to consider the tiniest, tiniest detail.

Ruth Wilson

What really excites me is the unknown, and getting to grips with something you have no idea about.

Ruth Wilson

I've always quite liked the idea of being an archeologist, sort of scrubbing around in the dirt.

Rory Stewart

This idea that failure is not an option: It makes failure invisible, inconceivable and inevitable.

Rosa Parks

At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

A great idea is not enough.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Leaders must pick causes they won't abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks, and communicate their big ideas over and over again in every encounter.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

People who are making decisions about the future often don't have access to some of the best ideas in the company, which may be at the periphery or at lower levels.

Susan Orlean

What's funny is that the idea of popularity - even the use of the word 'popular' - is something that had been mostly absent from my life since junior high. In fact, the hallmark of life after junior high seemed to be the shedding of popularity as a central concern.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

For a moment he could have sworn he smelled violets, which was very peculiar, since he had no idea what violets smelled like, except somehow he knew they smelled just like Lady Emma.

Susan Blackmore

I have not come up with anything original. It needs a better brain than mine! I have done what I can do in taking Dawkins' idea and extending it.

Susan Cain

It's never a good idea to organize society in a way that depletes the energy of half the population.

Susan Cain

Introverts need to trust their gut and share their ideas as powerfully as they can.

Susan Cain

Any time people come together in a meeting, we're not necessarily getting the best ideas; we're just getting the ideas of the best talkers.

Subcomandante Marcos

The world we want to transform has already been worked on by history and is largely hollow. We must nevertheless be inventive enough to change it and build a new world. Take care and do not forget ideas are also weapons.

Storm Jameson

Women will always put persons above ideas ... and so they'll always be defeated. Persons die, and ideas rule the world.

Stewart Udall

Wilderness, like the national park system, was an American idea.