Famous Quotes & Sayings

Haile Selassie

Misguided people sometimes create misguided ideas. Some of my ancestors were Oromo. How can I colonize myself?

Gus Van Sant

It's hard to speculate as a human about the afterlife because you're not in it. And it's probably as wild and wacky as you could imagine. The idea that people have figured it out, I'm not sure if I can fathom that.

Greg Smith

Leadership used to be about ideas, setting an example and doing the right thing. Today, if you make enough money for the firm (and are not currently an ax murderer) you will be promoted into a position of influence.

Jim Broadbent

Other people have a much better idea of what I might do than I.

Jim Butcher

But I don't understand God. I don't understand how he could see the way people treat one another, and not chalk up the whole human race as a bad idea.

Jim Butcher

I checked the icebox. The faeries usually brought some sort of food to stock the icebox and the pantry when they cleaned, but they could have mighty odd ideas about what constituted a healthy diet. One time I'd opened the pantry and found nothing but boxes and boxes and boxes of Fruit Loops. I had a near-miss with diabetes, and Thomas, who was never quite sure where the food had come from, declared that I had clearly been driven Fruit Loopy.

Jim Butcher

It always shocked me how you could understand so many things and be such a complete idiot about so many others.

H. G. Wells

The idea of a world commonweal has to be established as the criterion of political institutions, and also as the criterion of general conduct in hundreds of millions of brains. It has to dominate education everywhere in the world. When that end is achieved, then the world state will be achieved…

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The limits of pleasures are as yet neither known nor fixed, and we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss we are capable of attaining.

Jean Baudrillard

It is exciting to hear one of your fondest ideas formulated in one fell swoop, better than you could have done yourself.

Jean Baudrillard

There are only a few images that are not forced to provide meaning, or have to go through the filter of a specific idea.

Jean Baudrillard

Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.

Jean Baudrillard

It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.

Jayma Mays

I was really across-the-board, like a nutcase. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, so I just did everything. I was even part of FHA, Future Homemakers of America. How lost was I?

Jay Roach

You can make an idea spread for good but you can also make an idea spread for bad and the power to make an idea spread, memetics, you know which now people talk about memes.

Jay McInerney

You described the feeling you’d always had of being misplaced, of always standing to one side of yourself, of watching yourself in the world even as you were being in the world, and wondering if this was how everyone felt. That you always believed that other people had a clearer idea of what they were doing, and didn’t worry quite so much about why.

Jay Leno

Vice President Joe Biden said today that 'Syria must be held accountable.' Unfortunately, the Obama administration has never employed an accountant, so they have no idea how to do that.

Jay Leno

Today the United States has admitted that after months and months of searching, we still have no idea where Osama bin Laden is. Osama bin Laden? We can't even find Kenneth Lay.

Jay Baruchel

I guess I always have sort of general ideas, but the best stuff would be the stuff that comes to you in the moment, always.

Jasper Johns

There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists.

Carly Fiorina

When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.

Carla Gugino

It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.

Candice Millard

I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.

Camryn Manheim

For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps.

Buzz Aldrin

I don't watch 'American Idol,' but I wouldn't call it 'undignified.'

Bryan Cranston

I have a bad habit of inserting my ideas into shots and things. I don't know, I don't hold back on suggesting things, but I don't have any connection to what actually happens, so I'll make a suggestion on something and then just let it go.

Bubba Sparxxx

Well not really to get attention, but to entertain, but you know to show some elements of rural life as well, it kind of blended all in, its kind of like a mockery in a sense, kind of stab back at people that have those stereotypical ideas of the south.

Bubba Watson

I'm mostly just getting used to the idea that people want to hear what I have to say.

James Hilton

Have you ever been going somewhere with a crowd and you're certain it's the wrong road and you tell them, but they won't listen, so you just have to plod along in what you know is the wrong direction till somebody more important gets the same idea?

James Hillman

I've found that contemporary psychology enrages me with its simplistic ideas of human life, and also its emptiness.

James Hillman

My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently.

James Hillman

We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.

James Earl Jones

You sang in church, you know, and you didn't act at all. You tried not to act, you tried to tell the truth. The idea of being a troubadour on the road singing for your supper was very disturbing to him.