Famous Quotes & Sayings

If it hits, it could be quite destructive to your life for a long time. Identity theft is not a picnic, but it is repairable.

Jamie Lee Curtis

If I can challenge old ideas about aging, I will feel more and more invigorated. I want to represent this new way. I want to be a new version of the 70-year-old woman. Vital, strong, very physical, very agile. I think that the older I get, the more yoga I'm going to do.

Ideology aside, I think he is a terrific guy, a terrific choice,

I don't think that you should have to wait until after your identity has been compromised to do something.

Eddie Jordan

He's OK. I have different ideas for that next year, so we'll see. Right now that's all I want to say on that.

How these people could have turned him and poisoned his mind is dreadful. He was an innocent, naive and simple man. I supposed he must have been an ideal candidate.

Hunter S. Thompson

Gonzo journalism is a style of reporting based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism...

Hunter S. Thompson

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

Hunter S. Thompson

The massive, frustrated energies of a mainly young, disillusioned electorate that has long since abandoned the idea that we all have a duty to vote. This is like being told you have a duty to buy a new car, but you have to choose immediately between a Ford and a Chevy.

Hulk Hogan

I've been knocked out a few times , but I have no idea how many concussions I've ever had.

Humphrey Bogart

Sinatra’s idea of paradise is a place where there are plenty of women and no newspapermen. He doesn’t know it, but he’d be better off if it were the other way around.

Hubert H. Humphrey

It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.

Howard Shore

The techniques of different directors are very different, and people have different ways of expressing ideas in film. I'm happiest when working with a director as I would be if I were an actor. I'm wanting to provide a really good performance.

Howard Shore

You don't always want to be using the music in a way to express ideas inherent that are on the screen. You might want to work more around the fringes of the story, and work more with the subtext, and add more depth to the story through the use of music.

Howard Fineman

The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans.

Honore de Balzac

All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.

Honore de Balzac

I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.

Honore de Balzac

Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of an anarchist.

Honore de Balzac

Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and in Paris bears very different fruit, but is none the less virtue.

Honore de Balzac

Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is triangular!

Ian Wilmut

I see nothing wrong ethically with the idea of correcting single gene defects through genetic engineering. But I am concerned about any other kind of intervention, for anything else would be an experiment, which would impose our will on future generations and take unreasonable chances with their welfare ... Thus such intervention is beyond the scope of consideration.

Harville Hendrix

When we meet an Imago match, that chemical reaction occurs, and love ignites. All other bets, all other ideas about what we want in a mate, are off. We feel alive and whole, confident that we have met the person who will make everything all right.

Harold Ramis

I'd rather do comedies that strike at some bigger ideas.

Jamaica Kincaid

I'll read anything. In fact, I'll read while I'm doing other things, which is not a good idea.

Jaime Hernandez

I leave a lot open so I can fill it in later. If I don't have any ideas right away, I can fill it in later.

Jaime Lerner

A lot of people assume that the expensive ideas are the most effective ones, but that is simply not true.

Jacques Derrida

Each time this identity announces itself, someone or something cries: Look out for the trap, youre caught. Take off, get free, disengage yourself.

Jacques Barzun

Above all, do not talk yourself out of good ideas by trying to expound them at haphazard meetings.

Jack White

There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.

James G. Frazer

Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves.

James Gleick

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

J. William Fulbright

Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor.

J. R. R. Tolkien

he was for long my only audience... Only from him did I ever get the idea that my ‘stuff’ could be more than a private hobby. But for his interest and unceasing eagerness for more I should never have brought The L. of the R. to a conclusion.