Famous Quotes & Sayings

Glenn Miller

I thought I had swell ideas, and wonderful musicians, but the hell of it, no one else did.

Glenn Greenwald

Nobody has the right to shield any idea as so sacred it can’t be challenged. ... Almost all human progress is driven by people who stood up and said ‘I disagree’ with this idea that society at the time considered to be the most precious.’

Gerry Spence

Once slavery in America was not seen as radical. It became, instead, a revolutionary idea that slaves should be freed. When we have lived under a pernicious power long enough, no matter how oppressive, we grow so accustomed to the yoke that its removal seems frightening, even wrong.

Harold Geneen

In a good meeting there is a momentum that comes from the spontaneous exchange of fresh ideas and produces extraordinary results. That momentum depends on the freedom permitted the participants.

Harold MacMillan

As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I was a fool. I had no idea what I was getting myself into. But I have to say, it's been incredibly rewarding and I learn so much every day.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I'm sort of getting into the idea of nourishing your inner aspect and doing that by investing in your family and making a meal and creating time together.

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

Joe Trippi

He stands for something, he has that idealism and that something that you just don't see in 99.9 percent of today's politicians.

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

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.

It was strange, in a way, because there were no ideas involved in the laser that weren't already known by somebody 25 years before lasers were discovered. The ideas were all there; just, nobody put it together.

Joe Piscopo

It's vital to getting out the vote because the kids identify with it so much.

It took us 20 years to identify (the gene) I don't think it will take 20 years for the next one. They will yield their secrets sooner because of technology.

Ricky Hatton

It will be a shame if it does go to court. It's not ideal preparation, but it's just making me more determined.

They were similar to what's going on today -- so identical that it's amazing.

It is the ideal fixture for distribution centers, warehouses, industrial and manufacturing facilities.

Alison Goldfrapp

It's like they're a separate identity to the whole music and imagery,

It's really encouraging to be around people who are so influenced by music. They have really incredible ideas.

Marguerite Young

It's the thing I never could write, the idea of identity and passage of the soul.

Paul Hogan

It's one of those places, ... You could meet someone from Idaho and tell them you were from Newport, and they'd say they'd been to Christie's.

John Grahame

It's not the ideal way you'd like to prepare for a game, but it's that switch -- that competitive juice -- that just turns on and you're ready to go.

Brian Schmidt

It's not easy. Payola is something that is not readily identified because it can take so many forms.

Frankie Avalon

It's a lot calmer now than when I was a kid with the whole teen idol thing. People are so kind and receptive.

It makes us all look like idiot savants.