Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Haddon

I've come to realize that most good ideas are precisely the ones you can't describe.

Marion Cotillard

I was raised with the idea of beauty in a different way. To me, it is something that really comes out of you and surrounds you.

Oswald Chambers

The disciple is rich not in possessions, but in personal identity.

Oswald Chambers

Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me; sanctification is God’s idea of what He wants to do for me.

Oswald Chambers

We have an idea that God is leading us to a particular end, a desired goal; He is not...What we call the process God calls the end. His purpose is that I depend on Him and His power NOW. It is the process, not the end that is glorifying to God.

Paul Rudd

There's something great about the idea of working the land and living communally. That's healthy. That's good.

Michael Winterbottom

I don't particularly like the idea that there's an arc to the story and that therefore in this scene you have to convey this bit of information or emotion. I like more the feeling that, of course, there is a shape to the story, but that each scene should feel right, should be true at that moment, and that gradually you accumulate these moments of truth until you get enough of them together that it becomes a story that's interesting.

Michael Schur

You really don't settle on an idea until you're really sure it's the best idea. Then once you settle on it you commit to it entirely. That was always the plan.

Michael Schur

Sometimes you've got to just commit to the idea and press forward and trust that you made the right decision.

Michael Scheuer

And we're being attacked because of what we do, not because of who we are. And by refusing to talk about that, I'm afraid the American people, at least, don't have a good idea of just how dangerous the threat is that we face.

Michael Rosenbaum

Being in drag for three months - I now have an idea of what women go through. At least maybe a little.

Michael Nesmith

I never feel like I have to hang on to the music. I don't expect that the music will go away. Ideas are the only thing I can point to that are permanent and fixed.

Michael Nesmith

You have to have access to ideas. The Internet is facilitating that access to ideas. In 25 years, the way that data's going to flow back and forth, we don't quite understand yet.

Michael K. Simpson

The solution is to first create an integrated economic development and recreation plan that addresses the needs of the people who live and recreate in central Idaho.

Markus Zusak

A halo surrounded the grim reaper nun, Sister Maria. (By the way-I like this human idea of the grim reaper. I like the scythe. It amuses me.)

Markus Zusak

When I find research really rewarding is when one piece of information gives you an idea for a story. That's when it's great.

Mark Twain

Every inventor is a crackpot until his idea succeeds.

Mark Twain

As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.

Mark Twain

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot

Marianne Williamson

Society never progresses because the majority one day wakes up and says, "Let's do things differently." The majority didn't wake up and say, "Oh, let's just free the slaves." Society always progressed because a relatively small group of people usually considered outrageous radicals by the status quo of their time had a better idea and articulated another way. That's simply how evolution works; it's the mutation. The member of the species who does things differently - that points the way to the future because they're better adapted for survival.

Marianne Williamson

I feel that as women we've allowed ourselves to be deluded by certain ideas that hold us back, such as the over-glorification of masculine consciousness.

Marianne Williamson

The concept of a divine, or 'Christ'-mind, is the idea that, at our core, we are not just identical, but actually the same being.

Marianne Williamson

We must seek to be intellectually inclusive, just as we seek to be culturally inclusive. Ideas come and go - that's what makes a free society so vital.

Mario Andretti

I will always enter a race car from the left side. Always. Why? I have no idea.

Marilyn Manson

I put out a lot of ideas in the lyrics and the way I do my things. There's a lot of ideas floatin' around and people who know what it is. People will pick it up if they know what to pick up.

Marilyn Manson

The idea of heaven is Christianity's way of creating a hell on earth.

Marilyn Manson

I was married to someone who wanted me to change. Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity. Everything began collapsing around me.

Mads Mikkelsen

I tend not to have any references to anything. I just jump into the script in front of me. If you reference too much, you have no idea if the performances are right.

Michael Hirst

I only have one idol: John Lennon.

Michael Haneke

It's impossible to consider living without ideals. However, when ideas lead to ideology, that's a very dangerous thing. Ideology then leads to creating the image of an enemy, and it leads to the murder and massacre that we've seen since the beginning of time.

Frank Ocean

The idea of recognizing your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me

Christopher Hitchens

What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime.

Christopher Hitchens

The god of Moses would call for other tribes, including his favorite one, to suffer massacre and plague and even extirpation, but when the grave closed over his victims he was essentially finished with them unless he remembered to curse their succeeding progeny. Not until the advent of the Prince of Peace do we hear of the ghastly idea of further punishing and torturing the dead.