Famous Quotes & Sayings

Piper Laurie

I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff.

Pierre Bonnard

Speaking, when you have something to say, is like looking. But who looks? If people could see properly, and see whole, they would all be painters. And it's because people have no idea how to look that they hardly ever understand.

Philippe Starck

My idea is to bring happiness, respect, vision. poetry, surrealism and magic [to design].

Pope Francis

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

Pope Francis

When we do not adore God, we adore something else. Money and power are false idols which often take the place of God.

Pope Francis

How many kinds of moral and material poverty we face today as a result of denying God and putting so many idols in his place!

Rachael Ray

Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!

Rachel Caine

Don't we look suspicious, the three of us just sitting here in the car?" Borden asked. We'd look a lot more suspicious if we were all three making out in the car," Jazz said. "What?" she added, when Borden turned and gave her a wide-eyed look. You have no idea what kind of happy place you just took me to." Shut up.

Rachel Caine

I know, he said. We are into the Bad Idea neighborhood and heading down I Have a Bad Feeling Street. (Shane)

Rachel Caine

Well,” Naomi said cheerfully, “what’s the worst that can happen?” They were silent, considering that, because there were just so many possibilities. But in the end, it was a better idea than Facebook.

People are fretful about lifestyle retailing because the idea that anyone's immortal soul and deepest longings can be quite so readily anticipated and consolidated with several hundred thousand other like-minded types is worrying.

Peter Medawar

Psychoanalytic theory is the most stupendous intellectual confidence trick of the twentieth century and a terminal product as well-something akin to a dinosaur or zeppelin in the history of ideas, a vast structure of radically unsound design and with no posterity.

Pete Wentz

You should be able to grab people with ideas.

Pervez Musharraf

Remember that mindsets can not be changed through force and coercion. No idea can ever be forcibly thrust upon any one.

Paulo Coelho

It's a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.

Peter Mandelson

It's a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full term.

Peter Matthiessen

In fiction, you have a rough idea what's coming up next - sometimes you even make a little outline - but in fact you don't know. Each day is a whole new - and for me, a very invigorating - experience.

Peter Lynch

Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon

Questlove

And even though people like to furrow their brow like they suspect you're not being honest about yourself, the truth is that they worry that you're not serving their idea of you.

Quintilian

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

Quincy Jones

Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.

Quentin Tarantino

There is no other genre that deals with America better, in a subtextual way, than the Westerns being made in the different decades. The '50s Westerns very much put forth an Eisenhower idea of America, whereas the Westerns of the '70s were very cynical about America.

Quentin Tarantino

The good ideas will survive.

Prince Andrew

It's slightly complicated for people to grasp the idea of a head of state in human form.

Prince Andrew

It would not be a bad idea if bankers were to go and sit occasionally with politicians in their political surgeries, where they might get a sense of the injustice that some of the community feel about the banks.

Primo Levi

Did chemistry theorems exist? No: therefore you had to go further, not be satisfied with the quia, go back to the origins, to mathematics and physics. The origins of chemistry were ignoble, or at least equivocal: the dens of the alchemists, their abominable hodgepodge of ideas and language, their confessed interest in gold, their Levantine swindles typical of charlatans and magicians; instead, at the origin of physics lay the strenuous clarity of the West-Archimedes and Euclid.

Plotinus

Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.

Pia Toscano

When I first found out that I was an Idol finalist, I cried tears of happiness. I was just so happy, and my family was there and the fact that got to see that moment and share that moment with me was just everything to me.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

What is to be done about these literary people, who will never understand that painting is a craft and that the material side comes first? The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.

Phillip Lim

Since an early age, I’ve been intrigued by the idea of design evolution,

Mike Figgis

There's nothing quite like the idea of failing spectacularly to excite a film maker

Natsuo Kirino

I'm this superphilosophical kind of person. Stuck in a prison of abstract ideas and overpowering emotions, I have this personality that makes it really hard to survive.