Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Chilton Pearce

We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

Any idea seriously entertained tends to bring about the realization of itself.

Kasey Kahne

I finally crashed. I drove like an idiot all day.

Kary Mullis

If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen.

Karlie Kloss

Christy Turlington is my idol. She really is. She's a gorgeous woman inside and out. I admire her work in the charity field. She's just been able to balance it all - and gracefully, as well.

Leighton Meester

I don't know if it'd be any time soon but I'd really like to work on a collaboration with somebody - I always have ideas for stuff like that.

Leighton Meester

I want an identity outside of my work.

Lawrence Summers

Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient.

Laura Ziskin

What's great about making movies is the sort of additive process of bringing people together and having an idea and watching the idea be added to and at the end you have this thing. It's really a collaborative experience.

Lasse Hallstrom

Kevin, as the whole cast is, just wonderful people and great people, and people who are attracted to this kind of material and accepting the idea of going to Newfoundland and knowing the kind of lack of amenities.

Lasse Hallstrom

I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.

Lasse Hallstrom

To make a movie charming, you have to be playful on all levels and open to ideas, and you have to have an idea for how to do that within the confines of the shooting schedule and editing and all that.

John Keats

A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no identity he is continually informing and filling some other body.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Ideas do not respect national frontiers, and this is especially so where language and other traditions are in common.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The charge that an idea is radical, impractical, or long- haired is met by showing that a prominent businessman has favored it?an additional tactic in this strategy of defense?is to assert that Winston Churchill once sponsored the particular idea. If one is challenged, a sufficiently careful investigation will show that he did.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Few things are as immutable as the addiction of political groups to the ideas by whichthey have once won office.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Economists are economical, among other things, of ideas; most make those of their graduate days do for a lifetime.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The ideas by which people . . . interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth.

Ideas that change business models and who can make money are the most threatening, outside actual religion.

Juliette Lewis

[There's] this idea of "I want to take care of myself," but at the same time I want to be brave, daring, and expressive.

Juliette Binoche

I want to make films that are political and social. Films with a message or an idea. Films that dare to ask.

Juliette Binoche

Attraction is beyond our will or ideas sometimes.

Joseph Needham

The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species and ecological whole, will perhaps be the leading idea of the future.

Joseph O'Neill

One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed the narratives which cling to you.

Joseph Priestley

Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.

Joseph Murphy

Once the subconscious mind accepts an idea, it begins to execute it.

Joseph Goebbels

This is the secret of propaganda: Those who are to be persuaded by it should be completely immersed in the ideas of the propaganda, without ever noticing that they are being immersed in it.

Julian Schnabel

I have a completely romantic idea about making paintings, I guess.

Juliana Hatfield

I never felt happy with the idea that part of what I do is to be an object to be looked at. I thought of my public persona as an entity separate to myself.

Jules Renard

A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.

Joshua Jackson

Maybe it's due to my west coast liberal upbringing, but, the idea of parallel universes doesn't strike me as being too far out there.

Karl Barth

There is a notion that complete impartiality is the most fitting and indeed the normal disposition for true exegesis , because it guarantees complete absence of prejudice. For a short time, around 1910, this idea threatened to achieve almost a canonical status in Protestant theology. But now, we can quite calmly describe it as merely comical.