Famous Quotes & Sayings

Orson Welles

People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.

Orlando Bloom

Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.

Orison Swett Marden

You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

To an imagination of any scope the most far reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas

Olga Kurylenko

What I love about sci-fi is that every generation's films are based on what we know at that point in time. We make movies about the future, but it's always based on what we have. Then, as science grows and we discover new things, so do our ideas.

Octavio Paz

Drugs are nihilistic: they undermine all values and radically overturn all our ideas about good and evil, what is just and what is unjust, what is permitted and what is forbidden.

Octavio Paz

Erotic acts are instinctive; they fulfill a role in nature. The idea is familiar, but it is one that contains a paradox: there is nothing more natural than sexual desire; there is nothing less natural than the forms in which it is made manifest and satisfied.

Michael Buckley

The only bad ideas are the ones never tried.

Michael Cera

Sometimes when a movie is really alive you can see that they were just making decisions on the spot. They weren't bound to anything, they were working with ideas that the actors and situations presented.

Michael Buble

I struggled more with my identity. Let's be honest - early on in my first records, I didn't have the power to tell David Foster or other producers what to do.

Michael Caine

I always say to my wife, don't tell anyone I watch this [shows like The X Factor and Pop Idol], but it fascinates me because I've done so many auditions and been knocked back.

Michael Caine

And to Tom Cruise, for if you had won this, your asking price would have gone down so fast. Do you have any idea what supporting actors get paid? We get only one trailer, a small one, in the back.

Mason Cooley

You are so tactful that I have no idea what you want.

Mason Cooley

Thrift is an attractive idea until you get down to specifics.

Mason Cooley

Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out.

Mason Cooley

Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.

Mason Cooley

Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows.

Mason Cooley

The chair as ideas fits only the bottom as idea.

Mason Cooley

Beggars remind us that not all miseries arise from our ideas.

Mason Cooley

Methodology gives those with no ideas something to do.

Mary Kay Ash

If you have an idea and I have an idea - then we EACH have JUST ONE idea...but if you share your idea with me and I do the same...we EACH have TWO ideas!

Mary Kay Ash

Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who implement them are priceless.

Marvin Olasky

[The disestablishment of religion] may not have been such a good idea.

Mary Augusta Ward

Every great religion is, in truth, a concentration of great ideas, capable, as all ideas are, of infinite expansion and adaptation.

Michael Graves

The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.

Michael Chabon

He had no idea of how long his life would one day seem to have gone on; how daily present the absence of love would come to feel. “Just watch me,” he said.

Melody Beattie

Today I will refuse to jump into the middle of others' affairs, issues, and relationships. I will trust others to work out their own problems, including the ideas and feelings they want to communicate to each other.

Michelle Williams

The idea that you can get everything you want in one person is destructive, and maybe when you accept that the number is closer to 50 or 60 or 70 percent, that's when you can start to make some progress in choosing the right person.

Michio Kaku

The idea that excites me the most concerns the two greatest puzzles in science: the origin of the universe, and the origin of consciousness. The origin of the universe is what I do for a living, working on string theory. But I am also fascinated by consciousness.

Michio Kaku

There is so much noise on the Internet, with would-be prophets daily haranguing their audience and megalomaniacs trying to push bizarre ideas, that eventually people will cherish a new commodity: wisdom.

Michelangelo Antonioni

The moment always comes when, having collected one's ideas, certain images, an intuition of a certain kind of development- whether psychological or material- one must pass on to the actual realization.

Michel Patini

When I follow the finals of the European Cups, I look at all the aspects surrounding protocol, to get some ideas. I am interested in personalities, sponsors and the stands. But as soon as the whistle goes, it's all on the pitch.