Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jimi Hendrix

If there's a new idea, a new invention, or a new gas, or a new whatever you know, It should be brought at least into the open instead of carrying these same old burdens around with you.

Jim James

Some things cannot be explained. This is part of the magic of life. There cannot be a word or an idea or a definition attached to everything.

Jimi Hendrix

Some people should just start ideas and other ones should carry them out.

Emma Goldman

Nothing would prove more disastrous to our ideas, we contended, than to neglect the effect of the internal upon the external, of the psychological motives and needs upon existing institutions.

Emma Goldman

The God idea is growing more impersonal and nebulous in proportion as the human mind is learning to understand natural phenomena and in the degree that science progressively correlates human and social events.

Emma Goldman

The most disheartening tendency common among readers is to tear out one sentence from a work, as a criterion of the writer's ideas or personality.

Emma Watson

But sometimes I've felt a little constrained by that idea of who I'm meant to be.

Emma Watson

The most embarrassing one is that I had no idea - and please excuse me - that you guys call a condom a rubber. My version of a rubber is an eraser. I've done that - very loudly asked for a rubber and people have given me strange looks. That was embarrassing!

John McTiernan

You see a lot of good ideas or well-written scripts that are bad ideas.

John McTiernan

To find a script that works with provocative ideas is hard to find.

John McGahern

...with a rush of feeling he felt that this must be happiness. As soon as the thought came to him, he fought it back, blaming the whiskey. The very idea was as dangerous as presumptive speech: happiness could not be sought or worried into being, or even fully grasped; it should be allowed its own slow pace so that it passes unnoticed, if it ever comes at all.

John McCain

Today more people lose their seats in the Politburo in Havana than in the Congress of America, ... We need to have competitive races for the Legislature. ... We have to have a clash of ideas.

John Hench

For instance, some early ideas for Florida were done only recently. The idea of a little village was there from the beginning and now we have this "Celebration" village. Same thing for the Disney Institute. Walt talked about this idea in the very first.

John Hench

Walt's idea was that - as soon as the people who were dining got through their main course. They were supposed to all be seated, served at the same time, when they got into the dessert.

Neal Boortz

You CAN NOT judge previous generations by today's standards. Today Mark Twain is called by many, a racist. By the standards of his time, he was a social liberal. Even Teddy Roosevelt was a social liberal at the time, but he accepted as fact that idea that Caucasians were inherently superior to all other races. That makes him a racist in the CORRECT definition of the term.

Neal Boortz

A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom... right up to the point that someone tries to do something that they don't personally approve of.

Neal Stephenson

The GPS unit became almost equally obstreperous, though, over Richard’s unauthorized route change, until they finally passed over some invisible cybernetic watershed between two possible ways of getting to their destination, and it changed its fickle little mind and began calmly telling him which way to proceed as if this had been its idea all along.

Neal Stephenson

They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right.

Ralph Bunche

If you want to get an idea across, wrap it up in a person.

Ralph Bakshi

What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.

Rajneesh

Beyond mind, there is an awareness that is intrinsic, that is not given to you by the outside, and is not an idea - and there is no experiment up to now that has found any center in the brain which corresponds to awareness.

Rajneesh

Your ego is just an idea implanted in your mind. It is poisonous. Your ego keeps driving you madder and madder.

Raf Simons

I wanted an idea of the future, a new femininity. I wanted you to feel that you wouldn't quite know where these women were coming from and where they were going to.

Sheena Iyengar

Knowledge should be a public good, and I want my ideas to have as much exposure as possible.

Shaun Cassidy

I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life.

Shashi Tharoor

Hindu fundamentalism is a contradiction in terms, since Hinduism is a religion without fundamentals; there is no such thing as a Hindu heresy. How dare a bunch of goondas shrink the soaring majesty of the Vedas and the Upanishads to the petty bigotry of their brand of identity politics?

Shashi Tharoor

The only possible idea of India is that of a nation greater than the sum of its parts.

Shane Black

I love the idea of a super villain that doesn't wear a cape, that doesn't wear a super suit.

Shane Koyczan

We're all shipwrecked on this idea that everything has to be explained.

Shane Koyczan

But we are more than genteel or civilized/ we are an idea in the process of being realized.

Shane Carruth

I love to work. It's the idea of having someone else tell you how to make your film or how to sell it - that's the part I can't really deal with. I would rather do 1,000 things that are work than deal with one thing that's a political problem.

Shane Claiborne

It's always a good idea to have a nun next to you when you get arrested!

Shane Claiborne

Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo.