Famous Quotes & Sayings

James C. Collins

Consider the idea that charisma can be as much a liability as an asset. Your strength of personality can sow the seeds of problems, when people filter the brutal facts from you.

Perhaps it would be a good idea, fantastic as it sounds, to muffle every telephone, halt every motor, and stop all activity someday to give people a chance to ponder a few minutes on what it is all about, why they are living, and what they really want.

James A. Garfield

Ideas control the world.

James A. Baldwin

There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves. People are not, for example, terribly anxious to be equal (equal, after all, to what and to whom?) but they love the idea of being superior.

James A. Baldwin

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

James A. Baldwin

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

James A. Baldwin

To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity.

Jacques Rivette

I reject the word 'script' entirely-at any rate in the usual sense. I prefer the old usage-usually scenario-which it had in the Commedia dell'Arte, meaning an outline or scheme: it implies a dynamism, a number of ideas and principles from which one can set out to find the best possible approach to filming.

Jacques Rivette

And Twin Peaks, the Film is the craziest film in the history of cinema. I have no idea what happened, I have no idea what I saw, all I know is that I left the theater floating six feet above the ground.

Jacqueline Wilson

Well, I didn't need them. I didn't need anyone. I was Lola Rose. I just wished I looked more like my idea of Lola Rose.

Jacqueline Susann

Everyone has an identity. One of their own, and one for show.

Jacqueline Susann

Never let anyone shame you into doing anything you don't choose to do. Keep your identity.

Jacqueline Bisset

I have very intense conversations with friends, people I really interconnect with. We talk about politics, important things. I like to talk about ideas and get people to be specific.

Jacqueline Bisset

I have always watched the rushes, and have learned more because I have done so, because you can have all manner of ideas in your head, but they have to end up on the screen.

Jacqueline Bisset

I don't come in with any preconceived ideas, and although I will have done some preparation, I can go which way the director wants.

Jackson Browne

The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my favorite thing that I've done.

Jack Palance

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!

Jack Steinberger

I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation.

Christopher Hitchens

I don't say things like "the grace of God." All that's white noise to me, not because I'm an intellectual. For many people, it's gibberish. Likewise, the idea that the Koran was dictated by an archaic illiterate is a fantasy.

Christopher Hitchens

Pakistan has to export a lot of uneducated people, many of whom have become infected with the most barbaric reactionary ideas.

Christopher Hitchens

I'm not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.

George Harrison

We used to send up the idea of getting to the top. John would shout, "Where are we going, fellas?" We'd shout back, "To the top, Johnny!

Gaspard Ulliel

When you're so passionate about cinema, the idea to direct your own film is really appealing.

Garet Garrett

The idea of imposing universal peace on the world by force is a barbarian fantasy.

Gao Xingjian

Indeed, loft aspirations produce ideas.

Fulton J. Sheen

The mind has three operations: the formation of ideas, judgements and reasoning.

Franz Grillparzer

The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.

Franz Grillparzer

Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.

Frank Zappa

Anyone who is disturbed by the idea of newts in a nightclub is potentially dangerous.

Jeff Lindsay

It revealed a cruelty that really made one wonder if the universe was such a good idea after all.

Jeff Lindsay

She really did like me, the idiot.

Jeff Lindsay

Now I know what it is like to feel like a total idiot.

Jeanette Winterson

I have no idea what happens next