Famous Quotes & Sayings

The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.

Jean-Luc Godard

We once believed we were auteurs but we weren't. We had no idea, really. Film is over. It's sad nobody is really exploring it. But what to do? And anyway, with mobile phones and everything, everyone is now an auteur.

Jean-Luc Godard

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Jean-Luc Godard

One must confront vague ideas with clear images,

Jean-Luc Godard

There is no point in having sharp images when you've fuzzy ideas.

Jean-Luc Godard

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

Jim Goad

Homosexuality is genetically hardwired but race and gender are only ideas. OK. Just trying to keep up.

Jim Hightower

Ronald Reagan's idea of a good farm program was Hee Haw.

Jim Harrison

So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our family ever had any money.

Jerry Rice

Lynn Swann was an idol. It would amaze me how he could fly through the air and make those catches. I'll never forget the one versus Dallas. It was the greatest catch I've ever seen.

Eoin Colfer

We're being lead by an idiot with a crayon.

Elvis Costello

I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.

Jasper Johns

I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea.

Jasper Johns

A not complete unit or a new unit. The elements in the 3 parts should neither fit nor not fit together. One would like not to be led. Avoid the idea of a puzzle which could be solved. Remove the signs of thought. It is not thought which needs showing.

Jasper Johns

Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.

Jawaharlal Nehru

There are two things that have to happen before an idea catches on. One is that the idea should be good. The other is that it should fit in with the temper of the age. If it does not, even a good idea may well be passed by.

Jason Terry

My idol, Gary Payton, played 19 years. I definitely want to try to reach that.

Jasper Fforde

Because there's someone else here in East Carmin. Someone hopelessly unsuitable. It's all a really bad idea and will lead to trouble of the worst sort. But no matter what, every minute in her presence makes my life a minute more complete.

Jason Mraz

The foolish idea that my music can actually make a difference in someone's life - that right there is proof that it's working. It makes me feel great, it really does.

Hildegard Knef

Try not to have idols: they are interchangeable and lead to a wantonness that is easily mistaken for love.

Hillary Clinton

I am not going to make promises I can't keep. I am not going to talk about big ideas like single-payer and then not level with people about how much it will cost.

Hillary Clinton

In this changing, complex and exciting world with exploding expectations, we need to find some common ground. We need people and ideas to turn to bind us, and Mahatma Gandhi with his message of oneness for mankind is one of them.

Herbert Marcuse

Non-operational ideas are non-behavioral and subversive. The movement of thought is stopped at barriers which appear as the limits of Reason itself.

Herbert Marcuse

Ideas, aspirations, and objectives that, by their content, transcend the established universe of discourse and action are either repelled or reduced to terms of this universe.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

Evelyn Underhill

The soul's house is not built on such a convenient plan; there are few soundproof partitions in it. Only when the conviction - not merely the idea - that the demand of the Spirit, however inconvenient, rules the whole of it, will those objectionable noises die down which have a way of penetrating into the nicely furnished little oratory and drowning all the quieter voices by their din.

Evgeny Morozov

For Silicon Valley and its idols, innovation is the new selfishness.

Evelyn Waugh

There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

Evelyn Waugh

You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.

Eva Mendes

I like the idea of playing a historical detective.

Eugene Field

Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.

Eugene Delacroix

Everyone knows that yellow, orange, and red suggest ideas of joy and plenty. I can paint you the skin of Venus with mud, provided you let me surround it as I will.