Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Eisner

My best idea was to not accept my wife's negative reaction when I asked her to marry me.

Michael Eisner

The whole business starts with ideas, and we're convinced that ideas come out of an environment of supportive conflict, which is synonymous with appropriate friction.

Michael Eisner

There's no good idea that cannot be improved on.

Ravi Zacharias

An expenditure of words without income of ideas will lead to intellectual bankruptcy.

Ray Bradbury

Ideas result from the collision of metaphors inside the head.

Ray Bradbury

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

Randy Newman

I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and essentially destroying it!

Eric Hoffer

First something is a great idea, then it becomes a cause, then it becomes a business and finally it becomes a racket.

Eric Hoffer

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome.

Eric Bogosian

I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I thought I was being idealistic.

Emmett Shear

The question is, once you have this idea, is this enough? Is it something people would actually switch just to have?

Susanne Bier

You don't have to go very far away from Scandinavia to realize what an idyllic society it is.

Emmanuelle Chriqui

We have this idea of perfection that is so unrealistic. We are our own worst enemy. No one is noticing that little scar.

James Cash Penney

Exchange ideas frequently.

James Cash Penney

A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.

James Cook

The idea that government can instruct private enterprise on how to eliminate waste is preposterous.

James Cook

People are always receptive to the idea of a conspiracy.

James Beard

I’m going to break one of the rules of the trade here. I’m going to tell you some of the secrets of improvisation. Just remember—it’s always a good idea to follow the directions exactly the first time you try a recipe. But from then on, you’re on your own.

James Altucher

If coming up with ten ideas sounds too hard, then come up with twenty.

James Altucher

Do as many ideas as possible. The right idea will pick you.

James Anthony Froude

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Jake Gyllenhaal

Peter Sarsgaard, he's an extraordinary actor, and I would say that Peter has really brought into my life and my sister's life a sense of presence as an actor that I never really understood or knew about until I met him. They've been together for a very long time, and he introduced me to the idea of the presentation.

Jacques Pepin

The idea of old was to conform yourself to a style of cooking, it was not to create a style of cooking. Now the chef is so much into 'I want to sign that dish and say I am the one who made that dish.

Jacques Maritain

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Jacques Ellul

The aim of modern propaganda is no longer to modify ideas, but to provoke action.

Jacob Lawrence

The Human subject is the most important thing. My work is abstract in the sense of having been designed and composed, but it is not abstract in the sense of having no human content I want to communicate. I want the idea to strike right away.

Henry Rollins

Americans have been dumbed down to the point where more people watching 'American Idol' than listen to the state of the union address. And that's too bad. I'm not trying to take any bread out of the mouth of Simon Cowell, but if the president is speaking to the people of the United States, and people are going to watch 'American Idol,' that's sad.

Henry Rollins

Having an identity is one thing. Being born into an identity is quite a different matter.

Henry Rollins

Could it be that violence is as much a part of the American identity as the Constitution, and a vital component to its economic stability?

Henry Rollins

The idea that any performer type is owed anything is a joke to me.

Henry Rollins

So many Americans, for one reason or another, they watch the news and it doesn't really give them the idea of the world. Or they don't read or travel. They have no idea that America is part of the world and not the world itself.

Henry Rollins

If you have an idea of what you want to do in your future, you must go at it with almost monastic obsession...you have to go at it single-mindedly and let nothing get in your way.

Henry Adams

There have been times when the church seemed afraid, but she is no longer. Analyze, dissect, use your microscope or your spectrum till the last atom of matter is reached; reflect and refine till the last element of thought is made clear; the church now knows with the certainty of science what she once knew only by the certainty of faith, that you will find enthroned behind all thought and matter only one central idea--that idea which the church has never ceased to embody--I AM!