Famous Quotes & Sayings

Miranda July

I actually don't have a great surplus of ideas. Some evolve very slowly, over many years, but I sort of trust that all of the interesting ones will become something that I eventually end up doing.

Mike McCue

Ever since I first used a computer in the early '80s, I've thought of it as a fundamentally new medium for the dissemination of ideas which can transform people's lives and the society we live in.

Mike Mills

I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.

Mignon McLaughlin

No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.

Johnny Marr

I really like Howler and an American band on Sub Pop called Jaill. There will always be new bands that I like, it's always been that way. I still go out to shows. One thing I don't like now is this idea that all singing needs to be expressed at maximum volume with so much bullshit sentimentality - it's pervading regular pop music.

Johnny Marr

Anything that's ever gotten on the charts as a result of "American Idol" or "The X Factor" in the UK. It's born out of karaoke culture. It's been a long time coming, but it's absolutely affected radio.

John Wooden

You get ideas across better through listening and the pat-on-the-back method than you do with a kick on the pants.

John Ruskin

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

John Ruskin

As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it.

Leon Uris

You usually don't know what you are going to write about so you go to the places and talk to the people who were identified with the events.

And that range was ideal for qualifying shoots, range shoots and for special operations training.

Hoshyar Zebari

These are new ideas, ... That's why they are not comfortable.

These are just ideas right now. We need to have a lot more discussion.

Myleene Klass

This is my ideal job and I can't wait to get started.

Eric Lefkofsky

The big success stories - Facebook, Zynga and Twitter - are leading to investing in ideas on a napkin, because no one wants to miss out on the next big thing.

Eric Idle

I like the idea of being out there regularly with an audience and with a funny gang of people. That's what I grew up with - doing television, doing shows every week.

Eric Hoffer

Ideas have significance for him only as a prelude to action.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I didn't have any idea that I would be able to have a career in film.

Philip Roth

People were standing up everywhere shouting, "This is me! This is me!" Every time you looked at them they stood up and told you who they were, and the truth of it was that they had no more idea who or what they were than he had. They believed their flashing signs, too. They ought to be standing up and shouting, "This isn't me! This isn't me!" They would if they had any decency. "This isn't me!" Then you might know how to proceed through the flashing bullshit of this world.

Philip Roth

One either imposes one's ideas or one is imposed on.

Philip Roth

It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning.

Peyton Manning

Whatever happens, happens. I can't give you a prediction because Jim (Irsay) and I will sit down at some point and he'll get a feel for where I am and I’ll get a sense of what direction he wants to go. Right now, I have no idea.

Pharrell Williams

The best work comes from people who are motivated by crisis. When something stops their original idea, they respond by coming up with something even better.

Peter Diamandis

The idea of a young thin woman who weighs 100 pounds driving herself around in a 4,000 pound SUV is laughable.

Peter De Vries

What baffles me is the comfort people find in the idea that somebody dealt this mess. Blind and meaningless chance seems to me so much more congenial - or at least less horrible. Prove to me that there is a God and I will really begin to despair.

Peter Drucker

Ideas are cheap and abundant; what is of value is the effective placement of those ideas into situations that develop into action.

Peter Drucker

I'm better about things than about people. I'm more interested in people, but I'm better at ideas.

Peter Drucker

Nobody can predict the future; the idea is to have a firm grasp of the present.

Peter Drucker

Never ask who's right. Start out by asking what is right. And you find that out by listening to dissenting, disagreeing opinions.

Peter Drucker

Leaders shouldn?t attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can?t compromise.

Penn Jillette

I love the idea that horror and fear is a celebration of health and life.

Penn Jillette

Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.

Paulo Coelho

I savour the idea of my new state: single and a millionaire.