Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steven Erikson

The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very little worth.

Steve McQueen

There is no right or wrong angle for something. The idea of putting the camera in an unfamiliar position is simply to do with film language. Sometimes it is spectacular, sometimes it is ugly, sometimes it is uninteresting.

Steve Martin

You know when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea: have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener!

Steve Martin

He never complicates a desire by overthinking it, unlike Mirabelle, who spins a cocoon around an idea until it is immobile.

Steve Martin

…when the person beside you is making you alert and keen and the idea of being with anyone else is not imaginable…

Stephen Hawking

No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.

Stephen Hawking

There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap.

Stephen King

I always felt that organized religion was just basically a theological insurance scam where they're saying if you spend time with us, guess what, you're going to live forever, you're going to go to some other plain where you're going to be so happy, you'll just be happy all the time, which is also kind of a scary idea to me.

Stephen Hawking

It often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find they don't work, so I have to give it up.

Stephen Hawking

Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention.

Stephen Hawking

The universe does not behave according to our pre-conceived ideas. It continues to surprise us.

Stellan Skarsgard

When you work with someone you don't quite know, you have to figure the director out and you can come up with ideas that are counter-productive.

Stendhal

In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.

Stanislaw Lem

I had no hope. Yet expectation lived on in me, the last thing she had left behind. What further consummations, mockeries, torments did I still anticipate? I had no idea as I abided in the unshaken belief that the time of cruel wonders was not yet over.

Spike Jonze

Be willing to get fired for a good idea.

Sigmund Freud

all the categories which we employ to describe conscious mental acts, such as ideas, purposes, resolutions, and so on, can be applied tothese latent states.

Sigmund Freud

The state in which the ideas existed before being made conscious is called by us repression, and we assert that the force which instituted the repression and maintains it is perceived as resistance during the work of analysis.

Sigmund Freud

A state of consciousness is characteristically very transitory; an idea that is conscious now is no longer so a moment later, although it can become so again under certain conditions that are easily brought about.

Shirley MacLaine

I loved the idea of doing a love story with people over the age of 60 and a film that will hopefully give so many of the audience a chance to see themselves on the screen.

Shirley MacLaine

I love the idea that I'm the oldest one in the room because I can get away with anything!

Shepard Fairey

If the idea that my safety can only be enhanced by putting other people's privacy and safety in danger, then I don't want to be more safe.

Sergio Aragones

I keep very weird hours. I never know when I'm going to get an idea.

Sergey Brin

It's a romantic notion that you're going to have one brilliant idea and then everything is going to be great... but the execution and delivery are what's key.

Rick Riordan

Leo had wanted to paint a giant message on the bottom of the hull-WASSUP? with a smiley-face-but Annabeth had vetoed the idea.

Richard Branson

What is a business? It's simply an idea that makes someone else's life better

Richard Branson

Perhaps, therefore, it is odd that if there is any one phrase that is guaranteed to set me off it's when someone says to me, 'OK, fine. You're the boss!' What irks me is that in 90% of such instances what that person is really saying is, 'OK, then, I don't agree with you, but I'll roll over and do it because you're telling me to. But if it doesn't work out I'll be the first to remind everyone that it wasn't my idea.'

Richard Branson

If you have an idea that's going to make a big difference to people's lives, and other people are not doing it, you know, just say "screw it," do it and get on with it, and give it a go.

Richard Branson

I have always lived my life by making lists: lists of people to call, lists of ideas, lists of companies to set up, lists of people who can make things happen. Each day I work through these lists, and that sequence of calls propels me forward.

Richard Branson

Ideas Are The Lifeblood Of Business. Capture Every Fleeting Idea And Drive For Change.

Richard Branson

A business is simply an idea to make other people's lives better.

Swami Vivekananda

There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms.

Swami Vivekananda

The very idea of an infinite in place would be a contradiction in terms, as a place must begin and continue in time.

Swami Vivekananda

All these ideas such as astrology, although there may be a grain of truth in them, should be avoided.