Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sam Shepard

I like cars. I like travel. I like the idea of people breaking down and I'm the only one who can help them get on the road again. It would be like being a magician. Just open up the hood and cast your magic spell.

Sam Shepard

We're being sold a brand new idea of patriotism. It never occurred to me that patriotism had to be advertised. Patriotism is something you deeply felt. You didn't have to wear it on your lapel or show it in your window or on a bumper sticker. That kind of patriotism does not appeal to me at all.

Rush Limbaugh

We are hated because we are free. We are hated because of the idea that is the United States of America. We are hated because of our Constitution.

Rush Limbaugh

I was doing what I thought I had to do. There was romance in the idea of being married. It was just the wrong reasons.

Rush Limbaugh

Money is the fuel that makes political victory possible. Sadly, folks, in many cases it's more important than ideas. And this is what turns off so many people to politics.

Thomas Mann

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

Ray Manzarek

When you're glad to be alive, good ideas come. The reason good ideas don't come today is because we're all bottled up with greed and anger. We're mad.

Ray Kurzweil

We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not.

Ray Lewis

Sometimes I have no idea whats going on

Ray Comfort

Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.

Ray Davies

I got that idea from being in India. I always like the chanting.

Raquel Welch

Not everybody is comfortable with my ethnicity. When I first came along in the business, they didnt really like the idea of my name being Raquel.

Raul Castro

I never liked the idea of giving interviews. One says many things, but when they are published, they become shortened, condensed. The ideas lose their meaning.

Ratan Tata

I have been constantly telling people to encourage people, to question the unquestioned and not to be ashamed to bring up new ideas, new processes to get things done.

Rashida Jones

I'm a sponge. I'm obsessed with comedy. I'm obsessed with the idea that you can make somebody laugh, and I love to be around people who can make other people laugh.

Rashida Jones

Fail fast. Fail often... The most talented people in the world have bad ideas. That's a good thing to learn.

Ransom Riggs

I liked this idea: that peculiarness wasn't a deficiency, but an abundance; that it wasn't we who lacked something normals had, but they who lacked peculiarness. That we were more, not less.

Randy Alcorn

..tithing isn't something I do to clear my conscience so I can do whatever I want with the 90 percent--it also belongs to God! I must seek his direction and permission for whatever I do with the full amount. I may discover that God has different ideas than I do.

Rajneesh

Wherever you go, your mind will go with you. Your knowledge will go with you, your prejudices will go with you, your scriptures will go with you. Your idea that you are a Hindu or a Mohammedan will go with you. So what are you renouncing?

Thomas Jefferson

It is better to have no ideas than false ones.

Thomas Jefferson

The fact is that one new idea leads to another, that to a third and so on through a course of time, until someone, with whom no one of these ideas was original, combines all together, and produces what is justly called a new invention.

Thomas Jefferson

One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier.

Thomas Jefferson

The fantastical idea of virtue and the public good being a sufficient security to the state against the commission of crimes, which you say you have heard insisted on by some, I assure you was never mine.

Robin Chase

That’s the key to new and good ideas; they come from having a very broad and multidisciplinary range of interests.

Robin Ince

I want to create shows which are interesting. I hope that some people are excited by some of the ideas.

Robin Ince

One idea I explore in my stand-up show is whether, if you try looking at the universe rationally and avoid coping mechanisms like mysticism or religion, you can still be happy knowing you are going to die after a brief time on this spinning ball.

Robert Winston

Religion has endured since the dawn of human consciousness precisely because it encompasses so much of being human. No idea has endured so long, gathered up so many disparate needs and wants and feelings, and inspired so many different paths towards understanding it.

Robert Rodriguez

A movie goes from several stages, from idea to script. As you continue shooting, you will make some adjustments. You're constantly adjusting. It's like a piece of music. You're constantly trying to make it better.

Robert Reich

In the life of a nation, few ideas are more dangerous than good solutions to the wrong problems.

Robert Motherwell

I almost never start with an image. I start with a painting idea, an impulse, usually derived from my own world.

Robert Musil

There is, in short, no great idea that stupidity could not put to its own uses [....] The truth by comparison, has only one appearance and only one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

Robert E. Lee

Ideas are easy to conceive, less easy to execute.

Robert Collier

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.