Famous Quotes & Sayings

Archie Shepp

So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on a guy like me. It turned out to be a very symbiotic partnership. I learned a lot from him.

Archie Shepp

Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.

Archibald MacLeish

That peculiar disease of intellectuals, that infatuation with ideas at the expense of experience, that compels experience to conform to bookish expectations.

Ben Mezrich

The idea that the story is true is more important than being able to prove that it's true.

Barbara Januszkiewicz

Ideas come through us, not from us.

Barbara Kruger

Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different.

Barbara Jordan

Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us.

Barbara Kingsolver

Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can't persist much longer. If it does, then we won't.

Bailey Chase

I love when a director shows up with a lot of energy, and different ideas about how to change things and do it a different way. Once you get into series, sometimes you don't have that, so I certainly don't take that for granted when I get it.

Baruch Spinoza

He who would distinguish the true from the false must have an adequate idea of what is true and false.

Baruch Spinoza

To comprehend an idea, a person must simultaneously accept it as true. Conscious analysis - which, depending on the idea, may occur almost immediately or with considerable effort - allows the mind to reject what it intially accepted as fact.

Baruch Spinoza

The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things.

Baruch Spinoza

He who has a true idea, knows at that same time that he has a true idea, nor can he doubt concerning the truth of the thing.

Augustine Birrell

It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action.

Auguste Comte

Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.

Arthur Miller

A genuine invention in the realm of ideas must first emerge as an abstruse and even partial concept? At first blusha new idea appearstobe verycloseto insanity because to be new it must reverse important basic beliefs and assumptions which, in turn, have been institutionalized and are administered by one or another kind of priesthood with a vested interest in an old idea.

Arthur Miller

There is a misconception of tragedy with which I have been struck in review after review, and in many conversations with writers and readers alike. It is the idea that tragedy is of necessity allied to pessimism.

Art Linkletter

Yes, I backed the hula hoop. And I had a lot of other people come to me with ideas that turned out well

Rove McManus

We reassess ideas and launch new ones where we can.

Charles Fillmore

When we commune with the spirit within and ask for new ideas, they are always forthcoming.

Charles Bukowski

I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone.

Charles Bukowski

As we live we all get caught and torn by various traps. Nobody escapes them. Some even live with them. The idea is to realize that a trap is a trap. If you are in one and you don't realize it, then you're finished.

Edward Abbey

The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that destruction.

Edward Abbey

A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.

Edward Abbey

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.

Eddie Redmayne

If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.

Aubrey Plaza

I want to go to New Zealand. I have no idea what it's like, and in my head, everyone lives in/on an ice lake, so I'd like to come stay.

Aristotle

In most constitutional states the citizens rule and are ruled by turns, for the idea of a constitutional state implies that the natures of the citizens are equal, and do not differ at all.

Aristotle

Equity is that idea of justice which contravenes the written law.

Ben Lee

As a musician or a performer, you're meant to know what you're about, but it's ridiculous that someone 14 would have any idea of what they're about.

Ben Horowitz

The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.

Ben Horowitz

Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they're hallucinating

Ben Harper

The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I'm doing. I feel a closer bond with the craft of songwriting, stronger than I ever have.