Famous Quotes & Sayings

Agatha Christie

Ideas are like everything else. They've got to be marketed.

Agatha Christie

Words, madmoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.

Agatha Christie

Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop… suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head.

Adrienne Bailon

I'm very open and honest, and I feel like it's important for women to hear that we're not perfect; none of us are perfect. And sometimes we aspire to have these ideas in our heads of what perfection is, and I probably would've been better off if I'd left myself alone.

Adriana Trigiani

You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. Travel is very inspirational - but it's in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family.

The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.

Stephen Parker

No one respected language more than Nabokov. You don't read it for his ideas, you read it for his presentation.

John Walsh

on interesting subjects, ideas and unfamiliar artists, with many surprises for visitors.

Vandana Shiva

I do sculpting sometimes when I have the time, and the first thing I sculpted was a bust of [Albert] Einstein. It still sits on my table and still inspires me. He was a person who triggered my imagination and my ideas.

Vandana Shiva

For example, the idea that objects have properties out there in fixed ways is an incorrect idea about the world. Properties are created through relationships and processes. They are not inherent in electrons or photons or quanta any more than they are inherent in soil or trees or people. So my critique of reductionistic science is a critique that I have inherited from my scientific training. But it has been deepened by my experiences as an ecologist, in seeing the ecological destruction taking place today.

Jane Asher

I've never particularly liked the idea of looking back; I'd rather look forward

Jane Austen

You must really begin to harden yourself to the idea of being worth looking at.

Jane Austen

I am not fond of the idea of my shrubberies being always approachable.

Jane Austen

I can recollect nothing more to say at present; perhaps breakfast may assist my ideas. I was deceived -- my breakfast supplied only two ideas -- that the rolls were good and the butter bad.

Jamie Oliver

The whole idea is to earn the flavor. No one gives it to you.

Jason Blum

But, it's much easier to do that than produce the movies from scratch. It excites the same thing in me, whether we build it from the ground up, or whether we come on when the movie is done or almost done. The idea of supporting the underdog and getting a smaller movie out there in a big way is equally exciting.

Jason Bateman

When you're actor, you have no idea how much work goes into pre-production. We're just sitting in our trailers waiting for someone to knock on our door to go to the set.

Jason Aldean

I had no idea 'Big Green Tractor' was going to be as big a hit as it was. You just can't predict those things.

In the 18th century, people began to adopt the radical new idea that love should be the most fundamental reason for marriage and that young people should be free to choose their marriage partners independently.

Janina Gavankar

People don't recognize me from gig to gig. They have no idea. But, that's really what I strive to do. I strive to stip myself down completely and build another human and become them.

Janice Dickinson

The idea of the extreme makeover is disturbing.

Janine Benyus

There are literally as many ideas as there are organisms.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not - have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy these, then, and bless God that we are permitted to enjoy them, rather than importune His goodness with vain longings for more.

Jane Smiley

The novel as a form is usually seen to be moral if its readers consider freedom, individuality, democracy, privacy, social connection, tolerance and hope to be morally good, but it is not considered moral if the highest values of a society are adherence to rules and traditional mores, the maintenance of hierarchical relationships, and absolute ideas of right and wrong. Any society based on the latter will find novels inherently immoral and subversive.

Jane Smiley

Gossip. The more you talk about why people do things, the more ideas you have about how the world works.

Jane Smiley

Take naps. Often new ideas come together when you are half asleep, but you have to train yourself to remember them.

Maybe just to get my idea out. Maybe to find out other people's ideas, to see if they're similar to mine.

Now we would like some ideas for different shows. These must be quality shows.

Les Brown

Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

Paul Begala

I don't think it's a lack of ideas; it's coherence.

Newt Gingrich

Ideas precede reform. If you can't think it, you can't say it and you can't do it.

Isadora Duncan

ideas and words that do not make any sense.

Ben Goldacre

There is this peculiar blind spot in the culture of academic medicine around whether withholding trial results is research misconduct. People who work in any industry can reinforce each others' ideas about what is okay.