Famous Quotes & Sayings

China Mieville

Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.

Dave Gahan

I still hold on to the idea that a record can really change the way I feel.

Dave Foley

It takes so long to put a movie into production and finish it that anyone with a bad idea has time to give it to you before the movie is completed.

Dave Franco

On the flip side, no one has any idea who the hell I am. I felt like I had to prove myself to them. On any new project I'm working on, the first week is nerve-wracking, but especially with these people that I admire so much and who I just want to be equal with.

Dave Chappelle

I just like seeing people. I just like meeting people. I like finding out new walks of life and new ideas.

David Sedaris

I don't like to read anything on the radio for the very first time, because I don't have any notion of a reaction. When I read it out loud, then I get an idea of that, and more of an idea of how to read.

David Sedaris

Some friendships are formed by a commonality of interests and ideas: you both love judo or camping or making your own sausage. Other friendships are forged in alliance against a common enemy.

David Morrell

One generation's idea of fast pace might be different from a later generation's.

David McCullough

Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.

David LaChapelle

The tools I learned photographing celebrities, now I want to use them to sell ideas.

David LaChapelle

Then I got this idea in my head that magazines were like a gallery and if you got your magazine page ripped out and someone stuck it on their refrigerator, then that was a museum – someone’s private museum.

David LaChapelle

I have this idea that you can use glamour and still have it represent something that matters.

David LaChapelle

I wanted it to provide an escape route, I wanted to make pictures that were fantastic and took you into another world, one that was brighter. I started off with this idea.

Coolidge's preference for experience over ideas was a deeply rooted trait.

Dave Barry

Meetings are places where dead ideas rise from their graves and eat the brains of the living.

Dave Barry

France: As a professional journalist, I like the idea of a society where it is considered an acceptable occupation to basically sit around and drink.

Dave Barry

The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hotlines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly.

David Stockman

Bernanke has cultivated this idea that he is a brilliant scholar of The Great Depression, but that’s not true at all.

David S. Goyer

I relate to the feeling that Da Vinci was often plagued by the idea that what he did wasn't good enough, that he was his harshest critic. He'd sometimes destroy what he was working on.

David Rubenstein

I really hope that the philanthropy movement is seen not just as wealthy people giving money away but wealthy people giving away their time, their energy and their ideas.

David Rabe

I get a sentence, an idea, an image, and I start. I don't know anything beyond it. I follow it.

Carl Sagan

The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there's no place for it in the endeavor of science. We do not know beforehand where fundamental insights will arise from about our mysterious and lovely solar system. The history of our study of our solar system shows us clearly that accepted and conventional ideas are often wrong, and that fundamental insights can arise from the most unexpected sources.

Carl Sagan

Many religions have attempted to make statues of their gods very large, and the idea, I suppose, is to make us feel small. But if that's their purpose, they can keep their paltry icons. We need only look up if we wish to feel small.

C. Wright Mills

What we experience in various and specific milieux, I have noted, is often caused by structural changes. Accordingly, to understand the changes of many personal milieux we are required to look beyond them. And the number and variety of such structural changes increase as the institutions within which we live become more embracing and more intricately connected with one another. To be aware of the idea of social structure and to use it with sensibility is to be capable of tracing such linkages among a great variety of milieux. To be able to do that is to possess the sociological imagination

Bryn Terfel

Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.

Bryan Singer

You can only go so far in analyzing each and every one person's opinion because they are often quite different. You just have to trust your instincts and hope that if someone doesn't like your idea, you can prove them wrong in the final process. In the end, you can please some of the people some of the time, but that's about all you can do.

Bryan Ferry

Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me.

Bryan Adams

I've never been enamoured by the idea of being a celebrity.

Bryan Adams

I like the idea of helping people help people.

Cesar Pelli

One of America's strengths has always been its openness to the new: both new ideas and new people.

Cesare Pavese

When we read, we are not looking for new ideas, but to see our own thoughts given the seal of confirmation on the printed page. The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where we live—and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves

Catherine Fisher

None of us have much idea where we are. Perhaps all our lives are too concerned with where, and not enough with who.

Catherine Hardwicke

When you're in the editing process, you try different things and you get creative ideas.