Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clint Eastwood

There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I'll just put the stool out there and I'll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn't keep all of the promises he made to everybody.

Clint Eastwood

I'm trying to preach the idea that if we don't pay attention to history we're destined to repeat it.

Clara Schumann

I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose — there has never yet been one able to do it. Should I expect to be the one?

Clarence Darrow

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.

Clarence Darrow

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

Daniel Dennett

If I were to give a prize for the single best idea anybody ever had, I'd give it to Darwin for the idea of natural selection - ahead of Newton, ahead of Einstein - because his idea unites the two most disparate features of our universe: the world of purposeless, meaningless matter and motion, particles jostling on the one side, and the world of meaning and purpose, design on the other.

Daniel Dennett

Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.

Dan Colen

I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images.

Dan Brown

I'm fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for reasons we're not quite seeing.

Dan Brown

the strange ideas we derive today will one day be our celebrated truths

Dan Brown

I've learned never to close my mind to an idea simply because it seems miraculous.

David Frum

I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed to the ideas that underlay those words. And the big shock to me has been that although the president said the words, he just did not absorb the ideas. And that is the root of, maybe, everything.

David Frum

What I say is I am somebody who cares about conservative ideas. I want to see them implemented in governance.

David Fincher

I like the idea of R-rated franchises.

David Fincher

My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive.

David Foster Wallace

My whole life I've been a fraud. I'm not exaggerating. Pretty much all I've ever done all the time is try to create a certain impression of me in other people. Mostly to be liked or admired. It's a little more complicated than that, maybe. But when you come right down to it it's to be liked, loved. Admired, approved of, applauded, whatever. You get the idea.

David Foster Wallace

We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the story changes the story.

David Chipperfield

I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods.

David Chipperfield

Most architects work in studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and historical research were irrelevant.

David Cronenberg

The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Antin

My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.

Daryl Hannah

So organic farming practices are something that, to me, are interlinked with the idea of using biodiesel.

Daryl Hannah

I love the idea that biodiesel has the potential to support farmers, especially the family farms.

Dylan Walsh

I grew up all around the world, and when I settled in a suburb in America, I didn't have any idea what I was supposed to wear.

Dylan Lauren

I always liked the idea of leadership and being a captain.

Dylan McDermott

You never want to have a movie be derivative, because that's the worst if you ask me. I always want to be in original material, or an original idea, or an original vision, rather than a rehash of some other movie.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

We reject any idea that one race of people is in any way better than another.

Doug Stanhope

I am 42 years old and I have $9000, and I am out of ideas. I've nothing to spend it on. I'm bored shitless. I will die with that $9000.

Douglas Adams

I don't really have any advice, other than to say it's the most appallingly difficult thing I've ever tried to do and I wish I had a better idea of how to do it. In my experience what you end up with is the by-product of your failure to achieve what you set out to do. It may turn out OK, but it wasn't what you meant and you've no idea how you got there.

Douglas Adams

The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit.

Dorothea Brande

So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

Donna Tartt

The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences.