Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anthony Head

I've always resisted the idea of becoming a David Hasselhoff, and I hope I'm still resisting it.

Anthony Daniels

Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of human limitations.

Anthony de Mello

People kill for money or for power. But the most ruthless murderers are those who kill for their ideas.

Angela Lansbury

It's better not to try to learn all the lines by rote. It's a very bad idea, in fact. You have to do it by using the process, and as I say, the process is to learn during rehearsals, and that's how you'll do it.

Amy Hempel

An idea might spark an essay, but never a story.

Amy Grant

You have to treat people gently because we're all in a process. What might seem like a good idea to somebody at 21 is probably not going to seem like a good idea at 50, but you don't know that until you get there.

Alvar Aalto

Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need time for everything that develops and crystallizes in the world of ideas. Architecture demands more of this time than other creative work.

Anne Rice

I tell you, we would be hard put to determine what is more evil -- religion or the pure idea. The intervention of the supernatural or the elegant abstract solution! Both have bathed this earth in suffering; both have brought the human race literally and figuratively to its knees.

Anna Julia Cooper

... women are more quiet. They don't feel called to mount a barrel and harangue by the hour every time they imagine they have produced an idea.

Anna Deavere Smith

For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.

Anna Deavere Smith

You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time.

Anna Deavere Smith

I see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people and explore ideas.

Anita Hill

I resent the idea that people would blame the messenger for the message, rather than looking at the content of the message itself.

Andrew Tobias

There are only two things as complicated as insurance accounting and I have no idea what they are.

Andrew Stanton

And I'm not anti-sequel, but I just feel like there are very few ideas that are meant to be continued.

Andrew Solomon

The thing that makes me really outraged, is the idea that the Mormon Church would presume to get involved in decisions that have little to do with Mormonism.

Andrew Solomon

The idea of anyone contemplating our family and witnessing the affection that we all have for one another and seeing evil in it is deeply hurtful and sad; and also deeply bewildering.

Andrew Solomon

The experience of being depressed and emerging from depression made me understand the idea of a soul. I felt that the language in which one could best acknowledge that drew from faith.

Andrew Solomon

The idea of what it is like to lose everything is awful.

Andrew Solomon

Penalizing homosexuals does not save any innocent victims. The idea that God and the Church accept these people while they are celibate; and then if they go off and do something with someone else and both derive joy from it without any apparent harm to anyone else, the Church excommunicates them - that, to me, is bizarre.

Andre Maurois

Every ten years you should delete from your mind a few ideas that your experience has proven to be false.

Shakespeare's idea of the tragic fact is larger than this idea and goes beyond it; but it includes it, and it is worth while to observe the identity of the two in a certain point which is often ignored.

Ambrose Bierce

Cribbage, n. A substitute for conversation among those to whom nature has denied ideas.

Ambrose Bierce

MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable . . . Commonly Saxon - that is to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of ideas and incapable of any but the most elementary sentiments and emotions.

Anthony Horowitz

What were you going to do with it?” McCain asked. "I just thought it might come in useful.” "Were you planning to attack me?” "No. But that’s a good idea.

Anthony Horowitz

I love the idea that magic and witchcraft and battles between supernatural creatures could be raging all around us but just out of our sight.

Anthony Hopkins

When you're younger you have so many ideas about yourself; everything is important. It's not when you look back, nothing is that important. It's only life.

Anthony Kiedis

I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.

Anthony Kiedis

I never felt like dying was a good idea.

Alicia Keys

I definitely want to act, but I also want to score movies, and I have this idea to fuse classical music with other styles that would give it a different perception.

Alice Weaver Flaherty

The mania is like wasps under the skin, like my head's going to explode with ideas.

Alice Hoffman

And then I understood that she had no idea what she'd done to my family. She thought love and hatred were equal.

Alice Hoffman

I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.