Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Laughlin

With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said.

Joe Rogan

Apartment living is tough action. Just the whole idea that you share a washer and dryer always freaked me out.

Joe Rogan

Faith itself is a horrible mechanism that stunts the growth of ideas. It also stunts the act of questioning, and it does this by pushing the idea that you have to have faith - and that nothing has to be proven.

Joe Rogan

Most of my bits are long stream-of-consciousness- type things, and when I'm doing them onstage, other places to take the theme or idea will hit me, and I just go with it.

John Gallagher, Jr.

With any "new" form of music, the originators are usually good bands that have good music and good ideas, like Nirvana. But then you get all the followers and wannabes, bands like Silverchair, etc...and that really sucks.

John Frusciante

So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.

John Oliver

You just try to be true to your idea of what is funny and what is also interesting.

John O'Donohue

We do not need to operate according to the idea of a predetermined program for our lives.

John Mulaney

I always wanted it to be multi-cam from the beginning. In the first seeds of the idea, I wanted a live audience, multi-cam show. That was very important for me.

John Mulaney

I like that idea that what I do might be mainstream. Might be.

John Dewey

Liberty is not just an idea, an abstract principle. It is power, effective power to do specific things. There is no such thing as liberty in general; liberty, so to speak, at large.

John Dewey

How many students ... were rendered callous to ideas, and how many lost the impetus to learn because of the way in which learning was experienced by them?

John Cale

We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance.

John Carroll

Ownership of thought depends on the thinker not subordinating himself to a 'ruling thought'. This is particularly difficult, argues Stirner, ... for language itself is a network of 'fixed ideas'. Truths emerge only when language is reworked and possessed individually.

John Backus

You need the willingness to fail all the time. You have to generate many ideas and then you have to work very hard only to discover that they don’t work. And you keep doing that over and over until you find one that does work.

Johann Georg Hamann

Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas.

Johan Huizinga

The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.

Joel Edgerton

I have a lot of ideas that I feel are half-formed, or half-way okay.

Joe Hill

It bewildered Ig, the idea that a person could not be interested in music. It was like not being interested in happiness.

Joan Miro

The simplest things give me ideas.

Joan Robinson

New ideas are difficult just because they are new. Repetition has somehow plastered over the gaps and inconsistencies in the old ones, and the new cannot penetrate.

Joan Robinson

When I came up to Cambridge (in October 1921) to read economics, I did not have much idea of what it was about.

Jimmy Wales

I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world and not just to people who have broadband.

George A. Romero

As a filmmaker, I love the medium. I have a great affection for it and I've been lucky enough to do all different kinds of films. The greatest part of the success I've had comes from horror. I love the idea of mixing humor and horror and to me, it's all a giggle.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The person must give himself an external sphere of freedom in order to have being as Idea.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The State is the Divine idea as it exists on Earth.

Geoffrey Beene

When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.

Geoff Downes

The Buggles was much more a studio environment idea, which we never actually took on the road.

Geoff Davis

One of the simplest ways to get an idea of one trillion dollars is to consider the amount in terms of the passage of time. One million seconds is equal to roughly eleven days and twelve hours, and one billion seconds is thirty-two years. One trillion seconds equals thirty-two thousand years.

Geoff Mulgan

Social innovation thrives on collaboration; on doing things with others, rather than just to them or for them: hence the great interest in new ways of using the web to 'crowdsource' ideas, or the many experiments involving users in designing services.

Garrett Morris

I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.

Garrett Hardin

A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.