Famous Quotes & Sayings

Esa-Pekka Salonen

The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to B, has become foreign.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Every orchestra I know, every opera house I know, is desperately looking around trying to find new talent, new composing talent, supporting young composers, supporting new ideas, supporting new ways of getting the message across.

Ernest Newman

I had no idea Stravinsky disliked Debussy so much as this.

Erma Bombeck

My idea of 'roughing it' is when you have to have an extension for your electric blanket.

Erma Bombeck

My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.

Erin Wasson

I like the idea of not looking at trends, not being driven by them. I like what I like and that's it.

Florence Welch

I like the idea of taking off like a bird.

FKA twigs

The idea's the idea: It's about what you do, and not who you are.

Flannery O'Connor

The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people, those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted with sensibility.

Fiona Gubelmann

I've learned the importance of speaking up for myself and voicing my opinions and my ideas. I'm definitely a shy person.

Fidel Castro

The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.

Fidel Castro

Las ideas no necesitan ni de las armas, en la medida en que sean capaces de conquistar a las grandes masas. (Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.

Fidel Castro

I never perceived a contradiction in the political revolutionary field between the ideas I maintained and the idea of that symbol, that extraordinary figure who had been so familiar to me since I began to reason.

Fidel Castro

Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously ... and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.

Fidel Castro

Ideas do not need weapons.

Fidel Castro

My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.

Fiona Apple

I like the idea of the idler wheel - it just sits in between things, but it makes such a big difference in the way that the machine is working. That concept has always been something that has interested me, but I didn't really know why.

Henry Mayhew

Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact

Henry Moore

There is a right physical size for every idea.

Henry Moore

I find drawing a useful outlet for ideas for which there is not time enough to realize as sculpture... And I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment.

Henry Miller

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Henri Bergson

Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives the two ends of an idea almost at the same moment.

Helen Keller

The idea of brotherhood re-dawns upon the world with a broader significance than the narrow association of members in a sect or creed.

Helen Keller

Ideas without action are useless.

Helen Keller

Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.

Helen Keller

The attempt to suppress an idea has always and everywhere proved a failure.

Catharine MacKinnon

So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn.

Cate Blanchett

Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.

Cate Blanchett

And perhaps, those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films, with women at the center are niche experience, they are not. Audiences want to see them and, in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.

Cassandra Clare

When one steals a flying balloon and animates it to fly over Paris, one should, ideally, have some idea how said balloon normally works.

Cassandra Clare

I'm always so glad I have no idea what you're vacantly chatting about," said Jace. It fills me with a sense of peace and well-being.